News: Germany

We have started to collect the most important news related to Germany in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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• 'Armed man' clears Berlin school – 'Nazi guard' Demjanjuk is charged
• 'Nazi guard' deportation blocked – Afghan murder suspect in Germany 'was jail...
• Afghan raid: German general quits – Angela Merkel to quit as CDU party leader
• Angela Merkel to step down as German chanc... – Auf Wiedersehen
• Auf Wiedersehen Carino – Bavarian mayor buses refugees to Merkel
• Bayer 'to double' Chinese sales – Berlin cultural icon under threat
• Berlin denies Libya training role – Berlin truck attack: Shoppers 'determined ...
• Berlin truck attack: Tunisian 'linked to A... – Borussia Dortmund explosion: #bedforawayfa...
• Bosnian film triumphs in Berlin – Call for Greece to stay with Europe
• Call for probe of German spyware – Children removed from German sect
• Children's climate rallies gain momentum i... – Cologne police 'could not cope'
• Cologne police 'right to target North Afri... – Coronavirus: Thousands protest in Germany ...
• Coronavirus: Thrifty Germany takes on debt... – Davydenko sweeps through in China
• Dead babies found in Berlin flat – Deutsche sees first annual loss
• Di Matteo takes over as Schalke boss – E German 'licence to kill' found
• E. coli linked to farm in Germany – Erdogan critic Dogan Akhanli arrested in S...
• Erdogan defends footballer Ozil ahead of G... – Euro 2024: Germany beats Turkey to host to...
• Euro bonds come under new attack – Ex-German minister 'plagiarised'
• Ex-Nazi goes on trial in Germany – Files seized in Love Parade probe
• Filipino militants ‘abduct German, kill ... – France and Germany renew pledge
• France and Germany snub UK EU review – Gas solution closer, says Putin
• Gathering century-old memories of wartime ... – German art group ZPS apologises for Berlin...
• German artist Otto Piene dies aged 86 – German call to ban workplace kiss
• German cannibal 'not a murderer' – German court to hear Afghan lawsuit
• German court upholds Catholic tax – German exports hit all-time high
• German exports hit record in 2011 – German government in Hypo offer
• German GP at Hockenheim - Ecclestone – German killed by an escaped elephant
• German killed in Afghan shooting – German nuclear plants to be shut
• German nuclear power plan protests – German politician admits child porn
• German politician in child porn trial – German sailor makes Rio bug claims
• German Salafists give away Koran – German top court backs EU-Canada trade dea...
• German top court blocks ban on far right NPD – German words tie US Spelling Bee again
• German worker abducted in Nigeria – Germany 'mulling Guantanamo move'
• Germany 'must do more' to aid growth – Germany backs neo-Nazi database
• Germany backs pullout from Incirlik airbas... – Germany faulted in suicide case
• Germany finds an extra 55bn euros – Germany mourns Love Parade dead
• Germany mourns shooting victims – Germany reverses Tom Cruise ban
• Germany reviews neo-Nazi threat – Germany to open Holocaust archive
• Germany to probe 'Iraq spy role' – Germany's Deutsche Telekom sets sex quotas
• Germany's E. coli cases 'slowing' – Google told to tidy up auto-complete
• Gorbachev warns of 'new Cold War' – Hamilton heads Rosberg in Germany
• Hamilton heads Vettel in practice – Hopes raised for German cave rescue
• Hospital probes E German drug tests – Investors seeking havens for cash
• Iran 'must free German reporters' – Jobless in Germany: Migrants' next challenge
• Jobs fears trigger Airbus protest – Lebanon holds train bomb suspect
• Legend Agassi makes tearful exit – Lufthansa calls off 500 flights
• Lufthansa cancels flights over strike – Marie Antoinette to open Berlin
• Markets reel on double-dip fears – Merkel concedes 'bitter defeat'
• Merkel concern at 'US phone spying' – Merkel stands firm on kidnapping
• Merkel starts German coalition talks – Migrant crisis: Germany warns Turkey again...
• Migrant crisis: Is Germany far right rise ... – Murray progresses despite injury
• Murray struggles past qualifier – New Siemens boss 'to return order'
• New Ukraine peace push launched – Oldest taboo
• Oldest Tyrannosaurus rex relative identified – Philippine army finds body of beheaded Ger...
• Philippine militants release Germans – Porsche shares up on merger hopes
• Porsche to recall 22,000 cars over emissio... – Rammstein video: German rock band causes o...
• Rapper turned IS fighter killed by US – Ronaldo fit to face Germany
• Roof caves in on store in Germany – Sarkozy backs closer German ties
• Sarkozy in Alsace 'German' gaffe – Shoe generates power from walking
• Shoe thrower cleared of offence – Spoil sports?
• Sportsday Live - breaking news as it happens – Swastika removed from controversial Nazi b...
• Swastika Russian quits Bayreuth – The city where you will never get caught s...
• The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest – Tottenham sign striker Son for £22m
• Tough talks ahead for G8 leaders – Two killed in Frankfurt courthouse
• Two killed in Germany as van ploughs into ... – US court rejects Demjanjuk plea
• US criticises Germany growth model – VIDEO: 'Premium' cars shown off in Germany
• VIDEO: 'Queen of Europe' Merkel visits UK – VIDEO: Dogs and owners dance in world champs
• VIDEO: Doubt over source of E. coli bug – VIDEO: German town throws party for refugees
• VIDEO: German train crash news conference – VIDEO: James Marsh on his IRA thriller
• VIDEO: Kidnapped doctor to face killing trial – VIDEO: Roma now taking refuge in Berlin
• VIDEO: Russia donates puppy to France – Vietnamese on trial over deaths
• Viktor Orban victory in Hungary: German mi... – Weidmann to be Bundesbank chief
• Wembley's secret – Worried about refugees in Germany? Call Al...
• Worst of German E. coli 'is over' – Zimbabwe elephant tramples German tourist ...

