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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 363

Bavaria

Illustrative: A German police officer stands guard in front of a synagogue to secure the building in Frankfurt, Germany, November 8, 2023. (Michael Probst/AP)
November 21, 2023, 2:36 pm
German police raid homes of 17 accused of antisemitic hate speech on social media
Suspects from Bavaria said to range in age from 18 to 62; one reportedly posted to WhatsApp school class chat ‘Gas the Jews’, another called for extermination of Jewish people
By AP and ToI Staff
Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, affixes a mezuzah to the doorframe of the Centre for Jewish Life in Munich, Germany on September 19, 2023. (CER)
September 20, 2023, 11:44 am
Orthodox European rabbinical group finds a home in Munich, with new funding
After decamping post-Brexit UK, the Conference of European Rabbis becomes first major international Jewish group to open its headquarters in Germany since the Holocaust
By Canaan Lidor
Bavarian Deputy Governor Hubert Aiwanger speaks at a public festival, in Keferloh, Germany, Sept, 3, 2023. (Uwe Leindpa via AP)
September 3, 2023, 7:17 pm
Deputy governor of German state to keep job despite allegations of antisemitic past
Bavaria Gov. Markus Soeder says that it would be ‘disproportionate’ to fire Hubert Aiwanger amid accusations that he circulated an anti-Jewish flyer in high school 35 years ago
By Geir Moulson
Hubert Aiwanger, party leader of the Free Voters and Bavaria’s Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, speaks at a press conference in Munich, Germany on August 31, 2023. (Lennart Preiss/dpa via AP)
September 1, 2023, 3:07 am
German deputy governor rejects new charge of antisemitism from when he was in school
Hubert Aiwanger insists he didn’t write antisemitic flyer and doesn’t remember giving Nazi salute when he was a teen, as pressure against him mounts
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Hubert Aiwanger, head of the Free Voters party, campaigns ahead of Bavarian state elections in Maisach, Germany, July 24, 2023. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images via JTA)
August 31, 2023, 6:49 am
Nazi pamphlet controversy looms large in local German election
Deputy premier of Bavaria ensnared in scandal that could affect multiple upcoming elections, accused of once being a ‘Nazi admirer’
By Gabe Friedman
Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) arrives to address a press conference on August 29, 2023 in Munich, southern Germany (Christof Stache / AFP)
August 29, 2023, 4:39 pm
German state premier demands answers on antisemitic flyer allegedly made by deputy
Witnesses says Free Voters chair Hubert Aiwanger produced leaflet promising ‘free trip through the chimney in Auschwitz’ three decades ago at school
By AFP
File Photo from September 5, 1972, shows a member of the Arab commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village appearing with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage. (AP/Kurt Strumpf, File)
June 2, 2022, 2:27 pm
Bavaria releases all unpublished files on Munich Olympics massacre
Complaints about persistent secrecy had threatened to overshadow planned memorial event for 50th anniversary of attack
By AP
German police and rescue workers walk with a detained man, on November 6, 2021, in Seubersdorf, southern Germany, after several people were wounded in a knife attack on a high-speed train. (Fabian Schreiner/dpa/AFP)
November 6, 2021, 12:52 pm
Several wounded in knife attack on German high-speed train
Local police say no further danger after arrest of alleged attacker, who newspaper identifies as being of ‘Arab origin’; motive still unclear
By Mathieu FOULKES
German police officers guard the crime scene in central Wuerzburg, Germany, June 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
June 26, 2021, 12:30 pm
German investigators look for motive in deadly knife attack
Top Bavarian security official says the suspect was admitted to a psychiatric unit days before killing three in Wuerzburg, won’t rule out Islamic extremism
By AP
A knife-wielding man seen in the German city of Wuerzburg on June 25, 2021 (Screencapture/Twitter)
June 25, 2021, 8:37 pm
Three people killed, six injured in knife attack in Germany’s Wuerzburg
Suspect, who was shot and wounded, identified as a Somali migrant; video on social media shows bystanders confronting a man wielding a large knife
By Agencies
German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts on her a mask at the end of a press conference following a meeting of states' leaders on the coronavirus situation in Berlin on October 14, 2020. (STEFANIE LOOS / various sources / AFP)
October 22, 2020, 2:29 pm
Coronavirus cases in Germany surge 
Chancellor Merkel, heads of country’s 16 states agree on new measures for virus hotspots, though under federal system each state can decide whether to impose rules
By Fernke Colborne
Illustrative: Eagle's Nest, designed as a present for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday and built on the Kehlstein mountain overlooking Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 10, 2007 (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
August 11, 2019, 2:10 pm
Israeli hiker dies after slipping off cliff at Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’
Adi Mass, 30, falls to his death while climbing to popular tourist site in southern Germany
By ToI Staff
More than a dozen lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany walked out of Bavarian state parliament during a tribute to Holocaust victims at the Bavarian Parliament in Munich, Germany, January 23, 2019. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
January 23, 2019, 10:37 pm
German far-right lawmakers walk out of speech by Holocaust survivor
AfD members’ protest in Bavaria comes as Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, accuses the party of downplaying Nazi crimes
By David Rising
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a joint press conference as part of a meeting with Slovenia's Prime Minister Marjan Sarec at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, October 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
October 14, 2018, 11:08 am
Merkel allies face threat of election debacle as far-right rises in Bavaria
Christian Social Union, which has ruled southern state since 1960s, could lose its absolute majority in Sunday’s vote after sharp fall in polls to AfD over Muslim immigration
By Frank Zeller
Henrik Mordechai Gideon, Holocaust survivor and former prisoner at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, gives explanations on a site map prior to the inauguration of the Muehldorfer Hart camp memorial site near Waldkraiburg, southern Germany, on April 27, 2018. (AFP/dpa/Matthias Balk)
April 28, 2018, 2:58 pm
German memorial finally honors forced laborers of forgotten Nazi camp
At least 2,200 prisoners, many of them Hungarian Jews, died at Muehldorfer Hart and were buried on-site in a mass grave
By Pauline CURTET
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