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... 

A controversy has erupted in a German town over a new memorial that critics say honors SS soldiers and ignores Jewish Holocaust victims. The interfaith German-Israel Society says the memorial to be unveiled Nov. 15 in Grossburgwedel, near Hannover, recognizes members of the notorious Blackshirts. But the mayor of Burgwedel, which has jurisdiction over Grossburgwedel, rejects the charge. “We were... 

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... 

A new cemetery has been opened in central Russia, but this one is a bit different from others across the country: The site honors the German soldiers killed in Russia during World War II. Almost 25,000 Germans have already been buried in a cemetery near the village Besedino in Kursk Region, in a move Russia hopes will be viewed as a sign of reconciliation. However, the decision to build the cemetery... 

"I'd rather have East European Jews with an IQ that is 15pc higher than the German population," he said Dr Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the executive board and head of the bank’s risk control operations, told Europe’s culture magazine Lettre International that Turks with low IQs and poor child-rearing practices were “conquering Germany” by breeding two or three... 

Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) are both hostile to the accession of the overwhelmingly Muslim country of 71 million. The CDU is against the Turks joining for cultural reasons while the FDP leader, and probable new foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle has said the country’s economy is too far below European standards to integrate comfortably with other... 

The Education Ministry has included textbooks on religion classes starting from grade one of primary school for Turkish students abroad, even though such instruction for their counterparts in Turkey only starts in the fourth grade. The Education Ministry included religion textbooks with the others it supplies free-of-charge to Turkish students abroad as part of the “Our near ones, far away” project. The... 

An Israeli professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Martin van Creveld stated that Israel could find itself one day forced to exterminate the European continent using all kinds of weapons including its nuclear arsenal if it felt its demise neared, stressing that Israel also considers Europe a hostile target. In a September 2003 interview in Elsevier (Dutch weekly) also... 

A German moon shot could create jobs and spur technological development, a CDU politician says. Sending a spacecraft to the moon might seem like an ambitious goal for Germany. But a senior government minister has called for just such a mission, arguing that it would create much-needed jobs. Peter Hintze, the German government official responsible for aerospace and space travel, has called for Germany... 

The New York Press reports that a New York City-based director was responsible for the now-infamous Sprite ad, and that the spot was produced without The Coca-Cola Company’s permission. The author of this controversial video ad is a German Jewish filmmaker Max Issacson, according to the NY Press. The NY Press spoke to John Jones IV, the male model pictured in the video: “The funny thing... 

Volkswagen are planning a total takeover of Porsche, revising earlier reports that VW was only buying half of the sports car giant, news magazine Der Spiegel said Saturday. According the magazine, the sale will be completed in two stages – first 49.9 percent will be taken over, as had been reported this week, then VW will move to buy the rest of the company. Porsche are to receive around €8 billion... 

The Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, has spoken out against Iceland’s entry to the European Union, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Saturday. “The EU cannot play saviour to Iceland’s economic crisis,” said Markus Ferber, head of the CSU’s members of the European parliament, after the Icelandic parliament voted on Thursday to apply... 

Before Adolf Hitler killed himself in April 1945 he explained to his aides that he was determined not to fall into the hands of the Russians — and land up as the freak exhibit in a Moscow waxworks. As luck would have it, Hitler — or, at least, a waxen effigy — has now been put on display in Berlin, a short stroll away from his former bunker. Thanks to Madame Tussauds, which has just opened a... 

A brutal murder in Germany last week has caused shockwaves in far-off Egypt. Thousands of mourners took to the streets of Alexandria on Monday to protest at the funeral of a pregnant Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death inside a German court in a crime that has provoked fury in her home country. Egyptian newspapers have given strong coverage to the death of Marwa al-Sherbini (32), describing the... 

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, CDU have rejected opposition calls to accelerate the country’s nuclear phase-out. They say Germany should extend the operational life of the nation’s reactors. One day after Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel questioned Germany’s reliance on nuclear fuel, the CDU has made it clear that it has no plans for an energy policy turnabout. On...