Berlin - An otherwise quiet block in central Berlin has been rocked in recent months by paint bombs, broken windows and protests.

The cause of the commotion is a clothing store, Tønsberg, that sells a brand linked to Germany’s far right. To those unversed in neo-Nazi symbology, the brand, Thor Steinar, looks like normal urban street wear. But the clothing line is “an identifying mark for right extremists,” according to the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, a domestic intelligence agency. The company’s original logo, a combination of two Scandinavian runes resembling the SS insignia, was banned in 2004 under a German law prohibiting Nazi symbols. Read more »

Germany experienced some 2,752 new cases of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, during 2007.

That’s an increase of about 4 percent over the previous year, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the federal institute responsible for disease control and prevention.

While the number of infections decreased among three groups: heterosexuals, drug addicts, and immigrants from countries with a high incidence of AIDS, there was a jump of 12 percent in new cases reported in homosexual men. These account for approximately 65 percent of all cases of HIV in Germany.

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German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble shut down two far-right organizations on grounds that they deny the Holocaust took place.

The minister accused the groups of being “reservoirs of organized Holocaust deniers” who distribute anti-Semitic propaganda and praise the Nazis over the Internet.

Authorities raided 30 locations looking for evidence early on Wednesday, May 7, taking evidence with them, a statement from Schaeuble said.

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Wotan’s moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner’s “Siegfried” premiered 132 years ago — but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera.

For just a second the chief god stoops, picks up a handful of earth and sniffs at it, in a powerfully telling gesture of what is about to come: an end his rule and with it, oblivion. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Curtains for one era and the start of a new one.

Director Sven-Erich Bechtolf and his co-creators sprinkle similar deft touches throughout this new production of the second-to-last work in Wagner’s four-part Ring Cycle. Read more »

A group of German politicians cut their visit to the West Bank short due to threats from Jewish settlers. Israel should curb the fanaticism of Jewish settlers, said the delegation. The committee members had said that Israeli security forces were unwilling to intervene when Hebron residents began hurling insults and threats at them and that their visit could not be continued.

“Many of us lost German roots and family members during the holocaust,” said David Wilder, (spokesman for the Jewish community). “When Germans come to Hebron, they should at least meet with members of the community.”

Jerzy Montag (a parliamentarian for the German Green Party) called this a “grotesque twisting of the truth.” he said he was willing to talk with the settlers, but not after being insulted and threatened. SOURCE>>>

A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.

Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported.

NASA had previously estimated the chances at only 1 in 45,000 but told its sister organisation, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the young whizzkid had got it right. Read more »

GERMANY’S Sinti and Roma Community (Gypsies) is up in arms over soccer fan paraphernalia, particularly scarves, printed with insulting slogans used by the Nazis. They’ve demanded that eBay remove the items immediately.

The offensive fan paraphernalia, available on eBay’s German and Austria auction sites, contains the phrase, “Zick Zack Zigeunerpack” one of several slurs chanted by far-right soccer fans. Stemming from the Nazi era, the slogan refers to the Roma minority as “Gypsy scum.” STORY>>>

In protest to the use of biometric data in new German passports, hackers have threatened to publish Chancellor Merkel’s fingerprints.

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of Germany’s oldest and largest hacker organizations, on Saturday published Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s fingerprints in its own magazine.

The minister’s fingerprints were taken from a water glass he used at a public debate, CCC spokesman Frank Rieger said. Read more »

The dark past of two senior journalists at one of Berlin’s biggest newspapers has come to light after one of them was outed as a former Stasi collaborator and his colleague chose to come forward and talk about his past voluntarily.

One of the biggest newspapers in Berlin will carry out background checks on all its journalists after two senior staff admitted to having worked for the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, during the Cold War.

The Berliner Zeitung, a left-leaning daily, admitted on Monday that its assistant politics editor was a Stasi informant for a decade, from the age of 18 until the collapse of East Germany in 1989. The 50-year-old, who has not been named, told colleagues about his secret and apologized to them during an editorial conference, the paper’s editor Josef Depenbrock said. Read more »

Germany has long talked about banning the neo-Nazi NPD party. But an attempt to do so is about to fail because Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives say such a bid could strengthen the party. Germany’s Jewish population is up in arms.

