My family and I boarded a flight on Friday as part of an evacuation measure expected to bring back some 5,000 German nationals home as the Wuhan Coronavirus reaches the southern tip of Africa.
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Some German officials, indeed, most, remain heedless of the dangers they are bringing upon their own country by bringing in large numbers of people who were raised with the idea that it would be good and meritorious to wage war against those who...
Protective masks intended for German police officers were intercepted and diverted to the United States, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported on Friday, citing Berlin security sources, with the White House dismissing the reports as "completely...
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In late March, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced strict coronavirus measures for at least two weeks, including a ban on more than two people meeting and the closure of all non-essential businesses.
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Left-wing avowedly socialist—parties in pre-World War I Europe wanted, for the present, only weak tea. The Socialist Party of Germany’s Erfurt and Gotha programs seek things like: universal male and female suffrage; the secret ballot,...
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“Police arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian migrant in the German city of Augsburg after he randomly attacked two people with a machete and an axe….Minutes later, the migrant attacked another bus and threatened a woman inside after smashing...
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75 years ago, from January to May 1945, the Allies began the final push for the heart of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, knocking down one puppet regime after another and counting down the days to the Nazis’ surrender.
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Some 300 Muslims gathered in front of a Berlin mosque on Friday despite the city’s lockdown orders.
The Muslims were chanting “Allahu Akbar!” (god is great) and “Takbir.”
How will police enforce their lockdown orders...
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Warfare History Network
History, Europe
One word: Blitzkrieg.
Key point: A combination of mobile arms won the day. Quick tank and mechanized infantry attacks with close air support was a game-changer.
The attack was beginning despite the...
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Latest figures which show the spread of the coronavirus is slowing in Germany are a cause for “hope”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, but warned that it was too early to relax restrictions on public life. Germany has shut schools,...
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The German government is accusing the U.S. government of stealing N95 masks that it had ordered from a factory based in China that’s run by American company 3M. The Guardian reports that the German government claims that “200,000 N95...
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The German pension and insurance industry was a laggard in the word of online a few years ago, but in recent times it’s quickly caught up. There’s further evidence of this trend with the news that Xpension (trading as xbAV), an online platform...
A team of researchers from Germany, the Netherlands and Italy has developed a way to use scattered light to map nerve fiber pathway crossing points in the brain. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes...
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Prostitution is considered to be a legal activity in Germany, with many sex workers classified as self-employed. However, as the coronavirus pandemic has shut down many non-essential businesses in the country, including adult-entertainment...
This week, French officials have complained that a cargo of protective masks ordered from China got “hijacked” by the US.
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By Inge KaulBERLIN, Germany, Apr 3 2020 (IPS) My recent study on “The G20@10: Time to shift gears” 1 shows that, during the past decade, the main joint, collective action of the G20 has been to issue communiqués and other types of...
Berlin (AFP) – When their side played promotion rivals Arminia Bielefeld in the German second division on March 9, Stuttgart fans did not realise that it would be the last game before the coronavirus lockdown.
A week later, football was...
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History, Americas
In the long run, Berlin failed.
Key point: Berlin hoped to inflict crippling losses and did cause much damage. But American sailors learned quickly and U.S. industrial capacity would doom Nazi Germany.
On...
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By Rachel Waldholz | –
Germany produced more than half of its electricity with renewable power in the first three months of 2020, the first full quarter in which renewables covered the majority of the country’s electricity needs. The numbers...
Arsenal star Mesut Ozil has sent a teasing message to Bayern Munich star Serge Gnabry on Twitter. This follows a video emerging of Gnabry training in an Arsenal shirt, with the Germany international...
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