May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Third_reich":
National: 8 May 12
Germany's development minister became the country's first member of government to announce a boycott of the Euro 2012 championships in Ukraine over human rights concerns, in an interview Monday.
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Science & Technology: 6 May 12
On a thundery night on May 6, 1937, the era of commercial airship travel came to a fiery end when the German hydrogen-filled Hindenburg burst into flames, killing 36 and shocking the world with images of the blazing dirigible.
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National: 23 Feb 12
Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a Nazi who denied the Holocaust in his neighbourhood pub, because he did so “as part of an attempt to argue” that Germany was not the aggressor in World War II.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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: 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: 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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National: 10 Sep 11
Germany and Italy will argue before the United Nations' highest court next week in a dispute over reparation claims for victims of Third Reich abuses that have been lodged before Italian courts.
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Politics: 26 Jul 11
Reiner Haseloff, the conservative state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, is facing fierce criticism after allegedly comparing forcing German police to wear name tags to how Jews had to display the Star of David under the Nazis.
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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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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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Society: 25 May 11
A hotel in the northern German city of Hameln has provoked the ire of a historian and embarrassed city politicians by hosting jail-themed parties in cellars where the Nazis once imprisoned forced labourers.
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Lifestyle: 24 May 11
Ida Hattemer-Higgins is no stranger to insomnia and vivid dreams. The premise for her well-received debut novel “The History of History: A Novel of Berlin” came to her in a nightmare. She spoke with Exberliner magazine’s Cara Cotner.
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National: 12 May 11
A couple who offer the sole resistance in an East German village dominated by neo-Nazis, has been given the prestigious Paul Spiegel Award for Civic Courage.
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Lifestyle: 6 May 11
A nation of car buffs, Germany is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile this year. Tracy Moran looks at how Stuttgart, the country’s motor city, is revving up for the festivities.
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National: 5 Apr 11
A new exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin explores the role the police played in the Holocaust, with rare documents offering insight into how and why ordinary officers were complicit with the worst of the Nazi crimes.
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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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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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Society: 19 Jan 11
Disgruntled employees in Germany who compare conditions at their workplace to the Third Reich can be justifiably fired, according to a Hessian labour court ruling published on Wednesday.
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Society: 15 Jan 11
Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal known as the ‘butcher of Lyon’ for his hideous treatment of Jewish prisoners, was paid by the German intelligence services for political information during the 1960s, according to Der Spiegel.
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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: 12 Nov 10
A Jewish doctor in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Paderborn has reportedly walked out of a surgery after discovering a Nazi tattoo on the arm of a patient.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 10
In the latest installment of Portnoy’s Stammtisch, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy ventures into the country’s heart of darkness.
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National: 24 Oct 10
Nazi Germany's Foreign Ministry was a "criminal organization" that was much more involved in the killing of millions of Jews during World War II than previously thought, a German historian said.
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Society: 23 Sep 10
Prize-winning German documentary filmmaker Loretta Walz is making 50 of her interviews with female survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp available on the internet this Friday.
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Lifestyle: 13 Sep 10
The Berlin Museum of Natural History celebrates 200 years of scientific innovation this month with the inauguration of its restored east wing, destroyed by Allied bombs, and a special exhibition full of remarkable rarities.
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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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Society: 28 Jun 10
Leftist anarchists in Berlin have reportedly been harassing immigrants showing their support for the German football team during the World Cup, tearing down national flags and even setting one on fire.
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Society: 3 Jun 10
A programme offering people persecuted by the Nazis a chance to visit their former hometown Berlin is slowly winding down. Julia Lipkins speaks with some of the last survivors.
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Lifestyle: 25 May 10
The Local's series "Making it in Germany" presents Misha Aster, a Canadian cultural historian in Berlin.
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National: 6 May 10
On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the end to World War II in Europe, Berlin this Friday opens a sombre new museum documenting the heart of the Nazis' terror regime.
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Society: 16 Mar 10
Once every 10 years, this Bavarian village crucifies Jesus all over again and local hairdressers nearly go out of business.
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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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National: 22 Feb 10
Prosecutors in Cologne are investigating how a suspected Israeli assassin applied for and received a German passport used while he worked for a Mossad killing squad.
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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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Sport: 19 Dec 09
A first-half goal from Peruvian star Jefferson Farfan lifted Schalke two points clear of previous Bundesliga table-toppers Leverkusen on Friday in cementing a 1-0 win over Mainz.
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Society: 15 Dec 09
Third Reich gift wrap and swastika ornaments for the tree - AFP's Francois Becker reports on a new exhibition in Cologne detailing how the Nazis tried to steal Christmas.
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National: 14 Dec 09
John Demjanjuk, already on trial for Nazi-era war crimes, is also under investigation for allegedly intentionally killing someone with his car in 1947, German prosecutors said Monday.
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Society: 30 Nov 09
British rocker Peter Doherty was hauled off stage at a weekend music festival in Germany after he began signing the disused first verse of the national anthem associated with the Nazis.
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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: 17 Sep 09
"Route 46," an abandoned stretch of the Third Reich's planned national motorway has just been placed under a preservation thanks to the lobbying of a Bavarian nature protection official.
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National: 8 Sep 09
The German parliament voted Tuesday to lift Nazi-era convictions of wartime "traitors" whose names, 70 years after the fighting started, had still not been cleared.
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National: 6 Sep 09
The German parliament is set to vote on Tuesday to lift Nazi-era convictions of so-called wartime traitors whose names, 70 years after the fighting, have still not been cleared.
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National: 1 Sep 09
Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, marked the start of massive military operations, but the Nazis paved the way with a largely-forgotten campaign of low-level attacks.
