No this wasn’t something Adolf Hitler said many years ago, this is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel told attendants at the event “Parlamentarismus im Spannungsverhältnis von Globalisierung und nationaler Souveränität” hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin on Wednesday. “In an orderly fashion of course,” Merkel went on to say. She even went so far as to condemn... 

Stricter penalties for those who commit crimes while seeking refuge in Germany, as well as speeding up their deportation process, are being pushed by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party in the light of the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party called for strengthening of the country’s laws for asylum-seekers during a party meeting in the German... 

German tanks rumbling through the historic streets of Greek capital Athens as the conquering soldiers stage a victory parade in 1941 Greece has threatened to hit Germany with a bill for tens of billions of pounds in outstanding reparations for Nazi war crimes during the Second World War. The move is an indication of growing outrage in Athens at the strictures being placed on the Greek economy by EU... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel left little ground to hope she would abandon or moderate the austerity program for Europe as she warned that growth on new loans would push the EU into deeper crisis. “Growth through structural reform is sensible, important and necessary,” she said during an address to the German Parliament. “Growth through debt would throw us back to the beginning of the... 

Heavy Snow in Germany kills at least 7 (March 2010) This is Al Gore speaking to you: “Be careful, what you are about to read now is pure fiction, don’t forget that the globe is warming! Ok kids? You do believe us… right? Ok now hang over your carbon taxes cause I need some more cars and mansions!” Heavy snowfall in parts of Germany triggered a deadly avalanche and caused thousands... 

The city of Dresden after Allied air raids in 1945. Right-wing nationalist groups have referred to the Dresden raids as the “German Hiroshima”. Berlin // Dresden is bracing itself for what could be Germany’s biggest neo-Nazi rally since the Second World War tomorrow when the city marks the 65th anniversary of the Allied air raid that devastated it and killed up to 25,000 people. Authorities... 

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... 

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... 

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 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... 

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,... 

Germany. In the old mining town of Bergkamen, entire neighborhoods of downtown are held firmly in hand by the Turks. The seller of appliances Wendel, Büscher the shoemaker, the butcher Bittner … All are gone. The watch and the former ironmonger Martin too. They were replaced by kebabs. In the window of the store down the street: burqas, chadors, scarves and long coats, black or dark blue for... 

An HIV-positive man was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison after having unprotected sex with three women, including a 13-year-old girl. The 41-year-old, identified as Kennedy O., was found guilty of eight counts of attempted assault and the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old-girl after he slept with her and two girlfriends – a housewife and a hairdresser – without disclosing he had the...