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Hungary's Orban: Merkel policy like Nazi invasion

Politics: 20 May 13
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn deepened diplomatic tensions with Germany after comparing the policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Nazi military invasion of his country ordered by Adolf Hitler. READ »

Wagner descendant slams composer

Society: 19 May 13
As the musical world lavishly celebrates Richard Wagner's bicentenary, the composer's great-grandson insists he is no spoilsport by denouncing the German master as a narcissist, woman-hater and an anti-Semite. READ »

Merkel opens up privately ahead of election

Politics: 17 May 13
With national elections just months away, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has begun to reveal more about her personal life, from her Polish roots to her weakness for men with "nice eyes." READ »

The chilly off-peak perks of Rügen prove a treat

Society: 10 May 13
Germany's largest island Rügen - in the snow - might not top many peoples' list of dream holidays. But as The Local's Jessica Ware discovered, its quiet beauty makes it well worth a trip to escape city bustle for a few days. READ »

Emotions high at start of neo-Nazi murder trial

National: 6 May 13
Hundreds of black balloons filled the sky over a Munich courthouse Monday as Germany's biggest ever neo-Nazi murder trial got under way, with anti-racism protesters noisily demanding justice. READ »

Anti-Swabian graffiti sparks outrage in Berlin

National: 5 May 13
Berlin’s mayor on Sunday condemned those behind anti-Swabian graffiti which appeared in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin overnight and is reminiscent of slogans used by the Nazis against the Jews. READ »

Files reveal star actor Horst Tappert's Nazi past

National: 27 Apr 13
The late German actor who starred in the wildly popular television crime show "Derrick" belonged to Hitler's notorious Waffen SS, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Friday. READ »

Stern's forged Hitler diaries to go public

National: 24 Apr 13
Thirty years after publishing what it believed were Hitler's diaries, German news magazine Stern said Tuesday it would hand over what it still owns of the forgeries to the country's state archive, making them accessible to the public. READ »

Riefenstahl's Olympic film secretly sold to IOC

National: 22 Apr 13
One of Germany's most acclaimed and controversial films by Hitler's favourite director Leni Riefenstahl was secretly sold off by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to help an Olympic bid, a newspaper reported on Monday. READ »

Neo-Nazi NPD party 'weak and in tatters'

Politics: 20 Apr 13
Germany’s neo-Nazi NPD party is holding its national conference this weekend - on Adolf Hitler's birthday. But a political expert believes financial strains, internal conflicts and dwindling support are already crippling the far-right extremists. READ »

Putin's spies target German embassy staff

National: 15 Apr 13
Over 25 years after his stint as a spy in Dresden for the Soviet KGB, Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasing surveillance of the German government as the Kremlin ratchets up its anti-German rhetoric, Der Spiegel reported Monday. READ »

Europe's anti-Merkel slurs offend Germans

National: 4 Apr 13
An overwhelming majority of Germans are incensed by protesters in bankrupt eurozone countries who slander Germany and depict Chancellor Angela Merkel as a Nazi, according to a poll released this week. READ »

Schäuble: Cypriot anger at Germany will pass

Politics: 28 Mar 13
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said Thursday that he understood Cypriot anger over the tough terms of its international bailout but said it would fade eventually. READ »

Euro crisis sparks anti-German sentiments

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Mar 13
Germany imposed its will at the Cyprus rescue talks but at a potentially heavy cost to its image in Europe, where angry protesters in debt-mired states make Nazi slurs and blame Berlin for merciless austerity measures. READ »

El Pais retracts Merkel comparison to Hitler

Politics: 25 Mar 13
Spanish newspaper El Pais has been forced to retract a column that compared German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Adolf Hitler and apologized for its "inappropriate" content after sparking an indignant Internet outcry. READ »

'We wanted to end the dreadful crimes'

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Mar 13
Ewald Heinrich von Kleist, a former German army lieutenant who took part in a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, has died at the age of 90. The last surviving member of the "20th of July" plot is The Local's German of Week. READ »

Austria marks 75 years since Nazi 'annexation'

National: 12 Mar 13
Austria solemnly marked Tuesday 75 years since German troops crossed the border unopposed on the early hours of March 12, 1938 and "annexed" Adolf Hitler's homeland into the Third Reich. READ »

