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 The museum at the concentration camp in Dachau and the local branch of Burger King have on Wednesday gone to court over a row regarding flyers on the museum premises. https://www.thelocal.de/20170517/dachau-camp-museum-and-burger-king-row-goes-to-court Wed, 17 May 2017 18:17:31 +0200 dachau-camp-museum-and-burger-king-row-goes-to-court An iron gate with the infamous slogan "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free"), stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau in Germany two years ago, was returned to the site Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170222/stolen-work-will-set-you-free-gate-returned-to-dachau Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:44:54 +0100 stolen-work-will-set-you-free-gate-returned-to-dachau US Vice President Mike Pence paid a somber visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany on Sunday, against the backdrop of concerns about a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States since Donald Trump was elected president. https://www.thelocal.de/20170220/mike-pence-pays-somber-visit-to-nazi-concentration-camp Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:51:55 +0100 mike-pence-pays-somber-visit-to-nazi-concentration-camp After completing their investigation, Norwegian police still have no idea how a iron gate stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau in Germany two years ago ended up in the countryside near a small village some 20km outside of Bergen. https://www.thelocal.de/20170111/police-have-no-idea-how-stolen-dachau-camp-gate-turned-up-in-norway Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:23:04 +0100 police-have-no-idea-how-stolen-dachau-camp-gate-turned-up-in-norway An iron gate with the infamous slogan "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free") stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau in Germany two years ago has been found in Norway, police said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20161203/stolen-dachau-camp-gate-found-in-norway Sat, 03 Dec 2016 12:54:51 +0100 stolen-dachau-camp-gate-found-in-norway An iron gate from the former Nazi concentration camp in Germany's Dachau with the slogan "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free") has been found two years after it was stolen, police said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20161202/stolen-dachau-work-will-set-you-free-gate-found-police Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:49:22 +0100 stolen-dachau-work-will-set-you-free-gate-found-police When a policeman in Bavaria retired he made a career change none of his colleagues had ever made before - and it turned him into a pariah. https://www.thelocal.de/20151028/from-blue-right-to-red-light-district Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:57:09 +0100 from-blue-right-to-red-light-district News that Google is using the sites of Nazi concentration camps as elements in an "augmented reality" project - an online game linked to the real world - has caused extreme upset to Holocaust survivors' organizations. https://www.thelocal.de/20150702/google-using-nazi-camps-in-virtual-game Thu, 02 Jul 2015 17:26:28 +0200 google-using-nazi-camps-in-virtual-game German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined survivors of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau on Sunday for a solemn ceremony to mark 70 years since it was liberated by US forces. https://www.thelocal.de/20150503/merkel-joins-holocaust-survivors-to-mark-dachau-liberation Sun, 03 May 2015 16:52:53 +0200 merkel-joins-holocaust-survivors-to-mark-dachau-liberation Police investigating the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate at former concentration camp Dachau are offering a €3,000 reward for information. https://www.thelocal.de/20141107/police-offer-reward-for-dachau-gate-theft Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:00:00 +0100 police-offer-reward-for-dachau-gate-theft Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Tuesday for thieves of a gate to the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau to be swiftly brought to justice, as she received an award from Holocaust survivors. https://www.thelocal.de/20141105/merkel-urges-action-over-appalling-dachau-camp-theft Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:52:00 +0100 merkel-urges-action-over-appalling-dachau-camp-theft Police in Bavaria are investigating their first leads for the theft of the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" iron gate from the Dachau concentration camp, a spokesman said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20141104/police-track-dachau-thieves-as-outrage-grows Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:01:00 +0100 police-track-dachau-thieves-as-outrage-grows Edgar Feuchtwanger, the son of a prominent German Jewish family with roots in Bavaria going back centuries, vividly remembers nearly bumping into his neighbour Adolf Hitler as a boy. https://www.thelocal.de/20140511/hitlers-jewish-neighbour-looks-back-in-horror-in-new-book Sun, 11 May 2014 10:56:00 +0200 hitlers-jewish-neighbour-looks-back-in-horror-in-new-book Angela Merkel became the first German chancellor to visit the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau on Tuesday but critics slammed her decision to include the stop on an election tour - and head to a beer tent afterwards. https://www.thelocal.de/20130821/51503 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:39:00 +0200 51503 A man who killed a public prosecutor in a Dachau court was handed a life sentence on Thursday, despite his slow-motion suicide attempt by refusing treatment for diabetes that resulted in both his legs being amputated. https://www.thelocal.de/20121129/46471 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:24:00 +0100 46471 A man charged with shooting dead a prosecutor in a German courtroom is refusing treatment for diabetic septicaemia in what his lawyer describes as “slow suicide” - preventing his trial, it was reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20121022/45705 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:30:00 +0200 45705 German judges have called for a complete rethink of security after a prosecutor was shot dead by a man in court who seemingly had no problem taking a pistol into the court. https://www.thelocal.de/20120113/40087 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:09:00 +0100 40087 The businessman who shot dead a prosecutor in court in Bavaria, would have walked out a free man had he not fired a gun at the judge and then turned on the prosecutor. https://www.thelocal.de/20120112/40067 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:59:00 +0100 40067 Germany’s favorite oldest living cabaret entertainer Johannes Heesters is suing an author who alleges he sang for the SS at Dachau concentration camp. https://www.thelocal.de/20081021/15041 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:49:00 +0200 15041