Clean Power Published on December 2nd, 2015 by Roy L Hales 0 December 2nd, 2015 by Roy L Hales  Originally published on the ECOreport Bavaria’s Sylvensteinspeicher (Sylvenstein Dam) has two power plants with a combined electrical capacity of 7 MW (26 GWh a year). Andreas Bauer, of the Regional state office for water management Read more [...]

Bavarian village suffered five fatal crashes on same road in just ten monthsTurned to miracle worker who claimed drivers were affected by radiationHe hung wooden boxes containing white dishes with poles along roadSince then, there have been no accidents on road for the last seven years By Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline Published: 15:40 GMT, 2 December 2015 | Updated: 16:29 GMT, 2 December 2015 Read more [...]

BERLIN: The German government says far-right extremists are behind offshoots of the anti-Islam group PEGIDA in six of the country’s 16 states.The government says far-right extremists were found to be “steering or influencing” groups in Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bavaria.Saxony, where the group calling itself Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of Europe began staging protests more than a year ago, wasn’t among those Read more [...]

BERLIN — Not since 1945, when the Allies banned the dubious work and awarded the rights to the state of Bavaria, has Hitler’s manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” been officially published in German. Bavaria had refused to release it. But under German law, its copyright expires Dec. 31, the 70th year after the author’s death. That allows a team of historians from a noted centre for the study of Nazism, the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, to publish its new two-volume, 2,000-page edition, Read more [...]

The government says far-right extremists were found to be “steering or influencing” groups in Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bavaria.

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Willmering is barely more than a village. With a population of just over 2,088, it is an idyll of tranquillity on the eastern outreaches of Germany's wealthiest and - some would say - most eccentric state. But in 2008 the town, which proudly hosts a life-sized wooden sculpture of the Madonna, was shaken by five deadly road accidents in the space of ten months. All the accidents happened on the same road, the Bundestraße 22, and all on the same three-kilometre stretch of asphalt. Werner Read more [...]

BERLIN — Not since 1945, when the Allies banned the dubious work and awarded the rights to the state of Bavaria, has Hitler’s manifesto, Mein Kampf, been officially published in German.Bavaria had refused to release it. But under German law, its copyright expires Dec 31, the 70th year after the author’s death. That allows a team of historians from a noted centre for the study of Nazism, the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, to publish its Read more [...]

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