February 9, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Hitler":
Lifestyle: 8 Feb 12
The world's oldest major film studio celebrates its 100th birthday this month with Hollywood stars and European players ready to toast Germany's mythic Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin. AFP's Deborah Cole reports.
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Society: 5 Feb 12
The Russian-Orthodox Church canonised one of the founders of the anti-fascist group the "White Rose," Alexander Schmorell, over the weekend in Munich, nearly 70 years after his execution by the Nazis.
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National: 3 Feb 12
The United Nations’ highest court declared Friday that modern day Germany isn’t responsible for Nazi war crimes in Italy, saying Rome breached international laws when its courts allowed compensation claims to be made.
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National: 27 Jan 12
As Germany commemorates the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on Friday, Miriam Widman explores just how widespread anti-Semitism continues to be nearly 70 years after the Holocaust.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 12
The proposed publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Germany has sparked outrage and worries it would give voice to neo-Nazis. But The Local’s Moises Mendoza argues it is time for the country to fight extremism by supporting free speech.
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Society: 26 Jan 12
A British publisher has backtracked on plans to sell excerpts of Mein Kampf in Germany in the face of strong public pressure and a court ruling forbidding it’s publication.
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National: 25 Jan 12
Polish authorities have announced plans to boost tourism at Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's notorious "Wolf's Lair" headquarters in what was once East Prussia.
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National: 15 Jan 12
British publisher Peter McGee says he plans to publish excerpts from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and sell them in Germany.
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National: 3 Jan 12
A brand-new English language newspaper hopes to shed new light on Germany’s burgeoning Jewish community. Moises Mendoza speaks to the man behind the Jewish Voice from Germany.
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Politics: 2 Jan 12
A work of art in the Reichstag building which includes Adolf Hitler in a list of “freely and democratically” elected members of the German parliament has been repaired after someone attacked it.
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National: 25 Dec 11
Johannes Heesters, a controversial operetta singer who became famous in Nazi Germany and who was considered one of the world's oldest performing artists, died on Saturday aged 108, his agency said.
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Society: 24 Dec 11
A drunken neo-Nazi in the central German town of Kassel fell foul of Germany's law forbidding the Nazi salute this week.
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Society: 6 Dec 11
A sculpture of the artist Dürer as a boy, thought lost during the chaos of World War II, has been rediscovered – in the garden of the American Academy in Berlin.
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National: 5 Dec 11
The members of the extreme-right terrorist cell suspected of slaying at least 10 people in Germany between 2000 and 2010 sold a neo-Nazi version of the board game 'Monopoly' in order to finance their murderous activities, authorities said.
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National: 4 Dec 11
Lars Von Trier’s apocalyptic “Melancholia” picked up the prize for best European film of 2011 at the European Film Awards in Berlin late on Saturday night.
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National: 3 Dec 11
Another piece of Berlin’s Nazi past disappeared on Saturday as demolition crews blew up the Deutschlandhalle, the massive arena built by Hitler's regime in 1935 ahead of the Olympic Games the following year.
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National: 18 Nov 11
Germany’s law-enforcement and intelligence authorities are scrambling for answers after a neo-Nazi terrorist cell murdered at least ten people. Hannah Cleaver examines how the far-right threat was ignored.
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National: 16 Nov 11
A neo-Nazi terror group responsible for 10 murders was apparently planning political assassinations. President Wulff announced he will meet with the victims’ relatives amid growing concerns about damage to Germany’s reputation abroad.
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Society: 16 Nov 11
Popular opinion in Germany holds that the Greeks have only themselves to blame for their country's crushing debt crisis. But Germans who have made Greece their home are now fighting ugly stereotypes on both sides.
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National: 15 Nov 11
As the German authorities feverishly investigated whether a neo-Nazi terror group responsible for several murders had a network of accomplices, criticism of the country’s domestic intelligence services continued to grow on Tuesday.
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Lifestyle: 27 Oct 11
This Week's Highlights: Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations in Berlin, A 3D tribute to Pink Floyd in Hamburg and the Frankfurt Marathon.
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Society: 13 Oct 11
East Germany’s most enduring public figure is celebrating his 50th birthday this Thursday: The colourful little traffic light man has watched over millions of pedestrians and become an international design icon.
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Society: 25 Sep 11
The fledgling post-war German secret service hired and trained a Nazi wanted for more than 90,000 murders, contracting him to infiltrate Castro’s Cuba, according to newly released documents.
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Society: 21 Sep 11
Fashion firm Hugo Boss, long rumoured to be Adolf Hitler’s favourite tailor, has published a report on its less than laudable record during the Third Reich.
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Society: 20 Sep 11
The family of German World War II General Erwin Rommel is complaining that a planned film by public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) doesn’t do enough to portray Rommel as an opponent of Hitler.
