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 must do more to return Nazi-looted art to its rightful owners, according to the recommendations of an independent advisory commission. https://www.thelocal.de/20230904/germany-failing-in-moral-responsibility-for-restitution-of-nazi-looted-art Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:22:07 +0200 germany-failing-in-moral-responsibility-for-restitution-of-nazi-looted-art Germany's justice system was still filled with former Nazis well into the 1970s, as the Cold War coloured efforts to root out fascists, according a damning official inquiry presented Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20211118/german-justice-contaminated-by-nazis-in-post-war-years Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:09:13 +0100 german-justice-contaminated-by-nazis-in-post-war-years Germany has passed new legislation to naturalise some Nazi victims' descendants who had previously been denied citizenship in what it called a symbolic step toward redressing past injustice. https://www.thelocal.de/20210625/how-germany-is-making-it-easier-for-nazi-victims-descendants-to-get-citizenship Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:11:28 +0200 how-germany-is-making-it-easier-for-nazi-victims-descendants-to-get-citizenship Sophie Scholl, one of the key figures of the Weiße Rose (White Rose) group, would have celebrated her one hundredth birthday on Sunday. Here we take a look at the impact she made at such a young age and the impression she has left on the German history books. https://www.thelocal.de/20210509/sophie-scholl-remembering-the-white-rose-activist-on-what-would-have-been-her-hundredth-birthday Sun, 09 May 2021 16:04:26 +0200 sophie-scholl-remembering-the-white-rose-activist-on-what-would-have-been-her-hundredth-birthday German prosecutors said Wednesday they have closed their case due to lack of evidence against a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard recently deported by the United States. https://www.thelocal.de/20210331/germany-closes-case-against-deported-ex-nazi-guard-95 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:50:15 +0200 germany-closes-case-against-deported-ex-nazi-guard-95 The German government on Wednesday agreed a draft law to naturalise some descendants of Nazi victims who had previously been denied citizenship. https://www.thelocal.de/20210324/germany-to-ease-citizenship-requirements-for-nazi-victims-kin Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:05:43 +0100 germany-to-ease-citizenship-requirements-for-nazi-victims-kin A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who has been living in the United States was deported Saturday to Germany, the Justice Department said. https://www.thelocal.de/20210220/us-deports-95-year-old-former-nazi-concentration-camp-guard-to-germany Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:18:35 +0100 us-deports-95-year-old-former-nazi-concentration-camp-guard-to-germany A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard has been charged with complicity in 3,518 murders as Germany races to bring surviving Nazi staff to justice, prosecutors told AFP on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20210208/germany-charges-100-year-old-former-nazi-camp-guard Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:51:32 +0100 germany-charges-100-year-old-former-nazi-camp-guard German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in the first such case in recent years against a female staff member. https://www.thelocal.de/20210205/germany-charges-nazi-camp-secretary-with-complicity-in-murders Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:06:53 +0100 germany-charges-nazi-camp-secretary-with-complicity-in-murders Germany is moving to rid itself of a cluster of laws introduced by the Nazis, still lingering on its books 75 years after World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20210122/75-years-later-germany-moves-to-get-rid-of-lingering-nazi-laws Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:11:50 +0100 75-years-later-germany-moves-to-get-rid-of-lingering-nazi-laws The German memorial at former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald Thursday demanded an end to visitors playing winter sports at the site, after some were even spotted sledging at its mass graves. https://www.thelocal.de/20210114/germanys-buchenwald-camp-calls-out-disrespectful-tobogganers Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:07:55 +0100 germanys-buchenwald-camp-calls-out-disrespectful-tobogganers German divers who recently fished an Enigma encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea, used by the Nazis to send coded messages during World War II, handed their rare find over to a museum for restoration on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20201204/divers-find-nazis-enigma-code-machine-in-baltic-sea Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:04:56 +0100 divers-find-nazis-enigma-code-machine-in-baltic-sea Germany is planning a return to pre-World War II alphabet tables that existed before the Nazis removed all names with Jewish associations, local media reported Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20201203/germany-plans-to-return-to-pre-nazi-alphabet-tables Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:30:54 +0100 germany-plans-to-return-to-pre-nazi-alphabet-tables German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Sunday lashed out at anti-mask protesters comparing themselves to Nazi victims, accusing them of trivialising the Holocaust and "making a mockery" of the courage shown by resistance fighters. https://www.thelocal.de/20201122/german-foreign-minister-slams-corona-protesters-for-nazi-victim-comparisons Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:51:33 +0100 german-foreign-minister-slams-corona-protesters-for-nazi-victim-comparisons Barbara Brix admired her father, a doctor who passed on his love of history and literature. Until she learned years after his passing that he had been part of a Nazi death squad. https://www.thelocal.de/20201111/how-a-hamburg-woman-handled-her-beloved-fathers-secret-nazi-past Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:01:22 +0100 how-a-hamburg-woman-handled-her-beloved-fathers-secret-nazi-past The Berlin film festival, one of Europe's top cinema showcases, released a study Wednesday showing the deep entrenchment of its founding director in the Nazi propaganda apparatus, which he actively covered up. https://www.thelocal.de/20200930/berlin-film-festival-casts-new-light-on-ex-directors-hidden-nazi-past Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:35:21 +0200 berlin-film-festival-casts-new-light-on-ex-directors-hidden-nazi-past German car-parts maker Continental revealed Thursday that it played a key role in the Nazi war effort and used thousands of slave labourers during World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20200827/report-set-to-unveil-continentals-nazi-past Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:15:38 +0200 report-set-to-unveil-continentals-nazi-past A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was handed a suspended sentence of two years in prison on Thursday as a court in Hamburg found him guilty of complicity in WWII atrocities. https://www.thelocal.de/20200723/ex-nazi-camp-guard-93-gets-two-year-suspended-sentence Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:17:57 +0200 ex-nazi-camp-guard-93-gets-two-year-suspended-sentence A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been charged with war crimes during the Holocaust in what could be one of the last cases of its kind, a German court said Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20200714/former-nazi-camp-guard-95-charged-in-germany Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:48:32 +0200 former-nazi-camp-guard-95-charged-in-germany German prosecutors on Monday demanded three years in jail for a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who they said was "without a doubt" complicit in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20200706/german-prosecutors-seek-three-years-for-former-nazi-camp-guard Mon, 06 Jul 2020 19:24:54 +0200 german-prosecutors-seek-three-years-for-former-nazi-camp-guard