{ story.summary|safe|escape } Angela Merkel will become the first German chancellor to visit the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau as she steps up warnings about the far-right threat while campaigning for a third term.Ahead of an evening election rally in Dachau, northwest of Munich, Merkel will arrive at the memorial on Tuesday afternoon and, after making a short speech, lay a wreath of flowers and tour the remnants of the camp.But while Holocaust survivors hailed the visit as a Read more [...]

20 August 2013 02:30 PM A GUNMAN who took three people hostage at a German city hall, forcing Chancellor Angela Merkel to cancel a planned election rally there, has been captured and his captives rescued unharmed.'; document.write(s); return; } window.google_adnum = window.google_adnum || null; google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9024837700129787"; Read more [...]

After 83 years at each other’s side, twin sisters from Bavaria have died on exactly the same day in the same nursing home.Hostage-taker 'shot twice by police' (20 Aug 2013) Dortmund top as Bayern Munich struggle (19 Aug 2013) Baby seals to socialist offices - in pictures (16 Aug 2013) Anna and Maria Bachmaier, from Steinhöring, east of Munich, were both born on June 4th 1930 and stayed with each other until their death at the nursing home on August 10th. Anna, known as Anni, died at 5am last Read more [...]

Chancellor Angela Merkel had to put off her public campaign in the northern part of Bavaria on Monday after knowing that a 24-year-old man has put three Ingolstadt hostages on hold in the town hall across the square, where she was scheduled to deliver her speech. The convicted stalker of a town hall employee was carrying a knife and a seemingly genuine pistol replica, which he used in perpetrating the said act against the Ingolstadt hostages: the woman he was stalking, deputy mayor Sepp Misslbeck, Read more [...]