'Austrians have humour, Germans not so much'

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 13
Austria Unchained? The Alpine nation is proudly independent, but that's not stopping Germany from claiming Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz, The Local's German of the Week, as one of its own. READ »

How divided Berlin forged Kerry's world view

Politics: 26 Feb 13
John Kerry on Tuesday makes his first trip as US Secretary of State to Berlin, a city where his boyhood bike rides during the Cold War helped shape his world view. READ »

Neo-Nazis to march as Dresden marks bombing

National: 13 Feb 13
Dresden on Wednesday braced for potentially violent protests against a neo-Nazi march on the 68th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the eastern German city. READ »

Rosenmontag parades mark Karneval climax

Society: 11 Feb 13
Rosenmontag, the climax of Germany's Karneval celebrations, kicked off in the Rhineland on Monday morning, with parades, music, fancy dress and free-flowing beer. READ »

Crystal meth usage rising in Germany

National: 2 Feb 13
Usage of the highly addictive drug methamphetamine, also known as “crystal meth”, has gone up in Germany and it is being rapidly imported into the country, the Bild newspaper reported on Saturday. READ »

Hitler's rise to power remembered 80 years on

National: 30 Jan 13
Germany on Wednesday marks Adolf Hitler's rise to power 80 years ago, with exhibitions exploring what Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the country's "everlasting responsibility" for crimes committed by the Nazis. READ »

Rio gives Carnival a Teutonic touch

National: 27 Jan 13
One of the oldest and most successful dance schools in Rio de Janeiro chose to go for a German theme at this year's Carnival. The only trouble: German firms have been less than enthusiastic about sponsorship deals. READ »

Grown men shiver in cold to be in Clooney film

Society: 27 Jan 13
Around 3,500 men queued up in the wintry weather outside Berlin this weekend for the chance to appear as a soldier in George Clooney's latest movie The Monuments Men. READ »

Merkel: Holocaust guilt is 'everlasting'

National: 27 Jan 13
Germany has "an everlasting responsibility" for the crimes committed by the Nazis, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday, just days ahead of the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's takeover of power. READ »

Hitler Youth songs found on Christmas carol CD

National: 14 Jan 13
Some 50,000 CDs of Christmas carols sent to households in Germany by a children's charity actually contained the titles to pro-Nazi songs sung by the Hitler Youth movement, according to public broadcaster NDR. READ »

Details emerge of CDU's private spy service

Politics: 3 Dec 12
West Germany's Christian Democrats ran a intelligence service staffed by aristocrats and former Nazis during the 1970s, hoping to undermine Chancellor Willy Brandt's policy of engagement with the communist East. READ »

US mag prints list of 'top 10 German generals'

National: 13 Nov 12
A US military history magazine has published a controversial list of the "top ten German generals," including three who fought under Adolf Hitler, causing some consternation in Germany. READ »

'Hitler connection' stops Bavarian music award

Society: 12 Nov 12
A Bavarian music award has been suspended after it was reported that its founders and patrons had been friends with Hitler, and had supported the Nazis from the days of the failed 1923 beerhall putsch. READ »

Fury in Athens as Merkel comes to town

National: 9 Oct 12
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece on Tuesday that the "tough path" of painful spending cuts will pay off, as tens of thousands of protesters massed in the capital in protest at her visit to the eurozone's most indebted nation. READ »

Grass calls Israel nuke whistle-blower a hero

Society: 1 Oct 12
Nobel prize-winning German author Günter Grass, declared persona non-grata by Israel over a poem saying the country threatened world peace, has published another work, this time praising a man jailed for leaking Israeli nuclear secrets. READ »

Neo-Nazi pepper sprays Polish WWII survivors

National: 23 Sep 12
A neo-Nazi attacked former Third Reich forced labourers and other guests at the inauguration of a memorial near Hamburg on Friday, covering them with pepper spray before being overpowered and arrested. READ »

Merkel: austerity not my idea, not my fault

National: 17 Sep 12
Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her role in the eurozone crisis Monday against angry citizens of debt-mired nations, saying her tough austerity course was the only way to win back trust. READ »

Jewish graves vandalized in northern Germany

Society: 6 Sep 12
Unknown vandals desecrated six Jewish tombstones at a cemetery in the northeastern German city of Rostock with graffiti including Nazi swastikas, police said Wednesday. READ »

