Police in Munich evacuated Munich’s main train station and a second station in the city’s Pasing district in response to a credible terrorist threat to the Bavarian capital EPA. The Munich’s police headquarters authorities had received information that the terror group Islamic State was behind the threat. The warning by police in the capital of Bavaria state was issued just before 10:45 p.m. local time, but few details were immediately available. It is unclear if any festivities Read more [...]

The Munich Police Department said earlier they had information of a terrorist attack planned in the city for New Year's Eve, urging people to avoid crowds, Sputnik reported. Later, police evacuated two train stations in Munich over high possibility of the attack. The German Die Welt newspaper quoted Herrmann as saying that the information was obtained from a friendly intelligence service and it was necessary to immediately step up the security measures Read more [...]

(Newser) – Mein Kampf is coming back. The copyright on Hitler's "anti-Semitic manifesto" expires Read more [...]

At 19:40 local time, the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) informed the Munich police that they had received information about 5-7 Islamic State (IS, ISIS / ISIL) suicide bombers preparing a terrorist attack on the city, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrä said at a press conference.Andrä added that there are 550 officers deployed in Munich right now, but they have yet to find any indication of an imminent threat.The exact location and time of the allegedly planned attacks were given, which alarmed Read more [...]

In the United States, Mein Kampf has never been prohibited, though some Jewish organizations opposed the sale of the book in 1933, at a time when populist demagogues were spreading their vitriolic anti-Semitism. Mein Kampf was not even banned when the United States went to war against Nazi Germany. In fact, the book’s U.S. publisher, Houghton Mifflin, urged Americans to study Mein Kampf as part of their patriotic responsibilities, and advertised it in The New York Times Book Review in 1944. U.S. Read more [...]

When Gerhard Weinberg returned to Germany in 1962, he hadn’t seen his hometown of Hannover for more than twenty years. The buildings on his old street, rebuilt after the relentless bombings of the war, looked brand new. He stopped across the street from his family’s old apartment building. “I burst out laughing,” Weinberg remembered. He thought to himself that British bombers must have had very good aim. “The one building they didn’t hit was the one we had lived in.”That house Read more [...]

A German edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle) is pictured at the Berlin Central and Regional Library in Berlin on Dec. 7, 2015. For the first time since World War II, Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” will be printed in Germany in January 2016 as an annotated edition published by the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich. Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images“Mein Kampf” will go on sale in Germany next week after its copyright expires on Friday, marking the first Read more [...]

The academics leading the project to publish the first edition of Mein Kampf in German since the end of the Second World War have argued that their version will be an "antidote" to the hate-filled original. Christian Hartmann, one of four historians who worked full-time for three years to create a fully annotated edition of Adolf Hitler's manifesto for publication on January 8, said that the book would be the "anti-Mein Kampf". On December 31, the copyright on the book, held by the Bavarian finance Read more [...]

Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies want to ban migrants from entering Germany unless they have valid identity papers, a draft document from the Christian Social Union (CSU) showed on Wednesday.Germany, boasting Europe's largest economy, is the target destination for many of the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, and Bavaria — ruled by the CSU — is the main entry point for them.The draft CSU document, due to be discussed Read more [...]

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies want to ban migrants from entering Germany unless they have valid identity papers, a draft document from the Christian Social Union (CSU) showed on Wednesday. Germany, boasting Europe´s largest economy, is the target destination for many of the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, and Bavaria - ruled by the CSU - is the main entry point for them. The draft CSU document, due to be discussed Read more [...]