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German Soldiers at the Bundeswehr airbase in Wunstorf, Germany, on August 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
March 29, 2022, 8:42 pm
How Germany, shaken by Russia’s Ukraine invasion, plans to rebuild its military
Europe’s largest economy goes on spending spree to modernize its sagging army; considers buying armed drones and Arrow 3 missile defense system from Israel
By Mathieu FOULKES
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
Protesters take part in a march demanding an end to the restrictive coronavirus measures in Kassel, Germany, on March 20, 2021. (Armando Babani/AFP)
May 8, 2021, 10:06 pm
Outrage after German anti-mask protesters co-opt Nazi resister Sophie Scholl
Bavaria’s antisemitism commissioner says comparison to resistance fighter ‘trivializes the Holocaust and dictatorship’
By Mathieu FOULKES
Over 100,000 members of Hitler's stormtroopers at the huge Nazi rally in the Leopold Arena in Nuremberg, on Sept. 15, 1935, listen as German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks. (AP Photo)
January 22, 2021, 10:21 am
Germany moves to eradicate lingering Nazi laws, some anti-Semitic
Leftover legislation includes bill forcing many Jews to add Sara or Israel to their names that was scrapped after WWII, but remaining text was incorporated into federal law in 1954
By Mathieu FOULKES
Barbara Brix shows two pictures of her father Peter Kroeger who was part of the 'Einsatzgruppen' Nazi task forces, Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads responsible for mass killings, dated 1938 (L) and 1948, in her home in Hamburg, northern Germany, on June 11, 2020 (Marion PAYET / AFP)
November 11, 2020, 8:59 am
‘I didn’t ask questions’: Woman lifts veil on father’s Nazi death squad secret
After her father’s death, German woman learns he was member of Einsatzgruppen, whose ‘task force’ murdered some 1.5 million Jews
By Mathieu FOULKES
Masked soldiers of the German military special commando forces, 'Kommando Spezialkraefte' (KSK), hold their weapons ready as they move along a wall during an exercise in Baumholder, southwestern Germany, in this Sept. 11, 1997. (Hermann J. Knippertz/AP)
October 6, 2020, 8:57 am
Germany to present report on far-right extremism in police, military
Around 300,000 members of security forces fill out anonymous questionnaires in the hope of breaking what unions and experts have called a culture of silence
By Mathieu FOULKES
Visitors at the synagogue in Halle the day after a gunman targeted the house of worship in eastern Germany, October 10, 2019. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images/via JTA)
February 19, 2020, 9:44 am
Germany to tighten screws on online hate speech
Draft law calls for pressuring social networks like Facebook and Twitter to quickly remove offending content
By Mathieu FOULKES
One day after the election of Thuringia's State Premier, a woman holds a placard reading 'Shame on you' during a protest in front of the State Chancellery in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on February 6, 2020 (Jens Schlueter / AFP)
February 15, 2020, 8:04 am
Germans to hit the streets against deals with far right in eastern state
After AfD scandal in Thuringia, 10,000 expected to rally under the banner: ‘No pacts with fascists any time or anywhere!’
By Mathieu FOULKES
President Reuven Rivlin shakes hands with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 22, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 29, 2020, 6:25 am
Rivlin to address German MPs in Hebrew, 75 years after Auschwitz
President and German counterpart to speak in Bundestag, including to members of far-right AfD party, as fears grow of resurgent anti-Semitism
By Isabelle Le Page and Mathieu FOULKES
93-year-old former SS guard Bruno Dey in the concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig in the regional court in Hamburg, Germany, October 17, 2019. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)
October 17, 2019, 6:02 pm
Ex-Nazi concentration camp guard, 93, tells German court ‘sorry for what he did’
Bruno Dey, a former SS private charged with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder, says he knew Jews were being gassed at Stutthof, ‘did not see himself in a position to free them’
By Mathieu FOULKES
The main gate leading into the former Nazi German Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Poland, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 17, 2019, 7:53 am
Former SS camp guard, 93, goes on trial for 5,230 counts of accessory to murder
Despite his age, Bruno Dey faces German juvenile court as he was 17 when he began work at Stutthof concentration camp
By Mathieu FOULKES
In this file photo taken on September 6, 1939, Germans tanks cross a river into Polish territory. Nazi forces invaded Poland from the west on September 1, 1939, prompting Britain and France to declare war on Berlin two days later. Soviet forces attacked Poland from the east on September 17, under a secret pact with Germany, and the city of Warsaw surrendered 10 days later. (AFP)
August 28, 2019, 6:31 pm
Feeling its WWII wounds, Poland seeks German reparations 80 years on
There are living Poles ‘who experienced the same suffering as the Jewish nation,’ contends right-wing lawmaker as Warsaw pushes for victimhood recognition
By Stanislaw Waszak and Mathieu FOULKES
A leftist demonstrator holds a placard featuring a portrait of communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg during a march to the Monument for the Socialists at Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery where Luxemburg is buried, on January 13, 2019. (John Macdougall/AFP)
January 13, 2019, 2:37 pm
Gloomy German left remembers murder of Rosa Luxemburg
The Jewish-born communist activist, killed in 1919 amid social and political unrest following WWI, has become a ‘pop icon’ for a divided German opposition
By Mathieu FOULKES
Illustrative: Demonstrators hold flags of Germany during a protest organised by the right-wing populist 'Pro Chemnitz' movement, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the anti-Islam Pegida movement, on September 1, 2018 in Chemnitz, eastern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL
December 1, 2018, 6:30 am
German far-right AfD in trouble as end of Merkel era looms
Party stagnating in polls, facing charges of accepting illegal campaign funds from a non-EU donor in Switzerland
By Mathieu FOULKES
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