1961: First man shot dead escaping East Berlin
Eleven days after the border wall went up in 1961, East German citizen Günter Litfin was shot dead in an escape attempt near the main […]
Berlin’s ambassador visits German detainees in Turkish prison
German Ambassador to Turkey Martin Erdmann has visited his fellow countrymen Deniz Yuecel and Peter Steudtner in a Turkish prison on Wednesday. Journalist Yuecel and […]
SPD inches closer to CDU as half of Germans undecided in upcoming election: polls
The German Social Democrats (SPD) party has slightly narrowed the electoral gap to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) one month before national elections, a Stern […]
Bus accident injures 44 in NW Germany
A total of 44 people were injured and 6 in serious conditions when a bus carrying harvest workers tipped to the right in the north-western […]
German Central Bank moves 24 billion euros of gold back to Frankfurt
The German Central Bank (Bundesbank) has completed a transfer of gold worth 24 billion euros (28.3 billion U.S. dollars) from New York and Paris to […]
1999: German government returns to Berlin, uses old GDR HQ
IT was on this day in 1999 that government in Germany returned to Berlin when Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder began his work at the old […]
The 1925 plan for Potsdamer Platz
In 1925, a radical new plan was presented to cut congestion on Potsdamer Platz, which was suffering due to a ‘complete overload’ of cars, vans […]
German state assembly dissolves in midst of Volkswagen scandal
The regional assembly of the second largest German state of Lower Saxony was dissolved on Monday following the collapse of governor Stephan Weil’s Social Democratic […]
German Press Review
The following are major news items on leading German newspapers on Tuesday. Sueddeutsche Zeitung The economy in Germany is growing, exports are reaching new records […]
German elite soldiers investigated over claims of right-wing extremism
The public prosecutor’s office in Tuebingen launched investigations into the German Armed Force’s elite “Commando Special Forces” (Kommando Spezialkraefte) following public allegations of right-wing extremism […]