Police said in a tweet that people should avoid crowds and train stations, according to CNBC. As residents of the German city of Munich prepared to celebrate New Year’s Eve, police received concrete threats of a possible terror attack that night, reportedly connected to ISIS. A suicide bomb threat by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) led to machine gun-toting police officers evacuating two of the city’s busiest train stations at 11pm on New Year’s Eve. Referring to Read more [...]

European cities were on high alert for a possible terrorist attack on New Year's Eve, with celebrations cancelled or limited in some places.On their Twitter feed, Munich police said: 'Good morning to those, who spent the night out in #munich!The two stations were shut down and evacuated around midnight, while special unit police officers armed with automatic weapons were stationed at entrances.Police insisted that the Munich warning had been so credible that they had had no choice but to act, but Read more [...]

A critical edition of Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf was an instant sellout when it hit bookstores in Germany for the first time since World War II as the copyright of the racist political treatise expired.More than 15,000 advance orders were placed, despite the initial print of 4,000 copies.One copy was even put up for resale on Amazon.de for €9,999.99 (£7,521.43).For 70 years, the southern German state of Bavaria - who was handed the copyright of the book by the Allies in 1945 following Read more [...]

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The decision to pick up an annotated copy of Mein Kampf, which hit German bookstores Friday for the first time since Hitler died 70 years ago, is not something Holger Wiess takes lightly. Over the years, Bavaria’s state finance ministry had used its copyright on the book to prevent the publication of new editions. The book wasn’t banned in Germany, though, and could be found online, in secondhand bookshops and in libraries. The new edition is 1,948 pages, roughly double the original, Read more [...]

Just 90 minutes before the New Year, police evacuated Munich's main rail station and one other terminus in the west of the city.Bavaria state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said officials had received warnings from foreign intelligence services about suicide bombings by Islamic State extremists that were set to take place at midnight as hundreds of thousands of revelers were out and about in the country's third-largest city celebrating the start of 2016.Police have received "concrete information Read more [...]

Nazi salutes, swastikas and other Third Reich symbols have long been outlawed in Germany. But as of midnight on New Year’s Eve, “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s infamous autobiographical tome, was off the list of suppressed Nazi icons. As a result, “Mein Kampf” will again hit bookstores in Germany, 70 years after its author’s death at the end of World War II. Its release to the public is due to a legal technicality; with the lapse of its copyright, the book has slipped into the public domain. From Read more [...]

The "concrete tip" indicated a group of up to seven Islamic State militants was planning a massacre involving suicide bombers targeting train stations in the Bavarian capital.People were told to stay away from the main railway station and a second station in the city's Pasing district.Joachim Herrman, the interior minister for the state of Bavaria, has revealed that German authorities were notified of the threat by a "friendly intelligence service" and described it as a "concrete" tip.The station Read more [...]

German police lifted an alert of an imminent attack in Munich, hours after two key train stations were evacuated.One resident, Oliver Habel, said that he had spent New Year's Eve in a restaurant in the southern part of the city, and that he learned about the terrorism scare only Friday morning."Five to seven" suspects were believed to be planning to carry out a "suicide attack" as festivities were under way to welcome in the New Year, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said.Riot police armed with Read more [...]