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National: 20 Jul 09
Germany on Monday marked the 65th anniversary of a failed attempt by members of the Wehrmacht to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his "Wolf's Lair" eastern military headquarters in 1944.
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Society: 17 Jul 09
German prosecutors said this week that they had launched an enquiry into whether a garden gnome with its right arm raised in a Hitler salute in a Nuremberg art gallery is against the law.
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Society: 10 Jul 09
Facing accusations of racial insensitivity, the Dresden Zoo has been forced to rename a baby primate called ‘Obama,’ according to information obtained by The Local on Friday.
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Society: 31 May 09
Maß-craving Manhattanites will soon be able to quench their thirst for Bavarian brew when the world-famous Hofbräuhaus opens a branch in New York next year, the brewery’s director said in an interview published Sunday.
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Politics: 12 Apr 09
A decade after the Bundestag opened for parliamentary business in Berlin, a row has reignited over why some government ministries are still operating in Bonn.
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National: 21 Mar 09
The Lower Saxony Landesbank NordLB has surprised the art world by returned a valuable painting to the heirs of its Jewish owner, collector Alfred Hess, whose collection was sold off cheap during the Third Reich.
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National: 27 Feb 09
Bishop Richard Williamson has apologized for his denial of the Holocaust, Catholic news agency Zenit reported late on Thursday, but Germany’s Central Council of Jews in Germany rejected the statement.
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National: 26 Feb 09
The German industrialist family Schaeffler, creator of the eponymous auto parts group, collaborated with the World War II Nazi regime in Poland, according to a report in Cicero magazine.
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National: 23 Jan 09
The German Jewish Council has said it supports the state of Bavaria’s choice to take legal action against Zeitungszeugen, a publication which reproduces original newspapers from the Third Reich.
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National: 17 Jan 09
Bavaria has banned the Zeitungszeugen magazines which launched a week ago, reproducing original newspapers from the Third Reich.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jan 09
German pacifists criticising Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip are missing the point, argues Israeli journalist Ze'ev Avrahmi.
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National: 14 Jan 09
Almost half of Germans believe Israel is an aggressive nation and some 60 percent feel Germany no longer has a special responsibilty toward the country, according to a poll released by newsmagazine Stern.
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Society: 8 Jan 09
Nearly seventy years after the start of the Second World War, a new British editorial project has begun republishing Nazi-era newspaper clippings accompanied by historic analysis.
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National: 16 Nov 08
The president of the German Doctors’ Association, Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe, has opened the door to the country’s medics to examine their role in the Third Reich.
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National: 8 Nov 08
Jewish leaders in Germany have castigated a senior politician from Chancellor Merkel's party for using the words "pogrom atmosphere" to describe the hostility towards well-paid business executives in the country.
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National: 31 Oct 08
Nostalgic Germans on Thursday night bade a fond farewell to Tempelhof, the fabled hub of the Berlin Airlift, as it closed to make way for a major new airport to serve the reunified capital.
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National: 18 Sep 08
Researchers have for the first time compiled a detailed list of around 600,000 German Jews persecuted by the Nazis.
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National: 11 Sep 08
The Prince of Liechtenstein, Hans-Adam II, has labelled Germany “the Fourth Reich” amid a dispute with Berlin over efforts to hinder tax evasion in the tiny Alpine statelet.
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National: 24 Aug 08
The Holocaust memorial in central Berlin has been desecrated with 11 swastikas daubed in black and red paint.
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Lifestyle: 22 Aug 08
Berlin is plenty interesting above the ground, but that didn’t keep Brett Neely from doing some urban spelunking to check out the city’s numerous bunkers.
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National: 31 Jul 08
German officials in Passau have exhumed the corpse of a former Nazi Waffen-SS soldier in order to confiscate a forbidden Third Reich era flag placed over his coffin during his burial last weekend.
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National: 28 Jul 08
Made in Germany? Chinese firms could soon be flocking to a remote airport in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to assemble their goods, reports Brett Neely.
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Science & Technology: 14 Jul 08
Germany’s genetics society on Monday condemned the practices of geneticists who during the Third Reich helped the Nazi regime murder thousands of handicapped people.
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National: 15 Jun 08
An art exhibition has opened in Rostock showing hundreds of works stolen by the Nazis and condemned as ‘‘degenerate’’, which have not been seen since the 1950s.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 08
The newly dedicated memorial for the homosexual victims of Nazi Germany sends a strong human rights message, says Günter Dworek from the German Lesbian and Gay Federation.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Mar 08
The German government and the German Olympic Committee have rejected a boycott of the Beijing Games this summer over China’s crackdown in Tibet. The country’s media largely agree with that decision in The Local's roundup of opinion.
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National: 27 Mar 08
Hundreds of French orphans whose fathers died after being conscripted by Nazi Germany during World War II have are suing the German government at the European Court of Human Rights.
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National: 23 Mar 08
The son of Albert Speer - Hitler's chief architect - is behind controversial plans to revamp a derelict city-centre stadium which was used during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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National: 12 Mar 08
Austria, which commemorates the 70th anniversary of its annexation by Nazi Germany this week, is still struggling to come to terms with its conflicted past, Philippe Schwab reports.
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National: 11 Mar 08
Germany's railway operator Deutsche Bahn threatened on Tuesday to sue a Jewish community leader for calling its chief executive a "Nazi" who would have enthusiastically taken part in the Holocaust.
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National: 6 Mar 08
A German conservative MP suggested the Iron Cross should be reintroduced as a military honour on Thursday, but the Defence Ministry swiftly slapped down the call.
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