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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Germany

Germany stories: 366 news summaries

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(Newser) - Europeans may have longer lives and longer vacations, but red-blooded Americans don't want their socialist ways on this side of the ocean, right wing media mouths are eager to remind everyone, MIchael Freedman writes in Newsweek. Underlying much of the opposition to health care reform is the fear that it's... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Angela Merkel • Spain • Germany • Europe • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Rush Limbaugh • Italy • England • health care reform

(Newser) - A former commander in Adolf  Hitler's army has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a massacre in Italy he ordered 65 years ago, the BBC reports. In what is expected to be one of the very last Nazi trials, a Munich court found Joseph Scheungraber guilty of murder in the... More »

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Germany • war crimes • massacre • Nazi • World War II • murder trial • imprisonment

(Newser) - Hitler's autobiography-manifesto Mein Kampf has been strictly banned in Germany since the end of World War II, but a proposal to reprint it has the endorsement of the country's leading Jewish organization, among other groups, reports the Independent. "A historically critical edition needs to be prepared today to prevent... More »

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Germany • Jews • Germans • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Third Reich • ban • Mein Kampf

German Hands Phelps Rare Loss; Breaks Record, Too

Stunning reversal raises questions about role of high-performance bodysuits

Jul 28, 09 2:16 PM CDT
(AP) - Germany's Paul Biedermann handed Michael Phelps his first major individual loss in 4 years—and snatched away his world record, too—with a stunning win in the 200-meter freestyle at the world swimming championships today in Rome. Virtually unknown outside his country before this meet, Biedermann has now erased Ian... More »

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Michael Phelps • World Swimming Championships • Germany • swimming • broken records • Speedo LZR Racer • swimsuit • Paul Biedermann

(Newser) - President Obama’s election has increased America’s standing in the world, new polling shows. Global attitudes toward the US have been bolstered by Obama’s election to levels not seen since the Clinton administration, the New York Times reports. In Indonesia, for instance, where the president spent part of... More »

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Afghanistan • Israel • Germany • France • United States • popularity • opinion polls • Obama administration • President Obama • global community

(Newser) - German prosecutors have decided a Seig-Heiling garden gnome doesn't violate the country's tough laws against Nazi imagery, the BBC reports. Artist Ottmar Hörl's creation, on display in a Nuremberg gallery, is intended to mock the Nazis rather than glorify them, officials decided. Prosecutors warned, however, that the stiuation has... More »

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Germany • Nazi • artist • gnome

 German Thief Caught With 
 1,000 Pairs of Underwear 

Police suspect man may be behind string of undie thefts

Jul 21, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A German man arrested for shoplifting may be the culprit behind a string of recent underwear thefts, der Speigel reports. The 56-year-old resident of Gelnhausen, near Frankfurt, escaped after staff noticed him trying to steal three pairs of men’s underwear from a sports shop. Police identified him and collared... More »

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Germany • theft • burglary • Frankfurt • underwear • men's underwear • briefs

(Newser) - After many years of indifference, Berliners have started getting serious about saving what's left of the most famous symbol of the Cold War, Der Spiegel reports. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, locals viewed it as merely an unfortunate reminder of  a bad past and little thought was given... More »

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Germany • Berlin • Cold War • East Germany • Berlin Wall • West Germany • reunification

(AP) - German prosecutors formally charged John Demjanjuk today with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II, reports the AP. The 89-year-old retired auto worker, who was deported from the US in May, faces 15 years for every count. Prosecutors accuse... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • Nazi • World War II • Simon Wiesenthal Center • John Demjanjuk • murder charges • Sobibor

 Knut Will Stay in Berlin 


Jul 8, 09 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Berlin Zoo’s prized polar bear, Knut, isn’t going anywhere, Der Spiegel reports. Officials there will pay $600,000 to a rival zoo to settle an ownership dispute. Given Knut's bankability as a bona fide world star, it's a bargain. The bear, not yet 3 years old,... More »

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Germany • Knut • Berlin Zoo • celebrity • polar bear • animal • Neumünster

(Newser) - The European Union's powerful competition commissioner slapped two energy companies with record fines of $1.53 billion today for cartel misbehavior. GDF Suez and E.ON, two of the world's biggest gas producers, colluded to avoid competition in French and German energy markets and drive up prices. It's the first... More »

