In short, when the chips are down, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is the undisputed ... about an hour from Berlin. Merkel's childhood was shaped by the Stasi, or secret police.

Angela Merkel has won a third term as German chancellor ... some 50 miles from Berlin, and spoken to childhood friends and student mates who knew her at a time when politics was more dangerous ...

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world, is no friend of her biographers ... This smart, readable biography chronicles Merkel’s “remarkable odyssey,” weaving her career with ...

Marton: Merkel was trained from her earliest childhood to be ready for the ... a lot to Laura and me to be able to share it with friends. In Angela's case, just informal dinners, nothing fancy.

Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2015 ... and the meatballs and potato salad and sparkling wine that she shared with friends before being driven away into retirement.

Much of her steely tenacity and reserve can be ascribed to her unusual childhood. Merkel, who was born Angela Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, traveled a few months later with her mother ...

And yet, unlike her friend Barack Obama, very little is known about her personally. The new film “Merkel” valiantly attempts to paint a portrait of Angela Merkel, from her childhood in the ...

We met former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a fitting ... I'm used to political pressure since childhood, so that did not shock me." Despite all her experience, Merkel says she now refrains ...

In this file photo taken on August 26, 2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves after a visit to a shelter for asylum-seekers in Heidenau, eastern Germany. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP ...

Angela Merkel served Germany ... Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Merkel stepped down three years ago. Now she's out with "Freedom," a memoir about her childhood, her early political career and her ...

In short, when the chips are down, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is the undisputed ... about an hour from Berlin. Merkel's childhood was shaped by the Stasi, or secret police.