West Germany lost 8-3 to Hungary in the group stages of the 1954 World Cup... only to meet them again in the final.

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

The guard waved them on. Otto John, onetime head of West Germany’s counter-espionage organization, was on his way back to the West. At a critical moment in the EDC debate 17 months earlier ...

FIFA+ delivers the intriguing numbers behind West Germany's triumph at Italia '90. Amid 'The Fall of the Wall', Franz Beckenbauer and soldiers had another bulging blockade to break through.

Beckenbauer was one of German soccer's central figures. As a player, he reimagined the defender's role in soccer and captained West Germany to the World Cup title in 1974 after it had lost to ...