Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

The upside-down Christmas Tree in German Park will be coming down early in the new year, but will likely return next holiday ...

Team USA cross-country skier Julia Kern reminisces fondly about her Christmas celebrations growing up in Germany.

In 1428, during the Siege of Orléans, French and English forces stopped fighting their Hundred Years’ War to celebrate ...

Operation Good Cheer is a decades-old program that matches U.S. soldiers with German families during the holidays.

On Christmas Eve in 1914, many men were in the trenches fighting the war, but the spirit of Christmas halted the conflict for ...

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, it’s Christmas tune time! Stores, cars and bars are filled with traditional holiday tunes and some new ones sprinkled throughout. Holidays can be a hard time for many people, and ...

Britain’s “oldest Christmas tree” has gone on display for the 115th consecutive year after being bought from Jenners in Edinburgh in 1910. The three-foot antique artificial tree, inherited by Iain ...

In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge lit the first national Christmas tree on the White House lawn. Members of the First Congregational Church sang carols and the Marine band performed. In 1942, German ...

Some of my favourite Christmas memories are with my grandparents in Germany. From baking with my grandmother to walking to ...