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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Germany

Germany stories: 366 news summaries

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 WWII GI Returns 
 Looted 16th Century 
 German Books 

Vet took 400-year-old legal volumes home as souvenirs

Oct 8, 09 3:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Retired optometrist Robert Thomas handed a pair of books he filched as an 18-year-old GI 64 years ago to the German ambassador in a ceremony at the National Archives this week. Thomas, 83, found the 400-year-old legal volumes stashed among millions of others in a salt mine while inspecting recently... More »

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veterans • Germany • World War II • book • National Archives

 German 
 Women's 
 Mag Bans 
 Models 

'Whole industry is anorexic,' says fed-up editor

Oct 6, 09 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The most popular German women's magazine is banning professional models from its editorial pages. Brigitte will use only "real woman" from now on to illustrate its stories, declared its editor, who said he was "fed up" with having to retouch pictures of underweight models who bear no resemblance... More »

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bulimia • fashion • Germany • anorexia • editor • Photoshop • editorial pages • models • magazines • women's magazines

 Oktoberfest 
 Hikes Security 
 After al-Qaeda 
 Warnings 



Beer tents busy despite terror group's threats

Sep 30, 09 3:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's biggest beer festival now resembles a beer fortress after al-Qaeda videos hinted that the Munich Oktoberfest would be a target. Armed policemen now guard all the entrances to the festival, and fighter jets are patrolling overhead. People have been warned not to bring in large bags, and the... More »

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Germany • beer • al-Qaeda • terrorist attack • Oktoberfest

Osama Warns Europe to Leave Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda mastermind says Obama 'has no regard for human life'

Sep 25, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden wants Europe to pull its troops out Afghanistan and sever ties with the US. In a new audio message, the al-Qaeda chief admonishes European nations for putting in with a United States whose “supreme commander has no regard for human life and intentionally bombs villagers from... More »

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Madrid bombings • Germany • Europe • Osama bin Laden • London bombings • al-Qaeda • Afghanistan war • elections

 Merkel Heads for 2nd Term, 
 With Messy Coalition  

German vote could free or hamstring chancellor for 4 more years

Sep 25, 09 5:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Germany votes in a federal election in less than 48 hours, but Angela Merkel has better things to do than campaign; she's in Pittsburgh with the rest of the G20. Merkel is assured of a second term, but in Germany's complex system of coalition politics, the bigger question is which... More »

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Angela Merkel • Germany • CDU • SPD • German election • Social Democratic Party

 In Germany, Baby 
 Rhino Is the New Knut 

Baby rhinoceros rejected by its mother will be raised by humans

Sep 23, 09 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A rhinoceros born Sunday in Germany is poised to become that country’s next cute and cuddly animal sensation, Der Spiegel reports. The as yet unnamed baby rhino, already 128 pounds, will live at the zoo in the city of Münster and be raised by humans after its... More »

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Germany • Knut • zoo • birth • rhinoceros • animal • rejection • Münster

German Officer May Have Misled US Fighters in Civilian Disaster

Gave false info to pilots in Afghan tanker strike

Sep 21, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just before 2am on Sept. 4, German Col. Georg Klein gave a two-word command—"Weapons release!"—and US fighter jets bombed a pair of tanker trucks in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 100 Afghans clustered around them, many of them civilians. Although his tour has ended, the officer is... More »

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Afghanistan • Germany • civilian casualties • fuel tankers • International Security Assistance Force • German army • NATO troops • Georg Klein

Ecstasy, Heroin Linked to German Therapy Deaths

Doc aimed to 'expand consciousness'

Sep 21, 09 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ecstasy and heroin were among the substances supplied by a Berlin therapist who said he aimed to "expand consciousness" during a session that killed two patients, German papers are reporting. Another patient remains in a coma. All 12 participants were rushed to a hospital after they fell ill during... More »

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drugs • Germany • Berlin • heroin • therapist • ecstasy • mind-expanding

Adidas, Puma End 60-Year Feud—With a Soccer Game

Founding brothers had falling out in 1948

Sep 18, 09 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The family feud is over. Adidas and Puma are putting aside their differences, 60 years after the brothers who founded the German sportswear giants had a falling-out. Adi and Rudolf Dassler divided the town when each started his own company in Herzogenaurach, Germany, after a disagreement during World War II.... More »

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Germany • World War II • Adidas • sportswear • Puma • Adi Dassler • Rudolf Dassler • Herzogenaurach, Germany