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Germany • European Union • France • energy prices • competition • natural gas • energy markets • Neelie Kroes • fine • energy consumption • anticompetitive

 Thousands in Egypt Mourn 
 'Headscarf Martyr' 

Woman stabbed in German courtroom during hearing on religious insult

Jul 6, 09 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands gathered in Alexandria today for the funeral of Marwa Sherbini, a pregnant Egyptian woman killed in a German courtroom last week by a man convicted of insulting her religion, the AP reports. Sherbini, 32, was stabbed 18 times by a man identified only as Axel W, 28. They were... More »

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Germany • murder • Egypt • martyr • headscarves • hijabs • Islamophobia • murder charges • Marwa Sherbini • Axel W • Elwi Okaz

Poll: Half of East Germans Positive on Communism

Nostalgic Germans believe life was better before the Berlin Wall came down

Jul 4, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - They may not be pining for the Stasi or the Trabant, but half of people recently polled in the former East Germany are thinking, in hindsight, that Communism wasn't so bad after all, Der Speigel reports. Nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, the poll finds  that 49% ... More »

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Germany • capitalism • East Germany • Communism • reunification

Demjanjuk Fit
to Stand Trial, Germany Rules

Accused Nazi death-camp guard, 89, is officially stateless

Jul 3, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Demjanjuk is physically able to stand trial for his alleged role as an accessory to murder in a Nazi death camp, German officials ruled today. The family of the retired Ohio autoworker, 89, had said ill health made him unfit, but the only condition doctors imposed was a limit... More »

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genocide • Germany • Holocaust • murder • Ohio • concentration camp • John Demjanjuk • Nazis • Sobibor • death camp

 A Frosty Merkel Arrives in DC 

Economy, Afghanistan cloud chancellor's talks with Obama

Jun 25, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angela Merkel arrives in Washington today for a two-day visit, where the German chancellor will hold talks with President Obama before a rare joint press conference in the Rose Garden. Yet despite the smiles, the two leaders have a strained if not frosty relationship, with both sides carping about economic... More »

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Barack Obama • NATO • diplomacy • Angela Merkel • Germany • Rose Garden • monetary policy • Chancellor of Germany • Stanley McChrystal

Earliest Humans Played
Flute 35,000 Years Ago

It was found in same caves as fertility statue

Jun 24, 09 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - A vulture-bone flute found in a cave in southwest Germany proves that homo sapiens have been rocking out for at least 35,000 years, archaeologists say. It’s the most complete musical instrument found in a region full of relics like busty carvings and ivory flutes, the New York Times... More »

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music • Germany • homo sapiens • archaeologist • early humans

 Google Will Censor 
 Street View 
 in Germany 

People's personal data will be blocked by request

Jun 17, 09 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google has bowed to German privacy concerns and will censor its Street View program to block out faces, house numbers, and license plates of people opting out of the service. The company’s panoramic mapping service has faced opposition as it expands worldwide, the AP reports. When it launches in... More »

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Google • Internet • Germany • Street View • personal privacy

 We'll Dump Nukes If 
 Everybody Does: Putin 

German leader echoes 'global zero' aim

Jun 10, 09 12:46 PM CDT
(AP) - Russian PM Vladimir Putin says his country is willing to abandon nuclear weapons if the US and all other nuclear-armed countries do the same. Putin was speaking at a meeting with Germany's foreign minister, who said earlier that the idea of scrapping nuclear arms altogether was a real prospect. The... More »

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Russia • Germany • Vladimir Putin • nuclear disarmament • nuclear arsenal • President Obama

OPINION

 Obama Keeps 
 Snubbing Sarko 

European leaders feel burned after visit by popular president

Jun 7, 09 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s dizzying, 2-day jaunt through Europe left two people smarting in his dust: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel. France’s president and Germany’s chancellor learned that Obama, not one to pal around with European leaders, keeps his distance. “Obama is not out to play buddy-buddy with... More »

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Barack Obama • Angela Merkel • Germany • Europe • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Britain

(Newser) - President Obama blasted Holocaust deniers today on a tour of a Nazi concentration camp, Reuters reports. At Buchenwald, Germany, the president called Holocaust denial “baseless, ignorant and hateful.” Obama did not mention Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by name, but after Iran's president called the Holocaust a "great deception" ... More »

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Angela Merkel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Germany • Holocaust • President Obama • Elie Wiesel • denial • Buchenwald

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