As then 22-year-old Pete Turnham walked through Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Bavaria with his sergeant, little did he know he was looking at some of Western Civilization’s most valuable art masterpieces. Hitler and the Nazis had stashed artwork stolen from France and elsewhere in the castle, which was the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in California. Turnham, a first lieutenant who led a 200-man infantry company Read more [...]

Published: 05 Mar 2014 16:36 GMT+01:00Updated: 05 Mar 2014 16:36 GMT+01:00 Ash Wednesday's traditional beer-drenched, political slagging match descended into an EU-bashing fest for some, with Bavarian state president Horst Seehofer launching a scathing attack on Brussels. Expats urged to register in time for EU elections (28 Feb 14) Merkel: UK must stay in EU but reform unlikely (27 Feb 14) Court boosts fringe Read more [...]

Passau, Germany (dpa) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s political allies lashed out on Wednesday at the European Union, setting the tone for their campaign for May‘s EU elections."This urge to regulate every corner of Bavaria and Germany, suffocates the European idea," said Horst Seehofer, the head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), which is the Bavarian-based associate party of Merkel‘s Christian Democrats.The EU needs to become more democratic, Seehofer told a gathering to mark Read more [...]

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