Der verlogene Rechtsanwalt, die Satanisten an der Arbeit und die gleiche Frage:

Der Krug geht so lange zu Wasser bis er bricht, oder: Es kann nur ein Land auf der

Welt geben, das solche Seilschaften (den Zustand gewisser Parteien) so lange erträgt.

Dies Kapitel, in dem die Fäden also zusammenlaufen, hat eine Vorgeschichte und einen Zusammenhang. Bevor der genannte Angriff auf die freie Meinungsäußerung daher genauer zu betrachten ist (vgl. die am 9.10.2008 erfolgte Aktualisierung der vorstehenden Artikel, die Kreispolizei Gütersloh betreffend), gilt das Augenmerk der historischen Wahl in Spanien am 9. März 2008, der Wissenschaft und ihrer Gegner und der Entwicklung der deutschen Republiken.

Im Oktober 1969 werden zwei Mitglieder der Marienkantorei Lemgo - darunter der Verfasser dieses Artikels - vom Politischen Kommissariat der Polizei Bielefeld festgenommen und verhört. Was war geschehen? Drei Mitglieder der Marienkantorei Lemgo - die genannten zwei und als dritter ein Andreas Koderisch, der, nachdem seine Mutter die Namen der Polizei genannt hatte, feige nach Holland geflüchtet war, dem großen Vorbild (für manche) Wilhelm II. folgend - hatten gegen die Militärdiktatur in Griechenland (seit 1967) und gegen die faschistische Diktatur in Spanien (seit 1939) protestiert: "Espana si - Franco no" und "Freiheit für Griechenland". Die deutsche Polizei fackelt nicht lange, sie hat eine Tradition zu verteidigen (darunter an vorderer Stelle ihre eigene), kriecht vor den Diktaturen und Verbrechern und verfolgt die Demokraten.

Spanien 1936 bis 1939: Militärputsch unter alsbaldiger Führung des Generals Francisco Franco gegen die demokratisch gewählte Regierung der spanischen Republik. Grausamer Bürgerkrieg, in dem die Republik mit kriegsentscheidender Unterstützung der deutschen Luftwaffe, der Legion Condor, zerstört wird. Die Verteidiger der Demokratie zu Hunderttausenden gemordet und verfolgt, bis 1975, dem Tod des Diktators und dem allmählichen Verenden seiner Diktatur. Franco im Jahre 1941: "Als Adolf Hitler - das werde ich ihm nie vergessen - mit dem Einsatz der tapferen deutschen Flieger der Legion Condor unseren Anstrengungen gegen eine Bolschewisierung Spaniens zum Sieg verhalf, da erhob ihn das Schicksal gleichsam zum Schirmherrn der europäischen Zivilisation." Soll heißen: Der Regime nie dagewesener Verbrechen, der Gaskammern, des Niedermähens von Zivilisten mit Maschinengewehren aus Flugzeugen, der Massenerschießungen, der Garrotte etc. Noch im März 1974 werden Urteile gegen Gegner der Franco-Diktatur mit der Garrotte vollstreckt (Salvador Puig Antich, Barcelona, 1948 bis 1974, wäre heute 60 Jahre alt und könnte Bielefeld besuchen). Am 31.10.2007 stimmt das spanische Parlament dem Gesetz der Rehabilitierung von Opfern aus der Zeit des spanischen Bürgerkriegs zu, in welchem erstmals das faschistische Regime Francos offiziell verurteilt wird. 71 Jahre nach dem Beginn des Verbrechens siegt die Demokratie. Am 9. März 2008 gewinnt die PSOE, der Spanien das endlich beschlossene Gesetz und die Verurteilung der Diktatur Francos verdankt, mit für viele überraschend großer Mehrheit die Parlamentswahlen. Die Bevölkerung bestätigt den Sieg der Demokratie über das Verbrechen ausdrücklich und macht die Veränderung dauerhaft, unumkehrbar.

Spanien ist aus eigener Kraft mit der Diktatur fertig geworden, im Unterschied zu den Deutschen. Wenn es auch - wegen der Deutschen, der USA, des Vatikans etc. - und wegen der allgemein bekannten und gefürchteten Grausamkeit der Putschisten und militärischen Sieger im spanischen Bürgerkrieg sehr lange gedauert hat.

Die deutsche politische Polizei (politisches Kommissariat), bis 1945 unter dem Namen Gestapo, verfolgt 1969 Bürger, die sich gegen die neuen und alten faschistischen Regime Europas, Verbündete Hitlers, grausamste Verbrecher bis in die siebziger Jahre stellen. Die deutsche politische Polizei ist durch das spanische Parlament am 31.10.2007 mit verurteilt, unumkehrbar. Die örtliche bzw. regionale Presse Lemgos ("Lippische Rundschau" - Lothar Geißler als Schreiberling - und "Lippische Landeszeitung"), die den Protest gegen Franco etc. 1969 nutzt, um Bürger wegen ihres Eintretens für die Demokratie zu verleumden, zu verunglimpfen (in übelster Weise und Tradition) und zu verfolgen, ist durch das spanische Parlament am 31.10.2007 mit verurteilt. Warum hat keine deutsche Staatsanwaltschaft jemals Anklage gegen diese politische Polizei, aktiv im Interesse der Faschisten, erhoben? Wann werden deren Aktionen endlich im Land selbst verurteilt, nach so langer Zeit wenigstens im Rahmen einer Stellungnahme? Die Zeit hat nicht für die Unbelehrbaren gearbeitet, sondern gegen sie. Es wird nicht etwas besser dadurch, daß es statt gestern vor längerer Zeit geschehen ist. Fast 40 Jahre haben sie Zeit gehabt zur Umkehr, unfähig, unbelehrbar, mit neuen Taten, um die alten zu vertuschen. Nichts ist vergessen. Das Opfer hat überlebt.

Dem Druck, der vom 9. März 2008 in Spanien ausgeht, wird früher oder später auch im Land der Menschenvergaser, der NSDAP und des geschichtlich skrupellosesten Militarismus, der Himmlers, Görings, Globkes, Kiesingers, der Ludendorffs, Keitels, Wagners, Harlinghausens, Trettners etc. etc. nicht standzuhalten sein. Die EU ist der Unterpfand.

Zusammenhang von Nationalsozialismus und CDU-Staat: Schüsselstellung im Bundeskanzleramt des "Rasse"-Juristen Hans Globke

NSDAP-Kiesinger als Kanzler war kein Versehen. Er wurde nach einem Globke als Chef des Bundeskanzleramts, den Hitlergeneralen in der Bundeswehr etc. der Bundesrepublik, Europa und der Welt mit Bedacht und Absicht zugemutet. Er verstand seine Wahl und fuhr 1968 zum Staatsbesuch zu Franco. Dort ließ er sich vom faschistischen Diktator in aller Öffentlichkeit dekorieren: Verbunden durch gemeinsame Vergangenheit im Zeichen des "Schirmherrn der europäischen Zivilisation". Ein bundesdeutscher NSDAP-Kanzler empfängt gestanztes Blech aus Henkershand vor den Augen der Welt. Es kann nur eine Nation auf der Welt geben, die das mit sich machen läßt.

Nicht viele Jahre nach Ende des Weltkriegs wurden wieder Panzer und U-Boote gebaut. Bundesdeutsche U-Boote für die griechische Militärdiktatur? Mehr Demokratie wagen? War es falsch, diese Parole Willy Brandts - formuliert unter dem Eindruck einer bundesweiten und unüberhörbaren außerparlamentarischen Opposition gegen eine große Regierungskoalition - wörtlich und ernst zu nehmen?

Willy Brandt stand für den Widerstand gegen Hitler, zusammen mit den Ungebrochenen und Verfolgten der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, er selbst in Skandinavien, auch in Spanien (als Journalist). Von ihm (von 1969-74 Nachfolger Kiesingers als Kanzler, zuvor in der großen Koalition unter Kiesinger Außenminister), hatte schon Adenauer doppelt diffamierend als von seinem Gegenkandidaten Frahm gesprochen. Der einzige Kanzler der Bundesrepublik, der im Widerstand gegen Hitler aktiv gewesen war, wird wegen seiner antifaschistischen, demokratischen Vergangenheit diffamiert, beschimpft, angegriffen, in übelster Weise von F.J. Strauß. Ausgerechnet die sog. DDR, deren Anerkennung im Interesse einer Entschärfung des 45-jährigen Ost-West-Konflikts, des "Kalten Krieges" Willy Brandt vorantreibt (Grundlagenvertrag 1972), bringt ihn 1974 zu Fall (Affäre G. Guillaume).

Seit 1867 - dem Erscheinungsjahr von "Das Kapital" - hat sich das Austragen sozialer Gegensätze verändert. Zunächst: Mit der ökonomischen Krise von 1825 tritt die große Industrie aus ihrem Kindheitsalter und eröffnet den periodischen Kreislauf ihres modernen Lebens. Mit der politischen Krise des Jahres 1830 erobern die bürgerlichen Klassen Frankreichs und Englands politische Macht. "Von da an gewann der Klassenkampf, praktisch und theoretisch, mehr und mehr ausgesprochne und drohende Formen. Er läutete die Totenglocke der wissenschaftlichen bürgerlichen Ökonomie. Es handelte sich jetzt nicht mehr darum, ob dies oder jenes Theorem wahr sei, sondern ob es dem Kapital nützlich oder schädlich, bequem oder unbequem, ob polizeiwidrig oder nicht. ...an die Stelle unbefangener wissenschaftlicher Untersuchung trat das böse Gewissen und die schlechte Absicht der Apologetik." ( Karl Marx, Das Kapital, S.21)

Seit 1867 bewegt sich nicht nur wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit sondern alle Politik in dem Spannungsfeld, welches durch systematische theoretische Darstellung (und dadurch Kritik) des Gegenstandes auf eine neue Stufe gehoben ist. Das Naturgesetz läßt es ganz unberührt, ob über es nachgedacht wird oder nicht. Nicht so das Bewegungsgesetz der Gesellschaft. Die faschistischen Bewegungen und Regime haben zum Inhalt, was Hitler 1924 vor Gericht (nach gescheitertem Staatsstreichversuch mit Geiselnahmen, etlichen Toten etc.) als sein Programm der Vernichtung des Marxismus ausspricht. "Was mir vor Augen stand, das war vom ersten Tage an tausendmal mehr, als Minister zu werden. Ich wollte der Zerbrecher des Marxismus werden. Ich werde diese Aufgabe lösen ..." (Zitiert nach Alan Bullock, Hitler - Eine Studie über Tyrannei, 1953.) Unter dieser Parole versammelt er die Anhängerschaft keinesweg nur der NSDAP (bis hin zum "Opus Dei"), wird zunächst weiter protegiert, noch im selben Jahr 1924 nach einer Haft von kaum neun Monaten entlassen und kann die verbrecherische Politik, bald auch wieder mit den alten Organisationen, fortsetzen.

Vorausgegangen war in den Jahrzehnten bis 1914, basierend auf enormer ökonomischer, technischer etc. Entwicklung, der Entwicklung des kapitalistischen Weltmarkts in die Breite und Tiefe, ebenfalls ein Aufschwung sozialdemokratischer Organisationen und Parteien, auf internationaler Ebene. Diese Parteien, seit dem 100. Jahrestag der französischen Revolution von 1789, also seit 1889 in der Sozialistischen Internationale verbunden, hatten seit Gründung die menschliche Anwendung von Gewalt, insbesondere die Frage von Krieg und Frieden, thematisiert. Seit dem Stuttgarter Kongreß 1907 (bestätigt in Kopenhagen 1910 und Basel 1912) gehörten folgende Sätze zu den Beschlüssen der Sozialistischen Internationale: "Droht der Ausbruch eines Krieges, so sind die arbeitenden Klassen und deren parlamentarische Vertreter in den beteiligten Ländern verpflichtet, unterstützt durch die zusammenfassende Tätigkeit des Internationalen Sozialistischen Büros, alles aufzubieten, um durch die Anwendung der ihnen am wirksamsten erscheinenden Mittel den Ausbruch des Krieges zu verhindern, die sich je nach der Verschärfung des Klassenkampfes und der allgemeinen politischen Situation naturgemäß ändern. Falls der Krieg dennoch ausbrechen sollte, sind sie verpflichtet, für dessen rasche Beendigung einzutreten und mit allen Kräften dahin zu streben, die durch den Krieg herbeigeführte wirtschaftliche und politische Krise zur Aufrüttelung des Volkes auszunutzen und dadurch die Beseitigung der kapitalistischen Klassenherrschaft zu beschleunigen."

Die so eindeutig und einmütig seit dem Stuttgarter Kongreß 1907 beständig auf größter Bühne (selbstverständlich auch Berichterstattung in der Parteipresse etc.) erklärte Absicht und Politik, sich einem Krieg der entsprechenden Staaten mit vereinten Kräften zu widersetzen und ihn nach Möglichkeit schon im Entstehen (mittels Generalstreik etc.) zu verhindern, zerplatzte in den ersten Tagen der beginnenden Katastrophe im Juli/August 1914 wie eine Seifenblase (vgl. Rosa Luxemburg, Junius-Broschüre - "Junius" ist ihr Pseudonym aus dem Gefängnis). Konsequente Anwendung fanden die Beschlüsse nur bei den Sozialdemokraten Rußlands, der SDAPR (Bolschewiki). Kein Mensch auf unserer Welt, für alle Zukunft, wird bezweifeln können, daß die Bolschewiki richtig analysiert und gehandelt haben. Die Geschichte hat ihr Urteil gesprochen.

Der 4. August 1914 sieht eine SPD, die mit ihrer Zustimmung im Reichstag zu den geforderten Kriegskrediten ihren vollständigen intellektuellen und politischen Bankrott erklärt. Aus dem Angriffskrieg der Mittelmächte - die deutschen Heere sind bereits in Luxemburg und Belgien einmarschiert und die SPD weiß es - macht die Partei der Arbeiterbewegung einen Verteidigungskrieg gegen eine fremde Invasion, um die Existenz des Vaterlandes, um Kultur und einen Freiheitskrieg gegen den russischen Despotismus.

Am 6.07.1914 hat die deutsche Reichsregierung Österreich-Ungarn eine "Blankovollmacht" unbedingter Bündnistreue gegeben.

Am 23.07.1914 stellt Österreich-Ungarn Serbien ein - wegen geforderter Preisgabe serbischer Souveränitätsrechte - unannehmbares Ultimatum.

Am 28.07.1914 erklärt Österreich-Ungarn Serbien den Krieg, nach erfolglosen Vermittlungsversuchen (Vorschlag einer Botschafterkonferenz und direkter Verhandlungen zwischen Rußland und Österreich-Ungarn). Der deutsche Generalstab drängt Österreich-Ungarn zur Generalmobilmachung und rät seinerseits von Vermittlungsversuchen ab.

Ab 3.08.1914 Einmarsch deutscher Truppen in Belgien und Luxemburg. Neutrale Länder (militärisch schwächer, weshalb man daher meint, das mit ihnen machen zu können) werden überfallen und das Verbrechen wird am 4.08.1914 - "Unrecht" ist seine Bezeichnung - vom Reichskanzler Bethmann Hollweg "offen" zugegeben: "Unsere Truppen haben Luxemburg besetzt, vielleicht schon belgisches Gebiet betreten. Meine Herren, das widerspricht den Geboten des Völkerrechts. Das Unrecht - ich spreche offen -, das Unrecht, das wir damit tun, werden wir wieder gutzumachen suchen, sobald unser militärisches Ziel erreicht ist." (Zitiert nach: Wikipedia, Die Kriegsschuldfrage - Causes of World War I)

Die SPD widerspricht dem kaiserlichen Kanzler. Für die SPD ist es ein Verteidigungskrieg.

Was ein Deutsches Reich unter Wiedergutmachung versteht, zeigen folgende Vorgänge :

"Im ersten Weltkrieg wurde Stinnes, auch durch die umfangreiche Munitionsproduktion der Dortmunder Union, zu einem der wichtigsten Kriegslieferanten für das deutsche Heer. In Zusammenarbeit mit deutschen Militärstellen wie der Kriegsrohstoffabteilung expandierte er in der Energie- und Metallherstellung, sowie der chemischen und der Metall verarbeitenden Industrie, beispielsweise durch Gründung des Erftwerkes und durch Erschließung von Rohstoffvorkommen der befreundeten Mittelmächte Rumänien und der Türkei, aber auch durch die aggressive "Germanisierung" der belgischen Rohstoffvorkommen. Zusammen mit anderen deutschen Industriellen wie Walter Rathenau und Carl Duisberg forderte er schließlich die deutsche Regierung auf, nicht nur Rohstoffe und Maschinen gewaltsam aus Belgien zu beschaffen, sondern auch die dringend benötigten Arbeitskräfte. Dies führte zur Deportation zehntausender belgischer Zivilisten, die zur Zwangsarbeit in Industrie und Bergbau nach Deutschland verschleppt wurden." (zitiert nach: Wikipedia, Hugo Stinnes - Stand 23.03.2008)

Wie oben schon bemerkt, waren Anfang August 1914 deutsche Truppen völkerrechtswidrig und ohne Kriegserklärung in das neutrale Belgien einmarschiert. Das Dorf Battice gelangte gleich zu Beginn dieser "Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln" traurige Berühmtheit, als die gesamte Siedlung von deutschen Truppen niedergebrannt wurde. Aus dem Dorf war gegen den Überfall und die deutsche Besetzung Gegenwehr gekommen. Nach der gewaltsamen Einnahme des Dorfes beschuldigte das deutsche Militär die Zivilbevölkerung, als Partisanen am Widerstand teilgenommen zu haben und machte als Strafe das gesamte Dorf dem Erdboden gleich, während ein Teil der Bevölkerung massakriert wurde.

Der "Courier", das Organ des Transportarbeiterverbandes (der Gewerkschaft der Transportarbeiter) schreibt nach der Einnahme Antwerpens 1914: "Heute weht die deutsche Flagge auf den Türmen Antwerpens, hoffentlich für immer." (Courier, 25. Oktober 1914)

Den amtlich registrierten Zahlen von 670.000 toten und 1.641.000 verwundeten Soldaten in den ersten Kriegsmonaten 1914 bis Februar 1916 stehen Gewinnsteigerungen (im gleichen Zeitraum) des Krupp-Konzerns, der Vereinigten Köln-Rottweiler-Pulverfabriken, der AEG etc. nach eigenen Statistiken von z.T. mehreren hundert Prozent gegenüber. Deutsche Firmen verdienen auch an den Lieferungen von Rüstungsmaterial und Lizenzen für das Ausland. Über neutrale Länder wird während des Kriegs Zink an englische Rüstungskonzerne verkauft. Die Engländer revanchieren sich mit rüstungswichtigem Kupfer. Über die Schweiz liefern deutsche Stahlindustrielle Stabeisen und Grobbleche an französische Rüstungsfirmen. Der Krupp-Konzern hatte vor dem Krieg das Patent eines Handgranatenzünders an den englischen Konzern Vickers&Armstrong verkauft. Millionen von englischen Handgranaten mit dem Kruppschen Zünder brachten den Soldaten Tod und Verstümmelung, dem Krupp-Konzern und seinem englischen Lizenznehmer Riesengewinne.

Über eine Unterredung sozialdemokratischer Fraktionskollegen (Gustav Bauer, Max Cohen, Paul Göhre, Philipp Scheidemann, Robert Schmidt, Georg Schöpflin) gibt es Aufzeichnungen des Abgeordneten Eduard David vom 15. August 1914: "Man vertritt die Auffassung, daß die deutsche Regierung den Krieg gewollt habe als Präventivkrieg. Scheidemann ist davon überzeugt und scheint besondere Anhaltspunkte dafür zu haben." Der Abgeordnete Albert Südekum hatte am 29. Juli 1914 den Reichskanzler vorab informiert, daß der SPD-Parteivorstand im Krieg (der gar nicht begonnen hatte, der erst am 1. August mit der Kriegserklärung Deutschlands an Rußland beginnen sollte) keinerlei Klassenkampfaktionen einleiten und sich auch "mißverständlicher" Äußerungen in der Presse enthalten werde. Der Abgeordnete Südekum blickte staunenswert zuversichtlich in die Zukunft der Arbeiterbewegung.

Kriegsgegner können ihre Einsichten und Überzeugungen ab Kriegsbeginn - Kriegsrecht, "Burgfrieden", Parteidisziplin (s. oben), Pressezensur - nur illegal verbreiten, riskieren hohe Strafen bis hin zur Todesstrafe. Die wissenschaftlich gebildeten, von denen schon seit der Jahrhundertwende klare Einsichten und Orientierung ausgegangen waren, werden ins Gefängnis oder ins Zuchthaus - wie z.B. Rosa Luxemburg - geworfen. Viele Kriegsgegner beugen sich lange der Fraktionsdisziplin. Es zeigt sich im Kriegsverlauf, wie die Ebert-Kriegsfraktion diese - im Interesse der Einigkeit der Partei mit großen Skrupeln geschehene - Selbstverleugnung honoriert.

Pazifistisch orientierte Kriegsgegner, die es können und auch wollen, emigrieren vor allem in die Schweiz. Dort kann während des Krieges die Debatte auf literarischer Bühne weitergeführt werden (z.B. von Ernst Bloch, Carl von Ossietzky etc.), die keineswegs weggedrängt und abgehoben bleibt, sondern seit dem 14-Punkte-Programm von Wilson (dem US-Präsidenten) mit dem Konzept eines Völkerbunds und den darauf folgenden Erörterungen und politischen Reaktionen eine epochemachend neue, tiefgreifende Diskussion vorzeichnet.

Für die Ebert-SPD gilt im Kriegsverlauf, die ungebrochenen, kritischen und auch zur wissenschaftlichen Diskussion fähigen Mitglieder aus der Partei herauszudrängen und dann auszuschließen, ihre Lüge vom Verteidigungskrieg, ihre Kriegsunterstützung und den Betrug an Partei und Bevölkerung mit Zwangsmaßnahmen zu zementieren. Der Weg der Gewalt hat sein eigenes Gesetz. Es gibt kein zurück vor den August 1914. Die Ebert-Fraktion ist Gefangene ihres Verrates und ihrer Lüge, weil der Weg der Gewalt für die Opfer keine Umkehr kennt. Und nun die Gewalt und die Opfer dieses Krieges, die nach Millionen gezählt werden, und eines nicht zu gewinnenden Krieges.

Der Verrat von 1914 - wenn schon der Angriffskrieg für einen Verteidigungskrieg ausgegeben wurde - enthielt wenigstens die Erwartung eines Sieges, des Erfolges. Die Realität straft die Mehrheits-SPD der Lüge, unerbittlich, unwiderruflich für alle Zeiten und vor aller Augen. Die Geschichte gibt ihr Urteil ab. Die Notwehr, die angebliche Verteidigung wird statt eines Erfolges die bitterste Niederlage, eben weil sie tatsächlich ein verbrecherischer Angriff ist. Auch für den Täter, den Mörder gibt es keine Umkehr. Er kann daher nicht im Dialog zur Einsicht und zur Änderung seines Verhaltens gebracht werden. Wenn die Tat, ihre Umstände und ihre Beweggründe nicht herausgefunden, schonungslos aufgedeckt werden und der Täter nicht zur Rechenschaft gezogen wird, droht der Rückfall in die Barbarei ein Fall ins Bodenlose, der dauerhafte Verlust aller menschlichen Errungenschaften zu werden. Es ist nach 1914 lebenswichtig, das wahre Ausmaß der Katastrophe zu erkennen. Es ist nicht weniger im Jahr 2008 lebenswichtig geblieben. 1914 hat es gegeben.

Die Vorgänge und Triebkräfte, die zum 1. August 1914 geführt hatten, waren kein Geheimnis. Die Entwicklung des Weltmarkts, die Konkurrenz und Expansion des Kapitals, die Kolonialpolitik waren kein Geheimnis. Die expansive Rüstungsindustrie (z.B. "Welt-Kriegs-Konzern Krupp", Klaus Tenfelde in seiner Chronik des Hauses Krupp) war kein Geheimnis. Die wilhelminische Innen- und Außenpolitik war kein Geheimnis. Die internationalen Krisen (Balkankrisen und -kriege, Marokkokrisen etc.) waren kein Geheimnis. Der Weltkrieg wurde seit Jahrzehnten vorbereitet, in breitester Öffentlichkeit und auch die sozialdemokratische Presse berichtete, zeigte Zusammenhänge und kommentierte. Die Rhetorik überdeckte das nationale Vorurteil. Wie wenig - seit 1867 - die neuen Gedanken und die Wissenschaft (die Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie) in die Tiefe gedrungen waren, bewies im Juli/August 1914 die - im Ausland grandios überschätzte - SPD mit ihrer völligen Unterwerfung unter die Politik der kaiserlichen Regierung. (Schon 1913 war die Nachfolge im Parteivorsitz, Ebert statt Bebel, ein unübersehbares Signal gewesen. Die Bedenken, die Bebel gegen Ebert gehabt hatte, waren nur zu berechtigt.) Die internationale Aktion und Verhinderung der Katastrophe wurde durch die SPD zur puren Illusion, die Partei hatte ihr Herz für Tatsachen entdeckt, die chauvinistische Tat-Sache des Krieges.

Nach Beginn macht die Ebert-Fraktion aus dem Krieg eine vorgegebene Tatsache. (Genauso wie für Angela Merkel im Jahr 2003 der Irakkrieg der USA "nun" eine Realität ist, vgl. den Artikel zum Irakkrieg vom 6.04.2003 auf dieser Internetseite.) Ebert im Rückblick: "Der Krieg mit Rußland und Frankreich war zur Tatsache geworden. England lag auf der Lauer, um unter irgendeinem Vorwand (?) ebenfalls (?) loszuschlagen. Italien macht nicht mit (?), und Österreich ist eben Österreich (?). Die Gefahr ist groß, auch unsere Leute standen unter diesem Eindruck." (Zitiert nach Wikipedia, Ebert) Eberts Beschreibung, vom ersten bis zum letzten Wort falsch, ist absichtsvolle Fälschung der historischen Tatsachen. Der deutsche Überfall auf Belgien: alles andere als ein Vorwand. Das Ebenfallslosschlagen: Rußland und Frankreich haben nicht losgeschlagen. Daß die Gefahr groß ist wegen des Militarismus des eigenen Landes, des Angriffskrieges der Reichsregierung und der eigenen Unfähigkeit, nein zu sagen (in der Reihenfolge der Begründung), überfordert die Einsichtsfähigkeit eines SPD Parteivorsitzenden in der Nachfolge August Bebels. Derart sehen die analytischen Fähigkeiten eines Vorsitzenden aus in einer geschichtlichen Situation, in der es genauestens darauf ankommt. Daß der Krieg ein Produkt ist, an welchem die Partei selbst mitwirkt, überfordert bei näherem Hinsehen allerdings weniger den Scharfsinn als die Redlichkeit ihres Vorsitzenden. Das Ausweichen vor der Analyse, vor der Wahrheit geschieht nur teils aus Unvermögen. Es geschieht vor allem aus Feigheit resp. Korruptheit. Der ganz simple Beweis diesbezüglich (der in der begonnenen Krise bestätigt wird bis zum bittersten Ende): Das eigene Unvermögen wäre schon lange zu kompensieren gewesen durch die einfache Lektüre der Produkte anderer, gründlich und kontinuierlich arbeitender besserer Analysten (z.B. Rosa Luxemburg ab 1893 in der "Sprawa Robotnicza", in der "Sächsischen Arbeiterzeitung", in der "Leipziger Volkszeitung", in "Die Neue Zeit", im "Vorwärts" etc.).

Weil die Parteifunktionäre, auf Kosten der Parteimitglieder eingestellt, gut besoldet und sicher versorgt, nichts gründlicher gelernt und begriffen hatten als eben diesen Aufstieg, weil die allgemeine Korruption, Staatsparasitentum, Postenjagd im prosperierenden, expandierenden und doch angeblich zu kurz gekommenen wilhelminischen Reich ebensolche wilhelminischen Charakterdarsteller en masse erzeugt hatte (der 1. und 4. August 1914, die Kriegsbegeisterung großer Bevölkerungsteile zu Beginn waren hierfür der unbezweifelbare Beweis), wurden die gesellschaftlichen Klassen, die nicht von fremder Arbeit leben (sei es in Frankreich, sei es in Deutschland etc.), gegeneinander in die Schlacht, in das Blutbad, in die Giftgasschwaden gezwungen und getrieben. Weil Gier, deutsch-österreichischer Dünkel, Chauvinismus und Größenwahn Sieger waren und Kaiser, kaiserliche Regierung, Militär und Kapital tun konnten, was sie wollten. Ein Aufschrei hätte kommen müssen: Bis hierher und nicht weiter, niemals. Die SPD kroch, dankte ab und übertraf den kaiserlichen Kanzler noch mit dem Betrug und der frechsten Lüge, das deutsche Reich müsse sich gegen einen Überfall wehren.

Von diesem Zeitpunkt ab wäre einer doch so bitter notwendigen Einsicht der Kriegsfraktion, einer Selbstkritik und Umkehr eine alsbaldige Auswechslung des Führungspersonals gefolgt. Der SPD-Parteivorstand nutzt daher die Dunkelheit des Kriegsrechts und ersetzt 1916 die mehrheitlich links stehende Redaktion des "Vorwärts" durch eigene Leute. Am 16. März 1916 werden die Kriegsgegner aus der gemeinsamen Fraktion, im Januar 1917 auch aus der Partei ausgeschlossen. Das Handeln wider besseres Wissen, der Verrat und Betrug vom 4. August 1914 gegenüber der (internationalen) Arbeiterbewegung, der deutschen Bevölkerung, der Welt, gegenüber dem Gewissen und aller Zivilisation wird ergänzt mit skrupellosem Verrat an der eigenen Partei und den eigenen Gefolgsleuten, die sich (auch wider besseres Wissen aber mit Skrupeln) lange der Parteidisziplin gebeugt hatten. Die Ebert-SPD ist Gefangene ihrer Doktrin und ihrer Taten, die sie - nachdem der Weg der Gewalt und des Mordens beschritten ist - zu weiteren Taten zwingen.