Germany’s second attempt to ban the far-right National Democratic Party looks doomed before it has even begun because a number of conservative-ruled states are refusing to cooperate in mounting a legal bid against the party.

The president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Charlotte Knobloch, criticized the states which failed to present information on the activities of the NPD in their respective territories by a March 31 deadline. Read more »

In a country where patriotism is looked down upon, a new film about a World War I pilot — one of most expensive movies ever made in Germany — takes a new twist: It paints the Red Baron as a national hero.

According to historical accounts, Manfred von Richthofen — dubbed the Red Baron due to the color of his aircraft — shot down 80 Allied planes as a fighter pilot during World War I and became not only the most successful German pilot but also an icon of his era.

Ninety-years after his death, an 18-million-euro ($28-million) film which opens in Germany on April 10, recounts the war adventures of the Prussian nobleman whose life ended at the age of 25. The English-language German production is based on a biography of von Richthofen by historian Joachim Castan, which came out last fall.

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Even a Chinese website allows free discussion on this topic.

The leader of Germany’s No. 1 far-right party on Tuesday was accused of publishing pamphlets before the 2006 World Cup the questioned whether nonwhite players should be on the nation’s soccer team.

Prosecutor Simone Herbeth said in a statement that Udo Voigt, head of the National Democratic Party, or NPD, was charged with incitement and defamation because of the pamphlets. NPD spokesman Klaus Beier and Frank Schwerdt, a leading member, also were charged, Herbeth said.

The pamphlets pictured black defender Patrick Owomoyela’s number 25 on a traditional white German jersey. They read: “White, not just a jersey color! For a real NATIONAL team!”

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Prosecutors in Berlin have charged the leader of the extreme-right party, the NPD and two associates of inciting racial hatred. Udo Voigt and the other two are accused of printing pamphlets for the 2006 World Cup with offensive slogans directed towards German soccer player Patrick Owomoyela, whose father is Nigerian. Later, new brochures appeared implying that the German national team was being infiltrated by foreigners. If convicted, the three could face up to five years in prison.  SOURCE>>>

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become Israel’s staunchest ally in Europe. This week, the country has pulled out all the stops to welcome the German leader. Back home, though, many wish Merkel would finally speak up about Israeli excesses in the Gaza Strip.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has received no lack of warm welcomes on her trips abroad. The US President invited her to his ranch in Texas, the King of Saudi Arabia presented her with a small model of an oasis, complete with golden camels, and the Emir of Abu Dhabi deeply regretted that she had no time to visit his desert tent.

But the red carpet treatment prepared for Merkel during her visit to Israel this week eclipses all previous receptions.  MORE>>>

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 had an idea for fixing it after World War II came to an end. His famous vision of Berlin for 1950 — planned in detail by his architect, Albert Speer — was a grand Fascist city called “Germania,” and a new Berlin exhibition looks at models and physical traces of it left behind by Hitler’s regime.

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BERLIN - State-run schools in Germany should offer Islam as a required religion class in the future, the nation’s interior minister said Thursday.

Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said it would be a while before Muslim community leaders work out a legally binding accord with the government, but that an agreement on the issue has been reached.

“It will take some time, but we are moving ahead,” Schaeuble told reporters after a conference with representatives of Germany’s estimated 3 million Muslims and government officials. Read more »

It’s official - Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid it says will deliver 69.9 mpg.VW’s been experimenting with hybrids of the gasoline-electric variety since the early 1990s, but the Golf hybrid it will unveil next month at the Geneva Motor Show is the first production model the German company’s rolled out. Volkswagen isn’t offering much in the way of details, but the car is expected to have a  parallel hybrid drivetrain with a 2.0 liter engine. Look for it to have an all-electric mode at low speed, start-stop capability, regenerative braking and a 7-speed DSG double-clutch transmission, according to Auto Express and AutoBlog Green.

What’s all the techno-jargon mean? The Golf Hybrid will get almost 70 mph while meeting Europe’s stringent Euro V and America’s Tier 2 Bin 5 emissions standards, making it green enough even for California. The car is said to emit just 89 g/km of CO2. (For comparison, the Prius emits 104 g/km and Honda Civic Hybrid emits 116.) Read more »

The list of legal problems for the far-right party NPD just keeps getting longer. Next week, party chairman Udo Voigt will face charges for racist propaganda he distributed during the 2006 World Cup in Germany — aimed at one of Germany’s own players.

