Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, ... What her parents felt about this inauspicious move, ...

Angela Merkel on the eve of her election in 2005 with parents. Herlind Kasner, Angela Merkel’s mother, from Hamburg was a Latin and English teacher.

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on her new autobiography, ... What her parents felt about this inauspicious move, ...

Angela Merkel’s tenure as chancellor has come in for criticism, but her memoir sheds new light. ... Merkel’s parents explained that the ubiquity of the Stasi, or state security, ...

We learn how Ms. Merkel’s parents, a pastor and a housewife, shielded her from the socialist dictatorship in East Germany and prevented their three children from becoming “bitter and jaded.” ...

Angela Merkel outsmarted East Germany’s state security police – the so-called Stasi – when two officers tried to recruit her in 1978.. They told the 21-year-old trainee physicist it would be ...