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Society: 17 Sep 11
A new album of images of Adolf Hitler captured in 3D, once used as a propaganda tool by the Nazi regime, went on sale in Germany on Friday.
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Society: 13 Sep 11
A debate has flared up about whether to protect what remains of Adolf Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat, known as the "Berghof", his favourite residence for more than 10 years until his suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945.
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Politics: 29 Aug 11
He's a stork with a small moustache and a side-parting. Meet Storch Heinar. The cartoon parodying the far-right has been annoying the neo-Nazi NPD party in the state election campaign in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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Society: 24 Aug 11
Leonardo da Vinci's treasured painting "Lady with an Ermine," a work belonging to Poland that was stolen by the Nazis, has gone on display in Germany for the first time since World War II.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jul 11
Norway’s mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik wanted the opposite of freedom. That's why open societies like Germany must resist xenophobia and isolationism in the face of terror. A commentary by Der Tagesspiegel’s Gerd Appenzeller.
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Society: 25 Jul 11
Germany's 100th Wagner opera festival kicked off in Bayreuth on Monday in an edition that will include a taboo-busting performance by an Israeli orchestra.
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National: 21 Jul 11
The body of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Heß has been exhumed from the Bavarian cemetery where it was buried in the 1980s, in an effort to deprive neo-Nazis of a pilgrimage site.
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Society: 8 Jul 11
Sixty-six years after the end of World War II, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been stripped of his honorary citizenship in the Austrian city where he was born.
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National: 2 Jul 11
The controversial ultra-conservative Catholic group, the Pius Brotherhood, has ordained four new priests just two days before Bishop Richard Williamson’s appeal against his conviction for Holocaust denial.
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Society: 2 Jul 11
Tens of thousands of yoga fans are expected in Berlin this weekend for a huge festival organized in the German capital's 1930s Olympic Stadium by one of India's best-known gurus, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
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Society: 21 Jun 11
Seventy years after Adolf Hitler started his ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union, a Nazi photo album offering a glimpse of events on the Eastern Front has surfaced in New York. But the person who took the pictures remains a mystery.
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Lifestyle: 17 Jun 11
Nearly a million people are expected to participate in Berlin’s Pride Week, one of Europe’s biggest gay and lesbian events. The Local brings you the highlights including the Stadtfest festival and the Christopher Street Day parade.
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Sport: 4 Jun 11
Police arrested more than 200 Germany fans who ran wild through the streets of Vienna on Friday evening, news reports said, just hours before the team's victorious Euro 2012 qualifying match against Austria.
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National: 29 May 11
Adolf Hitler knew about his deputy Rudolf Heß' solo flight to Britain during World War II, according to a newly unearthed document.
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Society: 27 May 11
The Nazis supported a bizarre project to teach dogs to talk, according to a new book. The Local's Moises Mendoza spoke with the author Jan Bondeson about the German fascination with “educating” the beasts for the Third Reich.
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National: 11 May 11
Bavaria has refused to extradite a convicted Nazi war criminal back to the Netherlands, from where he broke out of jail in 1952, Germany's justice ministry said Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 10 May 11
Newly unearthed documents challenge whether Wernher von Braun, Nazi physicist and crucial figure in the US space programme, was really the inventor of Hitler's infamous V-2 rocket.
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Society: 19 Apr 11
Volkswagen unveiled a new “bolder, more dynamic and masculine” model of its iconic Beetle this week – the third generation of the classic German car of which more than 20 million have been sold.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Apr 11
Germany's planned gigantic seesaw commemorating reunification perfectly symbolizes the country's failure to come to terms with its unity properly, says Christian Bangel of ZEIT ONLINE.
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National: 10 Apr 11
The SS officer responsible for the arrest of Anne Frank was one of many Nazis employed by Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) foreign intelligence agency after World War II, Focus reported on Saturday.
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Society: 5 Apr 11
Cries of “Sieg Heil” in the street, neo-Nazi rallies, far-right slogans on walls: welcome to Jamel, a tiny northeast German village locals say has been annexed by Nazi sympathizers.
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Society: 11 Mar 11
Can a cartoon about Hitler be funny or is it just in bad taste? Exberliner magazine spoke with the creators of a strip poking fun at both hipsters and the most-hated man of the 20th century.
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Sport: 9 Mar 11
Guests attending the opening of the 2011 World Biathlon Championships in Siberia got a surprise when they found Nazi propaganda among the hors d'oeuvres at the reception.
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Society: 27 Feb 11
A Canadian man was arrested in Berlin on Saturday for making the Hitler salute in front of the Reichstag.
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National: 18 Feb 11
An Australian director has uncovered two films shot in 3D in pre-war Nazi Germany, according to the trade magazine Variety. He said the Nazis were well ahead of Hollywood with the technology.