Germany: news

'Armed man' clears Berlin school

Tuesday, May 20th 2008, 9:25
related places: Berlin

Police evacuate a school in the German capital Berlin amid reports that an armed person has entered the building.
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'Arson' at German asylum shelter

Tuesday, August 25th 2015, 15:38

A suspected arson attack on a gym intended as a temporary asylum shelter follows violent protests in Germany against the arrival of migrants.
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'Auschwitz book-keeper' convicted

Wednesday, July 15th 2015, 16:43

A German court convicts a 94-year-old former guard at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz of being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews.
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'Auschwitz guard' prompts inquiry

Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 17:07

German prosecutors examine a case file on an 87-year-old Nazi suspect accused of involvement in mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp.
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'Autobahn gunman' goes on trial

Monday, August 11th 2014, 13:02

A man appears in court in the German city of Wuerzberg accused of firing more than 700 bullets at vehicles on motorways over five years.
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'Bazooka man' Olaf Scholz in bid to become German chancellor

Tuesday, August 11th 2020, 12:34

The centre-left finance minister fires the first salvo in the race to succeed Angela Merkel.
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'Berlin rocks' says Elon Musk as he chooses European factory

Wednesday, November 13th 2019, 13:52
related countries: United Kingdom

Elon Musk tells AutoExpress Brexit made the UK "too risky" for his first major European factory.
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'Berlin Wall' barriers spark trespass row

Wednesday, September 22nd 2010, 6:13
related places: Potsdam

Wealthy residents in Potsdam, close to the German capital, are putting up metal fences and hedges to keep the public away from their luxury homes.
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'Big risks' in German arms spending

Monday, October 6th 2014, 17:06

Spending on nine of Germany's biggest defence projects is severely criticised by an independent report that cites 140 problems and risks.
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'Bin Laden bodyguard' on German welfare

Tuesday, April 24th 2018, 11:07
related countries: Tunisia

Concern about torture stops Germany deporting the suspect to his home country of Tunisia.
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'Boateng insult' sparks row in Germany

Sunday, May 29th 2016, 13:48

Comments by a senior leader of Germany's right-wing AfD party about football star Jerome Boateng are widely condemned as racist.
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'Bomb plot' at Borussia Dortmund