Munich remembers 1972 Olympic victims

National: 5 Sep 12
Relatives of 11 Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre joined survivors and politicians Wednesday to pay tribute at the site of their killings 40 years ago in Germany. READ »

Youths attack rabbi in street for 'being Jewish'

Society: 29 Aug 12
A rabbi was attacked in broad daylight by four youths in front of his six-year-old daughter, police in Berlin said Wednesday, apparently because he was wearing traditional Jewish headgear. READ »

Paralympics founder's dreams come true

Sport: 28 Aug 12
When German-born Eva Loeffler helped her father organise a sports tournament for wounded World War II soldiers in 1948, she had no idea the contest would grow into the Paralympic Games. READ »

Autobahn network 'needs a face lift' at 80

National: 6 Aug 12
The German autobahn system will be 80 years old on Monday - and some say the road network is starting to show its age. READ »

Berlin mayor: we are fit to host Olympics

Sport: 31 Jul 12
Still reeling from the relentless rolling scandal of the new airport that refuses to be finished, the ever ambitious Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, said on Tuesday he wanted to make a bid for the capital to host the Olympic Games. READ »

Munich opera defends Nazi tattoo singer

Society: 24 Jul 12
The Munich opera hit out on Monday at the organisers of the Bayreuth Festival over their handling of a row about a Russian singer with a Nazi tattoo who had been scheduled to perform. READ »

Opera star pulls out in swastika tattoo scandal

National: 22 Jul 12
A Russian metal drummer turned star opera singer has pulled out of this year's legendary Bayreuth Festival just three days before the opening premiere - after a scandal broke over a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest. READ »

Hitler bomb plot ceremony marred by row

National: 21 Jul 12
A high profile ceremony for new voluntary recruits to the Bundeswehr, marking the botched attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944, was marred on Saturday as a row blew up over the decision to change the location. READ »

Hitler ordered his Jewish commander spared

National: 8 Jul 12
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered a former Jewish officer in his unit in World War I spared from persecution or deportation, at least for a time, according to a German Jewish publication. READ »

Jews, Muslims increase calls for circumcision law

Society: 6 Jul 12
Germany is coming under increasing pressure over the court decision that ruled circumcision was bodily harm and thus a crime – with the Wiesenthal Centre quoting Hitler, and a Muslim group saying it was a blow against integration. READ »

Mystery deepens - did agent aid murder?

National: 5 Jul 12
A German intelligence agent was suspected of being involved in one of the immigrant murders attributed to the neo-Nazi terrorist group, a newspaper has claimed. All attempts to figure out his story have failed. READ »

Half of German teens 'unsure Hitler a dictator'

Society: 27 Jun 12
About half of young Germans are not sure whether the Nazi state was a dictatorship – and even more are unsure that the socialist East German regime was one, a new study shows. READ »

UK magazine: Merkel 'most dangerous leader'

Politics: 21 Jun 12
A left-wing British magazine has called German Chancellor Angela Merkel the world’s most dangerous leader whose approach to the euro crisis may have brought the world to the edge of a second Great Depression. READ »

Nazi war criminal, 90, dies at large - in Bavaria

Society: 27 May 12
A Nazi war criminal who escaped from a Dutch jail after the war and evaded all attempts by the Netherlands to get him back has died at the age of 90 in Germany, it was confirmed on Sunday. READ »

Fugitive neo-Nazi arrested after shooting

National: 8 May 12
A 24-year-old Swiss neo-Nazi, wanted for shooting a man on Saturday night, was arrested in a dramatic police operation in the northern German port city of Hamburg on Monday. READ »

Germany's Rupert Murdoch turns 100

National: 2 May 12
Revered and reviled German media tycoon Axel Springer, whose empire encompasses major opinion-making papers Bild and Die Welt, would have turned 100 on Wednesday, prompting praise and condemnation. READ »

Pirates try to clear name of 'Nazi' slurs

Politics: 30 Apr 12
Germany's upstart Pirate Party wrapped up a national congress Sunday aimed at distancing the powerful new political force from the far-right. READ »

Jews welcome first post-war 'Mein Kampf'

