Fears over GM corn's effects on the food chain have led to the ban. Germany has decided to ban genetically modified corn, Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner announced Tuesday, amid concerns over its environmental and economical impact. Aigner announced a ban on the cultivation of US biotech giant Monsanto’s genetically modified corn strain MON 810 after considering a number of studies. The... 

The Jewish Claims Conference said it won a promise Thursday from the German government to increase funding to elderly Holocaust survivors in eastern Europe. Jewish survivors of WWII use… German officials promised to increase monthly payments from €178 ($235) to €240 ($315) for survivors in some of the poorest eastern European countries, such as Ukraine, said Roman Kent, a negotiator for the... 

Immigrants in German schools This is the modern day Germany. Imagine Germany in 20 years with things going exactly the same!  Read More »

Germany is home to some 6.7 million foreigners, of which one-quarter are Turkish nationals, the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) in Wiesbaden said on Monday, March 23. The number of Turkish citizens living in Germany, however, declined by 25,200 to 1.7 million by year-end in 2008, due mainly to the number of Turks who were granted German citizenship during the course of the entire year. Ethnic... 

Palestinian supporters demonstrating in Berlin Thousands of protesters marched in cities across Europe Saturday to demand an end to Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, a day before Israeli troops launched a ground offensive into the densely populated territory. Hundreds of Turks demonstrated outside the Israeli and United Nations missions in Istanbul and Ankara overnight in protest at Israel’s... 

Germany’s Jewish representative body has filed suite against YouTube and its parent company Google, demanding a court order for the website to be permanently purged of anti-Semitic videos. “The radical right-wing scene is using YouTube massively as a platform,” said Stephan Kramer, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the umbrella body of Germany’s Jewish communities. “We... 

Hitler was confident of winning World War II and planned to give Berlin a monumental makeover by 1950. A group in Berlin has collected records about his ‘Germania’ vision — and plans to lead tours through what’s left of the old construction site. Hitler never liked Berlin. He saw it as a dirty, liberal-minded place and was disdainful of its leftist political leanings. But he... 

Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest what they see as evidence of their second-class status in Germany. Police warn the city could be ready to explode. The owner of an electronics shop on Cologne’s Kalker Hauptstrasse had rolled down the shutters on the windows in case there was unrest.... 

Despite growing hostility toward homosexuality in Germany, where 78.9% of young Turks and 47.7% of Germans react negatively on a public poll, where they were asked what was their reaction when they see a male homosexual couple kiss in public. On February First, in Berlin some large size posters with the words “Familly is where children are” (Familie ist, wo Kinder sind) have been posted... 

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party has rejected charges by Germany’s Jewish community that it was flirting with the extreme-right with hardline proposals against crime by young non-White immigrants. The general secretary of Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), Ronald Pofalla, said the accusations by a Jewish leader that the party was whipping up xenophobia “could not be topped... 

A vast archive of German war records opened its doors to the public Wednesday, giving historians and [Europe’s WWII] survivors who have waited more than 60 years access to concentration camp records… The 11 countries that oversee the archive of the International Tracing Service have finished ratifying an accord unsealing some 50 million pages kept in the German town of Bad Arolsen, ITS director... 

The last natural blondes will die out within 200 years, scientists believe. A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202. Researchers predict the last truly natural blonde will be born in Finland – the country with the highest proportion of blondes. But they say too few people now carry the gene for blondes to last beyond... 

Exactly 63 years ago Romania has betrayed Germany. On August 23th, 1944 Romanian King Mihai I arrested Marshall Ion Antonescu of Romania (highest rank in army) and switched sides against former ally Germany. Wilfried H. Lang, an “unknown soldier”, helper of Flackhelfer in the German Wehrmacht reminds the dramatic moments he went through in 1944. 63 years ago Romania under the king’s... 

Germans were the first who put Henri Coanda’s jet airplane into production and they called it Messerschmitt Me 262. It was the world’s first operational turbojet fighter aircraft. It was introduced in June 1944 in the German Luftwaffe. With a speed of 870km/h and a range of 1050kms, the airplane had a powerful success; it has destroyed 735 Allied airplanes while the Allies destroyed only... 

The holocaust, an old controversial issue is being reviewed in this documentary film. The whole world should watch it and analyze it so that they can distinguish facts from fiction because many of he holocaust survivors have recanted their own stories and admitted to be hoaxes with the purpose of making money by selling their own books or by other means. We have all seen Hollywood horror movies and...