Twenty years ago, a question posed by Italian journalist Riccardo Ehrmann prompted an East German official to say the words that triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now new facts have emerged that shed a different light on that fateful press conference.
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Apologetic German soccer team offers refunds
A struggling German soccer team is offering a refund to its fans who traveled to another city to watch it suffer a 4-0 loss.
24 injured after trains collide in Germany
Twenty-four people were injured when a regional express train crashed into a freight train outside Berlin, a spokesman for the German rail authority said Friday.
Merkel backs creation of ‘European Opel’
German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday pledged government support for potential investors in General Motors’ European subsidiary, Opel.
Pirates captured after attacking German tanker
Seven suspected pirates are in German custody after they fired on a naval tanker off the coast of Somalia and were pursued by warships, the German military said. Well, researchers are hoping that a potential April Fool’s time bomb — the Conficker.c that is supposed to hit computers on April 1 — turns out to be equally unfounded
2-Min. Bio: Accused Nazi John Demjanjuk
It took a special brand of cruelty to stand out amid the horrors of the Holocaust, but “Ivan the Terrible” was no ordinary sadist. As a Nazi guard, Ivan earned his sobriquet by ushering thousands of prisoners — sometimes hacking them with a sword as they passed — into the gas chambers at Poland’s Treblinka death camp. After the war, he vanished.
German gunman singles out women as 15 die
The teenaged gunman who killed 15 people in Germany targeted young women on his shooting spree, methodically shooting them in the head, police say.
The Swiss Gigolo and the German Billionaire
Banks, cheese, chocolate. The Swiss are famous for many things, but their prowess at sexual conquests usually isn’t one of them.
German Company Seeking Bailout Is Tied to Auschwitz
Germany’s Nazi past continues to unsettle its present. Privileged clans and mighty industries alike have subjected themselves to public scrutiny and painful mea culpas over activities and associations before and during World War II. But the latest controversy links the poisoned mementos of Auschwitz to the ongoing global financial crisis in a still unraveling tale of leveraged buyouts, corporate hubris and financial humiliation.
GM Europe restructures Opel as a separate unit
General Motors’ European division announced Friday that its German subsidiary, Opel cars, will become an independent unit of the company.