Their “campus” was a world away from any normal centre of academia. Yet the Scottish prisoners of war battled valiantly to complete their university degrees in a Second World War camp. Now new light has been shed on their remarkable story. Documents relating to the way in which exam papers were transported by the British Red Cross across Europe from Aberdeen to Oflag VII B in Bavaria have been discovered in a cupboard. Minutes of the University of Aberdeen’s law faculty from 1943 Read more [...]

Send this to your Friend Polish versionBAVARIA VERSUS MERKEL MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI The prime minister Orban said publicly that ‘it is Hungary which is defending the southern borders of Bavaria today’. Bavaria says ‘enough’. The prime minister of this land and also the leader of CSU Horst Seehofer consistently claims for stopping the flow of immigrants from the chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel. He even threatened to submit the claim to the Constitutional Tribunal in Karlsruhe. His nervousness Read more [...]

')})() //-- Participation in NATO's Exercise Trident Juncture which ended Nov. 6 ranged from dogs and pack animals to a Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. The low end of the range included Belgian and Portuguese Read more [...]

Munich, Thursday.A nationalist demonstration was held in beer cellars here to-day, in the course of which Herr von Kahr, the Dictator, amid the applause of those present, read a manifesto to the German nation in which he denounced particularly the principles of Marxism. The members of patriotic organisations were present in full force. When Herr von Kahr had concluded his speech Herr Hitler, the Fascist leader, entered the cellars with 600 men and announced the overthrow of the Bavarian Government. Read more [...]

A key ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer, has now become a thorn in her side, bullying her publicly over the government's open-door refugee policy. Mr Seehofer late last month went as far as threatening to resort to "self-defence" measures if Dr Merkel did not put a lid on the refugee flow, implying that the massive influx raises existential issues for his Christian Social Union (CSU).  On the surface, such concerns appear to be driven by his quest to be re-elected Read more [...]

From kidnapping the bride to setting houses on fire, Veronica Stivala had her baptism, quite literally, of fire in a typical, and not so typical Bavarian wedding. Two separate ceremonies were held. I had been looking forward to Stefan and Stefanie’s wedding for months. While there have been years where I have had too many weddings to cope with, or afford, 2015 strangely has, as yet, provided me with only one wedding to attend. And that wedding was extra special, for many reasons, but one being Read more [...]

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Announcing the agreement, Merkel said the process for many asylum seekers would be sped up. “We want to show that Germany is an open country that we are proud of and which has a good reputation in the world”. At least two of them are set to be established in the southern German state of Bavaria, which has been receiving the bulk of the refugees arriving via the Balkans and Austria. Britain has also refused to allow around 120 migrants who landed at a British military Read more [...]

A meeting late on Thursday brought together Merkel, leader of the centrist Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the leftist Social Democrats (SPD), and Horst Seehofer, prime minister of Bavaria and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU). During a discussion with her coalition partner, Chancellor Angela Merkel reached a compromise to set up migrant processing centers in Germany. ATHENS-Germany said Thursday it would speed up the repatriation Read more [...]

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