The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party will be allowed to distribute CDs outside schools with interviews and music by party members because authorities have no legal grounds to stop them, a report said Saturday. The Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons said the disc merely contained political opinions, daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported. The department therefore found no basis on... 

China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is welcomed by Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Conference on Security Friday before the start of the 46th Conference on Security Policy in Munich. Speaking with uncharacteristic bluntness, Mr. Yang accused the US of violating international law with its proposed arms sale to Taiwan. Today Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi, speaking with unusual bluntness... 

The Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History announced February 3 that it plans to republish Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf in 2015. This would be the book’s first publication in Germany since 1945. Mein Kampf, whose title means “My Struggle,” is Hitler’s autobiography and manifesto containing his views on racial purity and against Judaism and Communism. The... 

Ernst Zundel with Ingrid Rimland at an IHR conference, May 2000 A message from From Ingrid Rimland Zundel (Ernst Zundel’s wife) Seven Years Behind Bars: Anniversary of Ernst Zundel’s Arrest To all – Allegedly, in just a few weeks, on March 1, 2010, Europe’s best-known political prisoner and my husband, Ernst Zundel, is scheduled to be released from prison. In an emotional telephone... 

German Troops Nearly 80 percent of Germans oppose Berlin’s plans to hike the number of troops in Afghanistan, according to a poll released Wednesday on the eve of a major international conference. Four out of five Germans said they disagreed with a stronger military role for Berlin in Afghanistan, the survey by the independent polling institute Forsa indicated. Even among supporters of Chancellor... 

Mamoun Darkazanli German prosecutors have launched an investigation over a magazine report claiming CIA agents and employees of a notorious US private security firm had sought to assassinate a German-Syrian terror suspect. Berlin on Monday denied any knowledge of the CIA’s operation, several days after the report’s publication in Vanity Fair just before Christmas. The controversy centers... 

“The most notorious American POW camps were the so-called Rheinwiesenlager.” Here, the Americans allowed “anything up to 40,000 German soldiers to die from hunger and neglect in the muddy flats of the Rhine.” … “any attempt to feed the prisoners by the German civilian population was punishable by death.” This article was published in the Spring 2009 issue of... 

More Billions of Euros for Israel The Israeli government is calling on Berlin to make additional payments, even though Jerusalem signed a written promise, after the end of the compensation negotiations, that the Jewish state would “file no further claims against the Federal Republic of Germany.” Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz will demand between 450 million to 1 billion euros in reparations... 

Germany plans to send up to 2,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan in response to requests from the United States and other NATO partners, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday. Citing NATO and German Defence Ministry sources, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the United States and NATO members had already received signals to this effect. A ministry spokesman declined to confirm the... 

Believe it or not, but these were German money that became completely useless in the Weimar. Hitler came and saved Germany but where is he now? (Germany’s first Hyperinflation) The German cabinet approved next year’s budget proposals on Wednesday, envisaging record debt for 2010, government sources told German Press Agency dpa. The budget, drawn up by Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble,... 

The EU is to offer “one to three billion euros” in aid to developing countries over the next three years so they can fight the effects of “climate change”, the Financial Times Deutschland reported Sunday. The funding is to be agreed at a European Union summit in Brussels set for Thursday and Friday, which will also coincide with the world climate conference in Copenhagen that... 

The Turkish community is not satisfied by Germany even though Germany allowed millions of Turks in. Once in Germany they are even allowed to build mosques, learn Islam in schools. What more can be done? Perhaps Turks want Germans to sing and dance for them so they can feel accepted in Germany. The vast majority of Turkish immigrants in Germany think their adopted country should do more to accommodate... 

A documentary panned at Cannes in the 1970s for depicting Hitler’s personal life is now being shown in Germany for the first time. David Wroe speaks with the director with the director about the film’s vastly different reception nearly four decades later. When “Swastika” was shown at the 1973 Cannes film festival, fights broke out and somebody threw part of a chair at the screen. “All... 

Crying policemen. Stinking traffic jams of East German Trabis on the posh streets of West Berlin. Strangers falling into each others’ arms. The night of Nov. 9, 1989 was unforgettable. A look into the SPIEGEL archives brings the historic day to life. Wearing nothing but a coat over his pajamas, the man spoke rapidly in his thick Berlin accent: “We live on Bornholmer Street, in the East,... 

Richard Williamson, the British bishop who caused an international by denying the Holocaust in a media interview last year, has been fined €12,000 by a German court for his comments. His lawyer has indicated he will contest the ruling. A German court has fined British bishop Richard Williamson €12,000 ($17,800) for denying the Holocaust in an interview he gave to Swedish television last year that...