The Price of Unity Was the Deutsche Mark Sacrificed for Reunification? As the German people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall, the governments in Bonn and Paris were secretly haggling over ...

At its birth in 1948, the West German Deutsche mark scarcely seemed to be a currency that could produce a miracle. Most of the country’s war-wrecked industry still lay in ruins; the economy was torn ...

Europe is discussing the horror scenario of a break-up of the euro zone. At present, that still seems unlikely, but experts are alarmed. A comeback of national currencies would be fatal -- especially ...

With the eurozone debt crisis still raging, Europeans could be forgiven for pining for the days when nations had their own currencies. But many Germans are taking their love of the deutsche mark to a ...