Im Kriegsverlauf verändert sich diese Gefangenschaft des 4. August, es kommt ein verheißungsvoller Umstand hinzu. Dem Wissen um die eigene Lüge, die man in den ersten Tagen und vielleicht Wochen des Kriegs (bis zur Marneschlacht) noch am ehesten mit der Hoffnung auf einen Sieg, also mit Illusion und Selbsttäuschung beiseitedrängen oder herunterspielen konnte, muß Schritt für Schritt Rechnung getragen werden. Nur wie? Die zynische Kalkulation wird nun, den geschichtlichen Fehlgriff (alias Verbrechen) von Militär und Regierung, einen aussichtslosen Krieg dieses Ausmaßes begonnen zu haben, für die eigenen Zwecke skrupellos auszunutzen. Früher oder später wird die Entwicklung, die wachsende Überlegenheit der Entente und der entsprechende Kriegsverlauf Militär und Regierung dermaßen in die Enge treiben, daß das verratene, ausgeblutete, ausgehungerte und verelendete Volk ihren Sturz verlangt. Die SPD-Kriegsfraktion muß nur eng genug an der Seite der Regierung, in einer wohlerwogenen und -dosierten Nähe und Distanz zu Militär und Kaiser bleiben, damit diese abzusehende Entwicklung ihr selbst die desillusionierten Opfer zutreibt. Was sie dann diesen Teilen der Bevölkerung anbieten muß, um sie einzufangen, ist ihr ureigenes, professionelles, bestens bekanntes, langtrainiertes Betätigungsfeld. Der Krieg wurde vielversprechend, jetzt mehr und mehr für diese Fraktion der "Daheimkrieger".

Die Lehrstätte des Grauens und der gegenseitigen Vernichtung, die elendigste Schule zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie: mit welchem Lernprozeß? 1918 sah ganz andere Menschen als die, die 1914 die Lehrstätte betreten hatten und betreten mußten. Keineswegs alle Überlebenden und Davongekommenen wurden zu Kriegsgegnern. Es gab offenbar Menschen, deren große Leidenschaft Stahlhelme - nach ihrer Einführung für die Frontsoldaten 1916, und auch hier war Deutschland technisch versiert - wurden, und deren Herz höher schlug, wenn sie z.B. als Meldegänger vor ihrem Leutnant stramm stehen durften, in der Todesmaschinerie gebraucht, mitunter vielleicht auch gelobt und mit gestanztem Blech vor der Herzregion kenntlich gemacht. Statt Hundemarke ein "Eisernes Kreuz".

Der Rückfall sprengte alle bisherigen Kenntnisse und Vorstellungen über Leben und Tod, über unzerbrechliche und zerbrechende menschliche Existenzen, über körperliche und seelische Krüppel. Das Kapital, Krupp, Stinnes etc. hatten gut vorgesorgt, mit Maschinengewehren, Kanonen, Panzerkreuzern, U-Booten, Flugzeugen und - Giftgas. Der Krieg dauerte, die Dividenden stiegen, die Proletarier fielen. Mit Hindenburg und Ludendorff ging es richtig nach oben, besonders für die Krupp AG (vgl. Norbert F. Pötzl, "Spiegel-Spezial" vom März 2004). Der verlorene Krieg, 1914 mit imperialen Zielen, Täuschung, Irreführung und sozialdemokratischem Betrug und Verrat begonnen und geführt, entließ Heerscharen von deklassierten, entwurzelten und demoralisierten Existenzen, für die es - obwohl nicht hingemordet - jedenfalls keine einfache Umkehr gab.

Die Revolutionen zum Ende der Katastrophe 1917/1918 waren gekennzeichnet vom Elend in umfassendster Weise, von schroffsten Gegensätzen (Kriegsgewinnler-Kriegsverlierer), Gegnerschaften, Leidenschaften, politischen Fraktionierungen, Kämpfen und Haß und von Hilflosigkeiten, Unzulänglichkeiten, Versäumnissen, Halbheiten, Irrtümern der Akteure auch auf der Seite der Klassen, die die Opfer geworden waren. Marx' Diagnose und Prognose von 1867, inwiefern die Wissenschaft Privatinteressen berührt, Leidenschaften hervorruft und welche Privatinteressen und mit welchen Mitteln überhaupt verfolgt werden, zeichnete noch idyllische Zustände vergangener Tage. Er konnte nicht wissen, wie die bürgerlichen Klassen und "Eliten" sich noch inspirieren und beflügeln ließen, weil die technische Entwicklung in schließlich produzierter Gestalt nicht Voraussehbares geschaffen hatte.

Als Stinnes 1924 starb, war sein Familienunternehmen mit über 600.000 Beschäftigten der größte "Arbeitgeber" der Welt. Das Familienunternehmen hatte eben auf todsichere Geschäfte gesetzt und gewonnen. Unter diesen Umständen kann auch einmal großzügig gehandelt werden und etwas abgegeben werden: Den Bedürftigen der Anti-bolschewistischen Liga des Eduard Stadtler (vgl. das Fortsetzungskapitel).

- Novemberrevolution 1918 in Deutschland, der Untergang der Weimarer Republik und die Fortsetzung des Weltkrieges

1958-1962: Wanted Nazi Walter Rauff was German 'Bundesnachrichtendienst' BND spy between 1958-1962

1965: In 1965 'Butcher of Lyon' SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie was recruited by the BND, his initial monthly salary of 500 Deutsche Mark was transferred in May 1966 to an account of the Chartered Bank of London in San Francisco in the USA, which recruited him in 1947 as an agent for the USA Army Counter Intelligence Corps CIC, and he made at least 35 reports to the BND headquarters in Pullach

2006: CIA-Akten 2006: Aufenthaltsort Adolf Eichmanns dem BND und CIA bereits 1958 bekannt - BND-Akten: Aufenthaltsort Eichmanns sogar schon 1952 bekannt

2011: 7. Juli 2011: Neun ehemalige Wehrmachtssoldaten wegen Massaker in Italien 1944 im Juli 2011 in Verona zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt - Sant'Anna di Stazzema - Die Täter, wie z.B. Gerhard Sommer, geschützt von der deutschen Justiz in Hamburg und Stuttgart - 26 September 2011: Wanted Nazi Walter Rauff was German 'Bundesnachrichtendienst' spy between 1958-1962 - Walter Rauff: Gas van engineering and mass murder - Word War II: German gas vans in concentration camps, in Poland, Baltic states, Soviet Union, Serbia and North Africa - 27. September 2011: Bislang geheimgehaltene Akten des BND belegen, daß Walter Rauff wegen seiner Tätigkeit im Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Entwicklung und Einsatz von Gaswagen) 1958 vom BND eingestellt wurde - 27. September 2011: Deutscher Verfassungsschutz läßt eigene NS-Vergangenheit untersuchen, schon 2011 - 30 November 2011: Investigators have found that in 2007 the German Intelligence Service BND destroyed files of 250 employees who had been in the Nazi SS or Gestapo

2012: 15 juillet 2012: Le criminel nazi Laszlo Csatary retrouvé à Budapest - 18 July: Csatary, accused of organising the deportation to their deaths of some 16,000 Jews arrested in Hungary - 1 October 2012: Probe into Nazi massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema dropped by German prosecutors - 19 December 2012: At the presentation of a report by Italian and German historians on German war crimes against Italians, Italy presses Germany on conviction of former Nazis

2013: 7 May 2013: Living in Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1983, the alleged former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz Hans Lipschis arrested on charges of complicity in the mass murder of prisoners - 28 June: Germany's Federal Administrative Court blocks full release of Nazi Eichmann files - 23 July 2013: The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center launches German poster campaign seeking information on the last perpetrators of the Holocaust still at large nearly 70 years on - 29 July 2013 and its truth: The murderer SS-Priebke and free man in 2013 said, that the victims - from 14 year old boys (today 83) to 75 year old men - were, in his view at the time, terrorists - 26 September: Former Auschwitz guard Hans Lipschis, 93, to be tried as part of drive to round up last surviving members of Nazi regime - 15 October 2013: Angry protests mark funeral of Nazi war criminal SS officer Erich Priebke in Italy

2014: 20 February 2014: Three suspected Auschwitz guards detained in Baden-Wuerttemberg - 19 June 2014: Suspected SS guard J. Breyer arrested in the USA for the alleged murders of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women and children during World War II - 2 December 2014: Nazi war criminal Brunner, the unrepentant 'right-hand man' of Adolf Eichmann and wanted for deporting tens of thousands of Jews to death camps, is 'almost certain' to have died in Syria, where he was protected by successive regimes, four years ago, Simon Wiesenthal Centre says

2015: 23. Februar 2015: Ein 94-jähriger ehemaliger SS-Sanitäter im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau soll sich vor dem Landgericht Neubrandenburg wegen Beihilfe zum Mord in mindestens 3.681 Fällen verantworten - 31 March 2015: Following Germany's refusals of extradition to Denmark and protection by German governments and authorities, volunteer in the SS Viking Division and Denmark�s highest-ranking Nazi Soren Kam died a free man last week in Kempten after he fled to CDU/CSU-Germany in 1956 and obtained citizenship, despite conviction in Denmark to have been involved in the murder of Danish anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen - 20/21 April 2015: SS 'accountant of Auschwitz' Gröning goes on trial in Germany charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Holocaust victims - 15 July: Former SS officer Oskar Groening known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz sentenced to four years in prison - 16 July 2015: SS officer Oskar Gröning escaped prosecution in Britain nearly 70 years ago because of the USA�s desire, according to newly discovered UNWCC documents also revealing that the entire judicial process against Germans accused of committing war crimes was closed down after political intervention from above - 1 August 2015: Germany shelves Nazi crimes probe of SS-commander Michael Karkoc now living in USA, who commanded a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion accused of burning villages filled with women and children, based on wartime documents, testimony from other members of the unit and Karkoc�s own Ukrainian-language memoir - 22 September 2015: 91-year-old German woman who worked at Auschwitz has been accused of complicity in the murders of at least 260,000 Jews during World War II - 2 November 2015: Former Auschwitz SS guard, charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, declared fit for trial in Germany - 1 December 2015: German appeals court clears the way for the trial of 95-year-old SS sergeant at Auschwitz Hubert Z., accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, as in Detmold Reinhold H. is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people and in Kiel a 91-year-old woman is accused of the same charges in the case of 260,000 people

2016: 18 janvier 2016: L'ex-infirmier d'Auschwitz Hubert Zafke, en poste lorsqu'est arrivé le convoi d'Anne Frank en 1944, sera jugé à partir du 29 février en Allemagne - 29 January 2016: Authorities probe former SS soldiers accused of war crimes, including involvement in a 1944 civilian massacre in France - 10 February 2016: SS men Reinhold Hanning and Hubert Zafke will go on trial this month for their alleged complicity in the murder of thousands of people at Auschwitz, as Holocaust survivor Angela Orosz, born at Auschwitz, will take the witness stand in the Hanning trial - 11 February 2016: Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum urges SS-guard on trial to reveal his role at death camp, asking him 'to tell the historical truth', 'the truth about what you and your colleagues did', but the SS-guard remains silent - 12 February 2016: Leon Schwarzbaum, Justin Sonder, Erna de Vries, three Auschwitz survivors describe horrors of Holocaust on the second day of the trial in Detmold - 26 February 2016: Angela Orosz Richt-Bein born inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 has accused former guard Hanning on trial for being an accessory to the murders of 170,000 Holocaust victims, saying 'You know what happened to all the people, you enabled their murder. Tell us! Tell us!' - 29 February 2016: The trial of former Nazi official Hubert Z., who is thought to have worked as a medic, over his suspected involvement in the deaths of 3,681 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp is set to begin in Germany on Monday - 5 March 2016: Born in Auschwitz in December 1944 and too weak to cry, the true understanding of her origins crept up on her slowly throughout her childhood in Hungary, Angela Orosz says in Detmold's courtroom - 12 March 2016: Canadian Jewish groups are calling on Canada to strip Canadian citizenship of Helmut Oberlander, who was a member of one of the most savage Nazi killing units, responsible for the murder of more than 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children during the Holocaust and who fraudulently gained Canadian citizenship in 1954 - 29 April 2016: Ex-SS Auschwitz guard Hanning tells court in Detmold, �I am truly sorry� - 20 May: German prosecutors seeking six years' imprisonment for 94-year-old former SS guard Hanning on trial for complicity in 170,000 murders at Auschwitz - 17 June 2016: Germany jails ex-Auschwitz guard Hanning, found guilty on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, for five years - 9 August 2016: Head of Germany�s central office for the investigation of Nazi crimes in Ludwigsburg has identified four men and four women suspected of having served at a concentration camp near Gdansk, and prosecutors will examine if they can be charged as accomplices to murder, as World Jewish Congress' Ronald Lauder says that 'given the vast system of concentration and extermination camps put in place by the Nazis, and the number of personnel needed to run and guard these sites, it comes as no surprise that a few of these perpetrators are still alive, even today' - 28 November 2016: German Federal Court of Justice upholds former Auschwitz guard Groening's conviction on accessory to murder charges, setting an important precedent for prosecutors' efforts to pursue others who were part of the 'machinery of death' even if there is no evidence of involvement in a specific killing

2016/2017: Nazi medic and SS-Unterscharführer Hubert Zafke - 29 February 2016: Trial of Auschwitz medic Hubert Zafke, charged with being an accomplice in the murder of at least 3,681 people and who served at Auschwitz when Anne Frank arrived, postponed in Germany - 7 March 2016: Auschwitz medic Zafke accused of gasing victims deemed unfit to stand trial - 16 October 2016: Trial of Auschwitz medic Hubert Zafke, repeatedly postponed after judges ruled he was unfit, now postponed over claim of biased judges, as prosecutors held up the trial by seeking the removal of several judges - 2 December 2016: Trial of Nazi medic and SS-Unterscharführer Hubert Zafke rescheduled after claim of biased judge dismissed - 14 February 2017: German court bars Jewish brothers Walter and William Plywask from joining the Zafke trial as co-plaintiffs, as allowed under German law for victims' relatives

2017: 25 January 2017: Researchers uncover vast numbers of unknown Nazi killing fields, as the 'Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos' set for completion in 2025, has now documented 42,500 sites of Nazi persecution, over eight times more than predicted - 25 January 2017: After changes in Germany's prosecution policy since 2011 have resulted in more investigations, in 2015/2016 Germany opened investigations against 42 individuals and convicted Oskar Groening, as seven decades after World War II there have been 103 convictions of Nazi war criminals, with Italy and the USA topping the list, according to the annual Simon Wiesenthal Center report, published since 2002 - 24 June 2017: Neubrandenburg state court appointed three new judges after the removing of three judges found to be biased in the often-delayed trial of a former SS medic Hubert Zafke who served at the Auschwitz death camp, as the International Auschwitz Committee has sharply attacked Germany�s handling of the case, saying the court was hurtling 'between sloppy ignorance and complete disinterest' in a resolution - 13 September 2017: Neubrandenburg state court dropped its case against 96-year-old former Auschwitz medic Hubert Zafke, after he was found unfit to stand trial for his role in the murder of more than 3,600 people at the Nazi death camp - 1 October 2017: Germany not prosecuting 8 members of SS death squad, despite knowing their names - 21 October 2017: German public prosecutors have charged a 96-year-old former Nazi death camp guard, accusing him of having guarded prisoners at the death camp in Lublin-Majdanek who were slated to be killed in 1943 and 1944

2018: 16 avril 2018: Un ex-garde SS du camp d'extermination d'Auschwitz, qui n'a pas été identifié, a été mis en accusation pour complicité de meurtres, a annoncé lundi le parquet allemand, ouvrant la voie à la tenue d'un procès

Bundesdeutsches 'Auswärtiges Amt': Schon 2005-2010 Historikerkommission zur NS-Vergangenheit des Auswärtigen Amts

Bundesdeutsche Fortsetzung der Nazijustiz, ungesühnte Nazijustiz und deren Tradition: Ungesühnte Nazijustiz - Furchtbare Juristen - Justiz und NS-Verbrechen - 1945-2016 German trial judgments concerning national socialist homicidal crimes

1956: 16. Februar 2016: Das Grundsatzurteil des Bundesgerichtshofes zur Ablehnung der Entschädigung von NS-verfolgten Sinti und Roma vom 7. Januar 1956, in dem der BGH feststellte, dass die 'Zigeuner' von den Nationalsozialisten zu Recht als 'artfremd' behandelt worden seien, prägte über viele Jahre das gesamte Entschädigungsrecht für die Überlebenden der Sinti und Roma und wurde zur Niederschlagung von Strafverfahren gegen die Organisatoren des Holocausts herangezogen

1995: NS-Justizverbrechen ohne Verurteilungen - Die Aufarbeitung der NS-Justizverbrechen durch die bundesdeutsche Justiz gilt als gescheitert, der Bundesgerichtshof bedauerte in einem Urteil aus dem Jahr 1995 selbst, daß auf Grund von 'folgenschweren Versagens der bundesdeutschen Justiz' NS-Richter nicht strafrechtlich zur Verantwortung gezogen worden sind

2013: 27 June 2013: German court dismisses bid to release full Eichmann files - 22. Oktober 2013: Schon 2012/2013 beginnt eine 'Unabhängige Wissenschaftliche Kommission beim Bundesministerium der Justiz zur Aufarbeitung der NS-Vergangenheit' ihre Arbeit

2015: 10. August 2015: Journalisten bekommen mehr Einblicke in ein Gutachten zur NS-Vergangenheit des deutschen Bundeslandwirtschaftsministeriums, entscheidet das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster und hebt vorausgehende Beschlüsse auf - 7 October 2015: 70 years after the end of World War II, Germany�s justice ministry is embarked on a wide-ranging effort to examine the influence that the Nazis had on the country�s legal system, including the role some German officials played in preventing former Nazis from being prosecuted after the war

2016: 16. Februar 2016: Das Grundsatzurteil des Bundesgerichtshofes zur Ablehnung der Entschädigung von NS-verfolgten Sinti und Roma vom 7. Januar 1956, in dem der BGH feststellte, dass die 'Zigeuner' von den Nationalsozialisten zu Recht als 'artfremd' behandelt worden seien, prägte über viele Jahre das gesamte Entschädigungsrecht für die Überlebenden der Sinti und Roma und wurde zur Niederschlagung von Strafverfahren gegen die Organisatoren des Holocausts herangezogen

Oktober 2016: 10 October 2016: 'Rosenburg Project' study, covering the period from 1950 to 1973 and conducted by independent experts, highlights how thousands of Germans who committed crimes during Hitler's dictatorship were protected by former NDSAP members holding key positions in the legal system, finding that more than half of all senior officials in Germany's Justice Ministry in the 1950s and 1960s were ex-Nazis who, through inaction or intentional sabotage, systematically protected fellow former members of Hitler's National Socialist party from prosecution and shaped West Germany's legal code for decades

November 2016: 26 November 2016: The German government will launch an investigation into NSDAP influence on the country's post-war central government, also seeking to clarify what continuity there was in the staff of the Chancellory and to look at the role of Hans Globke who served as chief of staff and a trusted confidant to chancellor Konrad Adenauer between 1953 and 1963, despite he was a senior civil servant in the Nazi-era interior ministry and was involved in the drafting of the Nuremberg race laws

Society, demographics, languages, human rights, religion, racism and antisemitism in Germany: German society

Human rights in Germany: Human rights in Germany

2015/2016: United Nations OHCHR monitoring Germany's compliance with obligations of human rights treaties

Demographics and ethnic groups in Germany: Demographics of Germany - Ethnic groups in Germany - Immigrants to Germany

History of the Jews in Germany since the Early Middle Ages: History of the Jews in Germany since the Early Middle Ages - Category: Jewish German history - Antisemitism and Holocaust (the genocide in which approximately six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany 1939-1945) in Germany and Europe

Since 1990/1991: The end of the Cold War 1990/91 contributed to a growth in the Jewish people of Germany with a population of more than 100,000 registered citizens - May 2005: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - sixty years after the end of World War II

2014/2015: 14 September 2014: 'Stand Up Against Anti-Semitism: No More Jew-Hatred' Rally at the Brandenburg Gate on Sunday afternoon in the middle of Berlin attended by 5,000 people and following a surge of abuse against Jews and spreading anti-Israeli sentiment in the last months - 20 February 2015: Berlin's Jewish community removes its logo on envelopes containing its monthly magazine to protect members from anti-Semitic attacks

2016: 2 September 2016: Rise of populist AfD 'frightening', Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, says

2018: 29 April 2018: Germany�s newly appointed official in charge of fighting anti-Semitism says he is not surprised that Jews are considering leaving the country following a series of high profile hate crimes recently in the country, also saying that roughly 20% of Germans hold anti-Semitic views

Romani people in Germany since the Late Middle Ages: Romani (Roma and Sinti) people in Germany since the Late Middle Ages - History of the Romani people during World War II - Romani genocide (Porajmos) was the effort during World War II by Nazi Germany and its allies to exterminate the Romani people of Europe - Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma

2012: 24 October 2012: Long-delayed memorial in Berlin to Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazis

2018: 26 February 2018: As Monday marks 75 years since the Nazi genocide against Sinti and Roma started, these communities struggling for decades for official recognition of that crime still live with daily prejudice

Afro-Germans: Afro-Germans - List of former German colonies in the 19th and 20th century - Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany - Afro-Germans in Germany since 1945

2017: 28 February 2017: As there are as many as one million people with African roots in Germany, and although the constitution guarantees equality, bans racial discrimination and enshrines the inviolability of human dignity, widespread discrimination against black people persists in Germany, UN experts say

Arabs in Germany: Arabs in Germany

Armenians in Germany: Armenians in Germany, like much of the Armenian diaspora, most Armenians immigrated to Germany after the Armenian Genocide of 1915, others came later, fleeing conflicts in places like Iran, Azerbaijan and Lebanon, another influx came fleeing nationalist persecution in Turkey

Asians in Germany: Asians in Germany - Pakistanis in Germany - Vietnamese people in Germany

2016: 29 December 2016: Pakistani Naveed Baloch wrongly arrested over Berlin Christmas attack says he fears for his life also saying he was tied up, blindfolded and slapped by police after being held �because he ran across road�

Assyrians/Syriacs in Germany: Assyrians/Syriacs in Germany

Italians in Germany: Italians in Germany

Kurds in Germany: Kurds in Germany

Polish minority in Germany: The Polish minority in Germany is the second largest Polish minority in the world and the biggest in Europe

20 October 2015: Twelve people were injured after a fire broke out on Monday at a building in Gudensberg housing mostly migrant workers from Bulgaria and Poland

Russians in Germany: Russians in Germany

2016: 29 January 2016: Russian FM Sergei Lavrov calls for 'truth and justice' in a Russian teen's fabricated rape claim by alleged Middle East migrants in Berlin, as Russian regime is murdering hundreds of civilians including children in Syria since months - 31 January 2016: 13-year-old Russian-German girl has admitted making up a story about being kidnapped and raped by migrants, exacerbated by a report on Russian state TV, in which the girl�s relatives claimed her allegations were not being investigated, and that triggered outrage among Berlin�s Russian-German community, staging protests supported by the Pegida-related Bärgida movement, the Neonazi National Democratic party, and joint by Russian FM Sergei Lavrov, who criticised the Berlin authorities

Spaniards in Germany: Spaniards in Germany

Syrians in Germany: Syrians in Germany - December 2015: Syrian asylum applications in Europe from April 2011 to December 2015 according to UN - 7 December 2015: Germany is on pace to take in one million asylum-seekers in 2015, in the last 11 months the country has taken in 964,574 new migrants, including more than 200,000 just in November

11 October 2016: Syrians in Germany who tied up bomb suspect in Leipzig hailed as heroes

23 November 2016: High Administrative Court ruling to leave 1000s of Syrians divided from families, as UNHCR indicates that there is a pattern whereby returning Syrians are imprisoned and disappear

Turks in Germany: Turks in Germany

Solingen arson attack of 1993 - Since 1990th to 2011 'National Socialist Underground' terrorist group's serial murders - 1 December 2014: Thousands pay tribute Sunday to young woman Tugce Albayrak who was beaten to death trying to stop a group of men harassing two teenage girls in a McDonald's restroom - 17 June 2015: 18-year-old man convicted and sentenced under juvenile law to three years in prison over the death of German-Turkish student Tugce Albayrak following an altercation at a fast-food restaurant - 14. Juli 2015: Mutter von Sanel M. spuckte nach der Urteilsverkündung im Prozess gegen ihren Sohn auf ein Gedenkfoto der getöteten Tugce

Immigration and refugees in Germany: Immigration to Germany

2013/2014: 17 octobre 2013: De Lampedusa aux rues de Berlin, l'odyssée d'un migrant ghanéen - 29/30 September 2014: Asylum-seekers reportedly abused in German refugee centres

Since 2014 International and European refugee and migrant crisis: Since 2014 International and European refugee and migrant crisis

2015: 4 August 2015: Number of immigrants living in Germany rose by 3.7% last year to a record high of 11 million, as many of the immigrants came from other European Union countries - 6 September 2015: Hundreds of refugees and migrants arrive in Munich, as Germany expects to receive thousands - 7 September: 10,000 more refugees expected to arrive by train on Monday - 13 September: Germany reinstates controls at Austrian border - 5 November 2015: Government will establish up to five reception centres inside Germany for the swifter processing of asylum claims and the prompt deportation of those with little chance of obtaining refugee status, mainly people from the Balkans

2016: 29 January 2016: Germany tightens refugee policy, announcing to close its border to Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans and also to prevent migrants from bringing their families to join them for two years, as Finland joins Sweden in deportations - 5 February 2016: Tens of thousands Syrians flee joint Russian-Iranian-Assad offensive on Aleppo as regime forces fully encircle countryside north of major city and Russian airstrikes mount to 250 a day - 6 November 2016: Ahead of 2017 federal elections the German CDU-led interior ministry reportedly wants to stop migrants ever reaching Europe�s Mediterranean coast by picking them up at sea and returning them to Africa - 18 November 2016: Survivors of the SS St. Louis, the trans-Atlantic liner carrying nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939, rejected by the USA and Cuba and forced to return to Europe, urge world to treat immigrants 'as family'

Languages and culture in Germany: Culture in Germany

Languages in Germany - main immigrant languages are Turkish, Polish, Italian, Kurdish, Arabic, Romanian, Greek, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Ukrainian, French, Vietnamese - Anglicismes en allemand

Music in Germany and history: Music in Germany - History of music in Germany

March 2018: 1 March 2018: Lost music of Nazis� prisoners to be heard at concert in Jerusalem in April, in first public performance of songs written in concentration camps and tracked down over decades

April 2018: 15 April 2018: German rappers win Echo Music award despite complaints from Holocaust survivors over offensive Auschwitz verse, as the International Auschwitz Committee said their presence at the awards ceremony was a 'slap in the face for Holocaust survivors' - Seit dem 15. April 2018 geben Preisträger Auszeichnungen der Deutschen Phono-Akademie, die den Echo Musikpreis seit 1992 jährlich vergibt, unter Protest gegen Antisemitismus bei der Vergabe 2018 zurück - 25 April 2018: Organizers of Germany�s Echo Music Awards said they would scrap their main annual prize due to a row over winners this year, a rap duo who have been slammed for anti-Semitic lyrics

Religion and history of religion in Germany: History of religion in Germany - Religion in Germany

Since the Middle Ages 'Holy Roman Empire' and European countries: Religion in the 'Holy Roman Empire' 800-1806 - State church of the Roman Empire since 380 - History of the Jews in Europe - Religion in European countries

Christianity and antisemitism: Christianity and antisemitism - Medieval antisemitism

Antisemitism in Germany and Europe: Antisemitism in Germany - Antisemitism in Europe

1933, 1941�1945 The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, genocide during World War II: The Holocaust in Germany, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis also outside Europe under Axis occupation

February 1963: 20 February 1963 - 20 February 2015: 'The Deputy', play about Vatican�s silence during Holocaust, opens in Berlin

February 2015: 23 February 2015: From Notre Dame to Wittenberg, in Europe the fine art of anti-Semitism is on public display at many of the continent�s most visited landmarks

February 2018: 27 February 2018: In a vote on Monday night, the local council in southwestern Germany's Herxheim near Heidelberg decided by 10 votes to 3 that a Nazi-era bell, complete with the inscription 'Everything for the Fatherland - Adolf Hitler', should continue to hang in the local church, as councilors, expressing cynicism, said the bell, which also bears a swastika, should serve as a force for reconciliation and a memorial against violence and injustice

April 2018: 3 April 2018: Local church officials in Schweringen decided in mid-March to put Nazi-era swastika church bell back in use, the symbol engraved on the bell was removed along with part of a Nazi-era inscription with a note claiming responsibility found on the church door saying 'Spring cleaning 2018 - it was time for spring cleaning to bring fresh air to the village'

May 2018: 9 May 2018: Neo-Nazi linked 'Alternative for Germany' speaks at German Catholic Convention in the city of Münster

Catholic church sexual abuse cases in Germany: Catholic church sexual abuse cases in Germany - Catholic sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising - Protected child abuser catholic priest Peter Hullermann - Parish transfers of abusive priests

2013: 9. Januar 2013: Deutsche katholische Kirche beendet auf Betreiben der Diözese München die Untersuchung ihres Missbrauchsskandals und diffamiert die Wissenschaftler - 9 January 2013: Prof Pfeiffer accuses the catholic church of obstructing his team's work by seeking to control the investigation into sexual abuse by clergy - 7. März 2013: Missbrauch im Kloster Ettal war systematisch

2016: 8 January 2016: At least 231 children at Regensburger Domspatzen boys� choir run by Pope Benedict�s elder brother Georg Ratzinger from 1964 to 1994, were victims of physical abuse ranging from sexual assault to rape, severe beatings and food deprivation for decades, according to lawyer U. Weber

