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 Below the waves off Germany's northern tourist beaches, a toxic time bomb lurks on the Baltic Sea floor -- enormous quantities of World War II munitions that are slowly rusting away. https://www.thelocal.de/20260329/germanys-wwii-munitions-a-toxic-legacy-on-baltic-sea-floor Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:52:37 +0200 germanys-wwii-munitions-a-toxic-legacy-on-baltic-sea-floor The last surviving member of the White Rose resistance movement which distributed leaflets in Germany during World War II urging people to stand up against Nazi tyranny, has died, the group's historical foundation said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20230310/last-member-of-white-rose-nazi-resistance-group-dies Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:18:51 +0100 last-member-of-white-rose-nazi-resistance-group-dies 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 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 Jean Böhme, now 73, grew up on the site of Dachau, the concentration camp just outside Munich which was liberated 75 years ago on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20200429/living-in-post-nazi-dachau-painful-childhood-memories Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:36:11 +0200 living-in-post-nazi-dachau-painful-childhood-memories 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 Sunday marked 80 years since the start of World War II. Its beginning can be traced back to a piece of Nazi propaganda. https://www.thelocal.de/20190902/how-did-the-nazis-fake-an-attack-to-start-world-war-ii Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:15:50 +0200 how-did-the-nazis-fake-an-attack-to-start-world-war-ii World War II started 80 years ago with the German invasion of Poland and drew in several countries before it ended six years later with Japan's surrender. https://www.thelocal.de/20190828/what-were-the-key-dates-of-world-war-ii Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:49:05 +0200 what-were-the-key-dates-of-world-war-ii Nearly 10,000 residents in Oranienburg in Brandenburg will be affected, as will regional train services. https://www.thelocal.de/20190612/two-wwii-bombs-to-be-diffused-outside-of-berlin Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:19:27 +0200 two-wwii-bombs-to-be-diffused-outside-of-berlin A Belgian bid to stop Berlin from paying pensions to alleged Nazi collaborators has exposed a cloud of confusion and suspicion - including in Germany - over payments still made to 2,000 people worldwide. https://www.thelocal.de/20190228/in-focus-germany-struggles-to-stop-nazi-war-payment-suspicions Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:16:31 +0100 in-focus-germany-struggles-to-stop-nazi-war-payment-suspicions Germany is still making payments to more than 2,000 people worldwide under a law that provides for "war victims", including those who collaborated with the World War II Nazi regime. https://www.thelocal.de/20190222/germany-making-disputed-nazi-war-payments-to-over-2000-people Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:27:48 +0100 germany-making-disputed-nazi-war-payments-to-over-2000-people Belgian lawmakers have demanded a halt to German pension payments that a handful of residents still receive for their collaboration with the World War II Nazi occupation. https://www.thelocal.de/20190221/calls-to-stop-nazi-pension-payments-by-german-government Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:22:01 +0100 calls-to-stop-nazi-pension-payments-by-german-government A German judge on Thursday suspended the trial of a former Nazi concentration camp guard after the 95-year-old defendant was hospitalized for serious heart and kidney problems. https://www.thelocal.de/20181213/german-court-suspends-trial-of-ex-ss-death-camp-guard Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:43:57 +0100 german-court-suspends-trial-of-ex-ss-death-camp-guard German prosecutors on Friday charged a 95-year-old man with more than 36,000 counts of accessory to murder over his alleged time as a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20181123/berlin-man-95-charged-over-36000-deaths-in-nazi-camp Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:56:56 +0100 berlin-man-95-charged-over-36000-deaths-in-nazi-camp At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 bugles across Europe sounded the end of a war that left some 10 million soldiers dead. https://www.thelocal.de/20181101/the-11th-hour-the-history-of-the-great-war Thu, 01 Nov 2018 07:58:15 +0100 the-11th-hour-the-history-of-the-great-war Extremely low water levels in the river Rhine in Cologne have exposed a bomb from the Second World war, estimated to weigh between 50 to 125kg. https://www.thelocal.de/20181018/record-low-water-levels-expose-world-war-ii-bomb-in-cologne Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:46:46 +0200 record-low-water-levels-expose-world-war-ii-bomb-in-cologne A 250kg unexploded world war II bomb which forced the evacuation of more than 3,000 people in the eastern German city of Potsdam has been successfully defused. https://www.thelocal.de/20181010/world-war-ii-bomb-defused-in-eastern-german-city Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:29:16 +0200 world-war-ii-bomb-defused-in-eastern-german-city The uncharacteristically hot weather sweeping across Germany has broken records and almost sold the country out of cooling fans and beer bottles - but it has also unearthed a few secrets. https://www.thelocal.de/20180802/bombs-away-elbe-evaporation-leads-to-discovery-of-wwii-munitions Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:49:03 +0200 bombs-away-elbe-evaporation-leads-to-discovery-of-wwii-munitions A suspected German neo-Nazi accused of erecting a headstone in a French field to honour a Nazi tank division has been charged with glorifying crimes against humanity, French prosecutors said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180712/german-charged-over-nazi-memorial-found-in-french-field Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:13:18 +0200 german-charged-over-nazi-memorial-found-in-french-field Tree rings and forest composition provide unlikely evidence of a WWII battle which sought refuge off Norway's northern coast. https://www.thelocal.de/20180412/how-norwegian-trees-have-revealed-the-story-of-germanys Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:18:41 +0200 how-norwegian-trees-have-revealed-the-story-of-germanys