Outdoor Christmas markets are a beloved German tradition and tourist attraction, but the large crowds they attract have made them targets. Although the police do not yet know the motive for the ...

And this is because every year the royals exchange gifts a day earlier, on Christmas Eve, which is a festive tradition from parts of mainland Europe including Germany. Royal commentator Richard ...

Some thermal security blankets still lay on the street. Christmas markets are a German holiday tradition cherished since the Middle Ages, now successfully exported to much of the Western world.

Germany is credited with starting the tradition of the Christmas tree, according to History.com, with 16th century records telling of Christians bringing trees into their homes for the holiday.

It is "astonishing, unimaginable, that something like this could happen in Germany," Haseloff said. "There is no more peaceful and cheerful place than a Christmas market," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

From campaign manifestos to a quirky German tradition that may actually be American, here's what we've been talking about at The Local this week. Inside Germany is our weekly look at some of the ...

Christmas markets are a huge part of German culture as an annual holiday tradition cherished since the Middle Ages and successfully exported to much of the Western world. In Berlin alone ...