Never before, or since, have relations between the two superpowers been so cordial as during the meeting of the two armies on the Elbe River at the end of World War II. In spring 1945, Soviet and ...

Lili Elbe was one of the first people to get sex-reassignment surgery. Inside the real story behind The Danish Girl A movie about a transgender artist couldn’t be timelier in 2015, the year of Caitlyn ...

Lili Elbe was a Danish artist and transgender woman, one of the first people to receive sex reassignment surgery. View Lili Elbe’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth ...

Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, is the day Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany. This contact between the Soviets, advancing from the East, and the Americans, advancing ...

After undergoing a fantastic performance in his role as Stephen Hawking in last year's The Theory of Everything, actor Eddie Redmayne has chosen to embrace another challenging role. In The Danish Girl ...

Elections likely to serve up a reminder that, almost 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the waters of the Elbe still run deep “Imagine Europe as a pair of lungs,” says Reiner Haseloff, the ...

16 March 2020 - Environmental organisations from Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria, including WWF Central and Eastern Europe and WWF-Slovakia, have addressed a joint letter to ...

The 18th- and 19th-century cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley extends some 18 km along the river from Übigau Palace and Ostragehege fields in the north-west to the Pillnitz Palace and the Elbe ...