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Polish police have detained a 16-year-old boy suspected of having thrown a Molotov cocktail at the historic Nożyk Synagogue, a police spokesman told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Thursday. The motive behind the Wednesday attack on the only Warsaw synagogue to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, remained unclear. The suspect refused to make a statement. On Wednesday, the Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on the Nożyk Synagogue in the centre of the city. "Outrageous anti-Semitic attacks such as this can not...
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski urged Germany to make proposals on how to make reparation for the damage Poland suffered during World War II in a keynote speech to parliament in Warsaw on Thursday. "There is no shortage of ideas," Sikorski, a key member of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government, which has pledged to repair relations with its powerful western neighbour following strains between the two countries under Poland's previous government. Germany could provide financial support to Polish survivors of German occupation between 1939 and 1945, contribute to rebuilding historica...
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. An RTL spokeswoman said the network continued broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin temporarily took over direction. Presenter Roberta...
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews were dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bomb. An RTL spokeswoman said the network would continue broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin would temporarily take over direction. Presen...
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In his posthumous memoir, longtime German conservative politician and former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble details an attempt by fellow Christian Democrats (CDU) to overthrow then-chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2015 refugee crisis. The memoir alleges that a prominent Bavarian politician tried to recruit him as a potential chancellor candidate as part of an effort to replace Merkel. Some Bavarian politicians on Wednesday disputed Schäuble's account. The incident is recounted in an excerpt from the memoir published on Wednesday in the magazine Stern. The book, "Memories: My Life in Pol...
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In his posthumous memoir, longtime German conservative politician and former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble details an attempt by fellow Christian Democrats (CDU) to overthrow then-chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2015 refugee crisis. The memoir alleges that a prominent Bavarian politician tried to recruit him as a potential chancellor candidate as part of an effort to replace Merkel. The incident is recounted in an excerpt from the memoir published on Wednesday in the magazine Stern. The book, "Memories: My Life in Politics," is due to be published next week. Schäuble was the longest-s...
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A former officer in communist East Germany's notorious Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, went on trial for murder on Thursday over the 1974 fatal shooting of a Polish man at Berlin's Friedrichstrasse train station. The man from the eastern city of Leipzig, a former Stasi lieutenant who is now 80 years old, stands accused by prosecutors of having killed 38-year-old Czesław Kukuczka "with a targeted shot to the back from a hiding place" as he crossed the border to West Berlin on March 29, 1974, according to the indictment. At the time of the crime, the German officer is said to have belonged...
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The new government in Warsaw wants to start talks with Germany on how to deal with reparations for the damage Poland suffered during World War II. In a formal and legal sense, the question of reparations has been closed for many years, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday in Berlin after his meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "The question of moral, financial and material reparations has never been realized." Tusk emphasized that, unlike his predecessors in the conservative nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party government, he wanted to work with Chancellor Scholz "to look for f...
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Several thousand people took to the streets of Dresden on Sunday for counter-protests as far-right marches nearby commemorated those killed in the destruction of the city by Allied forces at the end of World War II. Historians say some 25,000 people were killed by US and British aerial bombardment of Dresden in February 1945, the moral justification of which was later fiercely debated among historians, as well as right and left-wing political groups in Germany. Police said almost 5,000 people turned out in pouring rain for counter-protests, while almost 1,000 people joined a so-called "funeral...
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