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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 »

Court caps Jewish ghetto pension claims

Business & Money: 7 Feb 12
Some 22,000 Jewish people confined to ghettos under the Nazis during World War II are entitled to smaller pension payments than they initially claimed, a German federal court ruled Tuesday. 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 »

Socks provided key clue in neo-Nazi case

National: 5 Feb 12
Police investigating the Zwickau-based neo-Nazi terror cell identified one of the group's alleged members, Beate Zschäpe, as the person who blew up the home she shared with two other suspects by analysing her socks, a new report said. 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 »

UK eurosceptic sparks uproar with Nazi jibe

Politics: 2 Feb 12
A eurosceptic British MEP provoked the German head of the European Parliament chairman to cut off his microphone after comparing Germany’s proposed plans for Greece's finances to the Nazi occupation of the country. READ »

Commandos arrest neo-Nazi terror suspect

National: 1 Feb 12
A man accused of supplying a neo-Nazi terror group with weapons was arrested in Düsseldorf on Wednesday morning, accused of being an accessory to six of the ten racist murders said to have been carried out by the gang. READ »

Cops 'quizzed neo-Nazi terror cell woman' in 2007

National: 29 Jan 12
Police questioned a member of a neo-Nazi terror cell just months before the gang killed a policewoman – but asked her about water damage to a flat, having no idea she was connected to a string of shootings, it emerged on Sunday. 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 »

Spying on leftist MPs condemned

Politics: 24 Jan 12
Politicians from across Germany’s main political parties have condemned the domestic intelligence agency, or Verfassungsschutz, for spying on parliamentarians from the socialist Left party. READ »

Fiery German heads European Parliament

Politics: 17 Jan 12
Fiery German socialist Martin Schulz was elected president of the European Parliament on Tuesday, replacing outgoing conservative former Polish premier Jerzy Buzek. READ »

'Kebab-Murders' called 'worst word of 2011'

Society: 17 Jan 12
A jury of language experts has picked Döner-Morde (Döner Murders) as 2011’s most despicable German word, saying that in the wake of racist murders the term reduced a victimised minority community to food hawkers. READ »

Germans 'stole' Auschwitz personnel files

National: 17 Jan 12
Polish authorities are hunting two Germans who are said to have dug up three crates of documents from the Auschwitz death camp and made off with them rather than handing them in. 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 »

Prosecutors confident of neo-Nazi terror case

National: 14 Jan 12
German prosecutors have said that they feel they have grounds for a prosecution against Beate Zschäpe in relation to their investigation into the NSU neo-Nazi terror cell. READ »

Critics slam 'recycling' of notorious Sarrazin book

National: 14 Jan 12
Thilo Sarrazin’s book “Germany Abolishes Itself” is once again the focus of controversy. Plans by a Czech artist to recycle copies of the book have been severely criticized for perceived Nazi connotations. READ »

One woman tackles neo-Nazi graffiti

Society: 12 Jan 12
While the recently-discovered Neo-Nazi murders dominated the German media for weeks, the drip, drip, drip of xenophobic graffiti rarely gets much attention. AFP’s Deborah Cole meets a woman tackling it personally. READ »

Neo-Nazis may be behind 2003 murder attempt

National: 7 Jan 12
The neo-Nazi group previously accused of 10 murders between 2000 and 2007 may be responsible for the murder attempt of a Turkish-born restaurant owner in the industrial Ruhr area, authorities have said. READ »

Neo-Nazi radio presenters sentenced

Society: 6 Jan 12
Eleven employees of a Neo-Nazi internet radio station were handed suspended sentences in the western German town of Koblenz Thursday. A twelfth worker was imprisoned for two years because he carried previous offences. READ »

Hollywood arsonist 'hated America'

National: 5 Jan 12
A German man launched a "binge" of over 50 arson attacks in southern California over the New Year holiday weekend, fired up by anti-American "hatred" fueled by his mother's fight against deportation to Germany, prosecutors have said. READ »

