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.
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.
Again.
The means Eric’s Lamp Shop (Eric Honecker’s Lamp Shop).
Das waren Zeiten. That means those were the days.
A demolished communist palace and other rubble: How Berlin is managing its GDR buildings and monuments – An exhibition commemorates the demolition of the former parliament building in the German capital in 2008, an example of the persistent erasure of traces of socialism in the city.
That means determination.
Unfortunately, it’s not a word you hear very often anymore. In either language.
Sunday in front of Tempelhof Airport: Airlift festival for ALL!
The Berlin Airlift ended 75 years ago. To mark the anniversary on May 12, there will be a ceremony at the Airlift Memorial on Sunday. This will be followed by a public festival for all Berliners in the courtyard of honor in front of Tempelhof Airport.
It’s numbers like these that rune the sport.
Adidas bans fans from adding ‘44’ to German team football shirt – Kit’s resemblance to infamous SS rune of Nazi paramilitary wing unintentional, company says.
Adidas has banned football fans from customising the German national shirt with the number 44 due to its perceived resemblance to the symbol used by Nazi SS units during the second world war.
It’s achievements like these that will silence the critics.
Germans beat record beer drinking session – More than 40 Germans from a gun club have smashed a drinking record in the island of Mallorca this week.
The group downed 1,330 2ooml glases of beer in a bar in Playa de Palma, meaning more than 10 pints were sunk per person on the group, or 5.8 litres of beer.
This epic session of drinking took 8 hours with the challenge beginning at around 11am and finishing at 7pm last Saturday.
It started, like, geez. More than 45,000 years ago already.
And they were all Homo too.
Bones from German cave rewrite early history of Homo sapiens in Europe – Bone fragments unearthed in a cave in central Germany show that our species ventured into Europe’s cold higher latitudes more than 45,000 years ago – much earlier than previously known – in a finding that rewrites the early history of Homo sapiens on a continent still inhabited then by our cousins the Neanderthals.
It’s just not our thing. In Turkey.
Germany has ‘psychology of guilt’ when it comes to Holocaust, Israel, Erdoğan says – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz acknowledged the two countries’ very different perspectives on the Israel-Hamas war.
“Since we’re in a kind of psychology of guilt here, you can’t judge it that way, but we have no debt to Israel. If that were the case, then perhaps we wouldn’t be able to talk so easily. Nor have we gone through the history of the Holocaust,” the Turkish president said via an official German translator.
Well, it’s about time they finally got around to addressing their terrible past.
Baerbock says Germany has a duty to end Russian war crimes – Germany’s past obliges it to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told DW.
Observing Hermann 