The Local Germany

Former Stasi workers to be banned from archive

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:08:00 +0200

The German government has taken a step forward in its move to ban former employees of communist East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi, from working in the authority that administers the archive of Stasi files.

Anger burns a year after Cologne archive collapse

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:29:00 +0100

Cologne observed a minute’s silence Wednesday to remember the two men killed a year ago when the city’s historical archive collapsed, as recriminations and accusations over the incident continued to fly.

Cologne may use controlled flooding to save metro

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:28:00 +0100

Cologne authorities have drawn up a drastic plan to prop up the city’s precarious metro construction sites by flooding them with water if a collapse seems imminent, city officials said Monday.

Most Cologne archive documents intact despite collapse

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:24:00 +0200

Three months after the collapse of Cologne’s city archives, experts are amazed by how many of the precious documents have survived the devastating accident.

Workers unearth intact Cologne archive cellars

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:16:00 +0200

Workers sifting through the rubble of Cologne’s collapsed historical archive have discovered intact storage cellars with a substantial number of undamaged documents, the city announced on Sunday evening.

Metro construction to continue near collapsed Cologne archives

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:51:00 +0200

Four weeks after the collapse of the Cologne’s historical archive, construction on the controversial north-south Stadtbahn, the underground metro believed to be the cause of the accident, is set to resume.

Cologne offices raided in archive collapse investigation

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:14:00 +0200

One month after the collapse of Cologne’s historical archive, the state prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the raid of 40 local offices in the city’s investigation of the incident.

Cologne mayor investigated for recording archive meetings

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:15:00 +0100

State prosecutors are investigating Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma for allegedly making secret recordings of emergency task force meetings after the deadly collapse of the city’s historical archive, authorities announced on Thursday.

Cologne archive sparks disciplinary hearing

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:20:00 +0100

Cologne mayor Fritz Schramma has started disciplinary proceedings against the head of the city building department in hopes of clarifying how the city’s archive collapsed earlier this month, killing two and endangering thousands of historic documents.

Cologne officials knew archive was sinking weeks ago

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:12:00 +0100

Construction managers and city officials saw measurements that clearly showed Cologne’s Historic Archive was sinking into the excavation work below it weeks before the building collapsed, it has been revealed.

Official admits to building code violations near Cologne archive

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:38:00 +0100

Two weeks after the dramatic collapse of Cologne's historical archive left two people dead, a city official has admitted to building code violations in the area.

Second body retrieved from collapsed Cologne archive

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:39:00 +0100

Rescue workers have retrieved the body of a second victim from the rubble of Cologne’s historic archive more than a week after the building collapsed.

Rescuers still searching for buried student

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:08:00 +0100

Rescue workers continued their search overnight for a young man who was buried last week when Cologne’s historical archive collapsed, authorities said on Monday.

Unstable conditions delay search at collapsed Cologne archive

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:52:00 +0100

Three days after the dramatic collapse of Cologne’s historical archive, the search for two missing men has beeen hampered because rescue workers can’t stabilise the site, authorities said on Friday.

Search begins for two missing in collapse

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:00:00 +0100

Rescue workers have managed to clear and secure much of the accident site of the Cologne archive collapse, allowing search efforts for two missing people to begin sooner than expected, authorities said on Thursday.

Biggest Nazi archive opened to historians

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:28:00 +0200

More than 50 million Nazi and post-war documents recording the movements – and deaths – of millions of people around Europe have been opened to historians for the first time.