National: 25 Apr 12
Germany's Jewish community on Wednesday welcomed a landmark decision to republish Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" for the first time since World War II, in an annotated edition. READ »

Grass given all-clear following heart scare

National: 21 Apr 12
German Nobel prize-winning author Gunter Grass left hospital on Friday after undergoing a long-planned medical examination, a spokesman said, downplaying the seriousness of his condition. Grass was admitted on Monday with heart problems. READ »

Hitler film writer scripts Kampusch movie

National: 16 Apr 12
A movie about the eight-year-long kidnap of Natascha Kampusch is to begin shooting next month - based on a screenplay by Bernd Eichinger who wrote “Downfall” about Hitler’s last days. READ »

Grass hits back at anti-Semitism charge

National: 6 Apr 12
German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass hit back on Thursday at what he called a "campaign" by critics of his poem accusing Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace. READ »

Nazi death camp guard Demjanjuk dies

National: 17 Mar 12
Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, sentenced to five years in a German prison last year in one of the last major trials of its kind, has died at the age of 91, police confirmed on Saturday. READ »

Munich court stops 'Mein Kampf' reprint

Society: 9 Mar 12
A German court has banned a British publisher from printing extracts of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf," upholding a ruling that doing so would break copyright laws. READ »

Singer praised neo-Nazi immigrant murders

National: 21 Feb 12
German prosecutors said Tuesday they had charged the lead singer of a suspected neo-Nazi band who wrote a song about a series of racist murders thought to have been carried out by far-right extremists. READ »

Nazi comedy unexpected hit at Berlinale

National: 12 Feb 12
A sci-fi black comedy about Nazis from the moon invading Planet Earth is one of the hottest tickets at the Berlin film festival, which is better known for its gritty political fare. READ »

Action! Babelsberg film studio fêtes 100 years

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. READ »

'White Rose' founder declared a saint

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. READ »

Germany not responsible for Nazi-era crimes

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. READ »

Germans confront latent anti-Semitism

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. READ »

Print Mein Kampf to fight neo-Nazi extremism

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. READ »

Publisher backs down on Mein Kampf plans

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. READ »

Poland aims to boost tourism at Hitler's lair

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. READ »

Mein Kampf headed for German newsstands

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. READ »

A voice for all of Germany's Jews

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. READ »

Art listing Hitler as 'freely elected' attacked

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. READ »

Hitler's favourite singer dies aged 108

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. READ »

Drunk neo-Nazi fined €600 for Hitler salute

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. READ »

Americans find statue Nazis 'borrowed' in WWII

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. READ »

Neo-Nazi killers sold fascist 'Monopoly'

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. READ »

Von Trier's 'Melancholia' triumphs at European film awards

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. READ »

Hitler's prestige arena blown to bits

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. READ »

Neo-Nazi murders expose institutional blind spot

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. READ »

Neo-Nazi terrorists compiled target list

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. READ »

Germans defend Greek honour amid debt crisis

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. READ »

Network of helpers for neo-Nazi terror probed

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. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 27 - November 2

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. READ »

East Germany's iconic traffic man turns 50

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. READ »

Post-war intelligence service recruited mass-murdering Nazi

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. READ »

Hugo Boss comes clean on Nazi past

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. READ »

Rommel's family complains about film profile plans

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. READ »

3D Hitler photo album goes on sale

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. READ »

Debate flares on protecting remains of Hitler's mountain retreat

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. READ »

Neo-Nazi cartoon stork irritates far-right

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. READ »

Da Vinci portrait looted by Nazi returns to Berlin

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. READ »

Preserving our open society after Oslo

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. READ »

Wagner festival opens with taboo-shattering Israeli performance

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. READ »

Nazi Heß exhumed, ashes to be scattered at sea

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. READ »

Hitler's birthplace revokes dictator's citizenship

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. READ »

Pius ordinations ahead of Williamson appeal

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. READ »

Tens of thousands expected at Berlin yoga fest

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. READ »

Nazi photo album sparks search for mysterious photographer

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. READ »

The Local's guide to Berlin's Pride Week

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. READ »

Austrian police arrest 213 rowdy Germany fans ahead of game

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. READ »

Hitler knew about WWII flight to UK by Heß

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. READ »

Nazi plan to teach dogs to talk uncovered

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. READ »

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