2017: 18 July 2017: Five-hundred-and-forty-seven pupils at one of Germany�s most famous Roman Catholic choir schools in Regensburg were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 2015, an independent report has found, with some boys likening the institution to hell

Religious disaffiliation (Kirchenaustritte): Kirchenaustritte in Deutschland

2013/2014 Tebartz-van Elst's expenses scandal: Tebartz-van Elst's expenses scandal since 2007 - 27 March 2014: Pope Francis accepts resignation of German 'Bishop of Bling' Tebartz-van Elst

Women and women's rights in Germany: Women in Germany - Women's rights in Germany

2014/2015: 26 November 2014: Agreement for law demanding at least 30% women in top boardrooms - 30 November 2014: Thousands of citizens pay tribute to 23-year-old student Tug�e Albayrak who was murdered after rushing to the aid of two teenage girls who were being harassed by a group of men in Offenbach - 17 June 2015: 18-year-old man convicted and sentenced under juvenile law to three years in prison over the death of German-Turkish student Tugce Albayrak following an altercation at a fast-food restaurant - 14. Juli 2015: Mutter von Sanel M. spuckte nach der Urteilsverkündung im Prozess gegen ihren Sohn auf ein Gedenkfoto der getöteten Tugce

2016: 5 janvier 2016: Entre 200 et 300 personnes se sont rassemblées devant la cathédrale de Cologne pour appeler à plus de respect envers les femmes - 2016 New Year's Eve sexual assaults and robbery in Germany - 8 January 2016: German police have identified 18 asylum-seekers among 31 suspects in connection with crimes committed in Cologne at New Year, as government spokesman tells reporters that there are 9 Algerians, 8 Moroccans, 5 Iranians, 4 Syrians, 2 Germans and one person each from Iraq, Serbia and the USA among the suspects - 11 May 2016: Women's rights activists say that while government plans to allow women to compare their salaries against peers were a good start, more still needs to be done - 12 May 2016: Green party politician and first Muslim woman Muhterem Aras elected with a large majority as president (speaker) of Baden-Württemberg's state legislature

Children's rights in Germany: Children's rights in Germany

Education in Germany: Education in Germany - Education in Germany by state - Education in Germany by city or town - History of education in Germany - Since the 1990s Federal Republic of Germany's history of education

Schools in Germany: Schools in Germany - Primary and secondary education in Germany - Schulgeschichte in Deutschland - 'Bildungsreform'

Schools by state: List of schools in Germany by state (Bundesland) - Schools by state of Germany - Schools in Germany by city

2017: 8. November 2017: Die 15 Jahre alte Schülerin Emilia S. ist für ihren Einsatz gegen rechte Umtriebe und Rassismus an ihrer Schule in Dresden mit dem Preis für Zivilcourage gegen Rechtsradikalismus, Antisemitismus und Rassismus ausgezeichnet worden

Universities in Germany: Universities in Germany - List of universities in Germany - Universities and colleges in Germany by type

Health and healthcare in Germany: Health in Germany - Healthcare in Germany - Medical and health organisations based in Germany - Health Care System of Elderly in Germany

1939-1945: Health and healthcare in NDSAP-Germany

2016: 26 January 2016: Newly discovered testimony provides brutal new details about Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners

2016: 17 April 2016: Germany's healthcare system is losing as much as �1 billion euros a year to scammers, some of whom are linked to the Russian mafia, according to a media report

Health disasters in Germany: Health disasters in Germany

Seit 1954 Contergan-Skandal: Seit 1954 Contergan-Skandal - das millionenfach verkaufte Beruhigungsmedikament Contergan, das den Wirkstoff Thalidomid enthielt, konnte bei der Einnahme in der frühen Schwangerschaft Schädigungen in der Wachstumsentwicklung der Föten hervorrufen

Seit Beginn der 1980er Jahre: Seit Beginn der 1980er Jahre Infektionen durch HIV-kontaminierte Blutprodukte

2009: 2009 flu pandemic in Germany

2011: 2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak

2011/2012: 8 November 2011: Drug thalidomide blamed for a broader range of harmful effects, revealed in German 'Contergan-Skandal' - 1 September 2012: German company Grunenthal Group issued its first apology in a half-century saying it regretted the consequences of the drug Thalidomide, that led to the births of children without limbs or with shortened limbs during the 1950s and 1960s, as a British charity representing families hurt by thalidomide in the 1950s and 1960s said the company apology was not enough

2017: Juni, Juli und August 2017 Fipronil Lebensmittelskandal, in Hühnereiern, Hühnerfleisch und Hühnerkot aus den Niederlanden, Belgien und Deutschland Fipronil wurde Fipronil nachgewiesen, obwohl die Verwendung bei Tieren, die der Lebensmittelerzeugung dienen, verboten ist

Drugs in Germany: Drugs in Germany

Ökonomie - Klassengegensätze, Rüstungsindustrien und -exporte: Economy of Germany - main industries include production machinery, vehicles, trains, shipbuilding, space and aircraft, machine tools, electronics, information technology, optical and medical apparatus, iron and steel, coal, cement, mineral fuels, chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, textiles - Economic history of Germany - List of companies in Germany

Industry in Germany: Industry in Germany - Companies of Germany by industry

Engineering companies of Germany: Engineering companies of Germany

Automotive industry in Germany: Automotive industry in Germany

Since 1951 'Mercedes Benz' in Argentina: Since 1951 'Mercedes Benz' in Argentina, founded by Jorge Antonio employing German Nazis, himself linked with stories of 'Nazi Gold', money brought to Argentina, the USA, and other safe havens by Nazis fleeing Germany, and who later admitted that he knew Eichmann's real identity - Jorge Antonios Verwicklung in Nazigeschäfte und Geldwäsche, recherchiert von Gaby Weber - Nazis in South America, Nazis who lived in Argentina included Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Aribert Heim, Eduard Roschmann and Ludolf von Alvensleben - Since World War II 'Organisation of Former SS Members' international Nazi network to establish and facilitate secret escape routes

1948-1960 Holocaust organiser Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and 'Mercedes-Benz' department head in Buenos Aires: 1948-1960 Adolf Eichmann's, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, escape to Argentina, finding employment at 'Mercedes-Benz Argentina' founded in 1951, where he rose to department head in Buenos Aires

Since 2008 worldwide 'Volkswagen' defeat device and emissions scandal: Volkswagen emissions scandal - in September 2015 'Volkswagen' admitted to illegally using installed software to change emissions test results for 11 million of its diesel engine cars sold between 2009 and 2015 - 20 September 2015: Volkswagen orders external investigation after USA regulators found cars gave inaccurate data on toxic emissions - 22 September 2015: Calling for a 'Europe-wide' investigation in the Volkswagen emissions scandal, France�s finance minister Sapin says, 'what we are dealing with is making sure people avoid being poisoned by pollution' - 2 October: Volkswagen emissions testing scandal is deepening, with the Paris prosecutor announcing a preliminary inquiry - 9 October: Carmaker VW says half of models involved in emissions scandal may need complex, costly repairs such as a new fuel tank - 15 October: Volkswagen is to recall 8.5m diesel cars across the EU after German authorities rejected its proposals for a voluntary scheme in the emissions scandal - 3 November 2015: VW reveals CO2 emissions problem in 800,000 vehicles - 5 November: The deepening crisis at Volkswagen has hit sales hard, with the first signs emerging that the emissions-rigging scandal is putting customers off

2015: 2 July 2015: Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany

2016 carmakers Audi, Mercedes, Opel, Porsche and Volkswagen emissions scandal: 22 April 2016: Diesel crisis deepens as German carmakers Audi, Mercedes, Opel, Porsche and Volkswagen recall 630,000 cars as part of a clampdown on nitrogen oxide emissions

9 September 2016: Volkswagen engineer James Liang pleads guilty to conspiracy in the company�s emissions cheating scandal and has agreed to cooperate in the widening criminal investigation

2017 Daimler emissions scandal: 13 July 2017: German automaker Daimler manipulated the engines of around one million diesel vehicles to make them appear less polluting, local media report

2013/2018 Humans and monkeys exposed to pollutants in experiments: 29 January 2018: Founded by Daimler, Bosch, BMW and VW, EUGT association financed by several car companies supported experiments not only with monkeys, but also with humans, reportedly sponsoring a study in which also humans were exposed to nitrogen dioxide - 29 January 2018: Volkswagen is under fire globally from politicians and environmentalists following revelations it helped to fund experiments in which monkeys and humans breathed in car fumes for hours at a time

May 2018: Former Chairman of the Vorstand Volkswagen AG Winterkorn was charged in a USA indictment with fraud and conspiracy in the case on 3 May 2018, increasing the likelihood that Winterkorn would face similar actions in his native Germany and impact an existing shareholders lawsuit against Volkswagen

Chemical industry of Germany: Chemical industry of Germany

Since 1911 development of chemical warfare: Since 1911 Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, during World War I and World War II the research of the institute was directed more or less towards Germany's military needs - Since 1911 later war criminal Fritz Haber played a major role in the development of chemical warfare in World War I, in spite of the Hague Convention of 1907, to which Germany was a signatory - October 1914 'Manifesto of the Ninety-Three' proclamation endorsed by 93 prominent German scientists, scholars and artists, declaring their unequivocal support of German military actions in the early period of World War I, elsewhere called the 'Rape of Belgium', and galvanizing support for the war throughout German schools and universities

Since 1925 IG Farben including BASF, Bayer and Hoechst: In December 1925 IG Farben as a merger of the six companies BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron and Chemische Fabrik vorm. Weiler Ter Meer, having a workforce of 100,000-218,000 people, of which 2.6% were university educated, 18.2% were salaried professionals and 79.2% were workers, IG Farben ended up being the 'largest single contribution' to the successful Nazi election campaign of 1933

1933-1945 concentration camp system and killing centers: The German state established killing centers for efficient mass murder as part of the 1933-1945 concentration camp system under National Socialism

German companies involved in the Holocaust: German companies involved in the Holocaust - List of companies involved in the Holocaust, including Allianz, Audi, BASF, Bayer, BMW, Degesch, DEST, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe (holding company for more than 25 SS industries), Dresdner Bank, Ford Germany, IG-Farben, Krupp, Mercedes-Benz, Opel, Porsche, Thyssen AG, Volkswagen

Since 1919 until today 'Degesch' and 'Zyklon B': In 1938-1943 Degesch, founded in 1919 as a subsidiary of Degussa with its first director Fritz Haber, hold in 1936 by Degussa and IG Farben and having the patent of the infamous Zyklon, a pesticide whose 'Zyklon B' variant (without odor or irritant) was used to execute people in gas chambers of German extermination camps during the Holocaust, became extremely profitable - Nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges führte die Degesch ihr Geschäft fort mit Beteiligung der Bayer AG, der Degussa AG sowie der Th. Goldschmidt AG, seit 1986 als Detia-Degesch GmbH mit Tochtergesellschaften in den USA und Chile

Since 1942 use of'Zyklon B' in the Holocaust: In early 1942, Zyklon B emerged as the preferred killing tool of Nazi Germany for use in extermination camps during the Holocaust

Since 1953 Fritz Haber Institute: Since 1953 Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry since 1911), research topics covered throughout the history of the institute include chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics, colloid chemistry, atomic physics, spectroscopy, surface chemistry and surface physics, chemical physics and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry, and materials science

In the 1960s West Germany planned to deploy chemical weapons, unteachable since 1914: 22 April/2 May 2018: After 'the father of chemical warfare' Fritz Haber personally oversaw the first use of chlorine gas at the front lines at Ypres in 1915 and set out for the eastern front to deploy gas against the Russian army West Germany planned to procure and even deploy chemical weapons in the 1960s, according to recently disclosed and evaluated USA and German military files, contrary to longstanding government denials

2016 BASF fire: 17. Oktober 2016 Unfall bei der BASF in Ludwigshafen mit einem mehr als zehn Stunden andauernden Brand und zwei Explosionen, durch die vier Menschen starben und weitere sieben schwer verletzt wurden - 30 October 2016: BASF chemical giant on Saturday said a firefighter injured in an explosion at its plant in western Germany earlier this month had died, pushing the death toll up to four

Arms industry in Germany and arms export: Arms industry and companies in Germany - Deutschland aktuell drittgrößter Waffenexporteur der Welt

Since 1914 Germany, weapons of mass destruction and history: Germany, weapons of mass destruction and history - Since 1914 Chemical weapons in World War I

Since 1983 German exports to Iraq to produce poison gases: Since 1983 West German companies have exported to Iraq huge quantities of raw materials, equipment, and small industrial factories to produce poison gases, participating directly in building the Sa'd Project, the Iraqi chemical project, and the construction of the military complex in Al-Taji, engaged in chemical warfare during the Iran�Iraq War 1980-1988 - 1986-1989 Anfal genocide and chemical attacks

2011: 1 July 2011: Saudi troops quietly pull out of Bahrain after crackdown on anti-government protests - 3 July 2011: 200 German tanks 'Leopard' to Saudi-Arabia - 4 July: Saudi sources confirm German tanks deal - 44 tanks already bought

14. Juli 2011: Kanzlerin (und Kopf-ab-Komplizin) Merkel - 'Als Waffenhändlerin durch Afrika' im Juli 2011

7. Dezember 2011: Empörung über stark steigende deutsche Rüstungsexporte nach Vorliegen des Rüstungsexportberichts - 19. März 2012: Das Volumen der weltweiten Rüstungsgeschäfte hat in den vergangenen fünf Jahren um 24 Prozent zugenommen - auf die beiden grössten Rüstungsexporteure USA entfällt mehr als die Hälfte - auf Platz drei folgt Deutschland mit neun Prozent

2012: 17 June 2012: Saudi Arabia wants to buy 600-800 Leopard battle tanks from Germany, more than twice as many as originally envisaged - 30 December 2012: The German government is close to completing another 100 million-euro arms deal with Saudi Arabia to sell 30 armoured vehicles, and Berlin's national security council has already signaled its backing

2013: 23 February 2013: German government heavily criticised for allowing its sales of arms and military hardware to Middle Eastern Gulf states to more than double over the past year

2014: 11 January 2014: Political pressure and bribery allegations are unlikely to hurt Germany�s exporters of military equipment, exporting more weapons than Britain, France or any other country besides America and Russia - 11 March: German Heckler&Koch increases small arms exports to conflict regions - 10 August 2014: German Economy Minister Gabriel wants the authorities to be much more watchful when awarding weapons export licences, particularly with regard to human rights

2015: 5. März 2015: Laut Anfragebeantwortung zu vom Bundessicherheitsrat erteilten Waffenexportgenehmigungen werden pro Jahr werden etwa 10.000 Rüstungsexporte genehmigt und fast ein Drittel der Exporte der letzten 12 Jahre ging nach Saudi-Arabien - 2 June 2015: Selling death - an investigation into Germany�s weapons exports, one of the world�s biggest

2016: 3 July 2016: German arms exports almost doubled in 2015 to their highest level since the beginning of this century, according to an Economy Ministry's report - 25 October 2016: In the first six months of 2016, the CDU/SPD-government approved German arms sales totaling �4.029 billion, an increase of half a billion euros on the first half of the previous year, after 2015 was a record-breaking year for weapons exports, despite assurances from Economy Minister SPD-Gabriel that he wanted to cut down on arms exports

2018: 24 January 2018: Newly released figures show Germany's CDU/SPD coalition approved more weapons exports over the past four years, also showing exports to countries outside the EU and NATO rose even more steeply, by 47% to almost 15 billion euros, as photos emerged in recent days allegedly showing Turkey using German-made tanks against Kurds in northern Syria

Banking in Germany: Banking in Germany - List of banks in Germany

Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank

1933-1945: 1933-1945 Deutsche Bank took part in the aryanization of Jewish-owned businesses, was involved in 363 such confiscations by November 1938, incorporated other banks that fell into German hands during the occupation of Eastern Europe, provided banking facilities for the Gestapo and loaned the funds used to build the Auschwitz camp and the nearby IG Farben facilities

2001-2007: 2001-2007 Deutsche Bank bank engaged in covert espionage on its critics

2004-2008: 2004-2008 Deutsche Bank was one of the major drivers of the collateralized debt obligation market during the housing credit bubble

2015: 23 April 2015: Deutsche Bank hit by record $2.5bn Libor-rigging fine, also accused of being obstructive towards regulators in their investigations into the global manipulation

2017: 31 January 2017: Deutsche Bank fined $630m over Russia money laundering claims, following five previous fines of �1.7bn for rigging Libor in 2015, of �200m for breaching USA sanctions with Iran and Syria in 2015, of �5.9bn for toxic bond mis-selling scandal in 2016 and of �75m to resolve a USA government lawsuit over hiding tax liabilities to the Internal Revenue Service in 2017 - 21 March 2017: The German bank that loaned $300m to USA's Trump played a prominent role in a money laundering scandal run by Russian criminals with ties to the Kremlin, the Guardian can reveal - 30 May 2017: Federal Reserve fined Deutsche Bank AG $41 million after it found that the German bank had faulty systems to detect suspicious transactions between 2011 and 2015

HSBC Trinkaus Düsseldorf: HSBC Trinkaus Düsseldorf - HSBC Group London - HSBC Private Bank Geneva, together with the private banking business of HSBC Trinkaus known collectively as Global Private Banking - HSBC and money laundering - 8 February 2015: Swiss Leaks, leaked HSBC files offer a rare glimpse inside one of the world�s most private banking systems - 8 February 2015: HSBC files show how Swiss bank helped clients dodge taxes and hide millions

Berenberg Bank: Berenberg Bank, Hamburg-based multinational investment banking and private banking company

2016: 16 April 2016: Public prosecutor and tax authorities are examining claims following leaked 'Panama Papers', that leading German private bank Berenberg helped clients to evade tax - 'Panama Papers' and Germany, Berenberg Bank, Deutsche Bank, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens AG etc.

Labor in Germany: Labor in Germany

Foreign trade of Germany: Foreign trade of Germany

Economic cycle in Germany: Economic cycles - late 2000s recession in Germany - European sovereign debt crisis (ongoing) - Economies of EU member states - GDP, growth, deficit and unemployment 2005-2013 - List of German states by GDP 2008-2013

16 August 2011: German economy grew by just 0,1% in second quarter 2011 - 29. September 2011: Schuldenberg von Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden Ende Juni 2011 auf 2,072 Billionen Euro angewachsen (allein beim Bund auf 1,338 Bio.) - 15 February 2012: German economy shrinks 0.2% in fourth quarter 2011 - 15 November: Germany's economy grew by 0.2% between July and September - 10 December 2012: General Motors to close Opel plant in Bochum

Poverty in Germany: Poverty in Germany - 23 September 2012: The gap between rich and poor is continuing to widen, according to a new four-yearly poverty report drawn up by the German labor ministry - 6 March 2013: Poverty critics slam Merkel cabinet's social report - 23 October 2014: Wealth inequality in Germany likely to be higher than previously thought

2017: 3 March 2017: With 15.7% of Germans in poverty, the country has reached a high point since reunification, according to the Equal Welfare Association, based on statistics from the Federal Statistical Office

German military 'Bundeswehr': German military 'Bundeswehr' - German rearmament during the interwar period 1918-1939 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles - Rearmament and 'Bundeswehr' since 1955 - Cold War military history of Germany - Barracks of German 'Bundeswehr'

Since 1937 'Nordlager', since 1961 Hitler-General 'Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne' in Augustdorf: 'Nordlager' in Augustdorf since 1937, Hitler-General 'Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne' since 1961 - Seit 1965 Rommel-Kaserne der Bundeswehr südlich der baden-württembergischen Gemeinde Dornstadt und eine der Kasernen die den Namen des Hitler-Generals Erwin Rommel tragen - 14. Juni 1996: Die deutsche 'Wehrmacht' in der Realisierung der Welteroberungs- und Versklavungspläne des national-sozialistischen Deutschlands katapultierte das NS-Mordsystem mit Waffengewalt über die deutschen Grenzen hinaus bis nach Stalingrad und Narvik, an den Nordrand der Sahara und die Küste des Atlantiks, ihren territorialen Eroberungen übrigens immer hart auf dem Fuße ein Vernichtungsapparat, dessen Radius stets identisch mit dem Radius der Wehrmachtsfront war, die daher an der physischen Auslöschung der Opfer selbst dann mitverantwortlich und mitschuldig gewesen wäre, wenn die Massen-, Serien- und Völkermorde ohne ihre Beteiligung stattgefunden hätten, in die sie aber tief involviert war (Ralph Giordano in einem offenen Brief an den CDU-Minister Volker Rühe mit der Aufforderung, Erwin Rommel aus der Bundeswehr-Tradition zu entfernen) - 15 May 2017: The head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center�s Israel office Efraim Zuroff told 'Newsweek' in a telephone interview that the announced still insufficient move to remove Nazi-era military names from German army barracks 'should have happened years ago', as it 'has to be clear that the Wehrmacht also played a role in crimes against humanity and waging a war against peace, people who were part of that shouldn't be the heroes of the new Germany'

1936-1945 war crimes of the Wehrmacht: Crímenes de guerra de la 'Wehrmacht' - Válecné zlociny Nemecka behem druhé svetové války - Zbrodnie oddzialów Wehrmachtu - Crimes de guerre de la Wehrmacht - War crimes of the Wehrmacht - War crimes of the Wehrmacht - Russian language - Verbrechen der Wehrmacht

Since 1949 illegal clandestine army tolerated by the government: Since 1949 'Schnez-Truppe', an illegal clandestine army put together in Germany from 1949 by veterans of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS having with around 2,000 officers and a total strength of up to 40,000 members under the leadership of Hitler-officer Albert Schnez (1911�2007) with his accomplices Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel

Since 1951: By 1951 CDU-chancellor Konrad Adenauer had learned of the existence of the secret Schnez-army and its military personnel, but evidently declined to act against them

Since 1955 list of generals of the German 'Bundeswehr', mostly former Nazi 'Wehrmacht' officers: List of generals of the German 'Bundeswehr', mostly former Nazi 'Wehrmacht' officers - 1940-1945 Adolf Heusinger devient chef de la section des opérations ('Operationsabteilung') à l�OKH et participe aux décisions opérationnelles et stratégiques, les crimes de guerre de la Wehrmacht - Heinrich Trettner 1907-2006, rejoint la Légion Condor et sert comme adjudant et officier d'opérations du Generalmajor Hugo Sperrle et Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen durant la Guerre civile d'Espagne, ensuite un Generalleutnant allemand qui a servi au sein de la Heer dans la Wehrmacht pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de 1964 à 1966 Inspecteur général de la Bundeswehr (Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr)

German military personnel: German military personnel

1976 Rudel-Affäre: Nazi-Offizier Rudel, der sich nach Kriegsende als NS-Fluchthelfer ('Kameradenwerk' Hilfseinrichtung für NS-Kriegsverbrecher in Argentinien und Europa wie Rudolf Heß, Karl Dönitz, Josef Mengele), Neonazi, Waffenhändler, Siemens Auslandsvertreter und Unterstützer von Diktatoren betätigte, nahm im Oktober 1976 auf Einladung ranghoher Bundeswehroffiziere mit öffentlichen Rechtfertigungsversuchen der NS-Vergangenheit an einem Traditionstreffen ehemaliger Angehöriger des Aufklärungsgeschwaders 2 Immelmann der Wehrmacht auf dem Fliegerhorst Bremgarten teil, der Parlamentarische Staatssekretär im Bundesverteidigungsministerium, Hermann Schmidt von der SPD, hatte die Veranstaltung genehmigt

2006: In 2006 German troops in Afghanistan were in the centre of an international scandal during the War in Afghanistan since 2001, including German soldiers taking photographs of each other posed with skulls, including kissing the skulls

2009: 2009 operation Oqab was the first German ground force offensive since the creation of the Bundeswehr, the commander of the QRF, Hans-Christoph Grohmann, introduced one of his officers as 'the first Oberleutnant to lead an Infantry Company in to battle since 1945' to the press

2009: 2009 Kunduz airstrike on Friday 4 September 2009 southwest of Kunduz City in northern Afghanistan, as, responding to a call by German forces, an USA F-15E fighter jet struck two fuel tankers captured by some Taliban insurgents, killing over 90 civilians in the attack

2011-2017: 11 May 2017: Since Germany ended obligatory military service in 2011, the armed forces have examined more than 2,500 cases of suspected right-wing extremists in their ranks

2014: 31 December 2014: Involvement of German Bundeswehr in targeted Taliban killings in Afghanistan

2016/2017: 9 April 2017: German army probing 275 cases of right-wing extremism, including anti-Semitism, of those, 143 cases date back to 2016, with 53 new cases recorded this year

2017: 27 avril 2017: Après la révélation de plusieurs affaires embarrassantes, le général allemand Spindler chargé de la formation a été démis de ses fonctions

Since April/May 2017: Ab 27. April 2017 Terrorermittlungen gegen Bundeswehr-Oberleutnant Franco Albrecht - 27 April 2017: German lieutenant stationed in Hammelburg, who led a 'double life' pretending to be a Syrian refugee has been arrested on suspicion he planned a gun attack with racist motives, prosecutors say - 3 May 2017: Far right military scandals put German defence minister under pressure - 7 May 2017: German military has ordered an inspection of all of its barracks after discovering Nazi-era memorabilia at two of them, ministry says - 9 May 2017: Police arrested a second soldier Maximilian T. in planned far-right terror plot to kill politicians and blame the attack on Muslim asylum seekers

Nazi tradition of intelligence agencies and list of intelligence agencies in Germany (see also 'crime in Germany', explained further below): List of intelligence agencies of Germany

1946: Gehlen Organization established in June 1946 by USA occupation authorities consisted of members of the 12th Department of the former 'Foreign Armies East', numerous former SS, SD and Wehrmacht officers and carried the name of Wehrmacht Major general Reinhard Gehlen, head of the German military intelligence in the Eastern Front during World War II - Agency 114 of the Bundesnachrichtendienst BND was a main entrance for former Nazis

2011: 30 November 2011: Investigators have found that in 2007 the German Intelligence Service BND destroyed files of 250 employees who had been in the Nazi SS or Gestapo

2015: 24 April 2015: German BND helped NSA spy on EU politicians and companies, lied and withheld information for years

2017: 8 March 2017: The case against the NSU, the neo-Nazi terrorist organization National Socialist Underground that committed ten murders, three bomb attacks, and 15 bank robberies in the years between 1998 and 2011, is an unprecedented example of the close connection between the German secret services and the neo-Nazi movement as well as the structural racism within the German law enforcement authorities, NSU-Watch says

Military budget of Germany: Military budget of Germany

1997: 8 May 1997: More than 50 years after Germany's World War II documentary reveals that among more than 1 million people now getting wartime pensions of up to $600 per month are still members and widows of SS units branded as criminal by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal

2015: 15. Mai 2015: Luftabwehrsystem Meads für Bundeswehr, eines der teuersten Rüstungsvorhaben

2017: 1 March 2017: How much German military spending has grown over time and between the years 2000 and 2015

Taxation in Germany: Taxation in Germany

Federal budget of Germany: Federal budget of Germany

Social movements, criticism and protests: Protests in Germany

Since 1947 peace movement: Since 1947 the West German peace movement concentrated on the abolition of nuclear technology, particularly weapons, from West Germany and Europe, most activists stridently attacked both the USA and Soviet Union

16�17 June 1953 uprising in East Germany Uprising of June 1953 in East Germany

1955 peace movement 'Paulskirchenbewegung': 1955 Paulskirchenbewegung, eine außerparlamentarische Bewegung, die sich in den 1950er Jahren kritisch zur Westintegration äußerte und sich gegen die Wiederbewaffnung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aussprach

The late 1960s student movement: Student movement during the late 1960s - Protests of 1968 worldwide

Since the early 1970s anti-nuclear movement: Anti-nuclear movement in Germany since the early 1970s - International reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 2011

1989/1990 Monday demonstrations for political reforms in East Germany: Monday demonstrations in East Germany 1989/1990 - Alexanderplatz demonstration for political reforms in East Berlin on 4 November 1989

2010/2015: 5 October 2010: After police deployed water cannon, batons, teargas and pepper spray against thousands of protesters in Stuttgart on 30 September 2010, images of bloodied protesters and reports of police beating schoolchildren have transformed 'Stuttgart 21' from a central station project into a political disaster for Angela Merkel's CDU - 18 November 2015: Stuttgart police found guilty of brutality when they broke up a protest against Stuttgart's planned train station five years ago, injuring 100 people

2011: 7. Dezember 2011: Empörung über stark steigende deutsche Rüstungsexporte nach Vorliegen des Rüstungsexportberichts

Since 2011: Since 2011 'We are fed up!' series of demonstrations against industrial livestock production and for more sustainable farming, organized and sustained by around 120 different groups which represent farmers, companies, environmental rights and animal rights activists

2012: 15. August 2012: Mitarbeiterinnen des insolventen Schleckerkonzerns gründen Genossenschaft um geschlossene Filialen als Mini-Supermärkte in Eigenregie weiterführen

2013: 23 February 2013: German government heavily criticised for allowing its sales of arms and military hardware to Middle Eastern Gulf states to more than double over the past year - 22 April 2013: Lufthansa cancels almost all flights due to a warning strike after three rounds of pay talks without any agreement - 1 June 2013: Thousands of people take part in a series of anti-capitalist demonstrations in Frankfurt on May 31, 2013, targeting primarily the European Central Bank and banking giant Deutsche Bank - StopWatchingUs 2013 - 7 September 2013: Thousands took to the streets in Berlin in protests against Internet surveillance activities by intelligence agencies and the NSA, and the German government's perceived lax reaction to them

2014: 4 February 2014: Around 30,000 people from several associations representing farmers, beekeepers and consumers, as well as environmental, development and food organizations, gathered in Berlin to demonstrate against large-scale agribusiness

27 March: Hundreds of flights have been cancelled after public-sector workers walked off the jobs at airports in German cities in a strike for higher wages for some 2.1 million federal and municipal employees

