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 Divers have found a well-preserved wreck of a German submarine sunk during the First World War in the North Sea, Belgian officials said on Tuesday. The bodies of its crew members were found aboard the vessel as well. https://www.thelocal.de/20170920/wwi-german-submarine-found-off-belgian-coast-with-23-bodies-inside Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:49:38 +0200 wwi-german-submarine-found-off-belgian-coast-with-23-bodies-inside Turkey on Monday strongly warned the German parliament against adopting a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying it could have repercussions for bilateral ties. https://www.thelocal.de/20160530/dont-adopt-armenia-genocide-resolution-turkey-warns Mon, 30 May 2016 17:46:33 +0200 dont-adopt-armenia-genocide-resolution-turkey-warns Teams from the British and German armies played a friendly football game in Aldershot on Wednesday in memory of the Christmas truce of 1914. https://www.thelocal.de/20141218/british-and-german-armies-recreate-christmas-truce Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:35:00 +0100 british-and-german-armies-recreate-christmas-truce On December 8th 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm II summoned his senior officers to his palace in Potsdam to discuss how to deal with a war on two fronts against France, Britain and Russia. https://www.thelocal.de/20141211/wilhelm-ii-lays-plans-for-war-against-france-england-russia-world-war-one Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:40:00 +0100 wilhelm-ii-lays-plans-for-war-against-france-england-russia-world-war-one It is 100 years since Germany’s entrance into World War I. Historian and teacher Mike Stuchbery reflects on five massive changes that the conflict wrought on Germany after four years of bloody war. https://www.thelocal.de/20140805/how-world-war-i-changed-germany-forever Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:50:00 +0200 how-world-war-i-changed-germany-forever French President Francois Hollande and his German counterpart Joachim Gauck paid emotional tributes on Sunday to the millions of soldiers who died during World War I, exactly 100 years after Germany declared hostilities against France. https://www.thelocal.de/20140804/gauck-hollande-to-mark-wwi-anniversary Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:57:00 +0200 gauck-hollande-to-mark-wwi-anniversary Descendants of two soldiers from France and Germany who were the first fatalities of World War I gathered in eastern France on Saturday for a ceremony marking the centenary of their deaths. https://www.thelocal.de/20140802/germany-remembers-first-soldiers-killed-in-wwi Sat, 02 Aug 2014 20:25:00 +0200 germany-remembers-first-soldiers-killed-in-wwi Hundreds of thousands of rare records and images from World War I have been put online by the German government, ahead of Monday's 100th anniversary of the start of the conflict. https://www.thelocal.de/20140723/german-government-wwi-archive-opened-to-public-online Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:56:00 +0200 german-government-wwi-archive-opened-to-public-online Saturday June 28th marks 100 years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo which sparked World War I. We mark the anniversary by showing rare photos from a German soldier of everyday life behind the front lines. https://www.thelocal.de/20140627/photos-capture-a-german-soliders-life-behind-wwi-lines Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:01:00 +0200 photos-capture-a-german-soliders-life-behind-wwi-lines Wilhelm II was usually portrayed in heavily decorated army uniform, but the last Kaiser's heart yearned for the sea and German naval power from an early age, a series of newly discovered childhood drawings shows. https://www.thelocal.de/20140616/german-kaiser-wilhelm-iis-love-of-the-sea-resurfaces Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:08:00 +0200 german-kaiser-wilhelm-iis-love-of-the-sea-resurfaces The photos of a German soldier who took his camera to the front in World War One have been published for the first time, giving the rarest of glimpses into military life 100 years ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20140203/life-on-wwi-front-through-german-soldiers-photo-album Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:00:00 +0100 life-on-wwi-front-through-german-soldiers-photo-album As most of Europe readies itself to commemorate a century following the start of World War I, the German government has, as yet, no plans to organize an event to remember the Great War. https://www.thelocal.de/20140113/german-government-no-plans-to-commemorate-world-war-i Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:45:00 +0100 german-government-no-plans-to-commemorate-world-war-i Twenty-one German soldiers have been discovered in a World War I tunnel in Alsace, France, 93 years after they were buried alive during battle. https://www.thelocal.de/20111019/38295 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:48:00 +0200 38295