The grave of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his wife Loki Schmidt has had swastikas daubed on it in the Hamburg cemetery where the couple lies buried, police in the northern city said on ...

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from around Europe praised him as an architect of international cooperation and post-war European integration. Schmidt ...

First, we cannot help but admire a man who seemed to smoke cigarettes incessantly and yet lived until a month before his 97th birthday. Indeed, on the few occasions over the years when The Scrapbook ...

The Economist obituary about ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who died November 10 at the age of 96, used these adjectives that often apply to type #8, the Asserter: imperious, rude, impatient, and brave ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from Europe and the United States praised him as an architect of international cooperation and ...