May-December 2014: 20 May 2014: Holocaust survivors call on Germany to take in more Syrian refugees - 12 October 2014: In the city of Duesseldorf more than 20,000 mainly Kurdish people protested against attacks by Islamic State terrorists on Kurdish towns in Syria, particularly the besiegement of the town of Kobane - 30 November 2014: Thousands of citizens pay tribute to 23-year-old student Tug�e Albayrak who was murdered after rushing to the aid of two teenage girls who were being harassed by a group of men in Offenbach - 23 December 2014: Protesters hold up banner reading 'Together against Neo Nazis and racism' during a demonstration under the slogan 'Dresden Nazi-free' against the latest 'anti-Islamisation' Pegida rally in Dresden

2015: 5 January 2015: Thousands take to the streets in Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne and Dresden to oppose racism and xenophobia - 10 January: Tens of thousands of people rally in Dresden against racism and xenophobia - 12 January: 'Anti-Islamisation' Pegida marchers were outnumbered by tens of thousands counterdemonstrators across the country, with 30,000 people in Leipzig, 20,000 in Munich, in Dresden and other cities - 13 January: Rally to condemn the Paris jihadist attacks and take a stand against Islamophobia draws 10,000 people in Berlin - 19 April: Thousands in Germany protest against Europe-USA trade deal that they fear will erode food, labour and environmental standards - 30 August: Thousands of people took to the streets of Dresden to welcome refugees, following a string of violent anti-refugee protests in the region - 10 October 2015: Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday to oppose planned free trade deal TTIP between the EU and the USA that is claimed to be anti-democratic and to threaten food safety and environmental standards - 19 October 2015: Demonstrations in Berlin to protest against Russia�s aggression on Syria

2016: 16 January 2016: Thousands of protesters in Berlin call for organic farming, which is done without pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, without the use of antibiotics for livestock and GMO feed, also protesting against corporate agriculture as well as the pending TTIP free trade agreement between the EU and the USA - 11 avril 2016: Environ 45'000 salariés de la sidérurgie ont manifesté pour dire leurs inquiétudes quant à leur avenir, dans un secteur soumis à la concurrence féroce des acteurs chinois - 24 April 2016: Tens of thousands of opponents of a proposed transatlantic trade deal poured onto German streets Saturday on the eve of a visit by USA's Obama - 29 avril 2016: Plusieurs débrayages ont eu lieu dans toute l'Allemagne pour réclamer de meilleures conditions de travail et une augmentation de salaires pour une vaste branche fourre-tout qui recouvre l'automobile, les industries électriques, la métallurgie, et emploie 3,4 millions de personnes - 30 April 2016: German riot police arrested around 400 protesters in Stuttgart trying to block access to the congress of the right-wing populist AfD political party, as clashes broke out between party members and left-wing activists

June 2016: 11 June 2016: Thousands of peace activists and demonstrators have formed a human chain near USA Ramstein air base in western Germany, used to control USA's aircraft operating in Middle East, to protest against lethal drone strikes, as critics also state that drones often miss their intended targets, can only partly relay what is happening on the ground and encourage warfare with impunity, waged by people at computer screens far from danger - 20 June 2016: Tens of thousands of people joined weekend rallies in Germany to condemn racism and right-wing populist groups who have been railing against a record influx of migrants

September 2016: 3 septembre 2016: Plusieurs dizaines de milliers de Kurdes ont manifesté à Cologne après l'offensive lancée contre les milices kurdes en Syrie - 17 September: Tens of thousands of demonstrators in seven major cities across Germany in protest over transatlantic trade deal TTIP

November 2016: 5 November 2016: Several thousand Kurds marched against Erdogan in the western Germany city of Cologne on Saturday in support of pro-Kurdish politicians jailed in Turkey the previous day by Erdogan's regime - 25 November 2016: Hundreds gather in Hamelin to attend vigil for an attack on a woman who was dragged through the streets of a north German town behind a car with a rope tied around her neck

December 2016: 8 December 2016: Hundreds of German and Arab nationals gathered in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin to denounce the ongoing Russian aerial bombardment of Aleppo in response to initiative by the International Festival of Literature in Berlin as well as 250 writers from 60 countries - 15 December 2016: Global outcry condemns Russian regime for Aleppo tragedy, as condemnation of the Syrian dictator Assad and his allies Russia and Iran has intensified in capitals across Europe including Berlin, where after all hundreds have demonstrated blaming Russian regime and its support of Assad for the unfolding tragedy

January 2017: 21 January 2017 Women's March in cities around the world, including Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg and Munich, to promote women's rights and to address racial inequities, workers' issues, and environmental issues - 21 January 2017: Thousands protest over far-right conference in Koblenz

March 2017: 9 March 2017: Several thousand protesters gathered in Berlin and other German cities to march on International Women's Day on Wednesday, with Donald Trump's presidency being a recurring theme - 19 March 2017: Tens of thousands voiced their opposition to next months Turkish referendum on greater presidential powers, as German Kurds took to the streets of Frankfurt to protest against Turkish president Erdogan

April 2017: 22 April 2017: About 50,000 protesters have tried to disrupt a gathering of the anti-asylum and anti-EU xenophobic AfD party in Cologne, already riven by internal rivalries five months before the country�s general election

June/July 2017: 27 June 2017: Greenpeace, Oxfam and other organizations, preparing protests against the G20 summit in July, demand solutions and cooperation to combat famines, inequality, climate change, wars and displacements, not provided by present G20 policy, and call for developing democracy, strengthening parliaments, creating transparency, enabling effective public participation in important decisions, also in Germany and Hamburg, that will host Putin, Xi Jinping, Trump and Erdogan in July - Proteste und Gegenveranstaltungen gegen den G20-Gipfel in Hamburg am 7./8. Juli 2017 - zahlreiche Bündnisse und Initiativen organisieren Veranstaltungen um Alternativen zum beim G20 vertretenen Wirtschaftssystem aufzuzeigen

August 2017: 19 August 2017: Counter-protesters block neo-Nazi march in Berlin's Spandau district, coming from all over Germany and neighboring European countries, and attempting to march to the site of the prison where Nazi officer Rudolf Hess died, after police have told organizers they can march

September/October 2017: 25 September 2017: Hundreds of protesters gathered in Berlin and other cities in Germany to protest the surge of the neo-Nazi linked Alternative for Germany party, which captured around 13% of the vote in the German elections Sunday, catapulting it to become the country�s third biggest political force - 22 October 2017: Two days before the new parliament convenes and AfD will join this assembly that is obligated to the constitution, thousands protest racism in Berlin

November 2017: 4 novembre 2017: Des milliers de personnes manifestaient samedi à Bonn pour réclamer des actions plus fortes contre le réchauffement mondial, à commencer par la fin du charbon

December 2017: 2 December 2017: Protests delay German neo-Nazi linked AfD party congress, as police use water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters, and as later in the day, about 6,500 protesters marched through Hannover chanting slogans against the party and carrying placards reading 'Hanover against Nazis' and 'Stand up to racism'

January 2018: 8 January 2018: Workers have downed tools at more than 80 companies across Germany as the country�s biggest union IG Metall stepped up its campaign for a 28-hour working week to allow employees to improve their work-life balance

March 2018: 4 March 2018: Thousands in Berlin protest against the attack of the Turkish military on the Kurdish region of Afrin in northwestern Syria, which has been largely trouble-free throughout Assad's war against the Syrian people

April 2018: 25 April 2018: Non-Jewish Germans joined with Jews wearing kippahs at several protests across Germany in a sign of solidarity following shocking anti-Semitic incidents, as one small Berlin-Neukoelln rally was called off by its members when angry counter-protesters shouted 'terrorists', spat at participants and snatched away an Israeli flag, and after Jewish leader warned against wearing religious symbols on streets for fear of attack, raising pointed questions about German government�s ability to protect its burgeoning Jewish community seven decades after the Holocaust

May 2018: 5 May 2018: Germans and Kurds take to the streets against arms trade and German weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall

Subdivisions of Germany: Subdivisions of Germany

Municipalities, cities and towns in Germany: Municipalities of Germany - List of cities and towns in Germany

History of Germany by state: History of Germany by state - Former German states and territories by current state

History of Baden-Württemberg: History of Baden-Württemberg

1848�1849: Baden in the German revolutions of 1848�1849 - 1848/1849 Baden Revolution

Stuttgart Metropolitan Region: Stuttgart Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan region in Germany consisting of the cities of Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Tübingen/Reutlingen

History of Bavaria: History of Bavaria - Munich Metropolitan Region

1848-1849: Bavaria in the German revolutions of 1848�1849

Since 1871 and 1933: Since 1871 Bavaria in the German Empire, since 1918 in the Weimar Republic and during the 1933-1945 Nazi period - 30 October 2017: Adolf Hitler only joined the Nazis after being rejected by the 1919 newly formed German Socialist party, telling him that it did not want him in the party, historian Thomas Weber has learned

Since November 2012: November 2012: Federal prosecutors charge neo-Nazis with murders of 10 people, mostly immigrants and a police officer

March 2013: 27 March 2013: Munich court sparked angry criticism for failing to guarantee the Turkish media access to cover the upcoming neo-Nazi murder trial in which most of the victims were Turkish

May 2013: 4. Mai 2013: 79 Landtagsabgeordnete haben Verwandte ersten Grades, also Ehepartner, Eltern oder Kinder, angestellt und dafür Gelder vom Landtag kassiert

Since 6 May 2013: Since 6 May 2013 'NSU Trial' against several people in connection with the National Socialist Underground terrorist organization in Germany and the NSU murders in Munich - 'National Socialist Underground' far-right German terrorist group which was uncovered in November 2011

July 2013: 30 juillet 2013: Le président du club de football Bayern Munich, Uli Hoeness, qui avait reconnu avoir caché de l'argent en Suisse, accusé de fraude fiscale

August 2013: Gustl Mollath's persecution and HypoVereinsbank black money scandal since 2003 - 6 August 2013: The OLG Nuremberg orders the reopening of Mollath's case and his immediate release

June 2015: 6./7. Juni 2015: G7-Gipfel auf Schloss Elmau 2015 kostet Bundesrepublik und das Land Bayern über 200 Millionen Euro

2017: 17 May 2017: Six alleged perpetrators all from Munich and Ebersberg ranging in age from 18 to 33 charged with incitement to hate after spewing anti-Semitic abuse at passengers on a Munich city bus packed with some 40 passengers, but only an unmarried couple from Munich attempted to intervene, as Bavaria has seen a rise in anti-Semitic criminality with 176 anti-Jewish crimes reported in the state in 2016

April 2018: 25 April 2018: Bavaria's ruling Christian Social Union CSU has ordered Christian crosses, that are already compulsory in public school classrooms and courtrooms, to be placed in all state buildings, saying that 'the cross is a fundamental symbol of our Bavarian identity and way of life' and a cultural rather than religious symbol, without explicitly mentioning that crucifixion was the capital punishment in the Roman Empire meted out specifically to slaves predominantly acquired through warfare, succeeded by kingdoms and empires, including Francia (Kingdom of the Franks 481�843), the Carolingian Empire, and the 'Holy Roman Empire' 800/962�1806

April 2018 Bavarian Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp memorial: 28 April 2018: Germany inaugurated a memorial at the long-forgotten site of World War II Nazi Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp where forced laborers built an aircraft factory deep inside a Bavarian forest and where at least 2,200 prisoners, many of them Hungarian Jews, died in the miserable conditions at the camp and were buried on-site in a mass grave, after more than 70 years later the state of Bavaria has finally put up a memorial of standing concrete slabs with photographs and text on the site�s grim history, according to the association 'For Remembrance' that fought for 20 years for the memorial to be built

History of Hamburg: History of Hamburg - Timeline of Hamburg

1938-1945: 1938-1945 Neuengamme concentration camp near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, operated by the SS an estimated 106,000 prisoners were held at Neuengamme and at its subcamps, the verified death toll is 42,900

Since 1945 Hamburg after the Second World War: Hamburg after the Second World War 1939-1945

1946-1948 Hamburg Ravensbrück trials: 1946-1948 Hamburg Ravensbrück trials, a series of seven trials for war crimes against camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp that the British authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Hamburg after the end of World War II

June/July 2017: G20 Hamburg summit protests June-July 2017 - 7�8 July 2017 G20 Hamburg summit in the city of Hamburg - 7 July 2017: Protesters reportedly clashed with police, torched patrol cars and blocked roads in the German city of Hamburg on Friday in fresh violence just before the start of the G20 summit - 7 July 2017: New York city mayor Bill De Blasio, one of Trump's sharpest critics, will take part in protests against the G20 summit in Hamburg and will be a keynote speaker on Saturday at a rally for human rights and democracy - 9 July 2017: Two nights of rioting, looting and transport chaos left many residents in Hamburg asking why their government had decided to hold the annual G20 summit with Putin, Xi Jinping, Trump and Erdogan in a densely populated city with such a strong tradition of counter-cultural protest

2018: 1 February 2018: Relatives of some of the thousands of Nazi victims who were tortured and murdered in the Hamburg headquarters of the Gestapo have accused authorities and property developers of insulting their memory following the transformation of the building into a luxury complex with scant reference to its past

History of Hesse: History of Hesse

1848-1849 National Assembly:National Assembly in Frankfurt in the German revolutions of 1848�1849

Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region and Frankfurt/Main: Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region - Frankfurt/Main - Geography of Frankfurt/Main, history of Frankfurt/Main and, economy of Frankfurt/Main - Cityscape, 20th-century architecture and 21st-century architecture of Frankfurt/Main

History of North Rhine-Westphalia: History of North Rhine-Westphalia

1848-1849: Rhineland in the German revolutions of 1848�1849

Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region: Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the largest metropolitan region with over 11 million inhabitants and the only megacity in Germany

History of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia: History of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia

2015 Cologne mayor election: 18 October 2015: German city official Henriette Reker who was stabbed in the neck in an attack over her work with refugees elected the first female mayor of the western city of Cologne

2018 Münster attack: On 7 April 2018, a German man drove a van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of Münster, killing two people and injuring about 20 others

History of Rhineland-Palatinate: History of Rhineland-Palatinate

1848-1849: Palatinate in the German revolutions of 1848�1849

May 2018: 5 mai 2018: Une exposition permanente a été inaugurée dans la matinée dans la maison natale de l'auteur du 'Capital' à Trèves, ville proche de la France et du Luxembourg où Marx a vu le jour le 5 mai 1818

History of Prussia, Brandenburg and Berlin: History of Prussia - History of Brandenburg - History of Berlin

1848-1849: Prussia in the German revolutions of 1848�1849, backlash in Prussia and repression

Since 1871, since 1918 and 1933-1945: Since 1871 Prussia in the German Empire - Since 1918 Prussia in the Weimar Republic, during the 1933-1945 Nazi period and end of Prussia

History of Saxony: History of Saxony

1848-1849: Saxony in the German revolutions of 1848�1849

State elections 2011-2019: List of German state elections 2012-2019

Parteienstaat mit alten Seilschaften: Politics of Germany

2009-2014: German federal election 2009 - 25. Juli 2012: Von der CDU/FDP-Regierung durchgesetzte Reform des Bundestagswahlrechts wegen Verletzung der Grundsätze der Gleichheit und Unmittelbarkeit der Wahl verfassungswidrig - 10. August 2012: Koalition gegen die Ratifizierung der Uno-Anti-Korruptions-Konvention - German federal election 22 September 2013 - 22 septembre 2013: Les Allemands ont voté en masse dimanche matin pour les élections législatives qui devraient confirmer Angela Merkel - 23 September: Germany's CDU/CSU wins by a landslide but faces tough coalition choices - 23/24 September: 'This morning I stood in front of my wardrobe and I thought red is no good, bright green is no good, blue was yesterday, what are you going to do?' CDU chancellor Merkel said - 17 octobre 2013: Merkel tente un rapprochement avec les sociaux-démocrates - 27 November: CDU/CSU and SPD reach deal on forming a coalition - 14 décembre 2013: Feu vert des sociaux-démocrates à la 'grande coalition' dans un référendum interne - 18 December: Angela Merkel elected to a third term as chancellor in a vote in the German lower house of parliament - 14 February 2014: German minister Friedrich quits over Edathy's suspected involvement in child pornography - 17 February 2014: German grand coalition dispute over SPD lawmaker's child porn probe as commentators are asking whether Merkel's third government can rule in its current state

2015: 7 May 2015: German defense ministry official tried to get MAD intelligence service on the urging of the manufacturer of assault rifles G36 Heckler&Koch to cover up negative reports about this rifles used by the Bundeswehr - 13 October 2015: Anti-refugee protesters create a gallows for Angela Merkel over her open-door refugee policies as housing for those who have fled the Middle East are daubed in racist graffiti - 17 October 2015: Henriette Reker, running for the office of the Mayor of Cologne, was seriously wounded by an assailant with a knife while shouting against refugees - 19 October 2015: Henriette Reker who was stabbed in the neck in an attack over her work with refugees elected the first female mayor of the western city of Cologne - 7 November 2015: Just two days after resolving a coalition row over how to handle the record influx of refugees, row over their status reopened by the CDU/CSU interior minister saying Syrian refugees would receive a modified status and be barred from having family members join them

2016: 13 March 2016: Legislatures in the prosperous southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate and relatively poor Saxony-Anhalt in the east entered by right-wing AfD with strong gains, that took around a quarter of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt - Since 2015 German automobile industry emissions scandal - 27 August 2016: Viele Autokonzerne haben manipuliert, die Politik hat in der Abgas-Affäre versagt - 1 December 2016: The first time German government admits that Ramstein military base in Rhineland-Palatinate plays a central role in the USA�s illegal drone war missions around the world, killing almost 5,000 people in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia as well as more than 13,000 in the war in Afghanistan, as the large majority of the victims are innocents such as women, children, and old people according to Ramstein campaign - 2 December 2016: Opposition parties accuse the coalition government of overstepping its authority in order to block USA whistleblower Edward Snowden's trip to Germany after the Federal Court of Justice ruled in November that the government must allow a parliamentary committee in Berlin to question Snowden, who in 2013 leaked details of the USA National Security Agency's global surveillance practises

June 2017: 18 June 2017: NSU victims' families sue German government over investigation errors, as families of two men murdered by a neo-Nazi group are suing for damages due to mistakes made in the probe argueing that authorities could have arrested the trio earlier, preventing further murders - 23 June 2017: German lawmakers voted Thursday to cut off public financing for extremist parties, a measure targeting the neo-Nazi NPD party after two failed attempts by parliament to ban it

August 2017: 21 August 2017: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she doesn't intend to seek a business post after life in politics and criticised her predecessor S P D-Schröder for joining the board of Russian oil giant Rosneft

September 2017 German federal election: 24 September 2017 German federal election - 24 September 2017: Angela Merkel wins fourth term but neo-Nazi linked AfD surges to third, announcing to 'hunt' Merkel and saying 'we will take our people and our country back'

October 2017: 15 October 2017 Lower Saxony state election - 16 October 2017: Germany�s Social Democrats score victory in regional election

November 2017: 20 November 2017: Raising prospect of new election German coalition talks break down, after the FDP withdrew

January 2018: 23 janvier 2018: L'extrême droite préside la commission sur le budget - 24 January 2018: Newly released figures show Germany's CDU/SPD coalition approved more weapons exports over the past four years, also showing exports to countries outside the EU and NATO rose even more steeply, by 47% to almost 15 billion euros, as photos emerged in recent days allegedly showing Turkey using German-made tanks against Kurds in northern Syria

February 2018: 7 février 2018: Le parti de la chancelière allemande et les sociaux-démocrates sont enfin tombés d'accord pour gouverner, mais quelque 460'000 militants du SPD devront se prononcer lors d'une consultation interne

March 2018: 4. März 2018 Mitgliedervotum der SPD zum Koalitionsvertrag 2018 - 4 March 2018: Social democrats� vote for 'grand coalition' with conservatives ends months of uncertainty - 9 mars 2018: Le nouveau gouvernement d'Angela Merkel finalisé - 14 March 2018: Angela Merkel voted in for fourth term as German chancellor

April 2018: 22 April 2018: Germany�s Social Democrats have elected Andrea Nahles, a combative and outspoken former labour minister, as the first female leader of the 155-year-old party

Political parties in Germany - Political corruption - List of political scandals in Germany

Since the early 1980s Flick Affair: Since the early 1980s Flick Affair, German political scandal relating to donations by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate, to various political parties, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, then federal minister for economic affairs, was forced to resign in 1984 after being accused of accepting bribes from CEO Friedrich Karl Flick

Since 1990s: CDU/CSU-Korruptions-, Spenden- und Schwarzgeldaffäre seit den 90iger Jahren, nicht abgeschlossen - Vgl. 'Das "wunderbare Land" und die K-Frage 2009: Kläffende Köter, Carstensens Kieler Karren und nicht nur ein hervorragender "Kopp"' - CDU/CSU Korruptionsaffäre: Ludwig-Holger Pfahls (nicht abgeschlossen) - 9 November 2011: Former junior defence minister Pfahls (CDU/CSU-Kohl government) once more sentenced to 4 1/2 years for fraud - CDU/CSU Korruptionsaffäre: Karlheinz Schreiber (nicht abgeschlossen) - 14 November 2013: Arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison

Since 1990: Leuna-Affäre (seit 1990, nicht abgeschlossen)

Since 1990: Überwachungsaffäre der Deutschen Telekom (seit 1999)

2010/2011: 'Staatstrojaner'-Affäre seit 2010 - 10. Oktober 2011: Chaos-Computerclub erhebt schwere Vorwürfe wegen illegaler staatlicher Überwachungsprogramme mit sog. 'Trojanern' - 10. Oktober 2011: Affäre um 'Staatstrojaner' weitet sich aus - Einsatz in Bayern

2013: 9 October 2013: After the federal 'Verfassungsschutz' had observed German politician Bodo Ramelow for many years, the German Bundesverfassungsgericht rules: 'Die Beobachtung stellt demnach einen Eingriff in das freie Mandat dar.'

2013: 15 October 2013: Germany blocked the introduction of tougher EU emissions rules for cars shortly after CDU-chancellor Angela Merkel's party received a large donation from three major BMW shareholders

Christian Democratic Union of Germany and Christian Social Union in Bavaria

Since 1949: 2016 'Rosenburg Project' study, covering the period from 1950 to 1973 and conducted by independent experts, highlights how thousands of Germans who committed crimes during Hitler's dictatorship were protected by former NDSAP members holding key positions in the legal system, finding that more than half of all senior officials in Germany's Justice Ministry in the 1950s and 1960s were ex-Nazis who, through inaction or intentional sabotage, systematically protected fellow former members of Hitler's National Socialist party from prosecution and shaped West Germany's legal code for decades

1952 Aufenthaltsort Adolf Eichmanns dem CDU-Adenauerschen BND bekannt: CIA-Akten 2006: Aufenthaltsort Adolf Eichmanns dem CDU-Adenauerschen BND und CIA bereits 1958 bekannt - BND-Akten: Aufenthaltsort Eichmanns sogar schon 1952 bekannt

1953-1963 Nazi-jurist CDU-Globke director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany: 1953-1963 CDU-member and racist Nazi-jurist Hans Globke director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany, 1933-1945 high-profile Nazi-jurist in NSDAP-Germany, drafting the law for the 'Protection of the German Blood' and serving as chief legal advisor in the Office for Jewish Affairs in the Ministry of Interior, the section headed by Adolf Eichmann that implemented the Holocaust bureaucratically, knowing 'that the Jews were being put to death en masse' - March 1963: Dr. Hans Maria Globke - facts and documents presented by the association of democratic lawyers Berlin

1958-1962: Wanted Nazi Walter Rauff was German 'Bundesnachrichtendienst' BND spy between 1958-1962

1965: In 1965 'Butcher of Lyon' SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie was recruited by the BND, his initial monthly salary of 500 Deutsche Mark was transferred in May 1966 to an account of the Chartered Bank of London in San Francisco in the USA, which recruited him in 1947 as an agent for the USA Army Counter Intelligence Corps CIC, and he made at least 35 reports to the BND headquarters in Pullach

1966-1969 NSDAP/CDU-Kiesinger Kanzler: NSDAP/CDU-Kiesinger Kanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Große Koalition von CDU/CSU und SPD 1966-1969, u.a. mit SA- und NSDAP-Mitglied Karl Schiller als Minister)

1979-1984 SA- und NSDAP-Mitglied Karl Carstens Präsident: SA- und NSDAP-Mitglied Karl Carstens Präsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1979-1984

1945-2007 NSDAP/CDU-Filbinger Affäre (nicht abgeschlossen): NSDAP/CDU-Filbinger-Affäre (1945 bis 2007) - Justizmorde als NS-Richter - 'Furchtbare Juristen' (mit dem Untertitel 'Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit unserer Justiz') behandelt die Verbrechen der deutschen Justiz in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und die durch Übernahme von NS-vorbelasteten Juristen in den Staatsdienst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland verhinderte gerichtliche Aufarbeitung ebendieser Verbrechen - 1. September 2009: Österreichs Nationalratspräsidentin Prammer fordert eine 'lückenlose Rehabilitation' der Opfer der NS-Militärjustiz - Opfer der NS-Militärjustiz sind Personen, die von Militärgerichten (einschließlich Feldgerichten und Ersatzgerichten) in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus verurteilt wurden, während des Zweiten Weltkrieges haben Militärrichter etwa 30.000 Todesurteile gefällt

14 January 2013: Youngest 'Schindler's List' survivor Leon Leyson dies in Southern California at 83 - millions didn't survive due to the actions of Hitler, Himmler, Göring, von Richthofen, Goebbels, Kiesinger, Filbinger, Gustav Noske, Helmut Schmidt etc.

24. Oktober 2014: Denkmal für die Verfolgten der NS-Militärjustiz als zentrale österreichische Gedenkstätte für Deserteure des NS-Regimes am Wiener Ballhausplatz von Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer der Öffentlichkeit übergeben

Seit 1975 (nicht abgeschlossen) Flick-Parteispenden-Affäre: Flick-Affäre seit 1975 (nicht abgeschlossen)

21. August 2015: CSU-Politiker Franz Josef Strauß hat während seiner Amtszeiten neuen Recherchen zufolge jahrelang von Unternehmen wie BMW, Bertelsmann und Firmen aus dem Flick-Imperium Schmiergeld über eine Wirtschaftsberatungsgesellschaft kassiert

1982 CDU-Kohl wanted half of Turks out of Germany: 2 August 2013: In 1982 CDU-Chancellor Helmut Kohl wanted to send one-half of the country�s Turkish immigrant population back home

Seit 1989 (nicht abgeschlossen) CDU/CSU-Korruptions-, Spenden- und Schwarzgeldaffäre: CDU/CSU-Korruptions-, Spenden- und Schwarzgeldaffäre seit den 90iger Jahren, nicht abgeschlossen

Zum Beispiel seit 1987 (nicht abgeschlossen): Ludwig-Holger Pfahls - Vorteilsannahme, Steuerhinterziehung und Betrug - 9 November 2011: Former junior defence minister Pfahls (CDU/CSU-Kohl government) once more sentenced to 4 1/2 years for fraud

Zum Beispiel seit den 1980er Jahren (nicht abgeschlossen): Karlheinz Schreiber - Steuerhinterziehung, Bestechung - Vgl. den Artikel: Das "wunderbare Land" und die K-Frage 2009: Kläffende Köter, Carstensens Kieler Karren und nicht nur ein hervorragender "Kopp"

1996: 14. Juni 1996: Die deutsche 'Wehrmacht' in der Realisierung der Welteroberungs- und Versklavungspläne des national-sozialistischen Deutschlands katapultierte das NS-Mordsystem mit Waffengewalt über die deutschen Grenzen hinaus bis nach Stalingrad und Narvik, an den Nordrand der Sahara und die Küste des Atlantiks, ihren territorialen Eroberungen übrigens immer hart auf dem Fuße ein Vernichtungsapparat, dessen Radius stets identisch mit dem Radius der Wehrmachtsfront war, die daher an der physischen Auslöschung der Opfer selbst dann mitverantwortlich und mitschuldig gewesen wäre, wenn die Massen-, Serien- und Völkermorde ohne ihre Beteiligung stattgefunden hätten, in die sie aber tief involviert war (Ralph Giordano in einem offenen Brief an den CDU-Minister Volker Rühe mit der Aufforderung, Erwin Rommel aus der Bundeswehr-Tradition zu entfernen)

Since 2003: In the spring of 2003 CDU's Angela Merkel came out in favour of the USA's and United Kingdom's invasion of Iraq, describing supported war as 'unavoidable' - Casualties of the Iraq War since 2003, beginning with the 2003 USA invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency - 6 July 2016: Public inquiry`s report into the British role in the Iraq War since 2003, saying the Iraq War case was not justified - 10 juillet 2016: Ministre du gouvernement de Tony Blair en 2003 John Prescott a déploré dimanche une guerre 'illégale' et regrette amèrement sa décision d'entrer en guerre contre l'Irak et ses conséquences

Since November 2005: 18 June 2017: NSU victims' families sue German governments, including the governments of CDU's Angela Merkel, over investigation errors, as families of two men murdered by a neo-Nazi group are suing for damages due to mistakes made in the probe argueing that authorities could have arrested the trio earlier, preventing further murders, and as the case against the NSU, the neo-Nazi terrorist organization National Socialist Underground that committed ten murders, three bomb attacks, and 15 bank robberies in the years between 1998 and 2011, is an unprecedented example of the close connection between the German secret services and the neo-Nazi movement as well as the structural racism within the German law enforcement authorities, according to NSU-Watch

2008-2011 Weißrußlands Polizei- und Milizschulung: 2008-2011: Schulung von Polizei und Miliz des Innenministeriums Weißrußlands in Deutschland für Einsätze gegen Demonstranten, sog. 'Rädelsführer' etc., auf Veranlassung der Regierung Merkel

2010/2011: Abschlußbericht der Kommission 'Selbstkontrolle der Wissenschaft' der Universität Bayreuth: Der am 1. März 2011 zurückgetretene Verteidigungsminister zu Guttenberg hat bei der Herstellung seiner Dissertation absichtlich getäuscht

