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Soldatenby Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review
Tallinn :: Estonia | 4 months ago
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Keystone/Getty Images With its cult of destruction and self-sacrifice, national socialism might have been designed for adolescence; Nazi party members indulged Teutonic pagan myths and sub-Wagnerian kitsch. Symbols appropriated from the Wotan and
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Germany slowly comes to terms with sending its armed forces abroad
Berlin :: Germany | 8 months ago
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One incident in which scores of Afghan civilians died prompted an outcry that forced the defence minister to resign. Photograph: Michael Kappeller/AFP/Getty The German defence ministry is to make a decision in the coming weeks on whether to follow
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Charles Ota Heller: a soldier at the age of nine
Prague :: Czech Republic | over 1 year ago
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For decades afterwards he talked to no one about the experience, and only recently has Ota Heller or Charles Ota Heller, as he is now called felt able to return to his memories of the war, collecting them in his book Out of Prague...My first night I
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German soldiers Stealing Painting, the United States are Revert to France
WASHINGTON - A painting by Jules Breton artists who seized 93 years ago by German soldiers during World War I has been returned by the U.S. government to French officials on Thursday, customs officials said.The painting, "Une fille de
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Greens MP says involvement in NATO Libya mission illegal
Tripoli :: Libya | almost 2 years ago
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Bundestag in the first place, MP Hans-Christian Strbele told the state television ARDs Morgenmagazin show on Friday morning. That they are involved in identifying attack targets makes them indirectly involved in those attacks something which would
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Memo From Berlin: The Draft Ends in Germany, but Questions of Identity Endure
Berlin :: Germany | almost 2 years ago
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Germany formally discontinued the draft at midnight on Thursday to make way for a smaller, tighter army that will draw people like Johannes Beckert and Steven Stadler, both volunteers signing up for duty at a sprawling, suburban recruitment center
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'Lucky' Maori Battalion survivor returns to Crete 70 years on
Berlin :: Germany | 2 years ago
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Battle of Crete veteran Arthur Midwood thought he was capturing capitulating German soldiers when one shot him through the chest. Yesterday, the former B Company Maori Battalion soldier left the country for the 70th commemorations of the conflict,
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Charles Ota Heller: a soldier at the age of nine
Prague :: Czech Republic | 2 years ago
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In the last days of World War II, nine-year-old Ota Heller picked up a revolver and fired it at a German soldier...For decades afterwards he talked to no one about the experience, and only recently has Ota Heller or Charles Ota Heller, as he is now
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Is it the destiny of Muslims and Jews to fight?
Tirana :: Albania | 2 years ago
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Negative stereotypes and prejudices have been a constant source of friction and misunderstanding between Muslims and Jews. Can a level of understanding be reached between them that would make peaceful relations possible?...An almost forgotten episode
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Albanian Episode Gives Hope for Jewish-Muslim Reconciliation
Tirana :: Albania | over 2 years ago
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Can a level of understanding be reached between them that would make peaceful relations possible?...An almost forgotten episode during World War II could bring light to this issue. During World War II, as Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis, they
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