That means free-riding.
After solomnly commemorating the end of World War II 80 years ago…
German politicians solomnly commemorated the end of 80 years of free-riding on defense spending.
It was emotional.
Newly elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined a wreath-laying ceremony in Berlin. The Bundestag also held its own remembrance service.
“It reminds me where I came from.”
Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany – Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945.
After decades of division and its revival as the capital of a reunited, democratic Germany, the city is now transformed, blending painstakingly restored buildings with modern architecture. But the scars of the past remain visible in many places: facades riddled with holes from bullets and shrapnel, or gaps in rows of houses sometimes plugged by new buildings.
This time.
Russian, Belarusian ambassadors not invited to German parliament’s WWII memorial event – The German parliament has kept the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus off its guest list for a special sitting on May 8 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe, a spokesperson for the legislature said on Thursday.
They’ll need it for the coming election.
And to get their country afloat again.
Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II.
A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine’s capture was top-secret.
“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.
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.
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.
That means aircraft bomb.
Four injured after old WWII aircraft bomb explodes in Munich – Four people were injured when an old aircraft bomb exploded at a bridge near Munich’s busy main train station on Wednesday, police said on Twitter, raising the number of wounded from three earlier.
Germans just yawn about this stuff. Happens too often. My personal favorite from a few years back:
Yawn. Another World War II bomb evacuation again.
Germany: Thousands evacuated in Berlin as World War II bomb is defused – A quarter-ton World War II bomb was discovered in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes as police set up a radius around the unexploded ordinance.
The ones they actually detonate are pretty rare – and way more fun.
German oddity 15: Germany is a place where huge underground bombs are routinely unearthed all around the country and this barely even makes second page news. In fact, most Germans directly affected are more annoyed about it than anything else. They grudgingly leave their homes until the bomb crews have disarmed or detonated the damned things. Over 5,000 bombs are found in Germany every year.
A German U-boat that sank off the British coast during World War II has been captured on camera in remarkable images.
The pictures were taken by diving contractor Dive Newquay, which took a group of divers to see the remains of U-1021, British news agency SWNS reports. The vessel lies 9 nautical miles off the coast of Cornwall.
“The U1021 lies about nine nautical miles from Newquay Harbour and sits in 55m [180 feet] of water,” a Dive Newquay spokesperson told the news outlet. “Dives of this depth are considered technical, which require special planning and different breathing gasses.”
The wreck is near two other U-boats that also sank during the war.
U-1021 served with 31st U-boat Flotilla before disappearing in March 1945.
Observing Hermann 