Thursday, March 31st 2011, 21:32

German police say they have detained a 25-year-old man after three suspected explosive devices were found outside Borussia Dortmund's stadium.
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'Bungling burglars' blow up German bank

Wednesday, May 26th 2010, 9:38

A German bank is reduced to rubble, leading to suspicions that robbers misjudged the quantity of explosives needed for a break-in.
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'Cannibal' policeman is convicted

Wednesday, April 1st 2015, 12:01

Former German policeman Detlev Guenzel is sentenced to eight years in jail for murdering a businessman he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists.
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'Cheers' at German migrant shelter fire

Sunday, February 21st 2016, 14:45

A fire which broke out at a building planned to house migrants in eastern Germany was greeted with cheers from some onlookers, police say.
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'CIA prison' found in Bucharest

Thursday, December 8th 2011, 17:47
related countries: Romania
related places: Bucharest

The CIA operated a secret prison in the Romanian capital Bucharest where terrorism suspects were interrogated, a German media investigation claims.
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'CIA victim' held after shop fire

Friday, May 18th 2007, 11:57
related countries: Lebanon

A Lebanese-born German who says he was tortured by the CIA is arrested for alleged arson in Germany.
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'Cut the Iron Curtain': Germany's 1989 freedom picnic

Monday, August 19th 2019, 16:22

Thirty years ago a "European unity" picnic became an East German exodus from communism.
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'Deal' on Russian aid for Ukraine

Monday, August 18th 2014, 8:17
related countries: Ukraine

Russia's foreign minister says there is now full agreement to let Russian humanitarian aid into eastern Ukraine - but no deal on a ceasefire.
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'Detonator' raises German fears

Thursday, November 18th 2010, 18:13
related countries: Namibia

A suspicious bag containing a detonator, batteries and a clock was found in a Namibian airport, possibly bound for Munich, German police say.
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'DNA bungle' haunts German police

Thursday, March 26th 2009, 19:08

German police admit a suspected serial killer hunted for 15 years may never have existed, after a possible DNA blunder.
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'Donald Trump-shaped' ecstasy pills seized by German police

Tuesday, August 22nd 2017, 13:57

The drugs were due to have been sold online under the slogan "Trump makes partying great again".
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'Erdogan-Burgers' back on German menu

Wednesday, May 11th 2016, 12:25
related countries: Turkey
related places: Cologne, Erdogan

"Erdogan-Burgers" will be sold by a restaurant in Cologne again, after closing for three days because of threats by Turkish nationalists.
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'Europe's largest' pirate press raided

Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 10:09

'Significant' numbers of illegal DVDs, CDs and vinyl records seized at underground German factory.
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'Ex-Nazi' charged with 58 murders

Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 14:34

German prosecutors charge a 90-year-old alleged former Nazi with the killing of 58 Jewish forced labourers, officials say.
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'Exit poll leak' tweets alarm German election officials

Monday, August 31st 2009, 16:25

The apparent illegal leaking of exit polls for German regional elections on Twitter raises concerns weeks before the general election.
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'Export ban' for German arms maker

Monday, July 14th 2014, 12:15
related countries: Colombia

Germany issues an export ban for arms maker SIG Sauer after its guns are found to have been sold to the Colombian police without the required licence.
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'Far right link' in Germany fires

Friday, December 12th 2014, 12:33

Far-right arsonists are believed to have caused fires which damaged three buildings earmarked for asylum seekers in southern Germany.
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'FBI fugitive' is innocent German

Wednesday, February 27th 2008, 0:17

A couple filmed in Sicily are identified as German tourists and not a most-wanted FBI fugitive and his girlfriend.
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'Final body' found at German rink

Thursday, January 5th 2006, 2:42

A 15th body is retrieved from the site of a collapsed German ice rink, thought to be the final victim.
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'Footballing equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall'

Thursday, May 9th 2013, 5:54

'Footballing equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall'
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'Forest boy' faces community service

