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 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland's forgiveness for history's bloodiest conflict during a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, where the first World War II bombs fell 80 years ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20190901/i-bow-my-head-and-ask-for-forgiveness-germany-marks-ww2-of-poland Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:31:09 +0200 i-bow-my-head-and-ask-for-forgiveness-germany-marks-ww2-of-poland Activists on Thursday urged the Netherlands to officially apologise to Dutch women targeted for reprisals because of their relations with German soldiers during the country's war-time occupation. https://www.thelocal.de/20181025/activists-call-for-dutch-apology-to-war-time-german-girls Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:43:02 +0200 activists-call-for-dutch-apology-to-war-time-german-girls This week Hamburg looks back at the worst air attack on the city during the Second World War 75 years ago, which engulfed the city in flames. https://www.thelocal.de/20180723/a-night-of-hell-hamburg-remembers-firestorm-which-left-the-city-in-ruins Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:20:31 +0200 a-night-of-hell-hamburg-remembers-firestorm-which-left-the-city-in-ruins A German bomb disposal team on Thursday gave the all-clear after defusing an unexploded World War II bomb that forced a mass evacuation in the city of Dresden. https://www.thelocal.de/20180524/danger-not-yet-averted-after-partial-explosion-of-wwii-bomb-in-dresden Thu, 24 May 2018 11:29:28 +0200 danger-not-yet-averted-after-partial-explosion-of-wwii-bomb-in-dresden In the early days of the Bundesrepublik, a party arose that took on one of Hitler’s favourite generals as its figurehead. It briefly appeared to pose a threat to the fragile new democracy. https://www.thelocal.de/20180514/the-party-that-tried-to-bring-back-nazism-and-had-one-stunning-success Mon, 14 May 2018 17:05:51 +0200 the-party-that-tried-to-bring-back-nazism-and-had-one-stunning-success What happened to the 1.3 million Germans who went missing after the Second World War remains a mystery. But some of the loved ones of these missing persons haven't given up hope in finding some answers. https://www.thelocal.de/20180503/search-for-wwii-missing-drawing-to-sombre-close Thu, 03 May 2018 11:07:45 +0200 search-for-wwii-missing-drawing-to-sombre-close Thousands of people around Berlin's central railway station were evacuated on Friday to allow disposal experts to defuse an unexploded World War II explosive unearthed on a building site. https://www.thelocal.de/20180420/police-give-all-clear-after-wwii-bomb-defused-at-berlin-main-station Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:52:08 +0200 police-give-all-clear-after-wwii-bomb-defused-at-berlin-main-station Construction workers at a building site north of Berlin Hauptbahnhof have discovered a bomb from the Second World War. As the explosive is set to be defused on Friday, evacuations must take place and transport is likely to be affected. https://www.thelocal.de/20180418/berlin-threatened-with-travel-chaos-after-bomb-found-at-central-station Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:08:03 +0200 berlin-threatened-with-travel-chaos-after-bomb-found-at-central-station From the evacuation of homes to the disruption of public transport, residents in Berlin will likely be affected on Friday as a bomb from the Second World War near the main station is set to be defused. But more than 70 years after the end of the war, finding such bombs is actually quite common. https://www.thelocal.de/20180418/what-you-need-to-know-about-wwii-bomb-disposals-in-germany-berlin Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:25:28 +0200 what-you-need-to-know-about-wwii-bomb-disposals-in-germany-berlin Even today, nobody knows what happened to around 1.3 million Germans who went missing during the Second World War. The head of the organization that tries to find them admitted recently that their fates will never be cleared up. https://www.thelocal.de/20180123/no-longer-able-to-clarify-fates-germans-wwii Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:11:58 +0100 no-longer-able-to-clarify-fates-germans-wwii Berlin has preserved countless traces of its Second World War destruction as chilling reminders of its militaristic past - few are more striking than Red Army graffiti left at the iconic Reichstag. https://www.thelocal.de/20180112/berlin-woman-revives-red-army-ghosts-in-reichstag-graffiti Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:33:19 +0100 berlin-woman-revives-red-army-ghosts-in-reichstag-graffiti The question of whether Germany owes Poland war reparations - an issue recently revived by Warsaw - is a complex entanglement of historical, ethical, diplomatic and economic factors. Here are the key elements. https://www.thelocal.de/20171108/key-things-to-know-about-german-war-reparations-and-poland Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:18:05 +0100 key-things-to-know-about-german-war-reparations-and-poland Police were alerted on Thursday when a man in a south German town called them and told them he had found a Second World War bomb in his garden. https://www.thelocal.de/20171103/false-alarm-after-man-mistakes-courgette-in-garden-for-wwii-bomb Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:29:21 +0100 false-alarm-after-man-mistakes-courgette-in-garden-for-wwii-bomb The first Arab recognized by Israel's Holocaust memorial as a hero for risking his life to save Jews during the Second World War will finally be presented with the honour after a four-year delay. https://www.thelocal.de/20171026/first-arab-to-finally-receive-israeli-honour-in-berlin-as-holocaust-hero Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:19:44 +0200 first-arab-to-finally-receive-israeli-honour-in-berlin-as-holocaust-hero The German town of Peenemuende, population 250, has no school, no supermarket and none of the refugees who have streamed into the country in the last two years. https://www.thelocal.de/20170913/north-german-tourist-town-with-nazi-past-embraces-hard-right Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:52:11 +0200 north-german-tourist-town-with-nazi-past-embraces-hard-right Poland and Germany should hold "serious talks" about World War II reparations, the Polish foreign minister said Monday, after his colleague said the figure could be as high as one trillion dollars. https://www.thelocal.de/20170904/poland Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:24:21 +0200 poland Many air travellers were stuck at the yet unopened Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) due to the defusing of a Second World War bomb on Tuesday evening at Tegel Airport in the north of the city. https://www.thelocal.de/20170830/bomb-defusal-at-tegel-causes-hundreds-of-passengers-to-land-in-unopened-berlin-airport Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:23:41 +0200 bomb-defusal-at-tegel-causes-hundreds-of-passengers-to-land-in-unopened-berlin-airport Eight years after the fall of the Nazi regime, Poland decided to forego further reparations from Germany. But now there are renewed calls for those reparations to be paid. https://www.thelocal.de/20170803/polish-parliament-mulls-demand-for-germany-to-pay-wwii-reparations Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:11:58 +0200 polish-parliament-mulls-demand-for-germany-to-pay-wwii-reparations A 51-year-old man is under investigation after his possibly illegal collection of Second World War munitions exploded on Monday, setting off a major police operation. https://www.thelocal.de/20170530/large-stash-of-wwii-weapons-explodes-in-pre-summer-heat Tue, 30 May 2017 18:27:43 +0200 large-stash-of-wwii-weapons-explodes-in-pre-summer-heat April 30th marks the 72nd anniversary of the double suicide of Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun. Now well-known, Braun led a troubled life at the side of the German leader, who kept his relationship to her strictly secret. https://www.thelocal.de/20170430/eva-braun-the-lover-hitler-hid-from-germany Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:13:49 +0200 eva-braun-the-lover-hitler-hid-from-germany