Today, Condé Nast Traveler is in Seiffen to see expert toymakers at work. This small German town in the Ore Mountains is ...

The first production of the ballet “The Nutcracker” was held in the U.S. in 1944. and some soldiers returning from World War II brought back with them German-made nutcrackers as souvenirs, according ...

The description for this German nutcracker uses words like “extra-large” and stresses how big this thing is, only to throw in the fact that it’s a measly 28 inches tall. It does weigh a ...

Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war ...

This small German town in the Ore Mountains is considered by many as the birthplace of the Nutcracker doll. Due to the town’s rich access to wood, Seiffen has become home to the world’s finest ...