BERLIN: A senior Bavarian politician said on Tuesday that refugees with forged Syrian passports have disappeared in Germany and there are grounds for suspicion that they may have had contact with Islamic State militants, German media reported. The minister spoke after top-selling daily Bild reported that about a dozen refugees were in Germany with false passports originating from the same place as those held by two Islamist militants involved in attacks in Paris on Nov. Read more [...]

BERLIN A senior Bavarian politician said on Tuesday that refugees with forged Syrian passports have disappeared in Germany and there are grounds for suspicion that they may have had contact with Islamic State militants, German media reported.The minister spoke after top-selling daily Bild reported that about a dozen refugees were in Germany with false passports originating from the same place as those held by two Islamist militants involved in attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 which killed 130 people. Read more [...]

Citing security officials, Bild said the travel documents included legitimate passports stolen in al-Raqqa, Syria, Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital.

Vernon Bogdanor enjoys the first slice of a big biography. Complex and in many ways unlikely pairing: Henry Kissinger (right) with Richard Nixon in Vienna in 1972Kissinger 1923-1968: The IdealistBy Niall Ferguson Allen lane, £35 Reviewed by Vernon Bogdanor Henry Kissinger, born in Bavaria to an Orthodox family, has been one of the most influential Jews - perhaps the most influential - in 20th-century America. National Security Adviser to President Nixon from 1969, he became the first Jew to be Read more [...]

Berlin:Historical documents show Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time in Landsberg prison.Historians have long been fascinated by the Nazi leader's time in Landsberg, where he and several followers were incarcerated after the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, when Hitler tried to seize power in Bavaria. It was there that Hitler wrote much of the first volume of his book "Mein Kampf" and received a stream Read more [...]

From February 29 next year, Bayern Munich's former commercial manager and president, Uli Hoeness, could be fully released on parole - less than two years after his conviction for tax evasion. An Augsburg court on Tuesday confirmed that it had received an application to consider Hoeness for release at the half-way point of his sentence. "After hearing from the convicted, the chamber will have to decide whether the legal conditions for this have been fulfilled," the court said in a press release. Read more [...]

Berlin:  Historical documents show Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time in Landsberg prison. The Nazi leader was imprisoned there following the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, when Hitler tried to seize power in Bavaria. German historian Peter Fleischmann, who heads the Bavarian state archives in Nuremberg, says a review of prison records reveals Hitler and fellow members of the Nazi Party "had their path greased Read more [...]

AP | Dec 22, 2015, 08.09 PM ISTHighlights• Historical documents show Adolf Hitler enjoyed plentiful supplies of beer during his time in Landsberg prison. • The Nazi leader was imprisoned following the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, when Hitler tried to seize power in Bavaria. Adolf Hitler. (AP file photo)BERLIN: Historical documents show Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time in Landsberg prison. The Nazi leader was imprisoned there Read more [...]

Bavaria, the state that most asylum-seekers first set foot in, more than trebled its deportations to 3,643 in the first 11 months of 2015 from 1,007 last year. The conservative government there has been particularly forceful in pushing to limit the number of refugees coming to Germany — estimated at about 1 million this year — and speed up deportations of those already in the country. Earlier this year, Bavaria opened a special center for people unlikely to get asylum. Situated on a former U.S. Read more [...]

Former Bayern Munich coach Giovanni Trapattoni says Carlo Ancelotti can build on Pep Guardiola's success at the Allianz Arena and perhaps deliver another European title to Bavaria.Ancelotti was confirmed as Guardiola's replacement on Sunday, with the Italian due to take over at the end of the season.Guardiola has delivered two Bundesliga titles and the DFB-Pokal since arriving at Bayern in 2013 but has yet to replicate the Champions League success enjoyed by predecessor Jupp Heynckes.Trapattoni Read more [...]