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Society: 17 Feb 11
An Austrian "Nazi satire" about a Jewish man who dons the uniform of an SS officer to save himself and his mother from the Holocaust was surprisingly well-received Wednesday at the Berlin film festival.
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National: 13 Feb 11
Thousands of people Sunday formed a human chain in the eastern German city of Dresden to mark the 66th anniversary of the deadly Allied firebombing during World War II and to protest against a neo-Nazi march.
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Society: 26 Jan 11
Germany’s most successful international film producer Bernd Eichinger, responsible for “The Neverending Story,” “Downfall” and the “Resident Evil” series, has died of a heart attack, his agent announced Tuesday night.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 11
Germans love free thinkers, but they're apparently not so hot on free speech. The reactions to the Giffords shooting in Arizona have revived the spectre of anti-Americanism, argues Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Society: 30 Dec 10
Youth fire brigade volunteers in North Rhine-Westphalia have sparked a neo-Nazi scandal after they were photographed giving a Hitler salute, media reported Thursday.
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National: 21 Dec 10
Police in Germany staged nationwide raids Tuesday on members of a far-right group suspected of trying to organise a camp to train young extremists, seizing neo-Nazi material.
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Society: 16 Dec 10
The North Rhine-Westphalian city of Dülmen struck Adolf Hitler from its list of honorary citizens on Thursday. But the Nazi dictator still retains similar recognition in towns across Germany, experts say.
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Society: 29 Nov 10
How is it discovering you’re the product of a Nazi breeding scheme, Heinrich Himmler’s godson and the bastard child of a war criminal? Exberliner’s Titus Chalk has one man’s story.
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National: 29 Nov 10
Germany's Jewish community, which is thriving thanks to immigration from the former Soviet Union, has elected its first post-war leader who is not a survivor of the Holocaust.
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National: 27 Nov 10
Germany's justice minister has suggested that a Nazi wanted by the Netherlands could serve his sentence in Germany, but an application for extradition is unlikely to succeed.
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Society: 26 Nov 10
A British bishop appealing a German conviction for Holocaust denial has agreed to drop his lawyer with reported links to far-right groups, the breakaway Catholic fraternity he belongs to said Friday.
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Society: 23 Nov 10
A British bishop appealing his conviction in Germany for Holocaust denial will be represented by a lawyer with reported links to banned neo-Nazi groups, the court said this week.
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Society: 19 Nov 10
The actual dock where Hermann Göring and other top Nazis sat in the Nuremberg trials features in a new exhibit opening this weekend in the same courthouse, exactly 65 years on.
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Lifestyle: 12 Nov 10
Exberliner, Berlin’s leading English-language magazine, in November visits the Adolf exhibition, gets its fill of veggie cuisine, and discovers where to get vintage rock wear.
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Society: 1 Nov 10
A woman collecting Germany's GEZ public broadcasting licence fees in Ulm has reportedly been fined after a dispute with a pub owner escalated and she made racist comments and a Nazi salute.
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National: 29 Oct 10
Allied forces feared the Nazis were planning to fight a guerrilla campaign from a base under the Alps as the tide turned against Germany in World War II, archives released this week.
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National: 14 Oct 10
A famous 1914 photo showing a young Adolf Hitler in the thick of the crowd at a First World War rally – which the Nazis later used as a propaganda picture – was probably faked, German media said Thursday.
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Society: 12 Oct 10
A new exhibition opening this week at Berlin’s German Historical Museum aims to break taboos by exploring the fascination with Adolf Hitler and his relationship with the German people, the curator said Tuesday.
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Sport: 8 Oct 10
A children’s football coach suspended from his club in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt for his membership in the neo-Nazi NPD party has defied the ban and is back on the pitch, according to media reports on Friday.
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Society: 6 Oct 10
Germany's Bayreuth Festival has withdrawn an invitation for an Israeli orchestra to play at its annual Richard Wagner gathering over fears it would create a backlash in the Jewish state, an Israeli newspaper said on Wednesday.
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National: 3 Oct 10
Far-right Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders warned against the "Islamisation" of Europe and criticised German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a speech in Berlin on Saturday that sparked public protests.
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National: 29 Sep 10
Ninety-two years after the end of the First World War, Germany will finally put the spectre of the Treaty of Versailles behind it this Sunday with its last payment stemming from reparations.
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Travel: 23 Sep 10
The picturesque Rhön Mountain region is Germany’s mecca for gliders, but as Alannah Eames discovers, the surrounding UNESCO Biosphere Reserve offers plenty of great hiking and other activities.
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Politics: 9 Sep 10
Erika Steinbach, under fire for implying Poland was jointly to blame for World War II, announced on Thursday she would leave the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats.
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National: 3 Sep 10
Judaism is making a comeback in Germany 65 years after the Holocaust, thanks largely to immigration from the former Soviet Union, as shown by this week’s ordination of two rabbis in the eastern city of Leipzig.