2010/2015: 5 October 2010: After police deployed water cannon, batons, teargas and pepper spray against thousands of protesters in Stuttgart on 30 September 2010, images of bloodied protesters and reports of police beating schoolchildren have transformed 'Stuttgart 21' from a central station project into a political disaster for Angela Merkel's CDU - 18 November 2015: Stuttgart police found guilty of brutality when they broke up a protest against Stuttgart's planned train station five years ago, injuring 100 people

2011/2013: Am 19. Juni 2011 de Maizières Belehrung der Nato, daß der Libyeneinsatz, d.h. die Rettungsaktion und Hilfe für die libysche Zivilbevölkerung und die Gaddafi-Gegner 'kurzsichtig' sei - 21 May 2013: Defence Minister de Maizière charged over scrapped drone project after investing around USD 835 million

2011 CDU-Kauderwelsch: November 2011: Europe speaks (of) 'Kauderwelsch' now!

2011/2012 Christian Wulff Kredit- und Medienaffäre: Christian Wulff Kredit- und Medienaffäre seit 2011/2012 - 'Wulff-Affäre' 2011/2012 - 18 February: Germany's president quits over corruption charges - 12 avril 2013: L'ancien président Christian Wulff inculpé pour corruption - 27 August: Ex-German president Wulff to be tried on accepting unfair advantages - 14 November: German ex-President Wulff goes on trial over 'favours'

2012 Ermittlung gegen CDU-Mappus wegen Untreue: 11. Juli 2012: Staatsanwaltliches Ermittlungsverfahren gegen früheren CDU-Ministerpräsidenten Mappus wegen Untreue beim Kauf von EnBW-Aktien - 14. Juli: CDU distanziert sich von Stefan Mappus

2013 Tougher EU emissions rules for cars blocked after large BMW donation: 15 October 2013: Germany blocked the introduction of tougher EU emissions rules for cars shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel's party received a large donation from three major BMW shareholders

2000/2013 CDU-Politik und Naziterror, bevor der erste NSU-Mord in Nürnberg im September 2000 geschah, war dem damaligen sächsischen CDU-Innenminister Klaus Hardraht die Struktur des Naziterror-Netzwerkes NSU bekannt: 21. Mai 2013: Mit Schreiben vom 28.04.2000 des Präsidenten des Landesamts für Verfassungsschutz an den damaligen sächsischen CDU-Innenminister Klaus Hardraht und mehrere Verantwortliche wurden diese darüber unterrichtet, daß es Zweck der Nazi-Terrorgruppe NSU sei, 'schwere Straftaten gegen die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung zu begehen' und daß bei der NSU 'eine deutliche Steigerung der Intensität bis hin zu schwersten Straftaten feststellbar' sei

September 2013: 13. September 2013: Zum 100. Jahrestag der von deutschen Kriegsverbrechern verübten Massaker von Dinant in Belgiens Wallonie erhielt die deutsche CDU-Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel am 13. September 2013 vom Bürgermeister Dinants eine Einladung, die sie ausschlug - August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack in Syria on opposition-controlled areas, where 'significant quantities of sarin were used in a well-planned indiscriminate attack targeting civilian-inhabited areas, causing mass casualties', according to UN

Since 20 May 2014: Since 20 May 2014 German Parliamentary Committee investigating the NSA and BND spying scandal

2014-2018 Erinnerung an den 1. Weltkrieg 1914-1918, hundert Jahre später: First World War centenary 2014-2018 - Commémoration de la Première Guerre mondiale en Belgique - La sélection du Centenaire - Mai 2015 - The Great War Timeline - May 1915 - Erinnerung an die Opfer und den Widerstand in vielen weiteren Ländern und in Deutschland

2014-2020 Erinnerung an den 2. Weltkrieg 1939-1945 75 Jahre später: Aftermath of World War II - 75 years later the British website 'World War II Today' continues to follow the war through to August 1945

2015: 30 April 2015: EU's Jean-Claude Juncker expects that the German CDU/CSU-SPD government gets to the bottom of Brussels spy scandal after Germany reportedly snooped on the EU and France at USA's behest

2015: 7 May 2015: German defense ministry official - ministry led by CDU's Ursula von der Leyen - tried to get MAD intelligence service on the urging of the manufacturer of assault rifles G36 Heckler&Koch to cover up negative reports about this rifles used by the Bundeswehr - Hitler's general Erwin Rommel, commander of Hitler's 'Führerbegleithauptquartier' during the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, commander during the Nazi invasion of France, Belgium 1940 and North Africa, war crimes in Italy 1943 - since 1961 the biggest West-German military barracks named 'Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne', ongoing - 1940 Execution of prisoners in France by Nazi Germany and by Rommel's 7th Panzer division alongside troops from 5th Panzer division, committing numerous atrocities against French and especially French-African soldiers, Rommel himself ordered the execution of one French officer, who did not have a gun - En juin 1940 les assassins de la 7e division blindée allemande sous les ordres d'Erwin Rommel, qui séparent alors les Africains des Européens, exécutent sommairement le capitaine N'Tchoréré, qui refuse d�être considéré comme un 'Untermensch', un 'sous-homme' - 27. Juli 2009: Der Historiker Raffael Scheck beschreibt anhand von Dokumenten, wie Wehrmachtseinheiten innerhalb nur eines Monats, zwischen dem 24. Mai und dem 24. Juni 1940, kurz nach der Kapitulation Frankreichs, mindestens 3.000 schwarze Soldaten Frankreichs ermordeten, obwohl die sich bereits ergeben hatten oder verwundet waren und nicht mehr im Kampf standen - The_Holocaust in North Africa's 'Italian Libya', prepared since 1938, in Tunisia under Vichy-France rule etc. - Hitler's general Heinz Guderian, commander during the invasion of Poland 1939, commander during the invasion of France and Belgium 1940, commander during the invasion of the Soviet Union since 1941, Chief of Staff of the Army in 1944, after 1945 Nazi general Heinz Guderian advised on the re-establishment of military forces in West-Germany - 23 May 2015: Polish regulation to compensate 20,000 Holocaust survivors in a new pension program providing monthly payments of $130 to Polish-born Jews and non-Jews who suffered hardships under the German Nazis in World War II

2016: 31 January 2016: Visiting Russian regime's Putin in Moscow, CSU's Horst Seehofer is undermining German governments's refugee policy, as the Russian regime and German Neonazi organizations are trying to stoke popular discontent over a German-Russian teen's fabricated rape claim, and the Russian regime, fighting against the Syrian democracy since 2011 and previously, is murdering hundreds of civilians including children in Syria in daily terror attacks using fighter jets

2016: 8 March 2016: Congo-born priest Ndjimbi-Tshiende in Germany's Bavaria quits over death threats he received since speaking out in defence of refugees and after he was fed up with xenophobic utterances from prominent CSU local politicians Sylvia Boher and Johann Haindi

2016: 29. Oktober 2016: EU-Kommissar CDU-Oettinger nennt Chinesen bei Vortrag in Hamburg 'Schlitzaugen' und spricht von 'Kommunisten'-Blockade der Wallonie bei den CETA Verhandlungen zwischen Canada und der EU

May 2017: 15 May 2017: The head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center�s Israel office Efraim Zuroff told 'Newsweek' in a telephone interview that the announced still insufficient move to remove Nazi-era military names from German army barracks 'should have happened years ago', as it 'has to be clear that the Wehrmacht also played a role in crimes against humanity and waging a war against peace, people who were part of that shouldn't be the heroes of the new Germany'

August 2017: Am 4. August 2017 erklärt die bei der Landtagswahl 2013 in Niedersachsen über die Landesliste in den Landtag gewählte Elke Twesten auf einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz mit CDU-Fraktionschef Björn Thümler ihren Austritt aus Partei und Landtagsfraktion von 'Bündnis 90/Die Grünen' und kündigte den Eintritt in die CDU-Landtagsfraktion an, wodurch die rot-grüne Landesregierung ihre parlamentarische Mehrheit von einer Stimme verliert, die nun die Opposition aus CDU und FDP erhält

March 2018: 29 March 2018: On 21 March 2018 German chancellor Merkel called the Turkish Afrin offensive in Syria 'unacceptable', but that has not stopped her government from selling arms to Turkey, according to German public media

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5/6 July 1914: 5/6 July 1914 Hoyos Mission and 'Blank cheque' in Berlin

25 July 1914: Austria-Hungarian and Serbian preparations for war since ultimatum of 23 July

Seite 1 des 'Vorwärts', Zentralorgan der SPD, vom 25. Juli 1914: "Eine ernste Stunde ist gekommen, ernster als irgend eine der letzten Jahrzehnte. Gefahr ist im Verzuge! Der Weltkrieg droht! Die herrschenden Klassen, die Euch im Frieden knebeln, verachten, ausnutzen, wollen Euch als Kanonenfutter mißbrauchen. Ueberall muß den Gewalthabern in die Ohren klingen: Wir wollen keinen Krieg! Nieder mit dem Kriege! Hoch die internationale Völkerverbrüderung! Berlin, den 25. Juli 1914. Der Parteivorstand."

25. Juli 1914: Friedenskundgebungen in den folgenden Tagen in großer Zahl, mit zehntausenden Teilnehmern.

28 July 1914: Austro-Hungarian declaration of war on Serbia

28 July 1914: The International Socialist Bureau (permanent secretariat in Brussels) urges the European working population and its organizations, to continue and intensify the battle for peace, for an arbitrational solution of the Austrian-Serbian crisis

1 August 1914: German declarations of war on Russia on 1st August, on France on August 3, on Belgium on August 4, German troops invaded Luxemburg as early as 7:00 pm of August 1st without declaration, first of all occupying the railway station of Ulflingen

August 1914: August 1914: Bei Beginn des Angriffskrieges des Deutschen Reichs 1914 wird die Hälfte der SPD-Mitglieder, bis 1917 sind 75% der SPD-Mitglieder zum Militär eingezogen

Since 1 August 1914: In August 1914, Friedrich Ebert led the 'Social Democratic Party' to vote almost unanimously in favour of war loans - 'Burgfrieden' of the Social Democratic Party of Germany during World War I (1914-1918) - How the poppy tradition began, worn each year in the period around Armistice Day on 11 Novembe

5�16 August 1914 Battle of Liège: 5�16 August 1914 Battle of Liège, the opening German aggression in its invasion of Belgium and the first battle of World War I, the length of the siege of Liège may have delayed the German invasion of France by 4�5 days, railways needed by the German armies in eastern Belgium were closed for the duration of the siege and German murderous troops did not appear in strength before Namur until 20 August - On 6 August 1914 the German Army Zeppelin Z VI bombed the Belgian city of Liège, killing nine civilians, followed by night raids on Antwerp on 25 August and 2 September - Super-heavy howitzer developed by the German armaments manufacturer Krupp were used to destroy the Belgian forts at Liège, Namur, and Antwerp, and the French fort at Maubeuge, applauded by the German press and declared a 'Wunderwaffe' (wonder weapon)

August 1914 German massacres of hundreds of unarmed Belgian civilians in Dinant: On 21/22 August 1914 German infantry and pioneers advanced into Dinant, killing seven civilians and burning 15�20 houses, on 23 August 1914 the Germans massacred 674 unarmed Belgian civilians in Dinant, civilians were lined up against a wall and shot, including men over 70, women or girls, children under 14 and even babies, 1,200 houses were burned down and 400 people were deported to Germany as an area of Dinant was systematically looted and burned down by the Germans, also destroying public and historic buildings, including the collegial church and the town hall - 1914/1915 official report of massacres of peaceable citizens, women and children by the German army and testimony of eye-witnesses - 1915/1917 'Le sac de Dinant et le légendes du livre blanc allemand du 10 mai 1915', par M. Tschoffen, procureur du roi de l'arrondissement de Dinant - 12 May 1915 Bryce Report into German Atrocities in Belgium

1914 Unterstützung der Massaker von Dinant durch die SPD und ihre Presse: 1914 verfassen Adolf Köster, Redakteur des SPD-Zentralorgans Vorwärts sowie des Hamburger Echos, und Gustav Noske, SPD-Abgeordneter im Reichstag, Chefredakteur der Chemnitzer Volksstimme und Wehrexperte der Partei, eine Schrift, die die Massaker von Dinant unterstützt und den Standpunkt des deutschen Heeres teilt

August/September 1914 'Septemberprogramm' 1914, the plan for the territorial expansion of Imperial Germany: The 'Septemberprogramm' 1914, the plan for the territorial expansion of Imperial Germany at the beginning of World War I 1914�1918, showing the true scope of German plans for territorial expansion in two directions, east and west - Buts de guerre des Empires centraux 1914-1918

2. Dezember 1914: 2. Dezember 1914: Selbst nach der Niederlage in der 'Bataille de la Marne 1914' im September, in deren Folge Oberste Heeresleitung bzw. der Kriegsminister der Reichsregierung mitteilt, daß der Krieg für das deutsche Reich verloren sei, und für einen Verhandlungsfrieden plädiert, stimmt die SPD-Fraktion � außer Karl Liebknecht � erneut den Kriegskrediten für den Angriffskrieg des Deutschen Reiches zu

19. Juni 1915: 19. Juni 1915: Nachdem die 'Leipziger Volkszeitung' einen Aufruf 'Das Gebot der Stunde' veröffentlicht hatte, in welchem sich die Verfasser gegen die von zahlreichen Verbänden, darunter dem Zentralverband deutscher Industrieller, geforderten Annexionen und gegen die weitere Bewilligung der Kriegskredite durch die SPD wenden, verurteilt die Generalkommission der SPD 'mit aller Schärfe' diesen 'organisierten Sprengversuch der Einheit der deutschen Arbeiterorganisationen'

24. März 1916: 24. März 1916: Die Mehrheit der SPD-Fraktion stimmt einem neuen Kriegskredit für den mörderischen Krieg des Deutschen Reiches zu. Für die Fraktionsminderheit erklärt Hugo Haase, da die Regierung auf ihrem alten Wege beharre und von einer Neuorientierung nicht die Rede sei, könne sie diesem Etat nicht zustimmen. Als Hugo Haase von der entstandenen Verzweiflung der Völker durch die entfesselte Kriegsfurie spricht, wird ihm auch mit Zustimmung eines Teils der sozialdemokratischen Fraktion das Wort entzogen

5. April 1916: 5. April 1916: Während im Angriffskrieg gegen Frankreich in der Schlacht um Verdun zum erklärten - une bataille d'attrition pour 'saigner à blanc l'Armée fran�aise' - Zweck der Ausblutung hunderttausende französischer Bürger durch deutsche Militärs ermordet werden und deutsche Kollegen und SPD-Mitglieder zu hunderttausenden für die größenwahnsinnigen Kriegsziele des Kaiserreichs in seine Mordmaschine und den eigenen elenden Tod gezwungen werden, erklärt der Kriegsverbrecher und SPD-Vorsitzende Friedrich Ebert im Reichstag, 'solange die feindlichen Mächte auf ihren Zerschmetterungsplänen beharrten und keinen Frieden schließen wollten, so lange werde die SPD mit unserem Volk zur Verteidigung unseres Landes zusammenstehen'

27. Oktober 1916: 27. Oktober 1916: Bei der Bewilligung von neuen Kriegskrediten sagt SPD-Kriegsverbrecher Friedrich Ebert, dass die vornehmste Aufgabe sei, die Widerstandskraft unseres Volkes, das Gewaltiges leiste, zu stärken

1916/1917: 1916/1917 erster Hungerwinter im deutschen Reich, in mehreren Städten erneut Unruhen, Demonstrationen und Streiks, nachdem bereits vorher vereinzelt gestreikt worden war, so z.B. anlässlich der Verurteilung von Karl Liebknecht

23. Februar 1917: 23. Februar 1917: Die Fraktion der Mehrheitssozialdemokraten stimmt der 8. Vorlage für Kriegskredite zu und Kriegsverbrecher Friedrich Ebert erklärt, 'solange die Eroberungsziele der Feinde bestehen und Deutschland niedergeschmettert werden soll' bekunde die deutsche Sozialdemokratie erneut ihre feste Entschlossenheit auszuhalten bis zur Erreichung eines die Lebensinteressen des deutschen Volkes sichernden Friedens

6./8. April 1917: 6./8. April 1917: Reichskonferenz der sozialdemokratischen Opposition in Gotha, auf der diese als 'Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands' erklärt, sie stehe in grundsätzlicher Opposition zum herrschenden Regierungssystem, zur Kriegspolitik der Reichsregierung und zu der vom SPD-Parteivorstand im Regierungsfahrwasser geführten Politik

12. November 1917: 12. November 1917: Nach der Oktoberrevolution in Rußland ruft die Parteileitung der USPD ruft zu Massenversammlungen auf, bei denen ein allgemeiner Waffenstillstand und ein auf allen Seiten annexionsloser Frieden gefordert werden sollen

1. Dezember 1917: 1. Dezember 1917: Gegen die Stimmen der USPD und mit den Stimmen der SPD nimmt der Reichstag die neue Kriegskreditvorlage der Reichsregierung an

22. März 1918: 22. März 1918: Der Reichstag nimmt gegen die Stimmen der USPD und mit den Stimmen der SPD die neue Kriegskreditvorlage an und der unbelehrbare Kriegsverbrecher Friedrich Ebert erklärt, daß sich Deutschland gegenüber dem Westen immer noch in der Verteidigung befinde

Juni-September 1918: Juni-September 1918: Zahlreiche deutschlandweite Streiks u.a. wegen der schlechten Lebensmittelversorgung

2. Oktober 1918: 2. Oktober 1918: Die SPD-Reichstagsfraktion stimmt dem Eintritt von Sozialdemokraten in die kaiserliche Reichsregierung zu

November 1918: November 1918: Kieler Matrosen- und Arbeiteraufstand, deutschlandweite Streikbewegung

Dezember 1918: Dezember 1918: In Berlin finden von der USPD, der SPD und dem Spartakusbund einberufene Massenversammlungen und Kundgebungen statt

15 January 1919: 15 January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered in Berlin, a murder that sparked German nazism

1939-1945 Wehrmachtsoffizier Helmut Schmidt, 1974-1982 bundesdeutscher Kanzler: 1974-1982 Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt, Wehrmachtsoffizier im Vernichtungskrieg gegen die UdSSR, bis heute mit humor voller Seilschaft - 'Hunger Plan' developed during the planning phase for the German 'Wehrmacht' invasion of the Soviet Union since 1941, an engineered famine, planned and implemented as a rational act of policy to obtain the food from conquered lands at any cost and causing the deaths of millions of citizens in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union - Siege of Leningrad 1941-1944 - World War II casualties of the Soviet Union

Since 1998�2005: 18 June 2017: NSU victims' families sue German governments, including the governments of SPD's Gerhard Schröder, over investigation errors, as families of two men murdered by a neo-Nazi group are suing for damages due to mistakes made in the probe argueing that authorities could have arrested the trio earlier, preventing further murders, and as the case against the NSU, the neo-Nazi terrorist organization National Socialist Underground that committed ten murders, three bomb attacks, and 15 bank robberies in the years between 1998 and 2011, is an unprecedented example of the close connection between the German secret services and the neo-Nazi movement as well as the structural racism within the German law enforcement authorities, according to NSU-Watch

Since 2002: Since 2002 Murat Kurnaz torture case and Frank-Walter Steinmeier's responsibility - 2007/2008 Untersuchungsausschüsse des Bundestages, Verantwortung des früheren Chefs des Bundeskanzleramtes und Beauftragten für die Nachrichtendienste Frank-Walter Steinmeier und der Fall des Folteropfers Murat Kurnaz 2002-2006 - 23. Juli 2009: Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat entschieden mit einem Beschluß vom 17. Juni, daß die Bundesregierung und große Koalition mit ihrem restriktiven Vorgehen im BND-Untersuchungsausschuß des Bundestages gegen das Grundgesetz verstoßen hat - 19 March 2017: The difficulty to find a solution of the equation 1 + 1 = x

2010: SPD-Rassismus: Sarrazins verhinderter Parteiausschluß trotz 2010 publizierter rassistischer Ansichten (nicht abgeschlossen)

2013 Peitschen- und Kavallerie-Steinbrück will für die SPD als Kanzlerkandidat (an)treten: SPD-Steinbrück aus der Wil helm straße lädt im Mai 2009 nach Berlin ein: "Selbstverständlich werde ich sie zur Nachfolgekonferenz im Juni in Berlin einladen - Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, Schweiz, Österreich, Ouagadougou" - 29. September 2012: Der 2005 gescheiterte nordrhein-westfälische Ministerpräsident Steinbrück will 2013 als Kanzlerkandidat für die SPD (an)treten und verlangt von der SPD 'Beinfreiheit', nach seinen rassistischen Beleidigungen 2009 von Indianern (Beleidigung der Havasupai) und Afrikanern (Burkina Faso und Ouagadougou) - 3. Oktober 2012: Steinbrücks Nebeneinkünfte in der Kritik - z.B. bezahlter Vortrag 2011 bei der Kanzlei Freshfields und deren Finanzmarktstabilisierungsgesetz für das Finanzministerium unter Peer Steinbrück - 11. November 2012: 2010 zahlte der Züricher Medienkonzern Ringier für ein Referat von Steinbrück 1.500 Euro, die dieser nicht als Nebenverdienst deklarierte

2013 SPD-Priorität Kanzlergehalt und Kanzlerin-Bonus: 30 December 2012: Steinbrück calls for higher pay for the German chancellor and explains that 'Angela Merkel is popular because she gets a women�s bonus'

2014: 11 July 2014: SPD member of the Bundestag Michael Hartmann admits using crystal meth saying he wanted to become more efficient

2014/2015: 7 February 2014: SPD Sebastian Edathy's resignation from parliament over allegations of possession of child pornography in the 'Edathy-Affäre' - 15 February 2014: German CSU minister Hans-Peter Friedrich resigns over child pornography 'probe leak' in the Edathy-Affäre - 17 February 2014: German grand coalition dispute over SPD Edathy's child porn probe as commentators are asking whether Merkel's third government can rule in its current state - Crystal-Meth-Hartmanns Rolle in der Edathy-Affäre - 2 March 2015: Child porn trial halted after German ex-MP Edathy pays 5,000 euros - 11. März 2015: Kinderschutzbund lehnt Annahme von Edathys Zahlung von 5.000,-- Euro zwecks Einstellung seines Verfahrens ab

2014-2018 Erinnerung an den 1. Weltkrieg 1914-1918 hundert Jahre später: First World War centenary 2014-2018 - Erinnerung an die Opfer und den Widerstand in vielen Ländern weltweit und in Deutschland

April 2015: 17 April 2015: SPD-Steinmeier avoids to say 'genocide' for genocide of Armenians, because his party supported World War I from German beginning to end and as a result the war crimes - Armenian Genocide 1915-1923 - Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian Genocide - 13 July 1919: Germany confesses in a secret record, printed at Potsdam, her Turkish partner's crimes in Armenia and its attempt to destroy a whole people - 17 February 2007: Germany, Turkey and the Armenian Genocide - a documentary of the Armenian genocide - 21 October 2012: Photograph of 1915 links Germans to 1915 Armenia genocide by the Ottoman Turks during World War I

April 2015: 17 April 2015: SPD-Schulz disassociates himself from European Parliament's resolution recognizing the Armenan Genocide, because his party supported World War I from German beginning to end and hence the war crimes

October 2015: 28 October 2015: Following the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War since 30 September 2015, murdering civilians, women and children, German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) visits Moscow, supporting Russia's war criminal Putin

June 2016: 17 June 2016: Germany�s foreign minister SPD-Steinmeier welcomed Iran's Assad ally Javad Zarif for a bilateral meeting in Berlin, seemingly defying Chancellor Angela Merkel�s earlier commitment to not normalize relations with Iranian regime as long as the regime refuses to recognize Israel�s right to exist, as German court jails ex-Auschwitz guard Hanning, found guilty on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, for five years - 18 June 2016: Over 171,000 civilians have been killed since 2011 at the hands of Assad regime forces and their allied Iranian, Russian and Hezbollah militias in 12 areas they besiege across Syria, killed by bombardment and blockades imposed by regime forces, according to SNHR

September 2016: 13 September 2016: German judge von Renesse, who had been accused of causing 'reputational damage of the social jurisprudence' after it emerged that he had questioned the rejection of ghetto pension applications and intervened to help applicants, interviewing more than 120 Holocaust survivors in Israel, evades prosecution by North Rhine-Westphalia's SPD Minister of Justice Kutschaty, and therefore punishment for helping survivors

September-December 2016 Unterstützung von Massakern russischer, iranischer und Assad-Terroristen durch die SPD: 21. September 2016: In Syrien und in Aleppo fallen teils geächtete russische Bomben, töten wahllos Kinder, Zivilisten und gezielt Krankenhäuser, Rettungsdienste und einen UN-Hilfskonvoi, der SPD-Vorsitzende Gabriel besucht den Terroristen, Massenmörder und Kriegsverbrecher Putin in Moskau, der wie alle seine Vorbilder wie z.B. Lawr G. Kornilow der Illusion erliegt, er könne durch Mordaktionen anderen und sogar anderen Ländern dauerhaft seinen Willen aufzwingen und Gefolgschaften aufbauen - 2 October 2016: Iran rejects German demand that it recognize Israel, as German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister SPD Sigmar Gabriel is due to visit Tehran on Sunday as part of Germany�s efforts to renew business ties with the Islamic regime following the last year�s nuclear deal, again encouraging Iranian, Russian and Assad regime to commit more war crimes, as Syrian opposition and democracy fights desperately against annihilation - 18/19 October 2016: Syrian opposition states that EU credibility at stake as Russia�s war crimes continue unchallenged, saying that in addition to the imposition of sanctions on the Assad regime, the EU needs to take restrictive measures against Russian regime, and that 'it is unacceptable that some member nations of the European Union continue to defend Russia against credible action and lighten pressure on it despite their ability to immediately stop the disaster occurring in eastern Aleppo' - 14 December 2016: As tens of thousands of desperate civilians trapped without food, water or medicine under a hail of artillery and airstrikes found themselves once again pawns in a geopolitical struggle, with Iranian-backed militia spearheading the ground assault on eastern Aleppo and carrying out execution-style shootings of civilians, residents say 'we will always remember and never forget how the criminals of the world forced Aleppo�s people to choose between two options, collective death or collective forced displacement', while Iranian regime claims military victory, and Iran�s Rouhani phones Bashar Assad to congratulate him

March 2017: 1. März 2017: Daß Frankreich, Großbritannien und die USA im UN-Sicherheitsrat andauernd Resolutionsentwürfe gegen die syrische Regierung einbrächten und Sanktionen forderten, obwohl Russland dagegen sei, sei nicht zielführend, sagt Gernot Erler von der SPD, nachdem ein von Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA eingebrachter Resolutionsentwurf gegen Assads verbrecherische Kriegsführung gegen die syrische Bevölkerung unter Einsatz von Chemiewaffen, in Antwort auf eine internationale UN und OPCW Untersuchung, von 9 Ratsmitgliedern unterstützt worden aber am Veto der russischen und chinesischen Regime gescheitert war

April 2017: 11/12 April 2017: G7 foreign ministers seek new push to end Syria war, blaming Assad�s military for a deadly chemical attack last week, as UK's Boris Johnson calls for more sanctions against Russian and Syrian regime, claiming that Putin is 'toxifying' Russia�s image and that he has to choose between withdrawing support for Assad or facing penalties, but France's Ayrault, Germany's Gabriel and Italy's Alfano vetoed the idea of targeting Russian and Syrian military leaders, encouraging war criminals

15/16 May 2017: 15/16 May 2017: Christian Democratic Union of Germany CDU defeat the Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia's state election, convincing 430,000 non-voters to turn up and pinching 310,000 votes from the SPD with its new federal chairman and bearer of hope Martin Schulz, who after that calls politics and parliamentary elections a boxing match (as is generally known with physical injuries), also calling the defeat and his party's failure a liver shot and in the end calling voting citizens and democrats a referee of violent assaults and batteries

17 May 2017: 17 May 2017: As the scandal surrounding an attack plot hatched by Neonazi soldiers has again forced Germany to confront its past of National Socialism, the role of the Nazi Wehrmacht and the war crimes of the Wehrmacht, former SPD defence minister Rudolf Scharping deplores a 'witch hunt'

July 2017: 27 July 2017: Germany's SPD economy minister Brigitte Zypries sides with war criminal Putin, saying that new sanctions against Russian regime being proposed by USA lawmakers could harm German companies and add another difficulty to Germany's relationship with the USA, after SPD's candidate for Chancellor Martin Schulz earlier in this year warned against lifting sanctions imposed against Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis - 31 July 2017: Remembering the third Battle of Ypres 1917 and the German use of Mustard Gas, killing over 275,000 Commonwealth soldiers in 100 days, Germany's SPD foreign minister Gabriel says that 'failure of diplomacy' bears blame for the horrors of war, in no way the German Empire and real persons, its military, politicians, war profiteers and Gabriel's own political party SPD

January 2018: 1 January 2018: Instead of helping fight anti-Semitism, Gabriel fed the flames, a letter from Malca Goldstein-Wolf says, after German foreign minister Gabriel accused Israel of 'apartheid�

February 2018: 11. Februar 2018: Die SPD-nahe Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung erhielt 2017 170,7 Millionen Euro an staatlichen Zuschüssen, finanziert 'in einem rechtsfreien Raum ... mit Steuergeld', sagt der 'Bund der Steuerzahler', der zusammen mit dem Anti-Korruptions-Verein 'Transparency International' zumindest ein Stiftungsgesetzt fordert - Friedrich Ebert, seit 1913 SPD Vorsitzender, seit 1914 mitverantwortlich für den 1. Weltkrieg 1914-1918 mit Millionen von Toten - 17 février 2018: Le ministre allemand des Affaires étrangères Sigmar Gabriel s'est dit favorable à un allègement des sanctions contre la Russie et a jugé qu'il n'était 'pas réaliste' de réclamer la pleine application des accords de paix de Minsk de 2015 comme condition à un début d'assouplissement des sanctions

March 2018: 15 March 2018: Germany arms sales to Turkey up since Afrin operation, as parliamentarian Nouripour accuses German ministry of having misled the public over the issue - 19 March 2018: 'Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz imitates Donald Trump and makes the arsonists to the fire department', 'You may as well just let the bankers write the laws', says Left party's Fabio de Masi, following the vocation of Goldman Sachs manager Jörg Kukies in the Federal Ministry of Finance led by SPD-Scholz, also criticized by other MPs

Free Democratic Party of Germany

Seit den 1970er Jahren: Libyen-Affäre - bereits seit den 1970er Jahren Ausbildungshilfe von BND und Spezialeinsatzkommandos für Gaddafis Unterdrückungsapparat

17. März 2011: Deutsche Stimmenthaltung bei UN Libyen-Resolution. "The United Nations Security Council has voted on a resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya and 'all necessary measures' to protect citizens. Ten of the council's 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, with Russia, China and Germany the five that abstained. The resolution comes just a few hours after Gaddafi warned residents of Benghazi, that his forces would show 'no mercy' in an impending assault on the city." Zitiert nach: Al Jazeera - Africa News

2011: 31 August 2011: Große Anzahl deutscher Sturmgewehre in Gaddafis Armee

4 September 2011: German spies worked with Gaddafi

2013: Die 2% Wachstumspartei mit den drei Buchstaben F.D.P . - kompetent für Wirtschaft (Briefbogenaffäre des früheren Ministers Möllemann) und Finanzen (25. April 2013: Die FDP muss wegen der Verschleierung von Spenden durch ihren früheren Minister Möllemann mindestens 2 Millionen Euro zahlen)

August 2017: 5 August 2017: The question of annexation of the Crimea should temporarily be 'sealed' while progress must be made first on other issues of relations with Russian Putin regime, head of the Free Democratic Party of Germany Christian Lindner said in an interview

The Greens (foundation 1980), Party on 7 April 1973 - Fun party 'Alliance '90/The Greens' Party of Germany

Befürwortung von Kindesmißbrauch bei den 'Grünen' in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren - 1975/2001: D. Cohn-Bendit's literarisches Geständnis von mehrfachem Mißbrauch an Kindern im Kindergarten der Frankfurter Universität - Cohn-Bendit am 23. April 1982: 'Wissen Sie, wenn ein kleines fünfjähriges Mädchen beginnt, Sie auszuziehen, ist das großartig. Es ist großartig, weil es ein Spiel ist, ein wahnsinnig erotisches Spiel.'

