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Is nothing sacred?
Must every honored tradition be verboten in this country?
German island to end ritual of spanking women with cow horn – North Sea island of Borkum has said it will stop its Klaasohm festival tradition where young men hit women on the buttocks with a cow horn.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say…
No.
Would Benjamin Netanyahu be arrested in Germany?
Germany says it is “examining” its possible response to the ICC arrest warrant against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Germany supports the ICC, but is also committed to its special relationship with Israel.
She’s denying it
“I never died,” said the dead woman.
“It never happened.”
Ursula Haverbeck, German far-right activist repeatedly convicted for Holocaust denial, dies at 96 – Ursula Haverbeck, a prominent German far-right activist who accumulated a string of convictions for denying the Holocaust, has died. She was 96.
Haverbeck died on Wednesday, her lawyer Wolfram Nahrath told German news agency dpa on Thursday.
Haverbeck repeatedly asserted that Auschwitz was just a work camp. In fact, historians say at least 1.1 million Jews were murdered there by the Nazis.
German of the day: Mauerfall
The means the fall of the wall. The Berlin Wall.
Thirty-five years ago today.
German of the day: Zwangsarbeit
That means forced labor.
IKEA’s motto: “Everything is possible if you think in opportunities.”
IKEA to compensate East German prisoners for forced labor – The German branch of IKEA has pledged millions to compensate victims of the former Communist East German regime, who were forced to make furniture components in the GDR.
Whoopi History 101
At least she got the continent right.
Thank goodness we always have celebrities like this to set us straight about what’s going on in the world.
‘We knew where the enemies were,’ Goldberg said, after unknowingly mixing up Germany and Russia.
“Even if you are a true Republican, don’t you remember? ‘Tear down this wall.’ Reagan was clear about who our enemy was, and still is.”
German of the day: “Das waren Zeiten”
That means “those were the days.”
Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland 85 years ago – World War II began with Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Adolf Hitler used a propaganda lie as a pretext to strike. It was a historic turning point that still has relevance for today.
A German sword?
Made in Japan?
Sword found in 19th-century German cellar is something much older — and from far away. Hidden under a street in central Berlin, an ancient artifact was discovered in war rubble…
Based on the other items found underground, archaeologists assumed the sword was a parade weapon used by a German soldier. It was passed to the Museum of Prehistory and Early history to be restored…
The wood handle and some of the cloth wrapping was preserved, allowing archaeologists to see a motif on the handle. It was an image of Daikoku, one of the seven gods of luck from Japan, archaeologists said. He was holding a hammer and rice sack, his known attributes, and was surrounded by motifs of chrysanthemums and a waterline…
The sword was a Japanese wakizashi, and, based on the artwork, was dated to the Edo period by archaeologists, a time ranging from the 17th to 19th century.
Russians in Berlin
Again.
Observing Hermann 