By all accounts, the 2006 World Cup soccer championships in Germany were a rousing success. Millions from around the world got to know the country as a fun place to party rather than the dull, orderly place of cliché. This week, though, it is becoming clear that the event’s glow didn’t rub off on everyone. Indeed, the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) is landing in court as a result.

According to a report in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel, Udo Voigt, head the NPD, and two further senior party members — press spokesman Klaus Beier and board member Frank Schwerdt — are to be charged next week by Berlin’s public prosecutor for incitement and defamation, stemming from World Cup propaganda distributed by the party. Read more »

New, 800-Page German Dictionary Warns Against Words Used by Third Reich

Dozens of German words have for decades been taboo for native speakers because of the way those words were used by the Nazis.

Now, an 800-page dictionary has been published to serve as a guide to avoiding linguistic traps into which Germans can easily fall.

Terms such as “endloesung” (final solution) or “selektion” (selection) can quickly get the user into trouble, because the words acquired specific meanings and associations during the Third Reich. Read more »

BERLIN - An archaeological dig in downtown Berlin has uncovered evidence that the German capital is at least 45 years older than had previously been established, authorities said Wednesday.

During excavation work last week in the Mitte district, archaeologists uncovered a wooden beam from an ancient earthen cellar, said Karin Wagner of the city-state’s office for historical preservation.

It was in exceptionally good condition, having lain under the water table for centuries, and scientists were able to determine from a sample taken that it had been cut down in 1192. Read more »

German children forced to swallow guilt

BERLIN — Schulen in Berlin und Nordrhein-Westfalen [weitere Bundesländer folgen] versuchen es jetzt mit Comics!

Die Bildergeschichte “Die Suche”, gemalt vom niederländischen Zeichner Eric Huevel und bearbeitet vom Berliner Anne Frank Zentrum, erzählt die Gräuel Hitler Deutschlands in bunten Bildern.

Schüler aus 20 Klassen [13-16 Jahre] lesen ab morgen in Geschichtsunterricht die bewegende Geschichte von Esther, deren Eltern in KZ Auschwitz ermordet werden. CLICK ON COMIC IMAGE IN ARTICLE FOR MORE IMAGES

BERLIN - Members of a far-right German party boycotted a moment of silence at a state parliament held in honor of Nazi victims Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s elevation to German chancellor.

The six lawmakers of the far-right National Democratic Party from the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania refused to rise from their seats during a moment of silence.

Lawmakers from other parties said they were disgusted with the boycott, causing the parliamentary session to be temporarily interrupted. Read more »

Dozens of words in the German language, from “degenerate” to “final solution” have become taboo because of their use by the Nazis. A new dictionary of Third Reich terms provides a guide through the linguistic minefield.

As if German weren’t hard enough. Three genders, endlessly long words, verbs coming at the end of impossibly rambling sentences.

But there is another, more subtle, linguistic trap which both Germans and non-Germans can easily fall into — and which is far worse a faux pas than a mere slip of the article. Mention that you have found the “endlösung” [final solution] to a problem you’ve been grappling with, or that you’ve made a “selektion” [selection] from a number of alternatives, and you will quickly find yourself the target of disapproving stares. MORE>>>

BERLIN — Most countries celebrate the best in their pasts. Germany unrelentingly promotes its worst.

The enormous Holocaust memorial that dominates a chunk of central Berlin was completed only after years of debate. But the building of monuments to the Nazi disgrace continues unabated.

On Monday, Germany’s minister of culture, Bernd Neumann, announced that construction could begin in Berlin on two monuments: one near the Reichstag, to the murdered Gypsies, known here as the Sinti and the Roma; and another not far from the Brandenburg Gate, to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust. Read more »

GERMAN riot police battled with neo-Nazis holding an illegal rock concert in a disused brewery, police said.

Five of the concert-goers were injured and 15 were taken into custody during the mayhem at Luebben, 70km southeast of the capital Berlin.

Hate music and use of Nazi symbols such as the swastika are banned in Germany, where neo-Nazi bands have been outlawed. Some groups continue to gather in secret, especially in the former communist east where most support for the neo-Nazis is concentrated.