For rent: One WWII U-boat bunker

Society: 5 Jan 12
Two government authorities are in conflict over a huge World War II submarine bunker near the northern German city-state of Bremen, which is to be rented out for commercial use. READ »

Germany and France end tussle over key ECB job

Business & Money: 4 Jan 12
The European Central Bank put an end Tuesday to a bitter battle between France and Germany over a key post within the bank by naming a Belgian to the highly coveted position of chief economist. READ »

Jews 'ashamed' of Israeli Holocaust protest

National: 3 Jan 12
The head of Germany's Jewish community Tuesday expressed "shock" and "shame" after ultra-Orthodox protesters in Israel donned Holocaust symbols, including yellow stars, at a recent demonstration. READ »

Teachers 'need help to fight youth extremism'

Education: 2 Jan 12
Attempts to prevent young Germans from getting into right-wing extremism are failing because of poor coordination and sporadic financing say experts. READ »

'Anonymous' declares 'Blitzkrieg' on neo-Nazis

Society: 2 Jan 12
“Anonymous” hackers have declared “Blitzkrieg” on neo-Nazis for the New Year, disabling a number of their websites and publishing lists of extreme-right supporters. 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 »

The Local's top five features of 2011

Lifestyle: 29 Dec 11
While the economy was on everyone’s mind this year, The Local’s feature writers took an in-depth look at stories that may have been off the radar. We’ve picked some of our favourites. READ »

State invests millions in revamping Nazi retreat

National: 28 Dec 11
Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state is investing millions of euros in a plan to turn a former elite school for Nazi children into a popular tourist attraction. READ »

Historian wants ban on communist uniforms

Society: 27 Dec 11
A prominent historian of communist East Germany and its Stasi secret police has called for a ban on the public display of communist era uniforms or insignia. READ »

Government divided over phone data law

National: 27 Dec 11
The German government is riven over whether telecom companies should be allowed to keep customers' data indefinitely. Critics say easier police access to data could have helped solve recently-revealed Neo-nazi murders. READ »

The Local’s top five offbeat stories of 2011

Lifestyle: 27 Dec 11
After a huge year for dramatic news, The Local has collected together five stories from our 2011 ‘Offbeat’ archive that may have slipped through your news filter. 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 »

President avoids scandal in Christmas speech

National: 24 Dec 11
In his annual Christmas address, to be aired Sunday evening, German President Christian Wulff did not mention the loan scandal that has dogged him throughout December, instead highlighting racism and political extremism. READ »

Teens jailed for brutal Berlin metro attack

National: 21 Dec 11
A judge has handed down prison sentences of between four and six years to four young men charged with attempting to kill a man at a Berlin metro station earlier this year. READ »

Anti-fascists brick up Neo-Nazi politician's front door

Society: 20 Dec 11
Anti-fascists in Lower Saxony bricked up the front door of a top member of the extreme-right National Democratic Party's (NPD) home to protest against his presence at a city council meeting on Monday. READ »

Neo-Nazi terror house 'will be demolished'

National: 20 Dec 11
Officials scared that German neo-Nazis could gather at the house where the far-right terrorists accused of killing at least 10 people lived, have decided to tear it down. READ »

Intel agency sabotaged police in neo-Nazi case

National: 19 Dec 11
Thuringia's secret service actively sabotaged the police investigation into the trio of neo-Nazi terrorists from the eastern German town of Zwickau, a newspaper reported Monday. The agency even tried to pay the trio 2,000 Deutsche marks. READ »

Zschäpe lawyers may seek her release

National: 18 Dec 11
Defence lawyers for Beate Zschäpe, a key neo-Nazi suspect in a series of 10 murders, largely against foreign-born German residents, told Focus magazine that they may move to get her released from jail. READ »

Elderly Nazi killer begins life prison term

National: 16 Dec 11
As a last drive to arrest elderly Nazi war-criminals heats up, a 90-year-old former SS assassin began his life jail sentence Thursday handed down by a German court for shooting dead three civilians in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. READ »

