Berlin is not only a hot city, but a warm capital for tourists - even during Christmas and new Years With an average temperature of 10.9 Celsius, rainfall of 510 litres per square meter, and 1,845 hours of sunshine, Berlin was the warmest, driest and sunniest state in the whole of Germany, figures released by the German Weather Service (DWD) on Wednesday show. While this may be good news for those Berliners who like catching rays, it was part of an overall trend in Germany which demonstrates Read more [...]

BERLIN • For 70 years since the Nazi defeat in World War II, copyright law has been used in Germany to prohibit the publication of “Mein Kampf” — the notorious anti-Semitic tome in which Adolf Hitler set out his ideology.That will change this year when a new edition with critical commentary, the product of several years’ work by a publicly funded institute, hits the shelves.While historians say it could help fill a gap in Germans’ knowledge of the era, Read more [...]

Joachim Herrmann, interior minister of the German state Bavaria, speaks a news conference in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. AP   BERLIN: A terror warning in Munich on New Year's Eve that led to the evacuation of two train stations was not a false alert, security officials said Friday, although there have been no arrests. The evacuation of Munich's main train station and the Pasing neighborhood station shortly before midnight reportedly followed a warning Read more [...]

"We all know there is a danger of attacks in all of Europe and also in Germany and here in Bavaria. We have no information that these people are in Munich or in Germany", he added.The planned suicide attacks were reported to be connected to IS, officials said. There are now armed police guards at the stations.Police officers, some in riot gear, were posted at different entrances of Munich's main rail station which was eerily quiet on a night of traditionally raucous celebrations.The threat involved Read more [...]

(NEW YORK) — With its copyright expiring, new copies of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf may soon be pritned in Germany for the first time in 70 years. The Bavarian regional government had banned reprinting the book after World War II, but with the copyright expiring, the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich plans to publish a new edition this month, BBC News reports. The new version, which will be annotated with thousands of academic notes, aims to show how incoherent and poorly Read more [...]

Munich train stations reopened and trains were running again yesterday as Bavaria’s top security official said that the warning about Islamic State (IS) extremists intending to blow themselves up in the German city was no longer acute.“We no longer have concrete indications for a terror threat today or tomorrow at a specific location,” Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters. He warned, however, that the overall terror threat in Europe remained high. Shortly before the city Read more [...]

Updated January 02, 2016 13:52:37 Photo: An annotated version of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf will be up for sale in Germany after copyright restrictions lapsed. (AFP: Carl De Souza) A new edition of Mein Kampf, the anti-Semitic book written by German dictator Adolf Hitler, is set to hit the shelves, after the copyright law prohibiting Read more [...]

Munich’s train stations reopened and trains were running yesterday, as Bavaria’s top security official said that the warning about Islamic State extremists intending to blow themselves up in the German city was no longer acute. “We no longer have concrete indications for a terror threat today or tomorrow at a specific location,” Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters. He warned, however, that the overall terror threat remained high. Shortly Read more [...]

MUNICH — There may be no taboo greater in Germany than to republish Adolf Hitler’s manifesto, “Mein Kampf.” But historians in Munich are breaking it. The Institute for Contemporary History is reprinting the murderous dictator’s book and selling it in bookstores for 59 euros ($63) a copy, starting next week. It is not appearing in its original form but is heavily annotated to expose the “lies, half-truths and vicious Read more [...]

German authorities Friday launched a manhunt for several suspects who officials believe planned suicide bombings at rail stations, as full rail transportation service in Munich resumed after being temporarily shut down as a safety precaution on New Year’s Eve.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 Read more [...]