Andauernder Pädophilie-Skandal von 'Bündnis 90/Die Grünen' seit Gründung 1980 - von Cohn-Bendit über Dieter F. Ullmann und Hermann Meer zu Jürgen Trittin - 14 May 2013: 'Green party' in Germany to investigate backing for paedophiles in 80s - 18 May 2013: Paedophile group that called for legalisation of sex with children were given officially recognised position in the 'Green party' - September 2013: Jürgen Trittin 1981 presserechtlich verantwortlich für pädophile Werbung und Initiative

Left Party of Germany

Since 1963, 2003 and 2007: Stasi informer Lothar Bisky, 'Socialist Unity Party SED' member since 1963, 2003�2007 chairman of the SED successor 'Party of Democratic Socialism PDS', became in June 2007 co-chairman of the 'The Left' party, formed by a merger, and died in 2013

Since 1967-1989, 2005-2015: Gregor Gysi SED member 1967-1989 - 'Socialist Unity Party SED' - 'Ministry for state security' of the 'German Democratic Republic' - Gregor Gysi und Vorwürfe der Mitarbeit bei der Stasi - 2005-2015 Gregor Gysi Parliamentary leader of the 'The Left' party, formed by a merger

Before 1989 and 2017: 17 January 2017: Appointed by the Left party, Andrej Holm, an academic who had hidden the fact he served in the notorious East German secret police Stasi before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, resigned as Berlin's deputy housing minister

June 2017: 9 June 2017: Russia's Alexei Navalny claims, if he is elected president, he is ready to withdraw Russian troops from the occupied areas of eastern Ukraine and hold a fair referendum in the Russian-annexed Crimea - 10. Juni 2017: 'Die Linke' hat auf ihrem Parteitag russlandkritische Anträge abgelehnt, eine Kritik 'der völkerrechtswidrigen Annexion der Krim durch Russland' und des Krieges in der Ostukraine schaffte es am Samstag ebenso wenig ins Wahlprogramm wie eine ausdrückliche Verurteilung von Menschenverletzungen in Russland und China durch die Partei mit Zuordnungsproblem entsprechend der Kartografie und bei aufrechter Position hiesiger Betrachter

August 2017: 8 August 2017: Drive to side with Russian war criminal Putin by Germany�s Federal Democratic Party's Christian Lindner was praised by so-called 'The Left' party's candidate for the Chancellor post Sahra Wagenknecht

Media of Germany: German media - Newspapers in Germany - Television in Germany - Television history in Germany began in Berlin March 1935 - Censorship in Germany

March 1914 German newspapers beat the war drums: March 1914: German newspapers beat the war drums

1918-1945: The propaganda used by the German NSDAP in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany 1933�1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of NSDAP, SS and Gestapo policies

1933-1945 and since 1945: Peter Köpf, 1995: Schreiben nach jeder Richtung - Goebbels-Propagandisten in der westdeutschen Nachkriegspresse

2010: Querschnittsgelähmter Samuel Koch seit TV-Unterhaltungssendung Dezember 2010

2013/2014: 2 May 2013: German broadcaster has dropped repeat showings of a popular detective series after it emerged its late star had hidden his Waffen SS past - 25 March 2014: Applications for judicial review filed against the ZDF State Treaty successful for the most part

2015: 11 January: Arson attack against German paper that reprints Charlie Hebdo cartoons - 28 June 2015: Berlin�s philharmonic�s new conductor met by anti-Semitism in German press, as NDR website calls Russian-born Kirill Petrenko, philharmonic�s first Jewish conductor, 'the tiny gnome, the Jewish caricature'

2017 deprivation of press accreditations by Germany during the G20 summit: Entzug von Presseakkreditierungen und Ausschluß von Journalisten beim G20-Gipfel in Hamburg - 11 July 2017: International and European Federation of Journalists join their German affiliates DJU and DJV in condemning the attacks against the press, after at least 32 journalists have been deprived of their press accreditations by the German government during the G20 protests in Hamburg held on 7 July - 10 August 2017: Nine of the journalists who had their accreditation revoked ahead of last month's Group of 20 summit in Hamburg will take Germany's Federal Press Office to court, complaining that the move was unlawful

May 2018: 16 May 2018: German daily draws outrage with �anti-Semitic� image of Netanyahu at Eurovision

Internet in Germany: Internet in Germany - Internet censorship in Germany

2015: 31 July 2015: As German government accuses news website of treason over leaks, for the first time in more than 50 years journalists are facing treason charges, which is being denounced as an attack on the freedom of the press

Sport in Germany: Sport in Germany - Drugs in sport in Germany

Sports broadcasting contracts in Germany: Sports broadcasting contracts in Germany

1970/1971: 1971 Bundesliga scandal refers to the malicious, for-profit manipulation of games in the 1970�71 German football championship season

2005: 2005 German football was overshadowed by the discovery of a �2 million match fixing scandal

2009: 2009 European football betting scandal of hundreds of fixtures, including domestic league games, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Champions League games in the nine European countries of Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Austria

2006/2015: 16 October 2015: The bidding committee of Germany�s 2006 World Cup bought the votes of Asian Fifa executive committee members with a �5m fund made available by former Adidas CEO, according to a German newspaper - 23 October 2015: Former DFB president says slush fund helped Germany win 2006 World Cup - 3 November 2015: German police raid Germany�s football association on suspicion of tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup

2016: 22 March 2016: The Fifa ethics committee will investigate possible undue payments, contracts to gain an advantage. bribery and corruption of former DFB vice-president Franz Beckenbauer and five other DFB officials including Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger connected with Germany�s 2006 World Cup bid

2017: 6 February 2017: Before a German league match, Dortmund fans attacked terrified RB Leipzig supporters, including children and women

Since 1950s doping in sport: Systematisches und staatlich gefördertes Sport-Doping - Studie der Berliner Humboldt-Universität August 2013 - 5 August 2013: West German government helped fund a wide-scale doping programme from the 1970s onwards, with evidence of drug use among the country�s athletes stretching back to the 1950s

Boxing in Germany, medical concerns and crimes: Boxing in Germany - Boxing and medical concerns - knocking a person unconscious or even causing concussion may cause permanent brain damage and there is no clear division between the force required to knock a person out and the force likely to kill a person, since 1983 the Australian, British, Canadian and USA's Medical Associations have called for bans on boxing, that 'should not be sanctioned by any civilized society'

Ziel eines Boxkampfes das Schädel-Hirn-Trauma: 28. November 2014: Ziel eines Boxkampfes ist es aus medizinischer Sicht, beim Gegner ein stumpfes Schädel-Hirn-Trauma herbeizuführen, möglichst mit der Folge einer kurzen Bewusstlosigkeit, im Unterschied zu anderen Sportarten ist die Besonderheit beim Boxen, dass es die erklärte und auch von den Zuschauern gewünschte Absicht und d.h. der Vorsatz ist, eine oder mehrere üblicherweise strafrechtlich sanktionierte Körperverletzung(en) herbeizuführen, bei ca. 20% der Profiboxer kommt es zu schweren Folgeerkrankungen des Gehirns wie Parkinson, Sprachstörungen, Gleichgewichtsstörungen, Verlangsamung des Denkens, Gedächtnisstörungen bis hin zu einer Demenz (deutlich erhöhtes Risiko), Depression, Reizbarkeit, Kriminalität, Sucht

2010: 18. Oktober 2010: Eine kommerzialisierte schwere Körperverletzung in Hamburg, die 14.500 Zuschauer in der ausverkauften Halle bejubeln und die den USA-Boxer Shannon Briggs auf die Intensivstation bringt, bringt dem Sender RTL hingegen mit bis zu 14,08 Millionen Zuschauern eine Rekordeinschaltquote und einen Marktanteil von 66,9%

2014: 29. Juli 2014: Ein Boxkampf in der Kaarster International Sport Arena eskalierte als der Unterlegene zurück in die Kabine wollte, dabei aus dem Lager seines Gegners angegriffen wurde und es zu Schlägereien zwischen mehreren Personen mit mehreren krankenhausreif geschlagenen Verletzten kam, darunter zwei Unbeteiligte und zwei Frauen

Crime in Germany: Crime in Germany

Racism in Germany: Racism in Germany

Since 18th century 'Germanisation', 'Aryanization', and later 'Generalplan Ost' for the genocide and ethnic cleansing: Since 18th century 'Germanisation' - Germanisation in the Nazi period - Racial policy of Nazi Germany - 'Aryanization', term coined during Nazism referring to the forced expulsion of so-called 'non-Aryans' - 'Generalplan Ost' was the Nazi German government's plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe by Germans

Since 17th century German colonialism in Africa and worldwide since 19th century: Since 1680 German colonization of Africa - Since 1884 German colonial empire -

Since 19th century systematic genocide, 2016: 5 May 2016: Decades before the Nazis tried to annihilate the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa dehumanized, built death camps for, and slaughtered tens of thousands of tribespeople in a systematic genocide, 'subhumans', 'cattle car transports', even the 'Final Solution' have their sinister antecedents in Africa in the early 1900s

Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany: Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany

Antisemitism in Germany: Antisemitism in Germany - History of the Jews in Germany - Timeline of antisemitism - 23 February 2015: From Notre Dame to Wittenberg, in Europe the fine art of anti-Semitism is on public display at many of the continent�s most visited landmarks

Since 1850: Richard Wagner's 'Das Judenthum in der Musik', first published in 1850, attacking Jews in general and some composers in particular - 5 May 2009: In his notorious and poisonous essay 'Jewishness in Music' Wagner said that Mendelssohn 'has shown us that a Jew can possess the richest measure of specific talents, the most refined and varied culture ... without even once through all these advantages being able to bring forth in us that profound, heart-and-soul searching effect we expect from music' - 7 May 2017: Wagner, who had earlier enjoyed support from Giacomo Meyerbeer, denounced him in the anti-Semitic essay 'Judaism in Music' as uncreative and cravenly following popular taste - 1882 premiere of Wagner's 'Parsifal' in Bayreuth - Houston Stewart Chamberlain's best-selling work 'The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century' (1899) is a main work of modern antisemitism - H.St. Chamberlain (1855-1927), seeing his ideas begin to bear fruit particularly in Germany, visited NSDAP's Adolf Hitler several times (1926 together with Joseph Goebbels) at the Wagner family's property in Bayreuth

Since 1882: First Aliyah 1882-1903 (return of Jews to Israel) after May Laws in Russia 1882

Since 1888: Antisemitism of the German Emperor Wilhelm II ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918 - World War I 1914-1918 - Following his abdication in November 1918 Wilhelm II advocated a 'regular international all-worlds pogrom à la Russe' as 'the best cure' against Jews saying that they are a 'nuisance that humanity must get rid of some way or other' and that he believes 'the best thing would be gas' - Since early 20th century 'Kaiser-Wilhelm-II.-Denkmäler' mainly in Germany

1914-1918: 2 August 1914 Ottoman German Alliance in World War I - On 14 November 1914 Ottoman Empire declares an Islamic holy war on behalf of the Ottoman government, urging his Muslim followers to take up arms against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro in World War I - 1914-1918 German military commanders to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War were Otto Liman von Sanders, Goltz, Kress von Kressenstein, and more, compare the 'League of German Asian Warriors' affiliated to the NSDAP after the Nazi takeover of power in 1933 - 1914-1918 World War I Middle East's combatants were on the one hand the Central Powers, the Ottoman Empire (including Kurds, Persians and some Arab tribes), and on the other hand, the British (with the help of Jews, Greeks, Assyrians and the majority of the Arabs), the Russians and the French from the Allies of World War I, main campaigns include, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign 28 January 1915 � 30 October 1918, the Mesopotamian Campaign 6 November 1914 � 14 November 1918, and the Persian Campaign December 1914 � October 1918

1933-1945: Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany - Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany - 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' ordered to be studied in German classrooms by the Nazi Party since 1933 - 'Jewish Bolshevism' is part of the Jewish World Conspiracy theory that Jews control the world - Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany - Fifth Aliyah refers to the fifth wave of the Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe and Asia between the years 1929 and 1939 - Aliyah Bet

The Holocaust: The Holocaust in Germany - 30 January 2014: In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1939 Hitler makes first call for Jews� annihilation - 30 July 2015: A new online exhibition at Yad Vashem recounts the powerful and personal stories of 100 soldiers in the Soviet Union�s army, as there were between 350,000 to 500,000 Jews in the Red Army during the war, and about 140,000 were killed by the Germans - 20 February 2016: Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Nazi death camp Treblinka, who was among a group of Jews who survived a dramatic escape bid from the camp in 1943, then joined the Polish resistance and fighted the Nazis in Warsaw, then working and becoming an artist in Israel, dies aged 93

1933-1945 Jewish resistance under Nazi rule: Jewish resistance under Nazi rule - Ghetto uprising during World War II - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April-May 1943 - Bialystok Ghetto Uprising - Nazi extermination camp Sobibor uprising 1943 - 2 August 1943 Treblinka prisoner uprising

April 1943 - April 2018: 18 April 2018: Krystyna Budnicka, the last remaining member of her family, said this week on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising that she 'lost all six brothers, my sister, my parents, as well as four sisters-in-law', making it her mission to recount how she survived the Warsaw ghetto in order to keep her loved ones� memory alive

1945 liberations of Holocaust survivors: In 1945, when Anglo-American and Soviet troops entered the concentration camps, they discovered piles of corpses, bones, and human ashes�testimony to Nazi mass murder, soldiers also found thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors suffering from starvation and disease, many Jewish survivors feared to return to their former homes because of the antisemitism that persisted in parts of Europe, the trauma they had suffered and their hostile reception by locals that propelled survivors to 'displaced persons' camps in Germany, Austria and Italy

Since 1945 aftermath of the Holocaust, German obstination and obtuseness: Aftermath of the Holocaust in Germany, which largely responded to the enormity of the evidence for and the horror of the Holocaust with an attitude of self-justification and a practice of keeping quiet, as many Germans attempted to rewrite their own history to make it more palatable in the post-war era, and as for decades West Germany and then unified Germany refused to allow access to its Holocaust-related archives in Bad Arolsen, citing privacy concerns - 1945-1949 only 31,651 Nazi war criminals out of the hundreds of thousands active during the war were brought to trial, most of the individuals who carried out the atrocities were never brought to justice

1945-1952 Holocaust survivors, displaced persons and the State of Israel: Holocaust survivors, displaced persons and the State of Israel, as Palestine became the primary destination for many Jewish refugees, but local Arabs opposed their immigration and the United Kingdom refused to allow Jewish refugees into the Mandate territory - 27 September 2017: Rare photographs show Holocaust survivors from SS Exodus sent back to Germany by the British in 1947, after removing resisting passengers in Haifa, injuring dozens, killing three, and loading them on three ships, as between 1945 and 1952 more than 250,000 Jews lived in displaced persons camps and urban centers in Germany, Austria and Italy

2014: 18 July: Anti-Semitic slogans chanted at Berlin protest against Israel's Gaza operation - 21. Juli: Eine anti-israelische Kundgebung in Berlin von palästinensischen und politischen Gruppen wie dem Hochschulverband der Partei 'Die Linke' ist am Samstag mit antisemitischen Parolen und dem versuchten Angriff auf ein Ehepaar aus Jerusalem eskaliert - 21 July: Germany's Jewish community is shocked by an 'explosion of evil and violent hatred of Jews' shown by protesters at anti-Israel demonstrations across the country chanting 'gas the Jews' and other anti-Semitic slogans during some pro-Gaza protests - 21 July: As wave of anti-Semitic rallies hits cities across Germany and anti-Israel protester chanted in Dortmund and Frankfurt 'Hamas Hamas Juden ins gas', Jewish community braces itself ahead of Friday�s Iranian-sponsored Al Quds Day March

2015: 5 January 2015: A 26-year-old Israeli was beaten by a group of seven men on a Berlin subway car after he filmed them singing an anti-Semitic song and refused to delete the video - 27 January 2015: Auschwitz survivors gather for memorial 70 years after liberation - 17 February: Jewish cemetery in the northern German city of Oldenburg vandalized, targeted over the past few years by right-wing extremists - 28 June 2015: Berlin�s philharmonic�s new conductor met by anti-Semitism in German press, as NDR website calls Russian-born Kirill Petrenko, philharmonic�s first Jewish conductor, 'the tiny gnome, the Jewish caricature' - 16 November 2015: Ursula Haverbeck after calling the Holocaust in a statement broadcast on television outside of the trial of former SS guard Oskar Groening 'the biggest and most sustainable lie in history', sentenced to 10 months in jail

2016: 5 February 2016: Several Jewish cemeteries, monuments vandalized in Germany's Berlin, Hannover and elsewhere in past month - 5 May 2016: Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors are spending the final years of their lives in financial hardship while waiting for governments across Europe to compensate them for property stolen during the Nazi era - 8 June 2016: The USA House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution calling upon Germany to increase restitution support for Holocaust survivors, as Republican Ros-Lehtinen noted that more than half of all survivors worldwide live at or below the poverty level

September 2016: 13 September 2016: German judge von Renesse, who had been accused of causing 'reputational damage of the social jurisprudence' after it emerged that he had questioned the rejection of ghetto pension applications and intervened to help applicants, interviewing more than 120 Holocaust survivors in Israel, evades prosecution by North Rhine-Westphalia's SPD Minister of Justice Kutschaty, and therefore punishment for helping survivors

2017: 28 February 2017: Berlin-based 'Research and Information Office on Anti-Semitism', founded in 2015, reports that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany�s capital has risen by 16% in 2016 over the previous year, most incidents were non-violent, but nonetheless threatening - 17 May 2017: Bavaria has seen a rise in anti-Semitic criminality with 176 anti-Jewish crimes reported in the state in 2016 - 29 November 2017: The head of Germany�s Central Council of Jews Josef Schuster said that anti-Semitism is growing in the country and that extreme nationalists, Muslims immigrants and leftists often disguise their bigotry as criticism of Israel, causing concern for a community that is otherwise blossoming more than seven decades after the Holocaust

January/February 2018: 27 January 2018: World remembers Holocaust amid signs of rising hatred - 13 February 2018: German police record 1,453 anti-Semitic incidents in 2017, including 32 violent attacks, almost all perpetrators identified as 'right-wing-oriented'

April 2018: 19 avril 2018: Adam Armoush, un jeune Arabe israélien, a voulu prouver qu'il n'était pas dangereux de porter une kippa dans la rue berlinoises et s'est fait agresser par un groupe de trois jeunes parlant arabe

Since 19th century timeline of Nazism and since 1919 NSDAP's rise to power: Since 19th century timeline of Nazism in Germany - Since 1919 Adolf Hitler's rise to power

1914-1918 World War I and German Empire since 1871: World War I 1914-1918 and German Empire since 1871 - German war crimes in World War I

15 January 1919 SPD-linked ordered assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht: 15 January 1919 ordered assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht - German army officer Pabst, who ordered the executions of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 as well as summary executions of many other Communist Party of Germany members, was never brought to justice even in the later Federal Republic of Germany, became an industrialist and eventually Director of Rheinmetall Borsig in Berlin, later settled in Switzerland, where he took a post with the arms manufacturer Oerlikon and following World War II, Pabst took some involvement in the activities of the neo-Nazi Bruderschaften, small groups that existed across Europe and which attempted to co-ordinate their political activism, later returned to Germany in 1955, settling in Düsseldorf, and there became involved with neo-Nazis - In 1962 in an interview and in his memoirs, Pabst maintained that he had talked in 1919 on the phone with SPD-Noske in the Chancellery, and that SPD-Noske and SPD-Ebert had approved of his assassination actions, never challenged, especially since neither the Reichstag, the Bundestag nor the courts in Germany until today ever examined the case

1918-1933 Political violence in Germany: 1918-1933 Political violence in Germany

8-9 November 1923 Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch: 8-9 November 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch, a failed coup attempt by the NSDAP leader Adolf Hitler to seize power in Munich, which resulted in the death of four police officers and some Nazis, bringing Hitler to the attention of the German nation and the decision to change NSDAP tactics following Hitler's release after only nine months in Bavarian prison

1933-1945 Nazi Germany and since 1939 World War II: 1933-1945 Nazi Germany, the period in German history since 1933, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party NSDAP - Nazi Germany and World War II

September 1935 Nuremberg Laws: 15 September 1935 Nuremberg Laws, antisemitic and racial laws in Nazi Germany introduced by the Reichstag

9-10 November 1938 'Novemberpogrome' against Jews: 9-10 November 1938 'Novemberpogrome' against Jews throughout Nazi Germany, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians as German authorities looked on without intervening

Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany: Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany

Germanisation in the Nazi period, 'Aryanization', 'Generalplan Ost' for the genocide and ethnic cleansing: Germanisation in the Nazi period - Racial policy of Nazi Germany - 'Aryanization', term coined during Nazism referring to the forced expulsion of so-called 'non-Aryans' - 'Generalplan Ost' was the Nazi German government's plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe by Germans

German war crimes in World War II, crimes of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust: German war crimes in World War II - War crimes of the Wehrmacht - The Holocaust

Nazi tradition of intelligence agencies and list of intelligence agencies in Germany: List of intelligence agencies of Germany - Bundesnachrichtendienst BND's Nazi tradition

1946: Gehlen Organization established in June 1946 by USA occupation authorities consisted of members of the 12th Department of the former 'Foreign Armies East', numerous former SS, SD and Wehrmacht officers and carried the name of Wehrmacht Major general Reinhard Gehlen, head of the German military intelligence in the Eastern Front during World War II - Agency 114 of the Bundesnachrichtendienst BND was a main entrance for former Nazis - 26 September 2011: Wanted Nazi Walter Rauff was German 'Bundesnachrichtendienst' spy between 1958-1962 - Walter Rauff: Gas van engineering and mass murder - In 1965 'Butcher of Lyon' SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie was recruited by the BND, his initial monthly salary of 500 Deutsche Mark was transferred in May 1966 to an account of the Chartered Bank of London in San Francisco in the USA, which recruited him in 1947 as an agent for the USA Army Counter Intelligence Corps CIC, and he made at least 35 reports to the BND headquarters in Pullach - 27. September 2011: Bislang geheimgehaltene Akten des BND belegen, daß Walter Rauff wegen seiner Tätigkeit im Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Entwicklung und Einsatz von Gaswagen) 1958 vom BND eingestellt wurde - CIA-Akten 2006: Aufenthaltsort Adolf Eichmanns dem BND und CIA bereits 1958 bekannt - BND-Akten: Aufenthaltsort Eichmanns sogar schon 1952 bekannt

2011: 30 November 2011: Investigators have found that in 2007 the German Intelligence Service BND destroyed files of 250 employees who had been in the Nazi SS or Gestapo

2015: 24 April 2015: German BND helped NSA spy on EU politicians and companies, lied and withheld information for years - 11 November 2015: Germany�s 'foreign' intelligence service BND spied on targets including the UN Children�s Fund, the World Health Organisation, the international court of justice in The Hague, the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, the FBI, and German citizen, diplomat and now head of the EU�s mission in Turkey Hansjörg Haber, a media report alleges

2016: 27 April 2016: Speculation is mounting whether the head of the foreign intelligence service BND, Germany�s version of the CIA, has been removed as part of a political struggle over how to deal with the series of scandals since the revelations provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013

March 2017: 8 March 2017: The case against the NSU, the neo-Nazi terrorist organization National Socialist Underground that committed ten murders, three bomb attacks, and 15 bank robberies in the years between 1998 and 2011, is an unprecedented example of the close connection between the German secret services and the neo-Nazi movement as well as the structural racism within the German law enforcement authorities, NSU-Watch says

Since 1945 neo-Nazism in Germany: Chauvinism, fascism and neo-Nazism in Germany - Neo-Nazism

Nazi terrorism since 1945, Nazi party 'NPD' and neo-Nazi linked AfD in German parliaments: Todesopfer rechtsextremer Gewalt in Deutschland nach 1945

11. April 1968 Attentat auf Rudi Dutschke: 11. April 1968 Attentat auf Rudi Dutschke in West-Berlin

September 1991 Riot of Hoyerswerda: Riot of Hoyerswerda September 1991

August 1992 Riot of Rostock-Lichtenhagen: Riot of Rostock-Lichtenhagen August 1992

1992 Mordanschlag von Mölln: Mordanschlag von Mölln 1992

1993 Solingen arson attack: Solingen arson attack of 1993

1999 Hetzjagd in Guben: Hetzjagd in Guben 1999

Since 1990th to 2011 'National Socialist Underground' terrorist group: 'National Socialist Underground' terrorist group's serial murders - Neonazi-Mordserie bis 2011

2000: 10. Juni 2000: Der aus Mosambik stammende Alberto Adriano wurde in der Nacht vom 10. auf den 11. Juni 2000 von drei betrunkenen Wolfener Neonazis im Dessauer Stadtpark zusammengeschlagen und starb drei Tage später im Krankenhaus an seinen Verletzungen - 7 August 2000: Germany is clamping down on the far right, following a spate of neo-Nazi attacks on asylum seekers, Jews and the homeless over the past few weeks - 9. September 2000: Enver Simsek war das erste Opfer der Mordserie der terroristischen Vereinigung 'Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund' und wurde an seinem mobilen Blumenstand in Nürnberg mit acht Schüssen aus zwei Pistolen niedergeschossen

2001: 9. August 2001: Dieter Egon Wilfried Manzke wurde in Dahlewitz von fünf jungen Männern im Alter zwischen 17 und 22 Jahren in einem leer stehenden Gartenbungalow zu Tode gefoltert, weil die Täter Obdachlose für 'lebensunwerte Existenzen' hielten

2002: 12. Juli 2002: Marinus Schöberl wurde Mordopfer rechtsextremer Jugendlicher in Potzlow, nachdem die Täter ihr Opfer vorher lange und grausam quälten

2003: NPD-Verbotsverfahren (2003 gescheitert) - Parteienfinanzierung

2005: Death of Oury Jalloh in Dessau police custody 7 January 2005 - 16. November 2017: Gemäß Sachverständigengutachten aus den Bereichen Brandschutz, Medizin und Chemie wurde der Asylbewerber Oury Jalloh vermutlich in Dessauer Polizeizelle umgebracht

2005: 15. Juni 2005: Der griechischstämmige Einzelhändler Theodoros Boulgarides wurde am 15. Juni 2005 in München durch die Terrorzelle Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund ermordet

2006: 6. April 2006: Halit Yozgat wurde als vermutlich neuntes Todesopfer der Neonazi-Mordserie in seinem Internetcafé im Kasseler Stadtteil Nord-Holland durch zwei gezielte Pistolenschüsse in den Kopf ermordet

2007: Polizistenmord von Heilbronn 25. April 2007

2009: 1. Juli 2009: Die ägyptische Handballnationalspielerin und Pharmazeutin Marwa Ali El-Sherbini wurde während einer Strafverhandlung im Landgericht Dresden, zu der sie als Zeugin geladen war, vom Angeklagten aus islam- und ausländerfeindlichen Motiven erstochen

2010: 1. November 2010: Als sechster Mensch, der allein in Leipzig seit 1990 durch nazistisch und rassistisch motivierte Gewalt ums Leben kommt, wird in der Nacht zum 24. Oktober der Iraker Kamal Kilade von zwei Nazis vor dem Hauptbahnhof mit einem Messer angegriffen und ermordet - 15. Juli 2011: In Leipzig ermorden Neonazis 2010 den jungen Iraker Kamal Kilade, im sächsischen Oschatz wird im Mai 2011 der obdachlose Andre K. tot geprügel, in Möchengladbach endet ebenfalls im Mai 2011 ein Kioskstreit für einen Deutsch-Kongolesen David M. tödlich, auch die Folgen von mangelnder und mangelhafter Strafverfolgung

