May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Red_army":
National: 14 May 12
A former member of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang that terrorised Germany in the 1970s and 1980s on Monday denied taking part in the group's most high-profile murder, breaking a long silence.
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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.
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National: 9 Dec 11
Police on Friday were still searching for explosive packages after an Italian far-left group claimed responsibility for a letter bomb sent to Deutsche Bank's CEO and said that others were in the post.
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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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Business & Money: 8 Nov 11
As pressure grows for Germany to tap its gold reserves amid the European sovereign debt crisis, the Bundesbank is refusing to end its silence on where its more than 3,000 tonnes of the precious metal is stored.
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National: 19 Aug 11
Arsonists set fire to cars in Berlin for a fourth straight night, destroying at least 11 vehicles in the early hours of Friday morning. The ongoing attacks have raised the spectre of leftist terrorism.
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National: 21 Jun 11
Birgit Hogefeld, the last member of the German leftist terror group the Red Army Faction behind bars, was freed prison on Tuesday after serving 18 years.
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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: 12 May 11
Former Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk was set free by a Munich court on Thursday, despite receiving a five-year jail term for helping to murder at least 28,000 people at Sobibor death camp in Poland.
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National: 10 May 11
The trial of 91-year-old alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk is due to end this week, marking a watershed moment in Germany's bid to deal with World War II crimes judicially.
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National: 22 Mar 11
German prosecutors Tuesday said John Demjanjuk should serve a six-year jail term for helping to murder 27,900 Jews during his alleged time as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.
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National: 16 Mar 11
Hundreds of people met in the Latvian capital of Riga on Wednesday to remember World War II veterans who fought with Nazi Germany in the Waffen SS, after a court overturned a ban on the controversial annual gathering.
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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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Politics: 25 Jan 11
The turbulent family life of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been etched into the public record in excruciating detail through a new memoir written by his estranged eldest son Walter.
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National: 14 Jan 11
Greek police on Friday said they had arrested a German woman, allegedly the daughter of a wanted leftist with ties to the Red Army Faction, in a sweep
aimed at a radical anarchist group that sent bombs to embassies.
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National: 1 Jan 11
More than a million people gathered at Germany’s largest New Year’s party in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Saturday night to ring in 2011 with a fireworks spectacle.
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Society: 27 Dec 10
New Year’s Eve without fireworks is unthinkable for many Germans, but giddy pyromaniacs could face hefty fines for recklessly blowing things up near churches, hospitals and quaint thatched-roof houses.
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Society: 27 Oct 10
An architect in the Russian enclave Kaliningrad is trying to rally support for plans to restore the historic centre of what was once the East Prussian city of Königsberg to its pre-war splendour.
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National: 11 Oct 10
A motorcycle secured a few days ago by police is likely the vehicle used by the leftist terrorist group the Red Army Faction in the notorious shooting of West Germany's federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback in 1977.
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Society: 30 Sep 10
Former Baader-Meinhof gang member Verena Becker stubbornly kept her silence at the opening of her trial Thursday for her alleged role in murdering West Germany's top prosecutor during the far-left group's 1970s campaign of violence.
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National: 30 Sep 10
A trial starting on Thursday will dredge up the Baader-Meinhof gang's reign of terror three decades ago, a bloody period that shook West Germany's political system to its foundations.
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National: 27 Sep 10
Just days before the trial against former Red Army Faction member Verena Becker for killing a federal prosecutor 33 years ago, other former members of the far-left militant group said Monday that someone else pulled the trigger.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Sep 10
Following another deadly shooting rampage with a legally owned sporting weapon over the weekend, newspapers in The Local’s Media Roundup questioned whether protecting the rights of gun owners outweighs the risks.
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Society: 25 Jun 10
A treasure trove of 17th and 18th century paintings went on show on Thursday in a Prussian palace outside Berlin that was their pre-war home before going missing in 1945.
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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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National: 3 Jun 10
Russian authorities have found a sunken German ship in the Baltic Sea with more than 10,000 World War II-era munitions aboard, an emergency official said on Thursday.
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Politics: 31 May 10
Horst Köhler, whose resignation as Germany's president Monday shocked the nation, was rarely shy of expressing an opinion on political issues - a trait that eventually brought him down.
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National: 8 Apr 10
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they had indicted Verena Becker, a former member of the far-left West German militant group the Red Army Faction, for complicity in a murder that took place more than 33 years ago.
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Society: 17 Feb 10
One of three Red Army soldiers in a famed 1945 photograph that depicts the Soviet flag being lifted over Berlin's Reichstag has died at age 93, Russian officials said on Wednesday.
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National: 18 Jan 10
The mystery of Russia's famed Amber Room, seized as the spoils of war by the Nazis, has puzzled historians and experts since it disappeared in 1945. But one man believes he's found it in Kaliningrad, which was once German Königsberg.
