macron: nato experiencing 'brain death'
Why aren't French/Belgian/German troops guarding the Kurds oil refineries? ... Europeans, including French and Germans, need to pay for their own defense. ..…
fifty lessons from the treaty of versailles, 100 years after the
Not giving Germany seat at Paris negotiations, nor any real chance to participate in the process other was source of resentment, seen by Germans as deliberate humiliation. 10. ..…
the battle between nbc and cbs to be the first to film a berlin wall
East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the barrier and escape into West Berlin.. ... he pressured CBS to get Schorr out of the in case East Germans also knew about the tunnel.. ..…
thoughts on the berlin wall 30 years after its demise – people's
With Marshall Plan and all the encouragement of West German economic growth, something GDR could not keep up with, the addition of this sabotage by CIA severe blows to GDR in its formative years.. ..…
the failed halle synagogue massacre reveals the dysfunction of
the question must be asked yet again to what extent is German government trying to keep violence and hatred in check.. ... In Bundestag, German parliament, she raised number of unwelcome facts for the established parties and in particular for SPD.. ..…
the perils of forgetting – tablet magazine
During my stay in the city, I lived in an area once heavily populated by German Jews. ... The richness of the German Jewish past is painfully conveyed by its palpable absence. ..…
france spent less on nuclear to get about double what germany gets
Over the past five years alone, Energiewende has cost Germany €32 billion annually, and opposition to renewables is growing in German countryside. ..…
what the berlin wall’s collapse meant for workers worldwide –
They will be slandering German Democratic Republic and all the good and progressive acts of the once-socialist part of Germany. 2006, Berlin. ... German intervened Yugoslavia to tear that multinational country apart and gain in the mini-states that succeeded it. ..…
1989: the end of what?
The most committed Eastern, Heiner Müller, was much more deeply German Siegfried Lenz or Martin Walser. At the time, East Germany was more defeated, too, than embraced, with the destruction of its economy, the emigration of its youth and with the unwillingness to integrate it ( Of the 120..…
how two centuries of slave revolts shaped american history
In 1811, more than 500 enslaved people armed with knives, guns, and farm tools rebelled on Louisiana’s German Coast. ... The German Coast Uprising was the largest slave revolt in United States history. . . . ..…
interview with mikhail gorbachev: 'it was impossible to go on living
We could not deprive neighboring countries, Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, of the rights and liberties that we granted our own people. ..…
the pilgrim church: the touchstone archives
From Schleiermacher and Renan on through the Tübingen School and Roman Catholic “modernists” to Hans Küng and Jürgen Moltmann—and let us not forget the “German Christians” of the 1930s, “Christian Marxists” of the twentieth century (among whom I would include most, although not all,..…
former us ambassador to un nikki haley honored with theodor herzl
Previous recipients of Theodor Herzl Award include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Rothschild family, former US Secretary of State General Colin L. ..…
the berlin wall: a secret history
The day afterwards, British to West Germany, Sir Christopher Steel, commented in dispatch to London 'I must stay that I have always wondered that East Germans have waited so long to seal this boundary. ... Signing of the 'Four-Power Agreement Soviets and East Germans recognize West ..…
china's vision for the future: "give peace a chance" - global
The German business community, like business throughout Europe, is strongly in favor of lifting US-imposed sanctions and reconnecting with the East, in particular with China and Russia. But the official Berlin is still with one foot in the White House – and with the other trying to appease the..…
yaroslavl’s defining monument: church of the prophet elijah
With new trading possibilities, Yaroslavl attracted colonies of Russian and foreign merchants (English, Dutch, and German). . ..…
interview on trump foreign policy with robert kagan
DER SPIEGEL In essay, that German question will return if U.S is no longer willing to continue its Europe. ..…
ukraine needs more than lethal aid from the united states
Ukraine’s dependence on German and EU goodwill is a given, as is the Ukrainian president’s duty to submit. ..…
germany struggles to define limits of what can be said
survey taken by Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research May found that two-thirds of Germans are convinced that you have to be careful these days about the kinds of subjects you discuss and how you discuss them, particularly when it comes to refugees, Islam, Nazi, Jews, right-wing..…
81 years since kristallnacht, the start of the holocaust for the jews
On Saturday, 81 years will have passed since Kristallnacht, the pogrom across 1,000 German synagogues, Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog told members of Jewish Berlin, addressing the rise of Germany and across Europe... ... Herzog attended ceremony where European Janusz Korczak Academy..…
'infiltration and the election of pope francis'
On September 2016, four cardinals, Italian Carlo Caffarra, American Raymond Burke, and Germans Walter Brandmüller and Joachim Meisner, formally sought clarification from the pope regarding what appeared to be heretical teaching. ..…
escape tunnel underneath berlin wall opens to public
One can experience the courage of the women and men who tried to take people to freedom and resisted East German regime, he added.. It cut off East Germans from the supposed of West and stemmed the tide of people fleeing the country.. ..…
'nazi emergency' grips dresden
In the 1990s, the far right enshrined Dresden as symbol of German suffering and began holding rallies there.. ... These events all fit in with Germans fleeing the established parties favor of fringe parties like AfD, Greens and various far-left options. ..…
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