 Germans celebrate Unity Day to mark storming of trains and fall of Berlin Wall
 02.10.2009 23:52  17 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: German, October, East, Germany, Berlin, Thousands, Union
Vladimir Lenin famously joked that if German revolutionaries were to storm a railway station they would first queue up for a platform ticket. Thousands of desperate East Germans proved the old Bolshevik wrong when, on October 3, 1989, they stampeded into Dresden station in an attempt to jump on to trains taking their fellow countrymen to the West. Now, October 3, also the day in 1990 that the East German state was finally dissolved, ranks as German Unity Day, a sedate holiday in which flowers are laid and speeches are made. Then, though, it was a very unGerman chaos that presaged the collapse of the Berlin Wall,...
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| Norway decorates WWII hero with highest military honor, reinstating medal last awarded in 1949
02.10.2009 20:46 26 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: German, Cross, Ministry, Nazi, Defense, Germany, England
OSLO - Norway on Friday awarded its highest military decoration for the first time in 60 years, posthumously honoring a soldier who was killed while helping the wartime government flee the country as German troops invaded in 1940. Capt. Eiliv Austlid was awarded the War Cross with Sword, a medal that was recently reinstated after having been suspended since 1949. Austlid fell to Nazi bullets as he led a small Norwegian unit in an attack on a German detachment in Dovre, central Norway, on April 15, 1940, the Defense Ministry said. The assault held up the Germans long enough to allow key members of the Norwegian government to escape. The government officials eventually made it to England where...
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| Germans arrest man suspected of spreading al-Qaida propaganda, procuring explosives
02.10.2009 20:46 30 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: German, Germany, BERLIN
BERLIN - German authorities said Friday they arrested a man with dual Turkish-German citizenship suspected of attempting to recruit supporters for al-Qaida and procuring material that could be used to make a bomb. The 24-year-old man, identified only as Adnan V., was arrested Thursday after police searched an apartment in Offenbach and a business in nearby Frankfurt, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that a judge later ordered the man remain in detention pending the outcome of an investigation on suspicion of supporting al-Qaida and "posing a threat to the state through preparation of a violent act." The searches revealed "a small amount of a potentially explosive...
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| Nazi camp guard trial opens in Germany next month
02.10.2009 17:39 37 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: German, World, Nazi, John, Germany, November, BERLIN, Jets
BERLIN (Reuters) - Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk will go on trial in early November on charges of helping to kill 27,900 Jews during World War Two, a German court said on Friday. The case against the 89-year-old retired U.S. auto worker is likely to be Germany's last major Nazi-era war crimes trial....
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| German police arrest man on terror charges
02.10.2009 17:11 30 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: German, Germany
Investigators in Germany have arrested a 24-year-old man on terror-related charges. Czytaj więcej »
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