 Jewish Engineer Designed 
 Beetle: Historian 

Hitler ordered Porsche to replicated Josef Ganz's prototype

Sep 14, 09 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Adolf Hitler took the original design for the Volkswagen Beetle from the brainchild of a Jewish engineer, the Jerusalem Post reports. Historian Paul Schilperoord claims in his forthcoming book The True History of the Beetle that a prototype Josef Ganz designed in the late '20s had many of the Beetle’... More »

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Germany • Jews • Switzerland • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Volkswagen • beetle • Josef Ganz • Ferdinand Porsche

Hoaxsters Get German Media to Report Fake Attack on US

Fake city of Bluewater California supposedly attacked by rappers

Sep 12, 09 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of Internet-savvy hoaxers had all of Deutschland believing that a group of German rappers had attempted a suicide bombing in a California Thursday, Wired reports. The DPA—Germany’s version of the AP—ran a story with the headline “Attack in Small California Town,” reporting that... More »

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California • Germany • prank • hoax • terror attack

 GM to Sell Opel 
 to Canada's Magna 

Detroit firm also recommends Vauxhall go to Magna

Sep 10, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - After painfully drawn-out negotiations, General Motors’ board has agreed to sell its Opel unit to Canadian firm Magna International, maintaining a tie that will keep Opel a "a fully integrated part of GM's global product development organization," the company said. The German government, which earlier this year loaned... More »

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Angela Merkel • Magna International Inc. • Germany • Canada • bankruptcy • General Motors • Detroit • acquisition • Big Three • Opel • Vauxhall

Europeans Still Heart Barack

Prez has a 77% approval rating on
the continent; Bush was polling 19%

Sep 10, 09 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - His approval numbers may have dipped at home, but in Europe Barack Obama is still a superstar, a new poll reveals. Fully 77% of Europeans approve of Obama's diplomacy—a record for an American president and far better than the 19% George Bush received a year ago. In Germany, Obama's... More »

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Germany • Europe • poll • approval ratings • poll numbers • personal approval

AIDS Charities Blast
Hitler Sex Ad

Racy commercial stigmatizes those infected with virus, critics say

Sep 5, 09 5:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A racy ad showing Adolf Hitler having unprotected sex is designed to scare young people about AIDS, but charities say the spot vilifies victims of the disease, the Telegraph reports. The explicit commercial, which shows a couple undressing and having intercourse, takes a creepy twist when the camera pans up... More »

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AIDS • Germany • HIV • Adolf Hitler • virus • unprotected sex

 Poland Marks 
 70th Anniversary 
 of WWII's Start 

Leaders gather at Polish fort where Nazis launched blitzkreig

Sep 1, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Polish leaders gathered at dawn today at the fort the Nazis attacked to begin World War II exactly 70 years ago, the BBC reports. A German battleship attacked Westerplatte on September 1, 1939, as German troops launched a blitzkreig attack on three fronts. The invasion triggered declarations of war from... More »

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Germany • Poland • Nazi • World War II • invasion

 In Legal Gray Zone, 
 Europeans Harvest 
 Body Parts for US 

Ukrainian company accused of gutting bodies illegally

Aug 30, 09 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A billion-dollar business of shipping body parts from Germany to the US is booming and may be illegal, Der Spiegel reports. The body harvesting is done in the Ukraine, where authorities are investigating allegations that a company has used coercion and fraud to obtain family permission to harvest bodies. The... More »

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organ harvesting • Germany • illegal activity • Ukraine • organ selling

(Newser) - About a hundred professors across Germany are under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes for doctoral degrees, the Local reports. Prosecutors say professors may have taken bribes as high as $28,000 through an intermediary firm to give PhDs to undeserving students. "It involves teaching professors from all subjects, from... More »

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Germany • bribery • bribe • PhD • professor

(Newser) - Lovestruck in northern Germany, a 67-year-old pensioner traveled more than 125 miles in an arm-powered wheelchair to propose to the woman he loved, Der Spiegel reports. When she turned him down, he turned around for the 4-day journey home and stopped in a cornfield for food. But he couldn't get... More »

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elderly • Germany • wheelchair • marriage proposal

(Newser) - Critics are largely impressed with Germany's blood-drenched epic The Baader-Meinhof Complex, following the group of young, sexy radicals who terrorized the country for years. A selection of reviews:
  • It's a "taut, unnerving, forcefully unromantic film," writes New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who praises director Uli Edel
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Germany • movie review • Baader-Meinhof gang

(Newser) - The two largest economies in Europe pulled out of the recession last quarter, with Germany and France both posting 0.3% growth between April and June, reports the Wall Street Journal. The figures were far better than expected, and the French finance minister described the result as "very surprising.... More »

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Germany • France • economic growth • recession • eurozone • Christine Lagarde

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