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A German court has sentenced the former lawyer of Ernst Zundel to three and a half years in prison for denying the Holocaust herself.
In addition to 3 1/2 years in prison, Sylvia Stolz has also been banned by the court from practicing law for five years.
During the trial of the Holocaust revisionist scholar, Ernst Zundel , Stolz called the Holocaust “the biggest lie in world history”.
Stolz has reportedly read a newspaper article to the court about the appearance of world renowned Israeli artist, Gilad Atzmon in Bochum. Read more »

BERLIN - A prominent German state governor said Thursday that immigrants should abide by the country’s customs and speak its language.

Roland Koch, the conservative governor of the western state of Hesse, is one of two senior figures in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union who face elections on Jan. 27. It will be the first major electoral test since 2006 for the CDU and its partner in the national government, the center-left Social Democrats. Read more »

German President Köhler has said expellee groups should be included in plans for a memorial in Berlin, opposed by Poland, to recall the sufferings of ethnic Germans forced out of Eastern Europe at the end of the war.

In an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, Köhler said he saw “no plausible reason” to exclude such groups from the project approved by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government.

“Their expertise would prove helpful,” the president said in the interview on Saturday, Dec. 29.

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In 1950, this cotton market town in northern Alabama lost a bid for a military aviation project that would have revived its mothballed arsenal. The consolation prize was dubious: 118 German rocket scientists who had surrendered to the Americans during World War II, led by a man — a crackpot, evidently — who claimed humans could visit the moon.

Ultimately those German immigrants made history, launching the first American satellite, Explorer I, into orbit in January 1958 and putting astronauts on the moon in 1969. The crackpot, Wernher von Braun, was celebrated as a visionary.

Far less attention, though, has been given to the space program’s permanent transformation of Huntsville, now a city of 170,000 with one of the country’s highest concentrations of scientists and engineers. The area is full of high-tech giants like Siemens, LG and Boeing, and a new biotech center. Read more »

MUNICH (Hollywood Reporter) - For the first time in recent memory, Germans spent less time in front of their TVs in 2007 than they did the year before, according to a new survey.

Perhaps distracted by the introduction of such Web sites as MySpace.de and iTunes.de, German kids led the exodus, boding ill for the future of the medium.

According to the preliminary results of an annual study by Germany’s television research institute, the GfK in Nuremberg, average per-day viewing in 2007 slipped to 208 minutes, down from 212 the year before. For young people the drop was more severe, to 178 minutes from 184. Read more »

A new study commissioned by Germany’s Interior Ministry warns of a growing threat from the radicalization of Muslims in the country. Six percent of Muslims in Germany support violence in the name of Islam, the authors write.

A new study released by Germany’s Interior Ministry has added new fuel to the debate about integration of Muslims in Germany, with the report warning about the danger of radicalization of Muslims.

According to the study, which was published Tuesday, around 40 percent of Muslims surveyed had a “fundamentalist orientation,” which the authors defined as a strongly religious worldview and moral values. Read more »

BERLIN - A group of suspected soccer hooligans racially abused and beat up two Sudanese men and a German who tried to intervene on their behalf, police and prosecutors in the eastern city of Dresden said Sunday.

According to police, several men among the group of 10 to 15 suspected hooligans began taunting the Sudanese men at a nightclub in downtown Dresden, prompting club security guards to intervene. Read more »

A teenage girl who claimed neo-Nazis cut a swastika into her hip last month may have been lying, police say after two medical examinations suggest she could have inflicted the wound on herself.

German police investigating a 17-year-old girl’s claim that neo-Nazis cut a swastika symbol into her hip now have doubts about her story after two medical reports concluded she could have inflicted the injury on herself.

The case made nationwide headlines in November because it fitted in with a long-running trend of far-right attacks in eastern Germany, including several high-profile ones this year. Read more »

Dog tricks are a real threat to occupied Germany? 

BERLIN, Dec. 21 A German retiree has been jailed for five months for teaching his dog, named Adolf, to give the Nazi salute when someone said “Heil Hitler.”
The owner, a Berlin resident identified only as Roland T., was also sentenced for violating the ban on Nazi symbols by wearing Hitler T-shirts and displaying other insignia, the British newspaper, The Independent, reported. Read more »

Here is an interesting video from a German Nationalist youth organization called Jugend-Offensive. Watch and learn as they put many simple yet over looked actions into practice. Taking our message to the streets is one of the most important things that we can do. It’s also one of the most effective tools in combating Zionism & Multiculturalism, so take note and take action!

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