2011: 12. November 2011: Mordserie an Ausländern und Polizistin von seit 90er Jahren bekannten Neonazis - 13 November: Police made a second arrest after the discovery of evidence linking a Nazi group to 10 murders - November 2011: Rolle des 'Verfassungsschutzes' und der Polizei bei der vieljährigen neonazistischen Mordserie - 20 November: The German government agrees 'to compensate' families of victims of neo-Nazi group questioning itself how the organization could have slipped under the radar when it was known to the authorities since 15 years - 24. November: Haftbefehl gegen weiteren Neonazi und Produzenten eines Propagandavideos - 29 November: Police - now investigating neo-Nazi organization - arrest another suspect accomplice and former official in the extreme-right NPD party - 30. November: Mehr als 800 Waffenfunde bei Neonazis - Verbindungen auch in die Schweiz - 1 December: German authorities seek public help in neo-Nazi investigation - 9 December: German interior ministers now seek ban on neo-Nazi NPD - 18. Dezember 2011: Gelder des thüringischen 'Verfassungsschutzes' für Neo-Nazi Terrororganisation

2012: 1. Januar 2012: 'Verfassungsschutz' hatte schon 1999 Informationen über den Aufenthaltsort und die Verbrechen der Neonazi-Terroristen, hat aber nicht zugegriffen - Untersuchungsausschuss zur Terrorgruppe Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund seit Januar 2012 - 26. Januar 2012: Offenbarungseid eines verlogenen Staates - deutscher Bundestag setzt Neonazi-Untersuchungsausschuß ein - 27. Januar: Neonazis werden auch in Bayern aggressiver - 1. Februar: Weiterer mutmasslicher Neonazi-Helfer in Düsseldorf festgenommen - 13. März 2012: Zahlreiche Festnahmen bei polizeilicher Aktion gegen die kriminelle Vereinigung 'Aktionsbüro Mittelrhein' und deren 'Braunes Haus' - 27 March 2012: 'Germany's new breed of neo-Nazis pose a threat', British TV report says - 30. Mai: Von fünf mutmasslichen Helfern der Rechtsterroristen sind nur noch zwei in Haft - 15. Juni: Bundesgerichtshof hebt Haftbefehl gegen weiteren mutmaßlichen Helfer der rechtsterroristischen NSU auf - 28. Juni: 'Verfassungsschutz' vernichtete im November 2011 Akten über seine Verbindung zu Naziterroristen nach Aufforderung zu deren Übermittlung - 2 July: German domestic intelligence agency chief H. Fromm quits over murders - 4. Juli: Hinterbliebene von Opfern der Zwickauer Neonazi-Zelle haben Strafanzeige gegen Mitarbeiter des 'Verfassungsschutzes' eingereicht - 11 Juli: Die sogenannten Ermittlungspannen bei der Mordserie der Zwickauer Neonazi-Zelle kosten nach H. Fromm, Th. Sippel ('Verfassungsschutz'-Chef in Thüringen) einen dritten 'Verfassungsschutz'-Chef (R. Boos in Sachsen) den Posten - 15. Juli: Staatlicher Offenbarungseid auf Raten - weitere Einzelheiten zum 'Verfassungsschutz' - 23. Juli: Verhaftung nach Hausdurchsuchung wegen Betriebs eines rechtsextremen Internetradios - 23. August: NRW verbietet drei Neonazi-'Kameradschaften' in Dortmund, Hamm und Aachen - Beschlagnahme von Waffen, Datenträgern und Propagandamaterial auch der NPD - 11 September: Military intelligence agency MAD says it knew of the murder suspect�s Mundlos far-right links years before he joined the neo-Nazi terror cell - 14. September 2012: Polizei im Zwielicht - Nazimord-Helfer und Sprengstoffbeschaffer als 'Informant' und 'Vertrauensperson' von 2000-2011 in Diensten des Berliner Landeskriminalamts - der Name des Amts verpflichtet - 23. September: Der langjährige V-Mann der Berliner Polizei Thomas S. gibt Sprengstoffbeschaffung für die Neonazi-Terrorzelle zu - 17. Oktober: Im Bundesamt für 'Verfassungsschutz' sind nach Enttarnung der Neonazi-Terrorzelle NSU neben den bereits publik gewordenen Fällen weitere 284 Akten vernichtet worden - 22. Oktober: Edathy legt dem BDK-Vorsitzenden Schulz wegen dessen Beleidigung des parlamentarischen Ausschusses Rücktritt nahe - 1. November: Kenan Kolat fordert eine Debatte darüber, wie es zu der Mordserie der Naziterroristen kommen konnte - 8 November: Federal prosecutors charge neo-Nazis with murders of 10 people, mostly immigrants and a police officer - 14. November 2012: Beim Berliner 'Verfassungsschutz' schon 2010 rechtswidrige Vernichtung von Akten zum Rechtsextremismus - weiterer Rücktritt, diesmal einer 'Verfassungsschutz'-Chefin in der zuvorkommenden Hauptstadt - 22. November 2012: NRW-Innenminister SPD-Behrens schließt 2004 entgegen den Ermittlungen rechtsterroristische Täterschaft aus - 23. November 2012: Bundespräsident Gauck lehnt Treffen mit den Opferfamilien der NSU-Morde ab und schlägt Bitte der Türkischen Gemeinde für ein persönliches Treffen zum Jahrestag der Aufdeckung der NSU-Mordserie aus

2013: 3. Februar 2013: Bundesinnenministerium verweigert dem NSU-Untersuchungsausschuss Auskünfte über einen wichtigen V-Mann im Umfeld der Zwickauer Terrorzelle - 16. Februar 2013: Aysen Tasköprü, Schwester des ermordeten Süleymann Tasköprü aus Hamburg und Nebenklägerin im NSU-Mordprozess lehnt Bundenspräsident Gaucks Einladung ab und begründet ihre Ablehnung in einem Schreiben, mit welchem sie überfällige Antworten verlangt - 26 Mart 2013: Almanya�da sekizi Türk 10 kisiyi öldüren neonazi terör örgütü NSU�nun yargilanacagi davada Münih Yüksek Eyalet Mahkemesi

April 2013: 2. April 2013: 50 'Verfassungsschutz' V-Leute im NSU-Umfeld identifiziert, schwerste Straftaten, hohe Honorare des Staates (fünf- bis sechsstellig) und oftmals ohne Strafverfolgung - 2. April: Celal Özcan erklärt. daß 'Hürriyet' immer wieder beim OLG München angerufen und um eine Vorabinformation gebeten habe, wann die Akkreditierungsfrist beginnen würde - 'die Verfahrensweise ist ungerecht und nicht akzeptabel' - 2. April: Statt das Anliegen, die Teilnahme türkischer Medien und der Botschaft am NSU-Prozeß vor dem Münchner OLG zu gewährleisten, als Vorsitzender des Auswärtigen Ausschusses nach Kräften zu unterstützen, maßt sich CDU-Polenz von der Kiesinger/Filbinger/Globke-CDU an, die 'türkische Politik' 'dringend zu warnen' - vor dem Zustand eines Landes, dessen Behörden den Naziterror sogar finanziell gefördert haben (ein Grund, sich zu schämen, zu entschuldigen und aufzuräumen), und welchen auch dieser CDU/CSU-Politiker mit herbeigeführt hat und nun selbst offenbart - 4 April: A Turkish newspaper complains to Germany's highest court over German neo-Nazi trial access - 12 avril: La Cour constitutionnelle allemande a ordonné au tribunal de Munich d'accorder des places supplémentaires aux médias étrangers pour couvrir le procès de néonazis jugés à partir de mercredi pour des meurtres racistes - 14 April: Neo-Nazi trial forces to confront painful truths of a country that believed it had learned the lessons of its past - 15 avril: Le procès de néo-nazis allemands accusés de meurtres racistes est reporté au 6 mai - 25 April: The German lower house, the Bundestag, refuses to back a ban of the neo-nazi party NPD

May 2013: NSU-Prozess vor dem 6. Strafsenat des Oberlandesgerichts München - Kontroverse um Journalisten-Akkreditierung (Platzvergabe, Prozeßverschiebung) beim NSU-Prozess 2013 - 21. Mai 2013: Mit Schreiben vom 28.04.2000 des Präsidenten des Landesamts für Verfassungsschutz an den damaligen sächsischen CDU-Innenminister Klaus Hardraht und mehrere Verantwortliche wurden diese darüber unterrichtet, daß es Zweck der Nazi-Terrorgruppe NSU sei, 'schwere Straftaten gegen die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung zu begehen' und daß bei der NSU 'eine deutliche Steigerung der Intensität bis hin zu schwersten Straftaten feststellbar' sei

August 2013: 21 August 2013: Anger as German neo-Nazis protest against refugee camp in Berlin

August 2013: 22 August: Representatives of co-plaintiffs at the NSU trial criticize the final report by the Bundestag Commission of Inquiry as inconsistent

2014: 12. August 2014: Prozess gegen Neonazichef Pastörs von der NPD wegen 'Justizpanne' - kein Antrag zur Aufhebung seiner Immunität gestellt - geplatzt - 16./21. August 2014: Untersuchungsausschuss des Thüringer Landtages wirft dem Verfassungsschutz vor, die Fahndung nach den Neonazi-Terroristen der NSU regelrecht sabotiert zu haben - 24. September 2014: NSU-Terrorzelle profitierte laut Zeugenaussage von Verfassungsschutz-Geld - 1. Oktober: Deutscher Verfassungsschutz kannte NSU schon 2005 - 8. Oktober: Laut einem Berner Polizist soll ein Schweizer an der Beschaffung der wichtigsten Mordwaffe des NSU-Trios beteiligt gewesen sein

October-December 2014: 27 October 2014: Football hooligans and members of the German far right clashed with riot police in the centre of Cologne as a demonstration against Islamic extremism turned violent - 12 December: Neo-Nazis suspected in German asylum seeker arson attack - 15 December: Estimated 15,000 people join �pinstriped nazis� on march in Dresden, as far-right group Pegida using slogan from 1989 campaign against East German government holds 'Islamisation' protest - 23 December: Listening to speeches about immigrants and asylum seekers and singing Christmas carols a record 17,500 people have turned out for the latest 'anti-Islamisation' rally in Dresden, but counter-demonstrations were being held

2015: 21 January 2015: The leader of far-right and anti-Muslim movement Pegida resigned after a photo of him posing as Hitler and reports that he called refugees 'scumbags' - 11 February 2015: German refugee centres face drastic rise in extremist attacks - 23 Februar 2015: Bachmann wieder im Pegida-Vorstand - 9 March 2015: Village of Tröglitz mayor Markus Nierth quits over neo-Nazi protest after neo-Nazis were given permission to demonstrate outside his home over his support of asylum seekers - 29. März 2015: Zeugin und Ex-Freundin von Florian H. tot, der im Herbst 2013 im Auto verbrannte bevor er im NSU-Ausschuß aussagen konnte - 4 April 2015: Asylum seekers' accommodation set on fire in suspected far-right arson attack in village of Tröglitz - 22 April 2015: Germany grapples with attitudes to asylum seekers - 6 May 2015: Police detained four people suspected of setting up a right-wing extremist group that was planning bomb attacks on Muslims and refugees, as a separate investigation began into arsonists who damaged a shelter for asylum-seekers - 30 July 2015: A worrying rise of fire bombings and violent attacks on asylum-seekers has marred German attempts to integrate desperate refugees from Syria, Eritrea and also people from the Balkans, as in the past 25 years in Germany 75 people have been murdered in rightwing extremist attacks - 13 August 2015: In northern German village Jamel a barn belonging to opponents of local neo-Nazis has burned down in a supposed case of arson - 23 August 2015: The outbreak of violence by right-wing radicals against refugees followed a demonstration of some 1,000 people in Heidenau, near Dresden against the roughly 250 refugees - 26 August: Two new attacks hit refugee centres in Leipzig and Parchim - 17 October 2015: Mayoral candidate Henriette Reker, responsible for taking charge of refugees in her city, stabbed in Cologne in a racist attack wounding four other people and linked to migrants policy - 19 October 2015: At the anniversary of the Pegida rallies in Dresden on 19 October 2015 keynote speaker Pirin�ci tries to stir up hatred against refugees in Europe and Germany saying 'KZs sind ja leider derzeit außer Betrieb' - 22 October 2015: In the first three quarters of 2015 there were a total of 461 attacks across Germany against asylum seekers� homes believed to have been driven by xenophobic motives, including scores of arson attacks - 7 December: Germany's constitutional court to hear case on banning neo-Nazi NPD in March 2016 - 22 December 2015: A German town council member of the National Democratic party has been given only a suspended sentence over a tattoo bearing a notorious Nazi concentration camp slogan and a rendering of Auschwitz

2016: 11 January 2016: Two Pakistanis and a Syrian man were injured in attacks by gangs of people in Cologne, German police said late on Sunday - 11 January 2016: Gangs attacked groups of foreigners in four separate incidents on Sunday in Cologne, after attackers reportedly arranged via Facebook to go on 'manhunt' of foreigners after assaults on women on New Year�s Eve - 12 January: Over 200 masked anti-refugee supporters, carrying placards with racist overtones, went on a rampage in the German city of Leipzig on Monday night, throwing fireworks, breaking windows and vandalising buildings, police says - 20 February 2016: A video showing a mob of people in Saxony chanting hate slogans at a bus full of visibly shaken refugees has sparked outrage among German social media users - 20 février: Tollé après la diffusion de vidéos montrant en Saxe des policiers évacuant brutalement un bus de demandeurs d'asile qui refusent de gagner leur foyer, effrayés par des manifestants anti-réfugié - 21 February: A fire that destroyed a hotel being converted into a shelter for refugees in Saxony's city of Bautzen was cheered and celebrated by onlookers, police say treating the incident as suspected arson - 8 March 2016: Congo-born priest Ndjimbi-Tshiende in Germany's Bavaria quits over death threats he received since speaking out in defence of refugees and after he was fed up with xenophobic utterances from prominent CSU local politicians Sylvia Boher and Johann Haindi - 19 avril 2016: Déjà condamné pour braquages, violences et trafic de coca�ne, la justice se penchait mardi sur le sort de Lutz Bachmann, le fondateur de Pegida, qui avait traité les réfugiés de 'bétail' - 19 April 2016: In diesem Jahr sind in Deutschland bereits mehr als 300 Straftaten gegen Asylunterkünfte verübt worden - 11. Mai 2016: Mobiltelefon des mittlerweile toten Neonazis 'Corelli', V-Mann des sogenannten 'Verfassungsschutzes', aufgetaucht, welches 2012 (!) bei der Aufnahme in ein 'Zeugenschutzprogramm' der NSU-Untersuchung übergeben wurde und auf dem sich zahlreiche Bild-Dateien und Kontakte befinden - 6 July 2016: Anti-immigration party AfD plunged into a leadership crisis over Holocaust denial and antisemitic views expressed by one of its MPs - 13 July 2016: A group of young men left a black man bloodied and unconscious after he tried to stop them harassing some Somalis in Munich - 16 August 2016: Berlin authorities must cancel contracts with Pewobe company that runs nine homes for asylum seekers after leaked emails showed managers including a former DVU member joking about executing refugees, suggesting to invest a �5,000 donation from BMW in 'a small guillotine for children' and joking that disposing of the bodies would require a 'large-volume crematorium' - 27 September 2016: Police suspect a 'xenophobic motive� after two improvised explosive devices detonated outside a mosque and congress centre in Dresden on Monday - 7 October: A group of young people in eastern Germany's Sebnitz threatened three Syrian refugee children with a knife and hit them before chanting right-wing slogans, police said - 19 octobre 2016: Quatre policiers ont été blessés, certains gravement, près de Nuremberg par un membre des 'citoyens du Reich', un mouvement antirépublicain lié à l'extrême droite, qui a ouvert le feu lors d'une perquisition - 20 October 2016: Police officer dies from injuries after being shot by Neo-Nazi 'Reichsbürger' extremist - 23 October 2016: As police and fire officers tried to persuade a Somali boy not to jump, onlookers were spending a long time, watching and calling on the migrant teen to leap from an apartment block in German town of Schmoelln and to suffer fatal injuries - 31 October 2016: Two weeks after a 'Reichsbürger' Neo-Nazi killed an officer during a police raid, German police are investigating within their own ranks for links to the extremist movement with the largest number of cases in Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt - 15 December 2016: As German ministry of the interior counted around 14,000 far-right-related crimes in 2015, about 30% more than in the previous year, as German police by April 2016 counted three attacks per day against housing facilities for asylum seekers, as the savage anti-immigrant climate of the 1990s is making a return, new pressure from Merkel�s government would be necessary to force BfV operatives to cooperate as witnesses in the NSU murder trial in Munich

2013-2017 zweites NPD-Verbotsverfahren mit BVerfG-Urteil zugunsten der Nazipartei: 2013-2017 zweites NPD-Verbotsverfahren - 4 March 2016: German 'Bundesrat' wants to ban the neo-Nazis of the NPD again - 23 May 2016: Rightwing violence surges in Germany, as interior ministry reports 'unacceptable' increase in number of hate crimes, with attacks on asylum seekers� homes soaring

17 January 2017: 17 January 2017: The Constitutional Court of Germany rejects bid to ban neo-nazi NPD party, as Holocaust survivors group warns ruling could spur extremists, saying that 'this reality-blind and untimely decision sends a disastrous signal to Europe, where far-right and right-wing populists have found new partnerships and are now trying to transform the fear and insecurity of the population into hatred and aggression'

18/19 January 2017: 18 January 2017: After leading member of German party AfD Hoecke called to stop remembering Nazi crimes, urging shift away from Holocaust remembrance, Germany�s Jewish Council's chairman Josef Schuster says that 'the AfD has shown its real face with these anti-Semitic and extremely hostile words' and former president Dieter Graumann says that Hoecke's speech was 'outrageous' and it was a scandal for such a poisonous mentality to come from a politician in a party set to win seats in parliament

February 2017: 10 February 2017: German Neo-Nazi, a local politician of the NPD party, called too insignificant to spell a real threat to the democratic order by Germanny's Constitutional Court, was sentenced to 8 years jail for an arson attack on refugee shelter in Nauen and for other xenophobic crimes, as 5 other men were also sentenced - 9 mars 2017: Des armes à feu ont été saisies lors d'un raid contre des 'Reichsbürger', une mouvance mêlant néonazis, dans six lieux situés dans la région de Duisbourg

April 2017: 28 April 2017: Two men in eastern Germany's Cottbus are accused of racially abusing a young Egyptian woman moments after their friend drove over her, three days later, the woman died of her injuries

May/June 2017: 18 May 2016: 23,500 right-wing crimes were committed in 2016, violent right-wing crimes jumped up by 14.3%, and eastern Germany represents around half of these crimes also caused by a pernicious western German influence and the uncomprehended reunification, according to police statistics and recent report - 18 June 2017: NSU victims' families sue German government over investigation errors, as families of two men murdered by a neo-Nazi group are suing for damages due to mistakes made in the probe argueing that authorities could have arrested the trio earlier, preventing further murders

July 2017: 4 July 2017: Violent acts by neo-Nazi groups in Germany rose 14% to 1,600 in 2016, annual BfV intelligence and government report says, seeing 'a clear radicalization in both substance and rhetoric regarding asylum matters', also saying that Germany is a big target of spying and cyberattacks by foreign governments such as China, Iran, Russia and Turkey, warning of 'ticking time bombs' that could sabotage critical infrastructure, and assuming 'that Russian state agencies are trying to influence parties, politicians and public opinion, with a particular eye to the 2017 parliamentary election'

August/September 2017: 29 August 2017: AfD's Gauland launch racist attack on integration minister Aydan Özoguz, saying she should be 'disposed of' to Turkey - 11 September 2017: AfD's Weidel, one of two lead candidates for the AfD in September national elections, reportedly called Chancellor Angela Merkel 'a pig tasked by WWII victors to keep Germany down� - 14 September 2017: AfD's Gauland says Germans 'have the right to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars'

October 2017: 23 October 2017: 'Citizens of the Reich' militant Wolfgang Plan sentenced to life in prison by the regional court of Nuremberg for killing a policeman during a dawn raid on his house

December 2017: 2/3 December 2017: Rising German neo-Nazi linked AfD party elects leaders at a convention in the city of Hannover amid protests

January/February 2018: 2 janvier 2018: La responsable du parti Alternative pour l'Allemagne a vu son tweet retiré des réseaux sociaux après avoir comparé les réfugiés à des 'hordes de barbares' - 22 February 2018: Germany's AfD set to embrace anti-Islam and neonazi-linked Pegida, as latest INSA poll this week showed the AfD on 16%, overtaking the SPD for the first time - 22 February 2018: A German-Russian dual national has been arrested and accused of 'politically motivated' attempted murder after he attacked three asylum seekers with a knife in Heilbronn - 27 February 2018: In a vote on Monday night, the local council in southwestern Germany's Herxheim near Heidelberg decided by 10 votes to 3 that a Nazi-era bell, complete with the inscription 'Everything for the Fatherland - Adolf Hitler', should continue to hang in the local church, as councilors said the bell, which also bears a swastika, should serve as a force for reconciliation and a memorial against violence and injustice

March 2018: 7 March 2018: Eight members of 'Freital Group', which carried out bombings that wounded a Syrian refugee, seeking to create 'climate of fear', face verdicts Wednesday after a year-long terrorism trial - 7 March 2018: A German court sentenced seven men and one woman to four to 10 years in jail for founding a neo-Nazi terrorist group responsible for attempted murder and bomb attacks on refugee shelters and politicians in Saxony

April 2018: 21 April 2018: Hundreds of neo-Nazis gathered Friday on Adolf Hitler�s birthday for a two-day festival in the eastern German town of Ostritz near the Polish and Czech borders, where citizens and anti-fascist groups staged spirited counter-protests

May 2018: 9 May 2018: Germany's AfD decides not to expel critic of Holocaust memorial - 14 May 2018: After the German Nazis adopted the phrase 'The Jews are our misfortune', in 2018 a banner with the colors of the Israeli flag that said 'The state Israel is our misfortune' was held by neo-Nazis in Dortmund, expressing their alleged solidarity with Palestinians by waving PLO flags against both the opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem and the founding of the State of Israel

Terrorism in Germany: Terrorism in Germany

Seit 1914/1918 Todesopfer chauvinistischer, rassistischer und rechtsextremer Gewalt in Deutschland und weltweit - German war crimes since the opening months of the World War I, regarding the terrorism against civilians during the German invasion and occupation of Belgium during the German aggression - September 2004: Since August 1914 German atrocities, the etiology of war crimes and the complexities of remembrance - December 2004: The Rape of Belgium - The Untold Story of World War I - National Socialism, also known as Nazism, is the ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German NSDAP party and NSDAP and SS state and by extension other groups - Neo-Nazi attacks in Germany

Islamist terrorism in Germany

Since 1918/1945: Todesopfer rechtsextremer Gewalt in Deutschland, nach 1945 bis in die Gegenwart

Since 1971 RAF terror attacks: Since 1971 list of assaults attributed to the Red Army Faction, a West German terrorist group supported by the Stasi

1972 Munich massacre: 1972 Munich massacre

1980 Oktoberfest terror attack: September 1980 Oktoberfest terror attack was a terrorist attack with a right-wing radical background

1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: 5 April 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing - a 2001 trial in the USA found that the bombing had been 'planned by the Libyan secret service and the Libyan Embassy'

May 1993 Solingen arson attack: 28 May 1993 Solingen arson attack

2000-2007 NSU murders series of xenophobe murders: 2000-2007 NSU murders series of xenophobe murders perpetrated by German Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground throughout Germany, leaving ten people dead and one wounded, primary targets were ethnic Turks but also Kurds, though the victims also included one ethnic Greek and one ethnic German policewoman

18 July 2016 Würzburg train attack: 18 July 2016 Würzburg train attack - 19 July 2016: 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, who had arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor, armed with axe and knife shot dead after attacking passengers and injuring three people seriously on train in Bavaria

22 July 2016 Munich shooting: 22 July 2016 Munich shooting - 22 July 2016: Munich police warned people to avoid public places as they hunted for the shooter who opened fire at a shopping mall, killing at least eight people and wounding others - 23 July: 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich kills 9 people then himself in Munich terror rampage - 23 July: Munich attack reports, live updated by British newspaper - 24 July: 18-year-old Ali Sonboly from Munich, who killed nine people mostly teenagers including three children from Turkey, three ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and at least one Greek teenager, was reportedly obsessed with mass killings, played computer shooting games and was interested in the Neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 mostly young people on 22 July 2011 targeting an AUF camp, and whose face was used by Sonboly as his profile picture on the WhatsApp messaging service - 24 July: Police arrest a 16-year-old Afghan youth on suspicion of a connection to the killing of nine people by Sonboly, as authorities confirmed that the gunman had written a manifesto before the attack without revealing any details about its content, and that he spent more than a year planning the attack and was able to buy a handgun on the dark web - 27. Juli 2016: Der Münchner Todesschütze Sonboly hat es Presseberichten zufolge als 'Auszeichnung' empfunden, am einem 20. April wie Adolf Hitler geboren worden zu sein, war als Deutsch-Iraner stolz darauf Arier zu sein, habe Araber und Türken gehasst und ihnen gegenüber 'Höherwertigkeitsgefühle' gehegt - 27 July: Police investigate Sonboly's targeting of people of foreign origin, saying the gunman was racist and a rightwing extremist

24 July 2016 Ansbach bombing: 24 July 2016 Ansbach bombing - 25 July 2016: A Syrian man, who had been denied asylum, has killed himself and injured 12 others after setting off an explosive device outside a music festival in Ansbach

December 2016 Berlin Christmas market truck attack: 19 December 2016 Berlin Christmas market truck attack - 20 December 2016: The driver who rammed a truck into a crowded Christmas market in the heart of German capital Berlin, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly 50, did so intentionally, according to police, investigating the suspected 'terror attack'

April 2017 Dortmund football team attack: 11 April 2017 Borussia Dortmund team bus attack - 21 April 2017: German-Russian suspect arrested for Dortmund bus blasts motivated by financial greed, prosecutors say - 21 April 2017: Festnahme des tatverdächtigen deutschen und russischen Staatsangehörigen Sergej W. wegen versuchten Mordes, Herbeiführung einer Sprengstoffexplosion am 11. April sowie gefährliche Körperverletzung, im Zusammenhang mit Börsenspekulation

July 2017 Hamburg attack: 28 July 2017 Hamburg supermarket attack - a man, reportedly born in the United Arab Emirates, attacked several people with a machete, killing a 50-year-old German man and injuring 6 in addition to the murder

March 2018 Freital neo-Nazi group: 7 March 2018: A German court sentenced seven men and one woman to four to 10 years in jail for founding a neo-Nazi terrorist group responsible for attempted murder and bomb attacks on refugee shelters and politicians in Saxony

Political violence in Germany: Political violence in Germany

August 2017: 22 August 2017: A car belonging to SPD politician Michelle Müntefering and a car belonging to the SPD were set on fire on Monday evening the the second case of arson against politicians in the town of Herne this year

November 2017: 28 November 2017: German pro-refugee mayor of Altena attacked by man with knife

Organized crime groups and activities in Germany: Organized crime groups in Germany with activities of various groups of crime families and organised crime syndicates - Gangs in Germany

2017: 30. Mai 2017: Mafiöses System für Abrechnungsbetrug von rund 230 Pflegediensten mit Gründern aus Russland und der Ukraine, Verwicklung auch in andere kriminelle Machenschaften wie Geldwäsche und Schutzgeldzahlungen, laut Bundes- und Landeskriminalamt - 13 July 2017: 'The mafia are invisible but almost everywhere in Germany', experts say at an Italian-German conference in Berlin to discuss how to combat such criminal groups that still have a solid presence in the Bundesrepublik

Human trafficking in Germany: Human trafficking in Germany

Murder victims in Germany and crime in Germany by year: Murder victims in Germany - Crime in Germany by year - Crime in Germany by state

School shootings and killings in Germany: School shootings in Germany - School killings in Germany - School violence is widely held to have become a serious problem in recent decades in many countries, especially where weapons such as guns or knives are involved

Corruption in Germany: Corruption in Germany

2008 Siemens bribery scandal: 15 December 2008: Siemens, the German engineering giant, agreed to pay a record total of $1.6 billion to American and European authorities to settle charges that it routinely used bribes and slush

2013: 18 July 2913: Global Corruption Barometer 2013 says, that 65% of respondents in Germany felt that political parties were corrupt/extremely corrupt, that 61% of respondents in Germany felt that business was corrupt/extremely corrupt, that 54% of respondents in Germany felt that media was corrupt/extremely corrupt, that 20% of respondents in Germany felt that judiciary was corrupt/extremely corrupt

2015: 31 August 2015: Siemens, Daimler, and Rheinmetall have been mired in cases of alleged corruption in Greece - 16 October 2015: German football drawn into the ever widening Fifa corruption crisis after it was alleged that the former Adidas chief executive Robert Louis-Dreyfus set up a 10.3m Swiss francs slush fund to buy votes and secure the right to stage the 2006 World Cup

2015 FIFA corruption case: 2015 FIFA corruption case, investigation by USA's FBI into wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering that has lasted many years - 16 October 2015: German football drawn into the ever widening Fifa corruption crisis after it was alleged that the former Adidas chief executive Robert Louis-Dreyfus set up a 10.3m Swiss francs slush fund to buy votes and secure the right to stage the 2006 World Cup

November 2015 DFB and Fifa scandal: 9 November 2015: German DFB president Niersbach, under investigation for tax evasion, says he takes the responsibility for a controversial 6.7 million euro payment to FIFA allegedly used to bribe officials of world soccer's governing body to vote for Germany's 2006 World Cup hosting bid

2016 DFB and Fifa scandal: 22 March 2016: The Fifa ethics committee will investigate possible undue payments, contracts to gain an advantage. bribery and corruption of former DFB vice-president Franz Beckenbauer and five other DFB officials including Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger connected with Germany�s 2006 World Cup bid

