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 US Air Force planned to drop 91 atomic bombs in and around East Berlin in the event of the Cold War turning hot, documents released on Wednesday showed. https://www.thelocal.de/20151223/usaf-planned-systematic-destruction-of-east-berlin Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:04:50 +0100 usaf-planned-systematic-destruction-of-east-berlin Buried and long forgotten, the head of a giant Lenin statue is set to make a comeback in the German capital a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall. https://www.thelocal.de/20150723/after-goodbye-lenin-a-berlin-resurrection Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:19:51 +0200 after-goodbye-lenin-a-berlin-resurrection The 1972 World Chess Championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky was almost abandoned but for a timely intervention from German arbiter Lothar Schmid. He tells the story on its 40th anniversary. https://www.thelocal.de/20120711/43669 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:39:00 +0200 43669 Newly revealed documents show that Germany's first post-war Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was prepared to hand over West Berlin to communist East Germany in exchange for eastern areas of the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20110814/36951 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:08:00 +0200 36951