Thursday, September 26th 2013, 12:08
related places: Berlin

A Berlin court orders a Dutchman, who hoaxed officials into thinking he had emerged from the forest, to perform community service.
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'Gay conversion therapy' ban drafted in law in Germany

Monday, November 4th 2019, 10:47

A draft law aims to ban the controversial practice in most cases nationwide, German media report.
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'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick after hatching egg

Wednesday, June 3rd 2009, 17:50
related places: Bremerhaven

A male penguin couple has hatched an egg at Bremerhaven zoo in Germany, the zoo says - and they are now rearing the chick together.
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'Genocide' row 'won't wreck Turkey ties'

Friday, June 3rd 2016, 9:44
related countries: Turkey

German MPs' vote to recognise the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide will not wreck ties with Turkey, PM Binali Yildirim says.
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'German bomber' struck Somali hotel

Monday, July 27th 2015, 18:15
related countries: Somalia

A German of Somali origin is suspected to have been the suicide bomber who struck a hotel in Somalia, an intelligence officer says.
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'German Borat' rides high in election opinion polls

Friday, August 21st 2009, 16:20

A fictional candidate pledging to replace the German eagle with a national bunny emblem wins 18% support in a pre-election poll.
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'German James Bond' Werner Mauss on trial for tax evasion

Monday, September 26th 2016, 21:46

Werner Mauss, once a top spy nicknamed "the German James Bond", goes on trial in Germany on charges of tax evasion.
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'German James Bond' Werner Mauss sentenced for tax evasion

Thursday, October 5th 2017, 12:35

Werner Mauss, one of Germany's top former spies, failed to pay millions of euros of taxes.
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'German journalists' held in Iran

Monday, October 11th 2010, 16:17
related countries: Iran

Iranian officials say they have arrested two foreign nationals who interviewed the family of a woman who faces a death sentence for adultery.
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'Germany's 9/11' plot trial opens

Wednesday, April 22nd 2009, 13:57

German prosecutors say four suspected Islamists were plotting to match 9/11, as their trial opens in Duesseldorf.
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'Gold smuggler' arrested in Greece

Friday, April 12th 2013, 16:34
related countries: Greece

A German man has been arrested at Athens International Airport after allegedly trying to smuggle nearly half a ton of gold and silver out of Greece.
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'Greed isn't good'

Friday, October 24th 2008, 7:04

How German town is coping with global crisis
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'Hash cake' accidentally served at German funeral

Tuesday, October 29th 2019, 18:13

Thirteen funeral-goers experienced nausea and dizziness after being served the wrong cake.
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'Hate speech' tweets painted at Twitter HQ in protest

Tuesday, August 8th 2017, 21:59

A German satirist paints offensive tweets outside Twitter HQ after the firm failed to delete them.
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'Historic day' - French-German parliament meets

Monday, March 25th 2019, 15:11
related countries: France

One hundred politicians from France and Germany meet for their first joint parliamentary session.
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'Hitler paintings' fail to sell at auction in Germany

Sunday, February 10th 2019, 11:02

The auction goes ahead after prosecutors seize dozens of paintings over accusations of forgery.
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'Hitler' painting fetches $161,000

Saturday, November 22nd 2014, 20:23

A watercolour thought to be painted by Adolf Hitler sells at an auction in Nuremberg, Germany, for 130,000 euros (£103,000; $161,000).
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'Hitler's horse sculptures' found

Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 18:16

Two bronze horse statues that once stood in front of Adolf Hitler's chancellery are recovered by German police.
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'Hold on' - Bavarian ox race winner's secret

Monday, August 29th 2016, 3:35

Every four years, people in Bavaria, southern Germany, stage the Muensing Ox Race - which draws crowds of thousands.
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'Holocaust denier' free from jail

Friday, November 21st 2008, 10:15
related countries: Aruba, United Kingdom

An Australian "Holocaust denier" is freed from jail after Germany abandons efforts to have him extradited from the UK.
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'Holy Spirit' saves German driver from speeding fine

Tuesday, May 28th 2019, 8:54

Police decide to "leave the speeder in peace" after a perfectly placed white dove obscures his face.
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'Hong' and 'Kong' top Berlin panda name poll