Neo-Nazi link to rabbi death in Zurich probed

National: 12 Dec 11
Investigators suspect that a neo-Nazi terror group responsible for a series of murders in Germany may also have been behind the unexplained killing of a 70-year-old Israeli rabbi in Zurich a decade ago. READ »

130 informants hinder neo-Nazi NPD party ban

National: 12 Dec 11
The German intelligence agency has more than 130 active informants in the National Democratic Party (NPD), making a ban on the neo-Nazi party potentially difficult, it was reported on Sunday. READ »

Nazi helper arrested in terrorist case

National: 11 Dec 11
German police have arrested another man suspected of aiding the Zwickau neo-Nazi terrorist cell responsible for a series of murders. The 36-year-old Matthias D. is thought to have helped them set up safe-houses. READ »

States agree on plan to ban neo-Nazi party

Politics: 9 Dec 11
The interior ministers of Germany’s 16 federal states agreed Friday to launch a new attempt to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). READ »

Western Nazi network aided terror trio

National: 9 Dec 11
The neo-Nazi terrorist trio based in the eastern German town of Zwickau were aided by western counterparts in choosing their locations for murders, one far-right extremist has told investigators. READ »

Pirates say 'Arrgh' as support dwindles

Politics: 7 Dec 11
Germany’s upstart Pirate Party seems to be losing the wind from its sails – the latest political opinion poll suggests it is supported by just six percent of voters – down from nine percent a few weeks ago. 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 »

Elderly raided for WWII massacre in France

National: 5 Dec 11
German authorities said on Monday they had raided the homes of six men suspected of taking part in the Nazi massacre of 642 mainly women and children in a French village in 1944. 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 »

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 »

Far-right cell links to Saarland attacks probed

National: 3 Dec 11
There may be links between the far-right terror cell and a series of crimes in the western state of Saarland, including a bomb attack on a controversial exhibition and arson attacks on foreigners. READ »

‘Nazi ideology is filled with terrorist spirit’

National: 2 Dec 11
A former neo-Nazi tells The Local how he broke out of extremism, describes violence in the far-right scene and offers his view of the latest revelations about neo-Nazi terrorism in Germany. READ »

Police plead for help in neo-Nazi terror hunt

National: 1 Dec 11
Calling on the German public for help, the authorities hunting supporters of the neo-Nazi terrorist cell on Thursday described the chillingly efficient plans made by the group to murder at least ten people. READ »

Discovering Munich’s past in a mediaeval loo

Lifestyle: 1 Dec 11
Construction on an underground train line in the centre of Munich has uncovered mediaeval latrines full of artefacts offering insights into the Bavarian capital’s past. Christine Madden reports. READ »

Jewish community state funding doubled

National: 1 Dec 11
Germany's Jewish community has signed a new treaty with the government to double its annual state funding, reflecting its growing size and prominence more than 65 years after the Holocaust. READ »

Germany's leadership to euroblivion

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Nov 11
With Europe's sovereign debt crisis now threatening the survival of the euro, Germany will need to do more than simply force austerity on its neighbours, writes The Local's Marc Young. READ »

800 weapons taken from neo-Nazis in two years

National: 30 Nov 11
Authorities have confiscated more than 800 weapons from right-wing extremists over the last two years, including handguns and knives, plus a few larger weapons, according to the German government. READ »

Notorious US racist Duke faces deportation

National: 30 Nov 11
David Duke, a notorious American white supremacist, has been arrested in Germany and is facing deportation, according to his website and German media. READ »

Ex-NPD official arrested in neo-Nazi probe

National: 29 Nov 11
German police on Tuesday arrested a former official of the far-right NPD party for allegedly supporting a neo-Nazi terrorist cell suspected of murdering at least 10 people. READ »

Paris and Berlin fight over key ECB job

Business & Money: 29 Nov 11
France and Germany are battling for a key post at the European Central Bank amid deepening differences over the role the bank should take in the eurozone debt crisis, sources revealed on Tuesday. READ »

Armed neo-Nazi scene embraces violence

Society: 28 Nov 11
The rise of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) has focused attention on Germany's neo-Nazi scene, which experts say includes violent militants with professional weapons training. Ben Knight reports. READ »

