Opel’s final new model that appeared before the unfortunate debut of the Second World War seemed to have a predestined name: Kapitan. That means skipper or captain in German. If still alive today, the ...

Back in 1938, only one year before the onset of the biggest war in world history, the German automotive industry, heavily supported by Adolf Hitler and his NSDAP for all the wrong reasons, was booming ...

In the 1950s, the Opel Kapitan offered executive-class comfort at an affordable price. That was Opel's recipe for success, and it secured the Kapitan third place among Germany's new car registrations.

The German icebreaker and research vessel Polarstern embarked on an Arctic expedition in September 2019 with the goal to become ice-solid and drift with it. The ship is pictured at shore in Tromso, ...