Friday, September 6th 2019, 6:46
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Berlin

Newborn pandas at a zoo in Berlin have become an unlikely symbol of Hong Kong's political unrest.
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'Honour killing' brother jailed

Thursday, April 13th 2006, 9:08
related countries: Turkey

A German court jails a Turkish man aged 19 for shooting his sister in a so-called "honour killing".
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'I met my IS captor on a German street'

Saturday, August 18th 2018, 1:03

A Yazidi teenager sold into slavery by IS tells of her horror at meeting her captor in a German street.
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'I want to stamp on refugee faces'

Monday, September 5th 2016, 23:30
related places: Rostock

Two refugee hostels in Rostock have had to be closed on police advice; we explore why migrants are not always welcome in Germany.
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'Islamist funders' held in Europe

Friday, May 16th 2008, 16:13
related countries: Netherlands, Uzbekistan

Police in the Netherlands, France and Germany swoop on suspects believed to fund Islamists in Uzbekistan.
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'Jewish grave' for head of Gestapo

Thursday, October 31st 2013, 11:59
related places: Berlin

The head of the Nazi secret police, Heinrich Mueller, was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Berlin, Germany's Bild newspaper reports.
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'Justice served'

Wednesday, November 11th 2009, 21:11
related countries: Egypt

Egypt reacts to Germany's 'veil martyr' verdict
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'Last chance' for Ukraine peace deal

Saturday, February 7th 2015, 17:59
related countries: Russia, Ukraine
related places: Moscow

A peace plan drawn up by France and Germany is "one of the last chances" to end the conflict in east Ukraine, French leader Francois Hollande says.
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'Last of US-German Moon team' dies

Thursday, May 7th 2015, 1:12
related countries: United States
related places: Moon

Oscar Holderer, believed to be the last member of the post-WW2 German team whose rocket took US astronauts to the Moon, dies at 95.
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'Lost' Hopper prints go on show

Thursday, September 20th 2012, 9:30
related places: Berlin

More than 400 rediscovered prints by Easy Rider actor Dennis Hopper are exhibited in Berlin.
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'Loud explosion' in central Kabul

Friday, January 15th 2010, 16:06
related countries: Afghanistan
related places: Kabul

A loud explosion has been heard near the German embassy in Afghanistan, witnesses in Kabul say.
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'Majority of Russian athletes dope'

Thursday, December 4th 2014, 13:02
related countries: Russia

The World Anti-Doping Agency says it will "fully investigate" claims of systematic Russian doping made on German TV.
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'Monitoring deal' on Ukraine truce

Tuesday, March 3rd 2015, 11:30
related countries: Russia, Ukraine
related places: Kiev

Ukrainian, Russian, French and German leaders agree to send observers to areas of Ukraine where truce violations are reported, Kiev says.
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'Murder victim' alive after 31 years

Sunday, September 27th 2015, 21:04

German police say a woman who disappeared in 1984, sparking a murder hunt, has been found alive and well and living in Duesseldorf.
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'Murdered soul'

Friday, March 12th 2010, 13:35

German campaigner tells of childhood Catholic abuse
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'My daring grandfather took a bit of East Berlin for himself'

Monday, July 2nd 2018, 23:05

In 1982, Osman Kalin started a garden in a corner of East Germany that was on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall.
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'Nazi art' hoarder dies aged 81

Tuesday, May 6th 2014, 16:36

Cornelius Gurlitt, the German who was found to have hoarded more than 1,400 works of art in his Munich apartment, dies aged 81.
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'Nazi art' left to Swiss museum

Wednesday, May 7th 2014, 15:57

German art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt, who died on Tuesday, makes the Bern Art Museum in Switzerland his "sole heir".
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'Nazi German death camps' billboard to make 1,000-mile trip

Thursday, February 2nd 2017, 12:46
related countries: Poland

The billboard is part of a campaign against the term "Polish concentration camps".
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'Nazi guard' Demjanjuk is charged

Monday, July 13th 2009, 10:27

German prosecutors charge alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder.
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