Acclaimed author and avid swimmer Jessica J. Lee walks The Local through Berlin’s top lakeside spots, and tells us how swimming helped her cope with trauma.

For a language so famously logical, why does German make these simple things so confusing?

Beloved by children in the UK and US alike, the Easter Bunny is perhaps one of the most recognisable symbols of the spring season for English speakers. But its origins actually trace back to Germany.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. From intimate stumbling stones to commemorative events in parliament, here’s how the atrocities of the Holocaust are remembered in Germany today.