Angela Merkel has set out to secure her reputation in a 700-page memoir in which the former German chancellor defends her 16 years in office. Critics increasingly believe that her leadership led Germany to chronic underinvestment, an underfunded military, and the growth of the far right.

The former chancellor’s autobiography, Freedom, is unlikely to lend her a Churchillian place in modern German history

Angela Merkel, at the premiere of her autobiography "Freedom," defended her policy towards Russia and migration. She emphasized that she did not want to sever relations with Putin, which she believed was not a mistake.

Germany's longtime former chancellor, Angela Merkel, presented her memoirs at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin on Tuesday, engaging in an on-stage conversation with journalist Anne Will. Merkel responded to Will's claim that her book,