The former chancellor was the chief architect of Germany’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels and cuts to defence spending. Both haunt the country today
The former German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder,…
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The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right | Katja Hoyer ⊖⊖⊖
Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now
Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deuts…
89 days ago
Princess Diana was dubbed a 'loose cannon' for her controversial landmine trip to Angola - but she enacted a landmark global policy change ○
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Dressed in body armour, the Princess of Wales strode down a path surrounded by landmines from East Germany, Russia and China alongside mine removal expert Paul Heslop.
4 months ago
‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy ⊕⊕
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall
The creators of a children’s television series about life in communist East Germany have sai…
6 months ago
Moment police arrest autistic man in middle of the night for posting 'f*** Hamas, f*** Islam' on social media ○
British police officers have been branded as the 'Stasi of East Germany ' after they arrested a man last night over a social media post.
The economy's moribund. Socialism rules. Police come knocking if you say or think the wrong thing. Now, in an authoritarian new plan that'll make Britain even more like East Germany, citizens will be forced to carry ID cards ○
Keir Starmer faced a furious backlash on Thursday over 'dystopian' plans to force millions of adults to sign up for a digital ID card.
'Nobody can tell me whether I'm wanted or not,' publicist Michel Friedman says ○
Following his controversial disinvite from an event in East Germany, publicist Michel Friedman is now going on the offensive. In an interview with Euronews, he criticises the decision as a "dangerous…
‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang | Jason Burke ○
In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence
In the summ…
‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change ○
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‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’
Being a West German band made p…
8 months ago
If the Greens in Germany move towards the centre, they can become a real force again | Katja Hoyer ○
Four years ago, the party was the most popular in the country – but old rifts have fractured it. Now the time is ripe for a reset
The German Green party, Die Grünen, was once the envy of its sister mo…