https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany has doubled its share of a fund to preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to €120 million euros, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20200617/germany-pledges-120-mn-euros-to-auschwitz-fund Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:10:26 +0200 germany-pledges-120-mn-euros-to-auschwitz-fund Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German Nazi death camp on Monday to honour its more than 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and to share their alarm over rising anti-semitism. https://www.thelocal.de/20200127/survivors-dignitaries-to-mark-auschwitz-liberation-75-years-on Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:26:25 +0100 survivors-dignitaries-to-mark-auschwitz-liberation-75-years-on Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said acknowledging Nazi crimes was part of Germany's national identity in a message aimed at far right calls for a shift away from a culture of remembrance. https://www.thelocal.de/20191206/remembering-nazi-crimes-inseparable-from-german-identity-merkel Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:12:46 +0100 remembering-nazi-crimes-inseparable-from-german-identity-merkel Germany's Angela Merkel crossed the gates of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland on Friday for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor, promising to battle a new wave of anti-Semitism. https://www.thelocal.de/20191206/merkel-to-visit-auschwitz-for-first-time-friday Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:22:58 +0100 merkel-to-visit-auschwitz-for-first-time-friday Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. https://www.thelocal.de/20191205/we-have-to-live-a-normal-life-here-inside-oswiecim-the-town-in-the-shadow-of-auschwitz Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:10:05 +0100 we-have-to-live-a-normal-life-here-inside-oswiecim-the-town-in-the-shadow-of-auschwitz Leon Schwarzbaum is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz -- the Nazi death camp that Chancellor Angela Merkel will be visiting for the first time on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20191205/how-a-98-year-old-auschwitz-survivor-is-paying-his-duty-to-the-dead Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:19:06 +0100 how-a-98-year-old-auschwitz-survivor-is-paying-his-duty-to-the-dead Angela Merkel will visit the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Friday for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor, as Germany grapples with a resurgence of anti-Semitism. https://www.thelocal.de/20191203/merkel-set-to-visit-auschwitz-as-germany-battles-resurgence-of-anti-semitism Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:39:08 +0100 merkel-set-to-visit-auschwitz-as-germany-battles-resurgence-of-anti-semitism A museum slammed US e-commerce giant Amazon for selling Christmas ornaments with images of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling them inappropriate. https://www.thelocal.de/20191202/auschwitz-museum-slams-amazon-over-disturbing-and-disrespectful-concentration-camp-christmas-ornaments Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:22:35 +0100 auschwitz-museum-slams-amazon-over-disturbing-and-disrespectful-concentration-camp-christmas-ornaments German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay her first visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau next Friday, her spokeswoman said, ahead of the 75th anniversary commemorations for the liberation of the Nazi death camp. https://www.thelocal.de/20191129/merkel-to-pay-first-visit-to-auschwitz Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:39:19 +0100 merkel-to-pay-first-visit-to-auschwitz Netflix on Thursday said it would add information to a Holocaust documentary on Nazi German death camps that Poland said "rewrites history" because it features an "incorrect" map. https://www.thelocal.de/20191115/rewrites-history-netflix-to-fix-holocaust-documentary-following-complaints Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:46:21 +0100 rewrites-history-netflix-to-fix-holocaust-documentary-following-complaints Kazimierz Albin, the last survivor of the first convoy of prisoners sent by the Nazis to the Auschwitz death camp has died at the age of 96, the camp museum said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190723/last-survivor-of-the-first-convoy-of-auschwitz-prisoners-dies-at-96 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 18:39:50 +0200 last-survivor-of-the-first-convoy-of-auschwitz-prisoners-dies-at-96 Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of Auschwitz and the death camp's infamous doctor Josef Mengele, has passed away in Poland during a trip to the Holocaust site, sources said. https://www.thelocal.de/20190705/eva-kor-survivor-of-auschwitz-doctor-mengele-dies-in-poland Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:59:40 +0200 eva-kor-survivor-of-auschwitz-doctor-mengele-dies-in-poland Survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp, now in their 90s, are still working tirelessly to ensure their first-hand testimonies are passed on to younger generations. https://www.thelocal.de/20190412/i-weighed-32-kilos-auschwitz-survivors-remember-a-living-hell Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:54:38 +0200 i-weighed-32-kilos-auschwitz-survivors-remember-a-living-hell U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday paid homage to victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a day after he accused Iranian authorities of plotting a "new Holocaust". https://www.thelocal.de/20190215/us-vice-president-pence-pays-controversial-visit-to-auschwitz Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:33:21 +0100 us-vice-president-pence-pays-controversial-visit-to-auschwitz The remains of six Holocaust victims who were murdered at the Auschwitz death camp were laid to rest in Britain on Sunday https://www.thelocal.de/20190121/holocaust-victims-killed-at-auschwitz-laid-to-rest-in-britain Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:12:38 +0100 holocaust-victims-killed-at-auschwitz-laid-to-rest-in-britain A record 2.15 million people visited Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 2018, the museum in southern Poland has reported. https://www.thelocal.de/20190104/record-numbers-visit-auschwitz-in-2018 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:17:55 +0100 record-numbers-visit-auschwitz-in-2018 Heiko Maas (SPD) became the first German Foreign Minister in 26 years to visit the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday ahead of a meeting with his Polish counterpart. https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/hell-on-earth-was-a-german-creation-says-foreign-minister-on-visit-to-auschwitz Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:27:08 +0200 hell-on-earth-was-a-german-creation-says-foreign-minister-on-visit-to-auschwitz The President of Germany’s Jewish Central Council Josef Schuster has launched a scathing attack on the far-right AfD, criticising the party’s position on Holocaust remembrance and questioning their democratic credentials. https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/jewish-leader-attacks-afd-over-holocaust-remembrance Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:18:00 +0200 jewish-leader-attacks-afd-over-holocaust-remembrance Germany's jailed "Nazi grandma" Ursula Haverbeck, 89, on Friday lost a challenge before the country's highest court, which reaffirmed that constitutional free speech guarantees do not cover Holocaust denial. https://www.thelocal.de/20180803/freedom-of-speech-doesnt-cover-holocaust-denial-germanys-top-court-rules Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:02:27 +0200 freedom-of-speech-doesnt-cover-holocaust-denial-germanys-top-court-rules Documents from the post-war Auschwitz trial have been classed part of the UNESCO "Memory of the World Register", underlining their significance as "common heritage of humanity", Germany's foreign minister said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180516/auschwitz-trial-files-classed-unesco-heritage Wed, 16 May 2018 18:10:35 +0200 auschwitz-trial-files-classed-unesco-heritage