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 Barbed wire and tunnelling beneath it to go and pick flowers outside his refugee camp in Denmark are what Jorg Baden remembers most clearly 75 years on from World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20200714/denmarks-german-refugees-remember-forgotten-ww2-chapter Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:20:07 +0200 denmarks-german-refugees-remember-forgotten-ww2-chapter After it was revealed last week that fifteen people in Sweden receive a war pension from Germany, authorities in Berlin said that the individuals receiving the pensions were not members of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party's SS organisation. https://www.thelocal.de/20190309/german-ww2-pension-payments-going-to-former-waffen-ss-members-in-sweden Sat, 09 Mar 2019 14:22:34 +0100 german-ww2-pension-payments-going-to-former-waffen-ss-members-in-sweden The president of Poland repeated on Sunday his country's demand for Germany to pay reparations over World War II, days before ministers from Berlin and Warsaw will sit down for bilateral talks. https://www.thelocal.de/20181028/polish-president-again-demands-war-reparations-from-germany Sun, 28 Oct 2018 12:57:39 +0100 polish-president-again-demands-war-reparations-from-germany A German bomb disposal team on Sunday successfully defused an unexploded World War II bomb that had forced the evacuation of 18,500 people in the city of Ludwigshafen. https://www.thelocal.de/20180826/wwii-bomb-defused-in-germany-after-18500-evacuated Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:57:02 +0200 wwii-bomb-defused-in-germany-after-18500-evacuated Around 10,000 people in the state capital of Brandenburg were being evacuated from their homes on Tuesday morning as police prepared to disarm an unexploded bomb from the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.de/20180703/10000-residents-evacuated-from-central-potsdam-after-wwii-bomb-discovery Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:15:16 +0200 10000-residents-evacuated-from-central-potsdam-after-wwii-bomb-discovery Rare wreckage of a German U-boat has been found in the Skagerrak sea near Denmark. https://www.thelocal.de/20180413/german-ww2-submarine-wreckage-found-in-seas-off-denmark Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:52:36 +0200 german-ww2-submarine-wreckage-found-in-seas-off-denmark The Nazis stole thousands of artworks from Jewish families during World War 2 and the restitution of these pieces has been a slow process involving legal battles, complex searches and some stunning finds. https://www.thelocal.de/20171105/the-tricky-process-of-returning-nazi-looted-art Sun, 05 Nov 2017 18:30:25 +0100 the-tricky-process-of-returning-nazi-looted-art Poland's governing conservatives have set up a parliamentary committee tasked with looking into the extent of World War II reparations they claim is owed by Germany, the new body's head said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170930/poland-tasks-lawmakers-with-estimating-german-war-reparations Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:42:19 +0200 poland-tasks-lawmakers-with-estimating-german-war-reparations For the first time since the Second World War, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" will be printed in Germany in January as an annotated edition, the institute publishing it said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151201/hitlers-words-to-return-to-german-bookshelves Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:53:51 +0100 hitlers-words-to-return-to-german-bookshelves UPDATE: Police in Munich say that a bomb found in the Deutsches Museum must be moved to a safe location on Tuesday evening before experts can defuse it. https://www.thelocal.de/20151006/munich-museum-evacuated-after-bomb-find Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:27:14 +0200 munich-museum-evacuated-after-bomb-find 70 years after the end of the Second World War, a German man has managed to uncover a war crime that he witnessed as a child and reunite the remains of an American fighter pilot with his family. https://www.thelocal.de/20150609/us-ww2-pilot-fate-uncovered-by-german-war-crime-witness Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:33:44 +0200 us-ww2-pilot-fate-uncovered-by-german-war-crime-witness Bomb disposal teams have successfully made a 1,000-kilo explosive dropped during the Second World War safe, allowing 20,000 evacuated people to return to their homes. https://www.thelocal.de/20150527/huge-bomb-causes-biggest-evacuation-since-war Wed, 27 May 2015 19:00:43 +0200 huge-bomb-causes-biggest-evacuation-since-war A painting by French artist Henri Matisse has been returned to the heirs of the people it was stolen from by the Nazis, after it spent decades in an art dealer's private hoard. https://www.thelocal.de/20150515/painting-from-nazi-hoard-returned-to-owner Fri, 15 May 2015 14:09:09 +0200 painting-from-nazi-hoard-returned-to-owner VIDEO: The Local hit the streets around the iconic Brandenburg Gate to find out whether Germans think the Second World War still has an impact on their country today. https://www.thelocal.de/20150508/what-germans-think-of-the-end-of-ww2 Fri, 08 May 2015 19:35:24 +0200 what-germans-think-of-the-end-of-ww2 Members of the Night Wolves Russian biker gang, reputed to be close to President Vladimir Putin, commemorated the end of the Second World War in Berlin on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150508/putins-biker-cavalcade-reaches-berlin Fri, 08 May 2015 17:05:54 +0200 putins-biker-cavalcade-reaches-berlin Marooned on a naval base in northwest Germany, pinned down by advancing Allied forces and Adolf Hitler dead, the last leader of the Third Reich hammered out the surrender order. https://www.thelocal.de/20150428/nazis-second-world-war-for-sale-germanys-final-ww2-surrender-order Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:25:00 +0200 nazis-second-world-war-for-sale-germanys-final-ww2-surrender-order April 16th, 1945 saw the start of the Battle of the Seelow Heights, one of the last offensives by the Soviet army before they reached Berlin at the end of the Second World War. It was the largest battle to take place on German soil. https://www.thelocal.de/20150416/battle-of-seelow-heights-the-gates-to-berlin Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:52:29 +0200 battle-of-seelow-heights-the-gates-to-berlin Police in Berlin questioned a high school music teacher after she made her pupils march up and down a classroom singing a Nazi song, it was reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150414/police-question-teacher-over-nazi-song Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:16:50 +0200 police-question-teacher-over-nazi-song German Chancellor Angela Merkel waded into the fraught area of wartime forgiveness during a visit to Japan on Monday, saying that "facing history squarely" and "generous gestures" are necessary to mend ties. https://www.thelocal.de/20150309/merkel-broaches-shared-past-on-japan-visit Mon, 09 Mar 2015 09:13:06 +0100 merkel-broaches-shared-past-on-japan-visit The first President of the post-war Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss – born on January 31, 1884 – was one of the leading liberal politicians of the Weimar Republic and later helped rehabilitate his nation on the international scene. https://www.thelocal.de/20150129/theodor-heuss-the-man-who-rehabilitated-germany Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:40:27 +0100 theodor-heuss-the-man-who-rehabilitated-germany