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Politics: 31 Aug 10
Germany on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of its reunification treaty amid recriminations that the former West Germany swallowed the communist East.
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Society: 15 Aug 10
A dramatic art installation of 800 plastic statues of Martin Luther was opened on the market place in Wittenberg at the weekend, provoking criticism from one academic who criticised it as abuse.
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Business & Money: 12 Aug 10
A US court of appeals Wednesday said Germany can be sued by Florida investors seeking reimbursement for post World War I reconstruction bonds that Adolf Hitler stopped paying in the 1930s, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said.
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National: 11 Aug 10
A Nuremberg court on Wednesday rejected a complaint by clothing label Thor Steinar, a sartorial favourite in Germany's neo-Nazi scene, against satirical brand Storch Heinar, citing the right to free speech.
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Society: 10 Aug 10
Giving a “Hitler salute” is illegal even if there is no apparent political motive, a Lower Saxony court ruled this week, after an intoxicated homeless man provoked passersby with the Nazi-style raised arm gesture.
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Society: 29 Jul 10
Neo-Nazis have hacked into Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp website, defacing it and redirecting visitors to a revisionist site, the camp's memorial foundation director said late on Wednesday.
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Society: 22 Jul 10
The Thor Steinar clothing label, popular among neo-Nazis, has all but lost its case against left-wing satirical label “Storch Heinar” after a Nuremberg judge warned late Wednesday that much of the complaint was unfounded.
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National: 20 Jul 10
Germany on Tuesday marked the 66th anniversary of a failed attempt by army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his "Wolf's Lair" military headquarters in a daring bid to end World War II.
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Lifestyle: 20 Jul 10
Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, in July finds Elysian airfields, explores laundrette culture, and scrutinises a corporate shantytown.
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Society: 23 Jun 10
An imprisoned and impoverished Adolf Hitler wrote to a car dealer begging for a discount on a Mercedes he had his eye on, according to a letter being auctioned in Germany next month.
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Society: 18 Jun 10
Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, in June heads to a hipster Kreuz-Kölln flea market, goes upmarket in Mitte, and crashes in a jailhouse bed.
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Society: 18 Jun 10
The lead actor in Bollywood's proposed film on Adolf Hitler that has drawn protests from Jewish groups and condemnation from historians said he has withdrawn from the project.
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Society: 11 Jun 10
The Bollywood film industry, famous for its lip-synched singing, exuberant dancing and wet sari scenes, is set to stray into unfamiliar dark territory with a film on Adolf Hitler.
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Society: 4 May 10
A major new exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum, argues it was no coincidence that the biggest superheroes including Superman, Spiderman, Batman and the Hulk were all created by Jewish comic artists.
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Society: 22 Apr 10
Over the last few years mash-up parodies of a scene from the Oscar-nominated film "Downfall" have been enduringly popular, but now the film’s German production company has demanded an end to the fun, reports said this week.
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Business & Money: 16 Apr 10
German clothing brand Thor Steinar – a known favourite among neo-Nazis – is suing satirical copycat label “Storch Heinar” for libel and violating trademark laws.
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National: 15 Apr 10
A new museum devoted to Adolf Hitler's murderous SS has opened in a mysterious castle designed to be the spiritual home of the Nazi global empire after World War II.
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National: 11 Apr 10
Survivors and dignitaries marked on Sunday 65 years since the US army liberated Buchenwald, one of the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration camps on German soil in World War II.
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Society: 8 Apr 10
New research shows that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler may have tried to steal the famous Shroud of Turin, but was thwarted by the Vatican, an Italian media report said this week.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Apr 10
Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for the British newspaper The Times, laments the lack of laughs on German television.
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National: 1 Apr 10
As the fifth anniversary of the inauguration of Berlin's Holocaust memorial draws near, controversy dogs the site as a committee of experts looks into how to repair cracks spreading through the maze of concrete blocks.
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National: 17 Mar 10
Up to 25,000 people were killed in the controversial Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden during World War II, fewer than often estimated, an official commission concluded Wednesday.
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National: 8 Mar 10
The British intelligence agency MI5 suspected members of the Hitler Youth conducted bicycle reconnaissance tours in the run-up to World War II, documents released by the UK National Archives revealed on Monday.
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Society: 24 Feb 10
Jud Süß - Film ohne Gewissen was panned at this year’s Berlinale for its portrayal of a notorious Nazi propaganda film. Its director Oskar Roehler spoke with Vera von Kreutzbruck about the controversy surrounding the movie.
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Society: 19 Feb 10
A big-budget German movie about the Nazis' most successful propaganda picture and the pact with the devil sealed by its lead actor premiered to boos Thursday at the Berlin Film Festival.
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