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National: 23 Dec 09
Former Red Army Faction (RAF) member Verena Becker is to be released from remand over the 1977 murder of West Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, a court ruled Wednesday.
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Society: 20 Dec 09
In Holocaust suspect John Demjanjuk's home village, locals are angry that Germany is trying a Ukrainian. With Demjanjuk's trial set to resume Monday, AFP's Anya Tsukanova reports from Dubovy Makharyntsy.
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National: 1 Dec 09
In putting Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk on trial, Germany has laid itself open to accusations of double standards over pursuing perpetrators of the Holocaust.
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National: 30 Nov 09
Medical staff brought 89-year-old John Demjanjuk into a Munich court on a stretcher on Monday to face charges that he herded tens of thousands of Jews to their death in a Nazi gas chamber in World War II.
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National: 29 Nov 09
Eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk stands trial in Germany Monday accused of herding 27,900 Jews to their deaths as a Nazi camp guard, in what will likely be the last major case of its kind.
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National: 17 Nov 09
German prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 90-year-old former SS soldier with 58 counts of murder for the cold-blooded killings of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II.
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Society: 18 Sep 09
Once a Stasi security training ground for the likes of Honecker's bodyguards, the former East German city of Kallinchen is now dominated by tourists, including those drawn to a historic nudist camp and the re-purposed secret police facility.
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Society: 6 Sep 09
A German art dealer is looking for a home for the death masks of three Red Army Faction terrorists Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe, which have been missing for more than 30 years.
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National: 28 Aug 09
Former Red Army Faction terrorist Verena Becker was arrested on Friday for her suspected role in the leftist assassination of West Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback more than 30 years ago.
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National: 22 Aug 09
The German Police Union has warned of an increasingly violent extreme-left scene, which it claims is likely to start attacking politicians just as the now defunct Red Army Faction once did. But the Interior Ministry is unconcerned.
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National: 20 Aug 09
New DNA evidence has implicated former Red Army Faction member Verena Becker in the leftist assassination of West Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback more than 30 years ago.
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National: 16 Aug 09
One of the Saxon capital’s landmark bridges over the Elbe, the 116-year-old Blue Wonder, suffers from major rust and water damage and needs urgent repair, Dresden city officials said this weekend.
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National: 10 Aug 09
A 29-year-old German convert to Islam confessed in court on Monday to plotting devastating bombings against US soldiers and diplomats stationed in Germany.
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National: 18 Jun 09
Suspected Islamic militants on trial for plotting to bomb US targets in Germany have begun making confessions after a shock twist in the high-profile case, a lawyer said Thursday.
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Society: 10 Jun 09
The pre-World War II German city of Breslau – now Wroclaw in Poland – is the real hero of best-selling Polish author Marek Krajewski's murder mysteries, devoured by readers and translated so far into 11 languages.
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Society: 30 May 09
The son of the late West German student leader Rudi Dutschke wants a new investigation into the 1968 assassination attempt on his father after the discovery a Stasi agent was responsible for the death of another student.
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National: 12 May 09
Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his Ohio home Monday and deported to Germany where he faces charges of helping murder 29,000 Jews in World War II.
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Politics: 9 May 09
Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl appeared in public on Friday, his first appointment since a serious head injury necessitated an operation last year.
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Society: 8 May 09
A US Supreme Court Justice has denied a bid by ex-Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to block his extradition to Germany to face charges of aiding the wartime murder of thousands of Jews.
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National: 2 May 09
The man accused of being the sadistic concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible could be deported to Germany for trial at any time, after losing a crucial legal appeal.
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Society: 25 Apr 09
A film about a German salesman who rescued thousands of Chinese from the Japanese army in 1937 won the Lola prize for best feature film of 2008 at the German Film Awards in Berlin Friday night.
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Society: 24 Apr 09
The US Department of Justice has called on a court to lift a stay of deportation against a former Nazi camp guard wanted for trial in Germany, arguing the 89-year-old was fit enough to travel.
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National: 22 Apr 09
Germany will launch one of its biggest terror trials in decades Wednesday against four alleged Islamic extremists accused of plotting devastating attacks against US interests.
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National: 21 Apr 09
A former death camp guard wanted by Germany for abetting the killing of 29,000 Jews presented himself as a Nazi victim to refugee aid workers at the end of the war, documents indicated Tuesday.
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National: 25 Feb 09
A Munich court on Wednesday sentenced Horst Mahler, a prominent right-wing extremist and former member of the leftist terrorist group the RAF, to six years in prison for incitement of hate crimes.
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Travel: 23 Jan 09
People flock to the mountainous Harz region year round to climb the highest peak in northern Germany the Brocken. Campbell Jefferys explores spectacular countryside once split by the Iron Curtain.
