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 French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday laid a wreath and unveiled a ceremonial plaque at a war memorial in eastern France where the armistice was signed ending World War I. https://www.thelocal.de/20181110/macron-and-merkel-lay-wreath-at-ww1-armistice-site Sat, 10 Nov 2018 17:37:17 +0100 macron-and-merkel-lay-wreath-at-ww1-armistice-site 100 years ago on Tuesday, the British and German navies met in the biggest sea battle in history off the Danish coast – one which has become as controversial and hard to make sense of as the First World War itself. https://www.thelocal.de/20160531/jutland-history-first-world-war-navy-skagerrakschlacht-100-years-centenary Tue, 31 May 2016 09:46:26 +0200 jutland-history-first-world-war-navy-skagerrakschlacht-100-years-centenary A wreck found at the bottom of the sea off England has been identified as a long-lost German submarine from the First World War, an energy company announced on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160122/german-wwi-u-boat-found-off-british-coast Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:44:40 +0100 german-wwi-u-boat-found-off-british-coast Artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz confronted the suffering of the first half of the 20th century head on in a way perhaps no other German artist did, and has become one of the defining figures of the period. https://www.thelocal.de/20150423/kthe-kollwitz-in-the-face-of-adversity Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:17:23 +0200 kthe-kollwitz-in-the-face-of-adversity 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 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 A hundred years ago on Friday Germany declared war on Russia and was preparing for an attack on France in the hope that Britain would stay neutral. Four years on, famine was ravaging the country and two million soldiers had been killed on the battlefield. https://www.thelocal.de/20140801/100-years-ago-germans-celebrated-imminent-war Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:46:00 +0200 100-years-ago-germans-celebrated-imminent-war Widely eclipsed by the horror of the Nazi era, World War I is back in the minds of many Germans as an exhibition opens on Wednesday in Berlin ahead of the centenary of the war's outbreak. https://www.thelocal.de/20140528/germans-explore-ww1-guilt-100-years-on Wed, 28 May 2014 10:38:00 +0200 germans-explore-ww1-guilt-100-years-on 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 Ninety-two years after the end of the First World War, Germany will finally put the spectre of the Treaty of Versailles behind it this Sunday with its last payment stemming from reparations. https://www.thelocal.de/20100929/30145 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:39:00 +0200 30145