Greens weigh support for NPD ban

Politics: 27 Nov 11
The Greens will only support a new attempt at banning the neo-Nazi NPD political party if there is a good chance the effort will succeed, members said Sunday at their party conference in Kiel. READ »

Neo-Nazis may have stolen army TNT

National: 27 Nov 11
Investigators looking into the neo-Nazi terrorist group based in Thuringia are worried that far-right extremists may be in possession of the remaining 38 kilos (83.8 pounds) of TNT stolen from the German army’s storage unit in the area. READ »

Former chief judge backs exploring NPD ban

Politics: 26 Nov 11
A new legal effort to ban Germany's far-right NPD party banned should be considered, according to the former high court judge that presided over the last failed attempt. READ »

Germans want neo-Nazi NPD party banned

Politics: 25 Nov 11
Three-quarters of Germans want the neo-Nazi NPD party banned, a poll showed on Friday, after the discovery of an extreme far-right cell believed to have murdered 10 people, mainly Turkish shopkeepers. READ »

EU sues Germany over VW protection law

Business & Money: 24 Nov 11
The European Commission decided Thursday to haul Germany before the top EU court for failing to scrap a law that protects auto giant Volkswagen from takeover bids. READ »

Another neo-Nazi terror suspect arrested

National: 24 Nov 11
German authorities on Thursday arrested, then arraigned, another suspected helper of a neo-Nazi terror group, as the authorities admitted files on the members of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) may have been destroyed. READ »

Neo-Nazi ties to far-right party probed

National: 23 Nov 11
Germany's far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) may have had closer relationships with banned neo-Nazi groups than previously known, revelations that may give ammunition to those trying to ban the party. READ »

Bundestag 'ashamed' by racist murders

Politics: 22 Nov 11
German parliamentarians from across the political spectrum expressed shame Tuesday over a decade-long murder spree blamed on a neo-Nazi cell and pledged to do more to protect the nation's minority communities. READ »

Murdered cop had ties to neo-Nazi killers

National: 22 Nov 11
The National Socialist Underground (NSU) deliberately targeted policewoman Michele Kiesewetter in 2007 because of a connection between her family and the neo-Nazi terrorist cell, according to the German authorities. READ »

Neo-Nazi killings spark intelligence revamp plan

National: 21 Nov 11
The chairman of parliament's interior affairs defended the German authorities' approach towards far-right extremism on Monday, but said state domestic intelligence agencies needed reform in the wake of a neo-Nazi murder spree. READ »

Berlin won't collect tax from WWII victims

National: 21 Nov 11
Germany moved Monday to reassure Belgium that people who suffered forced labour at the hands of the Nazis would not have to pay tax on their compensation, after a row between Berlin and Brussels. READ »

Central memorial agreed for neo-Nazi victims

Politics: 20 Nov 11
Germany will hold a memorial service for the victims of a neo-Nazi murder spree, while a minister has vowed to compensate their families. A new survey shows most Germans want to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). READ »

Informants failed to out neo-Nazi terrorists

National: 19 Nov 11
Intelligence services had at least three informants in the neo-Nazi scene linked to the terror group that went on to kill at least ten people, according to Der Spiegel magazine. 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 terror cell 'may have been bigger'

National: 18 Nov 11
The neo-Nazi terrorist group which killed nine shopkeepers and a policewoman probably involved at least two more people than the four already in the sights of the authorities, Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor said on Friday. READ »

Neo-Nazi killings, apathy shock German minorities

National: 17 Nov 11
Revelations a neo-Nazi gang was able to commit racist murders unhindered for a decade – and Germany’s seeming indifference to the crimes – has shaken the country’s minority communities. Moises Mendoza reports. READ »

Scientologists try to board Pirate Party

Politics: 17 Nov 11
Scientologists are trying to join Germany’s upstart Pirate Party, it has emerged, just weeks after it was revealed that two regional party figures had previously belonged to the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD). 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 »