Former president Richard von Weizsaecker, who challenged German attitudes about the Holocaust by arguing that the country had been liberated by the Nazi defeat in 1945, died on Saturday at the age of ...

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BERLIN – Germany has said farewell at a state funeral to ex-President Richard von Weizsaecker, remembered for declaring the World War II surrender a "day of liberation" for his country as he urged it ...

Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, 94, a German physicist who researched atomic weapons for the Nazis and became a philosophy professor who espoused pacifism after World War II, died Saturday after a ...

In the German parliamentary system, the chancellor is the head of government and exercises more authority over the policies of the government than the president does. But Richard von Weizsaecker, a ...

BERLIN – Former German President Richard von Weizsaecker, who urged his country to confront the Nazi past, promoted reconciliation and denounced far-right violence during a 10-year tenure that spanned ...

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, the German physicist and philosopher who died on Saturday aged 94, was the last surviving member of the team which tried and failed to develop atomic weapons for the ...

CARL Friedrich von Weizsacker, the German physicist and philosopher who has died aged 94, was the last surviving member of the team which tried and failed to develop atomic weapons for the Nazis ...