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Pauline CURTET
Photographs of missing former German soldiers lie on a table at the German Red Cross archive in Munich, southern Germany, on April 9, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Christof STACHE)
May 3, 2018, 6:19 pm
Search for missing WWII Germans drawing to somber close
German Red Cross says fate of 1.3 million soldiers and civilians in Hitler’s army captured by Russia will never be known
By Pauline CURTET
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
German chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and her husband Joachim Sauer arrive at the Festival Theatre on July 25, 2017, in Bayreuth, southern Germany, ahead of the opening of Bayreuth's legendary annual opera festival dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner. (AFP PHOTO / Christof STACHE)
July 26, 2017, 5:05 pm
German opera festival confronts Wagner anti-Semitism head-on
Edgy new production by Australian Jewish director met with rapturous applause and rave reviews at renowned Bayreuth festival
By Pauline CURTET and Deborah Cole
The Bavarian Minister for Justice Winfried Bausback (R) and refugee's follow the rights education lessons for refugees and asylum seekers in a hall of the "Bayernkaserne" in Munich, southern Germany on February 24, 2016. (Christof Stache/AFP)
February 25, 2016, 3:25 pm
German civics classes for migrants get mixed verdict
It would be better to teach the German language, says one refugee
By Pauline CURTET and Ralf ISERMANN
Refugees get out of a special train coming from Munich upon arrival at the railway station in Berlin Schoenefeld on September 13, 2015. (Axel Schmidt/AFP)
September 13, 2015, 11:10 pm
Swamped by refugees, Germany reinstates border controls
As it buckles under vast numbers of fleeing Syrians, Germany effectively opts out of borderless Schengen system
By Ralf ISERMANN, Pauline CURTET and Katerina NIKOLOPOULOU
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