J.B. Spins

Lenin infamously wrote: “the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Alfred Herrhausen wanted to loan the Soviets t...

Angela Merkel has blood on her hands. By making Germany energy-dependent on Russia, she enriched and empowered Putin—even after he annexed C...

It probably wasn’t the Nuppelwocken, the legendary minotaur beast that supposedly lives in the forest surrounding Wanda Klatt’s sleepy Germa...

Franz Kaflka was such a distinctive writer, his name became an adjective—probably more so than any other author before or since. Nobody desc...

Many American serial killer movies predictably depict the serial killer as a Jesus-freak. In this German thriller, the serial murderer was w...

The racism Sam Meffire faced in his own native country was so bad, he joined the riot police, for the protection conferred by their reputati...

These bad guys represent an unholy alliance everyone can root against. Two German cops will stumble across a GDR conspiracy involving the St...

She was trained to do evil, but now she uses her skills to solve crimes. That is not exactly how Anna Marie Fuchs saw it, while she was blin...

It was a case of what went around, came around. German U-boats were notoriously feared by the Allies during World War II, but the mortal...

This provincial Bavarian town has a picturesque Medieval festival, but it is a border town, with border town kind of establishments. It ...

For obvious reasons, art collections with iffy provenances acquired during the early to mid-Twentieth in Germany will arouse suspicions....

Decades after their demise, the German Red Army Faction is still generating bad karma—and crime scenes. Of course, the later is the name...

Jana Liekam’s new employer is too big to like. Deutsche Global is one of Germany’s largest investment banks, but they have recently been...

When the German Supreme Court nullified a law allowing the Luftwaffe to shoot down hijacked planes that had been weaponized, many predict...

It must be a weird full circle experience for an East German defector like Sylvester Groth to now play a Stasi agent, but it is a role h...

They would have been Germany’s best and brightest.  Instead, a generation of future leaders was ground-up and consumed by the National So...

How did an Austrian wearing a bathrobe conquer Germany?  It had something to do with a Russian bassoon player.  Based on crooner Udo J...

There is a fugitive in the woods. He might be an innocent man or a dangerous psychopath. Determining the truth is a tricky proposition in Dr...