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National: 16 Jan 09
Investigators believe that remains exumed from of a mass grave found in Malbork, Poland are those of German civilians killed during World War II.
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National: 10 Jan 09
Christian Klar, the former Red Army Faction terrorist who was released last month after 26 years behind bars for murder, has turned down a job at a Berlin theatre for fear of tabloid media attention.
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National: 27 Dec 08
The former Red Army Faction terrorist Christian Klar, who was released from prison on December 19 after 26 years, has said he wants to avoid public appearances in order to concentrate on his rehabilitation.
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National: 26 Dec 08
For over 50 years, the inhabitants of Treuenbrietzen, a small eastern German town, kept quiet about a World War II massacre in the final days of the war. And many today still have no wish to revisit the past.
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Politics: 23 Dec 08
Helmut Schmidt, the chain-smoking former German chancellor who is enjoying a revival of popularity after governing more than 25 years ago, turns 90 on Tuesday. But while he's being lionized by the media, Schmidt would rather just be left alone.
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National: 19 Dec 08
Christian Klar, a former leader of the Red Army Faction terrorist group who was convicted of multiple murders, has been released after 26 years in prison, his lawyer said on Friday.
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National: 8 Dec 08
More than 60 years after the end of World War II, disputes over war booty rage on as Germany seeks, with mixed success, the return of treasures looted by the victorious Red Army.
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National: 24 Nov 08
Christian Klar, a former leader of the Red Army Faction terrorist group who was convicted of multiple murders, will be released early next year after 26 years in prison, a Stuttgart state court has ruled.
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National: 17 Nov 08
Russia on Monday returned precious 700-year-old stained glass windows to a Frankfurt an der Oder church that were seized by the Soviet army at the end of World War II.
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National: 23 Sep 08
The daughter of Franz Josef Strauß, the late conservative premier of Bavaria, said on Monday the leftist terrorist group the Red Army Faction planned to kill him with a model airplane wired with explosives in 1977.
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Society: 22 Sep 08
The notorious high-security prison where leaders of the German urban guerrilla group the Baader Meinhof Gang committed suicide is to be torn down to make room for a mental hospital, daily Stuttgarter Zeitung reported on Monday.
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Society: 21 Sep 08
A German film taking a new look at the bloody legacy of the Baader Meinhof Gang will open this week, aiming to blot out the "terrorist chic" image of the 1970s urban guerrilla outfit.
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National: 14 Sep 08
He's back. Two months after a visitor ripped the head off a controversial Hitler waxwork at the new Berlin branch of Madame Tussaud's, the museum is again displaying the figure, this time protected by a wall and extra security.
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National: 29 Jul 08
A German court ruled on Tuesday that former Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist Birgit Hogefeld, who is serving a life sentence for a 1985 attack on a US-Airbase in Frankfurt, is not eligible for parole.
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National: 22 Jul 08
A new DNA test has shown that former Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist Verena Becker was not an accomplice in the leftist drive-by murder of German Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback in 1977.
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National: 21 Jul 08
Seven German demonstrators who were arrested in Berlin on Sunday during the first-ever swearing in ceremony for new Bundeswehr recruits in front of the Reichstag have been released, police said on Monday.
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Society: 7 Jul 08
The new Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin has had its decapitated Hitler model secretly transported back to London for repairs, according to German daily Bild on Monday.
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National: 6 Jul 08
The man who tore the head off the Adolf Hitler wax figure at Berlin's new Madame Tussauds said he did so to protest war and fascism – and to win a bet.
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National: 6 Jun 08
German authorities have reopened legal proceedings against former Red Army Faction terrorist Verena Becker as an accomplice in the leftist drive-by murder of federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and two passengers in 1977.
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Travel: 19 May 08
In his book Cycling Back to Happiness, English journalist Bernie Friend covers 6,000 kilometres of northern Europe on a bicycle. His first impressions of Germany weren’t too positive, but Wilhelmshaven couple Horst and Ursula give him a taste of real German hospitality.
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Society: 12 May 08
Oskar Schindler saved more than 1,000 Jews from the gas chambers, but after 1945 he fell into obscurity and poverty and died without the recognition he deserved, writes AFP's Simon Sturdee.
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National: 4 May 08
Another piece of the story behind the iconic 1945 photograph of Red Army soldiers hoisting the hammer and sickle flag on the Reichstag in defeated Berlin, has been revealed.
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Politics: 3 May 08
Former German interior minister and stalwart of the Social Democratic Party Otto Schily will exit politics next year according to a report in weekly magazine Der Spiegel.
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National: 28 Apr 08
A former left-wing guerilla turned neo-Nazi was sentenced to 10 months in prison in Germany on Monday for giving a Hitler salute in an interview with a Jewish TV presenter and denying the Holocaust.
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Sport: 28 Feb 08
Germany has been defeated by Japan in a major upset at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in China.
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