The event replicated an encounter in 1962 between former French president Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, when the two leaders enshrined Franco-German ties in a city that ...

It is West Germany’s support that Charles de Gaulle needs to win the whip hand over Europe. He had a stalwart partner in 87-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the Rhinelander whose lifelong ...

Conrad (with a ‘c’) was the third of the five Adenauer children and he grew up in cramped ... as a whole led him to turn increasingly to the French under President Charles de Gaulle. In any case, he ...