Archive for the ‘History Germany’ Category
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Well over a third of the ‘Linke’ Party parliamentarians are currently actively being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency the’ BfV’ -the domestic secret service or the ‘Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz’.
It has been reported and since admitted by the agency concerned that 27 of the Linke’s 76 MP’s it current considers ‘people of interest’ along with 11 Linke members serving in regional [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Happy Birthday Frederick the Great – but you may well ask yourself also, who was actually Frederick the Great………and why …..’the Great’?
Today exactly 300 years ago a future enlightened ruler of what was then Prussia was born.
Frederick II – a brilliant military commander, a tolerant prince, a philosopher, a musician – and perhaps Europes first gay-monarch -take your pick- he [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
President Wulff -foto Wikipedia -source CFK_y_Christian_Wulff.jpg Our own OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog poll shows that public sentiment is falling for the German President. This all concerns alleged and perceived irregularities concerning his personal finances, when Christian Wulff was previous Premier of the federal German state of Lower Saxony and subsequent attempts to cover-up the story.
While in no way scientific – readers [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Epitaph 1919 – by Bertolt Brecht
Red Rosa has also now disappeared
Where she lies is unknown
Because she told the truth to the poor
The rich have hunted her out of the world.
Epitaph for Karl Liebknecht – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies
Karl Liebknecht
The fighter against war
When he was struck down
Our city still continued to stand.
Epitaph for Rosa Luxemburg – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies buried
Rosa Luxemburg
A Jewess [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
Frederick the Great by Anton Graff – from Wikipedia
Frederik the Great’, aka Friedrich der Große is justifiably almost synonymous with Berlin – he created his great palace with the baroque gardens ‘Sanssouci’ [no worries!] in Potsdam just outside Berlin.
This year 2012 will the 300th anniversary of his birth – his’ Jubiläumsjahr’- and there will be great celebrations in Berlin but especially in the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 300 year Friedrich celebrations, 300th Anniversary of a Great German Ruler, Celebrate 'Friedrich300', frederick the great berlin, Friedrich der Große, intellectually challenged George W. Bush, Potsdam, Yurp
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
President Wulff -foto Wikipedia -source CFK_y_Christian_Wulff.jpg The influential and respected German newspaper, the Süddeutschen Zeitung has had it on the front page all week.
The heavy burden of the credit and media scandal on German President Christian Wulff is compelling and simply will not go away -efforts to defuse the scandal have not succeeded.
And while there have been calls from the [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Please vote in our poll below and let us know your thoughts on this issue – whether you live in Berlin, Germany, in Europe or outside of Europe.
The issue is not so much about Wulff as such but the office of President.
Much of the German press are saying that the beleaguered German President Wulff walked away from last night’s TV interview with some of [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, December 11th, 2011
The German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble has been named the recipient of the 2012 Charlemagne Prize – it is an award honoring individuals who have contributed to European unity -previous winners include the former head of the ECB chief, Jean-Claude Trichet, US President Bill Clinton and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The jury for the 2012 Charlemagne Prize said the 69-year-old CDU Politian [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Anyone who knows any 20th century history knows the plight of many European ethnic groups, and none is more documented than the plight of the Jews murdered during the WW2 holocaust. In order to remember this history, the ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe’ was built between 2003 and 2005 in the center of Berlin, and [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
The picture above shows the 17 meter-high steel monument by night – illuminated by internal neon lights along its wavy silhouette on the corner of the Wilhelmstraße and the ‘An der Kolonnade’ in Berlin-Mitte. It stands proudly, defiantly and fittingly right in front of the old Hitlerite ‘Neue Reichskanzle’.
The official inauguration of this timely monument took place 2 weeks ago on [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Bust of George Elser by sculptor Kay Winkler - in front the Federal Ministry of the Interior Berlin – foto Wikipedia – source RUTHERFORD
Johann Georg Elser, the unsung German hero who paid with his life attempting to assassinate Hitler in 1938 was commemorated today in Berlin, the 8th of November – the same day in which he left a bomb at a Nazi rally 73 [...] Continue Reading…
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