September 2016: 1/2 September 2016: Swiss prosecutors confirm that they are investigating Germany football's Franz Beckenbauer over a claim of alleged corruption, as also former German federation presidents Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach as well as ex-DFB general secretary Horst R Schmidt face allegations of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money-laundering and misappropriation of funds - 14 September 2016: Franz Beckenbauer, who said he worked for free as chairman of Germany's 2006 World Cup organizing committee, actually drew a fee of more than �5 million

Political corruption and crimes:

Since 1975 Flick corruption scandal: Flick-Affäre seit 1975 (nicht abgeschlossen)

Since 1990 'CDU/CSU-Korruptions-, Spenden- und Schwarzgeldaffäre' (not finished): - CDU/CSU-Korruptions-, Spenden- und Schwarzgeldaffäre seit den 90iger Jahren, nicht abgeschlossen

Since 1990 Leuna-Affäre: Leuna-Affäre (seit 1990, nicht abgeschlossen)

Since 1999 Telekom Überwachungsaffäre: Überwachungsaffäre der Deutschen Telekom (seit 1999)

Since 2005 SPD-Schröder corruption: Siding with former secret police officers linked to the KGB, former German SPD chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is going to work for Russian energy behemoth Gazprom, going to work for a company over whose industry he once had jurisdiction and for a company controlled by the Russian government that is helping to build a Baltic Sea gas pipeline that he championed while in office - 11 December 2015: SPD Gerhard Schröder, Putin�s �250,000 pal since 2006 - 12 August 2017: Russian regime nominates German ex-chancellor Schroeder to Russian oil producer Rosneft board

2007 Polizistenmord von Heilbronn: Polizistenmord von Heilbronn 25. April 2007

Since 2010 'Staatstrojaner'-Affäre: 'Staatstrojaner'-Affäre seit 2010

2013 German blocking of tougher EU car emissions rules: 15 October 2013: Germany blocked the introduction of tougher EU emissions rules for cars shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel's party received a large donation from three major BMW shareholders

2016 Duisburg trial over 2010 mass panic: 24 July 2010 mass panic at an electronic dance music festival in Duisburg - 5 April 2016: The state court in Duisburg has decided that 10 people accused of serious planning failures and failing to monitor security procedures properly will not stand trial over 2010 deadly mass panic at a techno music festival in Duisburg, that killed 21 people including people from Spain, Australia, Italy, Bosnia, China and the Netherlands in a crush in a packed tunnel that was the sole access point to the event, and that injured more than 500 people

Computer crime, cyber spying and industrial espionage: Computer crime - Cyber spying - Industrial espionage - Cyber-attacks - Computer security

2015: 11 June 2015: A cyber attack on the German Bundestag lower house of parliament reported last month is still stealing data and could force officials to spend millions of euros replacing the entire computer system

2015 mass surveillance in Germany: 2 October 2015: In damning report and indictment of mass surveillance in Germany the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Mui�nieks criticises the fact that democratic control of the intelligence services is practically impossible and that mass surveillance can be carried out virtually unchecked

White collar crime and scandals in Germany: Wirtschaftskriminalität

Since 1957 Contergan-Skandal: Contergan-Skandal seit 1957 - 1 September 2012: Thalidomide victims say apology by German inventor of drug that caused severe birth defects in 1950s and 60s is too little too late, after 50 years

2011/2012: 22. September 2011: Amnestie für Steuerbetrüger - neu ausgehandeltes Steuerabkommen mit der Schweiz auf anonymer Grundlage - 30. März 2012: SPD-geführte Bundesländer verweigern die Zustimmung zum Steuerabkommen zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz - 1. April: Scharfe Kritik an Schweizer Justizbehörde und ihrer Haftbefehle gegen bundesdeutsche Steuerfahnder wegen deren Einsatz gegen Wirtschaftskriminalität - auch CDU-Finanzminister Schäuble in der Kritik - 21 June: German banker G. Gribkowsky has told a Munich courtroom that he took a �28-million 'bribe' from F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone - 10. August 2012: Koalition gegen die Ratifizierung der Uno-Anti-Korruptions-Konvention

12 December 2012: Deutsche Bank offices raided in carbon tax fraud probe

2013/2014: 4 April 2013: Deutsche Bank, through its Singapore branch, helped its customers create or manage more than 300 secretive offshore companies and trusts in the British Virgin Islands and other tax havens - 5 décembre 2013: La Commission européenne inflige des amendes à huit établissements financiers (Deutsche Bank, Société Générale etc.) pour avoir manipulé les taux interbancaires - 23 April 2015: Deutsche Bank hit by record $2.5bn Libor-rigging fine, also accused of being obstructive towards regulators in their investigations into the global manipulation

30 July 2013: Prosecutors have charged Uli Hoeness, president of football company Bayern Munich, with tax evasion after a lengthy inquiry - 13 March 2014: Munich court convicts Uli Hoeness of tax evasion and sentences him to 3-1/2 years in jail

Since 2014 German and international automotive industry emissions scandal: Since 2014 International diesel emissions scandal - raising awareness over the high levels of pollution being emitted by diesel vehicles built by a wide range of carmakers, including BMW, Citroen, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Jeep, Mazda, Mercedes, Peugeot, Renault, Volkswagen group and Volvo, scandals relating to the emissions from diesel engines began in 2014 when emissions discrepancies between European and USA models of vehicles were highlighted by the International Council on Clean Transportation

August 2017: 2 August 2017: Environmental groups and consumer advocates voice sharp criticism of the 'diesel summit' in Berlin, offering a software upgrade

2016 'Panama Papers' and German white collars: 5 April 2016: At least 28 banks in Germany used the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca's services in recent years, according to 'Panama Papers' documents - 21 April 2016: 'The total volume of money laundering in the financial and non-financial sectors in Germany taken together exceeds �50 billion and is probably more than �100 billion per year', according to university research in Halle/Saale

Environmental Crime in Germany: Environmental Crime in Germany - 2014 EU country report - Umweltkriminalität, rechtsverletzende Handlungen gerichtet gegen gesetzlich geschützte Umweltgüter

Since 2015 Volkswagen defeat device and German automotive industry emissions scandal: Volkswagen emissions scandal - in September 2015 Volkswagen admitted to illegally using installed software to change emissions test results for 11 million of its diesel engine cars sold between 2009 and 2015 - Since 2014 International diesel emissions scandal

September 2015: 22 September 2015: Calling for a 'Europe-wide' investigation in the Volkswagen emissions scandal, France�s finance minister Sapin says, 'what we are dealing with is making sure people avoid being poisoned by pollution' - 20 June 2016: German prosecutors investigate ex-VW chief over emissions scandal and market manipulation - 27 August 2016: Viele Autokonzerne haben manipuliert, die Politik hat in der Abgas-Affäre versagt

September 2016: 9 September 2016: Volkswagen engineer James Liang pleads guilty to conspiracy in the company�s emissions cheating scandal and has agreed to cooperate in the widening criminal investigation

2017: 17 mai 2017: Le parquet de Stuttgart a ouvert dès février une enquête pour manipulation de cours dans le cadre du dieselgate, visant des membres du directoire de Porsche SE parmi lesquels l'actuel patron du groupe Volkswagen - 2 August 2017: Environmental groups and consumer advocates voice sharp criticism of the 'diesel summit' in Berlin, offering a software upgrade

August 2017: 26 August 2017: VW engineer James Robert Liang, the first person criminally charged, sentenced to 40-month prison term over his role in Volkswagen Group�s multiyear scheme to sell diesel cars that generated more pollution than USA rules allow

December 2017: 6 December 2017: Senior Volkswagen executive, who misled USA investigators and destroyed documents, sentenced to seven years in prison by a court in Detroit after being found guilty of concealing software used to evade pollution limits on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles

Arson in Germany: Arson in Germany

Law in Germany: Law of Germany - Legal history of Germany

1945-1946 Nuremberg trials: 20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946 Trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

1946-1949 subsequent Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: 1946-1949 subsequent Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals were a series of twelve USA military tribunals for war crimes against members of the leadership of Nazi Germany

Since 1945 Holocaust trials: Since 1945 Holocaust trials

1949 Basic Law for the Federal Republic and Judiciary of Germany: 1949 Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany approved on 8 May 1949 in Bonn, and, with the signature of the western Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May - German constitutional law

1942 - April 2017: 18 April 2017: The once-inaccessible archive of the UN war crimes commission, that was closed in the late 1940s and its use of the records was effectively suppressed, as West Germany was transformed into a pivotal ally at the start of the cold war and as many convicted Nazis were granted early release after the anti-communist USA senator Joseph McCarthy lobbied to end war crimes trials, is being opened by the Wiener Library in London with a catalogue that can be searched online - 23 April 2017: Citing recently released UN documents that show the Allies were aware of the scale of the Holocaust in 1942, Israeli PM Netanyahu says in a speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day that this new research assumed the 'terrible significance' that 'the powers knew and did not act', adding that global indifference persisted and is persisting, as evidenced by the horrors in Biafra, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan and Syria

Judiciary and courts in Germany: Judiciary of Germany - Courts in Germany - Liste von bekannten Justizirrtümern in der deutschen Rechtsprechung seit 1947

Since May 2013 NSU Trial in Munich: Since May 2013 NSU Trial against several people in connection with the 'National Socialist Underground' and the NSU murders in Munich in the 6th Criminal Division of the Munich Higher Regional Court before five professional judges - 7 April 2017: Nearly five years into the trial of a German neo-Nazi gang NSU who went on a killing spree against immigrants, relatives of the victims have become so frustrated with the police�s inability to untangle the case they have turned to London-based organisation Forensic Architecture, after the presiding judge of the Munich higher municipal court Manfred Götzl has so far ruled out investigating the role played by Germany�s intelligence agencies in the NSU�s criminal activities

2015: 7 February 2015: German court in the city of Wuppertal says torching of Synagogue not motivated by anti-Semitism

January 2017: 15 January 2017: German court affirms ruling synagogue arson not anti-Semitic, declining to question ruling on 2014 Wuppertal synagogue arson attack, after a regional court in Germany has decided that a brutal attempt to set fire to a local synagogue in 2014 was an act meant to express criticism against Israel�s conduct in its ongoing conflict with Hamas

May 2017: 4. Mai 2017: Kein Flüchtlingsstatus für Syrer im wehrdienstfähigen Alter, weil dem Kläger eine Verfolgung wegen Verweigerung des Militärdienstes im Zusammenhang mit völkerrechtswidrigen Kriegshandlungen (insbesondere Kriegsverbrechen) nicht drohe, sagt das die Diktatur Assads unterstützende Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen

May 2017: 30. Mai 2017: Das Landgericht Koblenz hat einen der umfangreichsten Neonazi-Prozesse wegen Bildung einer kriminellen Vereinigung, Körperverletzung und Sachbeschädigung eingestellt mit dem Hinweis auf ein angebliches 'Verfahrenshindernis der überlangen Verfahrensdauer'

June 2017: 24 June 2017: Neubrandenburg state court appointed three new judges after the removing of three judges found to be biased in the often-delayed trial of a former SS medic Hubert Zafke who served at the Auschwitz death camp, as the International Auschwitz Committee has sharply attacked Germany�s handling of the case, saying the court was hurtling 'between sloppy ignorance and complete disinterest' in a resolution

Federal Constitutional Court: Federal Constitutional Court

Juli 2005: 27. Juli 2005: Regelungen des Niedersächsischen Polizeigesetzes zur vorbeugenden Telefonüberwachung nichtig - Grundrechte des Beschwerdeführers auf freie Meinungsäußerung (Art. 5 Abs. 1 GG) und freie Entfaltung seiner Persönlichkeit (Art. 2 Abs. 1 GG) seien durch das Polizeigesetz eingeschränkt, 'er sei durch diese Normen ständig der Gefahr ausgesetzt, dass seine Telekommunikation heimlich von der Exekutive überwacht werde', wodurch 'eine unbefangene Meinungsäußerung auch in privaten Telefongesprächen' verhindert werde und der 'Kern seiner Privatsphäre' betroffen sei

Juni/Juli 2009: 23. Juli 2009: Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat entschieden mit einem Beschluß vom 17. Juni, daß die Bundesregierung und große Koalition mit ihrem restriktiven Vorgehen im BND-Untersuchungsausschuß des Bundestages gegen das Grundgesetz verstoßen hat - 2007/2008 Untersuchungsausschüsse des Bundestages, Verantwortung des früheren Chefs des Bundeskanzleramtes und Beauftragten für die Nachrichtendienste Frank-Walter Steinmeier und der Fall des Folteropfers Murat Kurnaz 2002-2006

April 2016: 20 April 2016: Verfassungsbeschwerden gegen die Ermächtigung des Bundeskriminalamts zum Einsatz von heimlichen Überwachungsmaßnahmen teilweise erfolgreich - Urteil des Ersten Senats des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 20. April 2016 zum Einsatz von heimlichen Überwachungsmaßnahmen (Wohnraumüberwachungen, Online-Durchsuchungen, Telekommunikationsüberwachungen, Telekommunikationsverkehrsdatenerhebungen und Überwachungen außerhalb von Wohnungen)

August 2016: 4. August 2016: Wahre Tatsachenbehauptungen über Vorgänge aus der Sozialsphäre sind grundsätzlich hinzunehmen, gemäß dem Beschluß des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 29. Juni 2016

January 2017: 17 January 2017: The Constitutional Court of Germany rejects bid to ban neo-nazi NPD party, as Holocaust survivors group warns ruling could spur extremists, saying that 'this reality-blind and untimely decision sends a disastrous signal to Europe, where far-right and right-wing populists have found new partnerships and are now trying to transform the fear and insecurity of the population into hatred and aggression'

June 2017: 7 June 2017: Germany�s constitutional court powers energy giants ruling that a nuclear fuel tax imposed from 2011-2016 was illegal, paving the way for power companies to claim back more than 6 billion euros from the Merkel government that did not have the legal competence to claim the tax

November 2017: 7 November 2017: German federal government has not sufficiently complied with its obligation to answer questions posed by members of parliament, the Constitutional Court in Germany rules

December 2017: 29 December 2017: Former Nazi SS guard Oskar Groening known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz lost his final legal challenge against being jailed when Germany�s highest court Friday rejected claim imprisonment would violate 'right to life' for Groening, an accessory to 300,000 murders - 29 December 2017: Germany�s Constitutional Court rejects bid by Volkswagen AG to suspend the work of a special auditor appointed to investigate management�s actions in the worldwide 'Dieselgate' emissions scandal since 2008

Law enforcement agencies in Germany: Law enforcement in Germany - Law enforcement agencies in Germany

Nazi tradition of intelligence agencies and list of intelligence agencies in Germany: List of intelligence agencies of Germany - Bundesnachrichtendienst BND's Nazi tradition

1946: Gehlen Organization established in June 1946 by USA occupation authorities consisted of members of the 12th Department of the former 'Foreign Armies East', numerous former SS, SD and Wehrmacht officers and carried the name of Wehrmacht Major general Reinhard Gehlen, head of the German military intelligence in the Eastern Front during World War II - Agency 114 of the Bundesnachrichtendienst BND was a main entrance for former Nazis - 26 September 2011: Wanted Nazi Walter Rauff was German 'Bundesnachrichtendienst' spy between 1958-1962 - Walter Rauff: Gas van engineering and mass murder - In 1965 'Butcher of Lyon' SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie was recruited by the BND, his initial monthly salary of 500 Deutsche Mark was transferred in May 1966 to an account of the Chartered Bank of London in San Francisco in the USA, which recruited him in 1947 as an agent for the USA Army Counter Intelligence Corps CIC, and he made at least 35 reports to the BND headquarters in Pullach - NZZ 27. September 2011: Bislang geheimgehaltene Akten des BND belegen, daß Walter Rauff wegen seiner Tätigkeit im Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Entwicklung und Einsatz von Gaswagen) 1958 vom BND eingestellt wurde - CIA-Akten 2006: Aufenthaltsort Adolf Eichmanns dem BND und CIA bereits 1958 bekannt - BND-Akten: Aufenthaltsort Eichmanns sogar schon 1952 bekannt

2011: 30 November 2011: Investigators have found that in 2007 the German Intelligence Service BND destroyed files of 250 employees who had been in the Nazi SS or Gestapo

Police misconduct and brutality in modern Germany: Police misconduct in Germany - Police brutality in modern Germany - List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany by year

2005/2017: Death of Oury Jalloh in Dessau police custody 7 January 2005 - 16. November 2017: Gemäß Sachverständigengutachten aus den Bereichen Brandschutz, Medizin und Chemie wurde der Asylbewerber Oury Jalloh vermutlich in Dessauer Polizeizelle umgebracht

2010/2015: 18 November 2015: Stuttgart police found guilty of brutality when they broke up a protest against Stuttgart's planned train station five years ago, injuring 100 people

Natural disasters in Germany: Natural disasters in Germany

2002 European floods: 2002 European floods

2013/2014: May/June 2013 European floods - 10 June 2013: Floods force thousands to evacuate in Germany - October 2013 St Jude storm (Orkan Christian) - 29 October 2013: The death toll from the severe storm St Jude that ripped across Britain and onto mainland Europe has risen to 13, with the UK and Germany hit the hardest - 10 June 2014: Six people have been killed in violent storms battering western Germany overnight

2015/2016 storms and floods: March/April 2015 Hurricane Niklas - 30 May 2016: Four people died and several more were injured in southern Germany after violent storms with torrential rains caused severe flooding

2016 European floods: May/June 2016 extreme flooding began after several days of heavy rain in central Europe, mostly Germany and France, but also Austria, Belgium, Romania, and Moldova

2017 storm Xavier: At least seven people died, five of them in their vehicles, and public transport was also severely disrupted, as Germany hit by storm Xavier

Foreign relations of Germany: Foreign relations of Germany

Since 1656 wars and battles involving Prussia: Since 1656 wars and battles involving Prussia, since 1701 'Kingdom of Prussia'

Since 1864 wars involving 'Kingdom of Prussia', since 1871 'German Empire': List of wars involving the 'Kingdom of Prussia', 'German Empire' and German states since 1864, 1871 and 1945 - Wars involving Germany - Since the Middle Ages military history of Germany

'Spirit of 1914', 1914-1918 World War I and 1939-1945 World War II: 'Spirit of 1914' or 'Augusterlebnis' 1914, the support of German empire's aggression leading to World War, after on 4 August 1914 all the political parties in the Reichstag, including the previously antimilitarist Social Democratic Party of Germany supported the war credits in a unanimous vote, later referred to as the Burgfrieden - 1914-1918 World War I - German nazism - 1939-1945 World War II

Treaties of the German Empire 1871-1918 - Treaties of the Weimar Republic 1918-1933 - Treaties of Nazi Germany 1933-1945 - Treaties of East Germany - Treaties of West Germany - Treaties of Germany since 3 October 1990, after the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany

Legal status of Germany: Legal status of Germany - 12 September 1990 'Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany' between the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and the Four Powers which occupied Germany at the end of World War II in Europe

Colonial empire until 1918: German colonial empire until 1918 - Scramble for Africa

German colonization of the Americas

German East Africa - Maji Maji rebellion 1905-1907

German South-West Africa - Herero and Namaqua genocide 1904-1908 - Shark Island Extermination Camp - 5 May 2016: Decades before the Nazis tried to annihilate the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa dehumanized, built death camps for, and slaughtered tens of thousands of tribespeople in a systematic genocide, 'subhumans', 'cattle car transports', even the 'Final Solution' have their sinister antecedents in Africa in the early 1900s

German West Africa

German New Guinea

German Samoa

Jiaozhou Bay concession (China)

2016/2017: October 2016 to 14 May 2017: Examining the colonial ideology, which was founded in the belief of a European superiority, and shedding light on the motives of the missionaries, officials, military personnel, settlers and merchants on the German side as well as the interests of the colonialized peoples, 'Deutsches Historisches Museum' in Berlin is dealing for the first time with various aspects of German colonialism in an exhibition

Immigration to Germany: Immigration to Germany

2013/2014: 17 octobre 2013: De Lampedusa aux rues de Berlin, l'odyssée d'un migrant ghanéen - 29/30 September 2014: Asylum-seekers reportedly abused in German refugee centres

Since 2014 International and European refugee and migrant crisis: Since 2014 International and European refugee and migrant crisis

2015: 4 August 2015: Number of immigrants living in Germany rose by 3.7% last year to a record high of 11 million, as many of the immigrants came from other European Union countries - 6 September 2015: Hundreds of refugees and migrants arrive in Munich, as Germany expects to receive thousands - 5 November 2015: Government will establish up to five reception centres inside Germany for the swifter processing of asylum claims and the prompt deportation of those with little chance of obtaining refugee status, mainly people from the Balkans

Germany/United Nations relations: Germany and the United Nations

1899/1907: An der zweiten Haager Konferenz 1907 waren 44 Staaten beteiligt, um eine internationale Rechtsordnung auszuarbeiten und Normen für friedliche Lösungen bei internationalen Streitfällen zu erreichen, konnten sich allerdings auf keine Abrüstungsschritte einigen und scheiterten bei der Einführung einer obligatorischen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit an der deutschen Ablehnung, der sich auch Österreich-Ungarn, die Türkei und einige kleinere Staaten anschlossen

1917/1918: Wilson's 'Fourteen Points' is a blueprint for world peace elucidated in a January 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms by USA's President Woodrow Wilson, following the 'Decree On Peace', passed by the Second Congress of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies on the 8 November 1917

1920-1946: 'League of Nations' (Société des Nations) intergovernmental organisation to maintain world peace, founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that ended 1914-1918 World War I

1942: 1942 Declaration by the 'United Nations' agreed on 1 January was a World War II document during the Arcadia Conference by 26 governments, the Allies USA, the UK, the USSR, and China, nine other American countries in North and Central America and the Caribbean, the four British Dominions, British India, and eight Allied governments-in-exile

1945: February 1945 Yalta Conference World War II meeting of the heads of government of the USA, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe - July/August 1945 Potsdam Conference and Potsdam Agreement

April-June 1945 Charter of the United Nations: United Nations Conference on International Organization of delegates from 50 Allied nations from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, reviewing and rewriting the Dumbarton Oaks agreements and resulting in the creation of the United Nations Charter, which was opened for signature on 26 June - 1945 'Charter of the United Nations' signed in San Francisco on 26 June by 50 of the 51 original member countries

2013: 2 November 2013: Brazil and Germany circulated a draft resolution to the UN that calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, data collection and other gross invasions of privacy - 8 November: Brazil and Germany are presenting a resolution to the UN General Assembly urging all countries to extend internationally guaranteed privacy rights to the Internet and other electronic communications

2017: 11. Juni 2017: Während am kommenden Donnerstag in New York an der zweiten Verhandlungsrunde über ein Abkommen zum Verbot von Atomwaffen etwa zwei Drittel der 193 UN-Mitgliedstaaten teilnehmen, ist keiner der bis zu neun Staaten dabei, die im Besitz von Atomwaffen sind, Deutschland und andere Nato-Mitglieder ebenfalls nicht

Foreign relations of Germany by continent and bilateral relations: Foreign relations of Germany by continent and countries - Bilateral relations of Germany

Germany/Afghanistan relations: Germany/Afghanistan relations

1915-1916: 1915-1916 Niedermayer�Hentig Expedition joint operation of Germany and Turkey and led by the German Army officers sent by the Central Powers to encourage Afghanistan to declare full independence from the British Empire, enter World War I on the side of the Central Powers, and attack British India

1935: In 1935 under PM Muhammad Hashim, Afghanistan established a close relationship with Nazi Germany, a distinct change of relations in comparison to its usual position between the Russian and British spheres of influence, Afghanistan received German foreign aid and technical assistance, and also developed closer ties with Germany's allies Italy and Japan

Since 2001/2002: Military bases of Germany in Afghanistan - Since 2002 chronology of incidents involving German military in war in Afghanistan since 2001

2006: In 2006 German troops in Afghanistan were in the centre of an international scandal during the War in Afghanistan since 2001, including German soldiers taking photographs of each other posed with skulls, including kissing the skulls

2009: 2009 operation Oqab was the first German ground force offensive since the creation of the Bundeswehr, the commander of the QRF, Hans-Christoph Grohmann, introduced one of his officers as 'the first Oberleutnant to lead an Infantry Company in to battle since 1945' to the press

2009: 2009 Kunduz airstrike on Friday 4 September 2009 southwest of Kunduz City in northern Afghanistan, as, responding to a call by German forces, an USA F-15E fighter jet struck two fuel tankers captured by some Taliban insurgents, killing over 90 civilians in the attack

2014: 31 December 2014: Involvement of German Bundeswehr in targeted Taliban killings in Afghanistan

2017: 12 février 2017: Un jeune homme bien intégré en Allemagne a été contraint de rentrer en Afghanistan, où il a fait partie des victimes d'un attentat en attendant son passeport à un guichet

23 December 2017: Germany and other European nations are deporting to Afghanistan young Afghans who have never set foot in the country, or not lived there since they were infants

Germany/Albania relations: Germany/Albania relations

1914-1918 Albania during World War I: Albania during World War I 1914-1918 - Principality of Albania 1914-1917, 1920-1925

1939-1944 Albania under Italy and Nazi Germany and Albanian resistance: Albania under Italy and Nazi Germany 1939-1944 - National Liberation Movement in World War II - Albanian resistance during World War II

Germany/Algeria relations: Germany/Algeria relations

Since 1940/2017: 24 August 2017: Algeria, under the control of German client regime Vichy France since 1940, was introducing a series of anti-Semitic laws which stripped Jews of their French citizenship, barred Jewish children from public schools, and prevented Jewish doctors, lawyers, pharmacists and other professionals from working in their trades

February 2018: 5 February 2018: Living under the French Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis and persecuted for being Jewish, some 25,000 Jewish Algerians for the first time are now eligible for a one-time payment of 2,556 euros, after German government has agreed to recognize them as Holocaust survivors eligible for compensation, and as the great majority of these survivors live in France today and some 3,900 in Israel

Germany/Angola relations: Germany/Angola relations - German campaign in Angola 1914-1915 during World War I

Germany/Argentina relations: Germany/Argentina relations

German Argentine - Population of German descent by province in Argentina - Population of Misiones, whose residents are descendants of mostly European immigrants

Since 1945 German war criminals in Argentina: Nazis in South America, Nazis who lived in Argentina included Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Aribert Heim, Eduard Roschmann and Ludolf von Alvensleben - Since World War II 'Organisation of Former SS Members' international Nazi network to establish and facilitate secret escape routes

1947-2002 Waffen-SS Willem Sassen's escape to and continuation of his road of life in Argentina: 1947-2002: Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and member of the Waffen-SS Willem Sassen's escape to and continuation of his road of life in Argentina, in the 1970s Sassen worked as a PR-consultant for Chile's dictator Pinochet and Paraguay's dictator Stroessner

1948-1960 Holocaust organiser Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and Mercedes-Benz department head in Buenos Aires: 1948-1960 Adolf Eichmann's, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, escape to Argentina, finding employment at Mercedes-Benz Argentina founded in 1951, where he rose to department head in Buenos Aires - 26 February 2009: 'After Words' interview with Neal Bascomb about his book 'Hunting Eichmann, How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World�s Most Notorious Nazi'

1956-1960 Sassen's Eichmann interviews: 1956-1960 Sassen's Eichmann interviews, published in parts in 'Life' magazine, as beginning in late 1956 Eichmann was extensively interviewed by Nazi expatriate journalist Willem Sassen with the intention of producing a biography, transcripts also later used as the basis for a series of articles that appeared in 'Life' and 'Der Stern' magazines in late 1960

Since 1951 Mercedes Benz in Argentina: Since 1951 Mercedes Benz in Argentina, founded by Jorge Antonio employing German Nazis, himself linked with stories of 'Nazi Gold', money brought to Argentina, the USA, and other safe havens by Nazis fleeing Germany, and who later admitted that he knew Eichmann's real identity - Jorge Antonios Verwicklung in Nazigeschäfte und Geldwäsche, Recherchen Gaby Webers

2017: 13 September 2017: Argentina hands Israel some 140,000 of WWII files to uncover help Argentina gave to Nazi and German war criminals seeking refuge after Holocaust, as Israeli PM Netanyahu arrived for the first visit by an Israeli leader to Latin America since Israel�s creation in 1948

Germany/Armenia relations: Germany/Armenia relations

Armenian Genocide 1915-1923: Armenian Genocide 1915-1923 - Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian Genocide

1919 German confession: 13 July 1919: Germany confesses in a secret record, printed at Potsdam, her Turkish partner's crimes in Armenia and its attempt to destroy a whole people - 17 February 2007: Germany, Turkey and the Armenian Genocide - a documentary of the Armenian genocide - 21 October 2012: Photograph of 1915 links Germans to 1915 Armenia genocide by the Ottoman Turks during World War I

International Armenian Genocide recognition and Turkey's denial: International Armenian Genocide recognition - The governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan deny that the Ottoman authorities attempted to exterminate the Armenian people

April 2015: 15 April 2015: Armenian genocide should be called what it was and the German government has a special responsibility, because German officers were among the accessories and accomplices, the Central Council of Jews in Germany says - 17 April 2015: Turkey has never accepted the term genocide for its war crime against Armenians, even though historians have demolished its denial of responsibility for up to 1.5 million deaths - 17 April 2015: SPD-Steinmeier avoids to say 'genocide' for genocide of Armenians, because his party supported World War I from German beginning to end and as a result the war crimes - 17 April 2015: SPD-Schulz disassociates himself from European Parliament's resolution recognizing the Armenan Genocide, because his party supported World War I from German beginning to end and hence the war crimes

2015: Commemoration of 100 years of the Armenian Genocide 24 April 2015

2016: 2 June 2016: German Bundestag almost unanimously (with one vote against the motion and one abstention) passed a resolution qualifying the World War I and Ottoman Era Armenian killings 'genocide'

Germany/Austria relations: Germany/Austria relations

1914-1918: July Crisis 1914 - 5/6 July 1914 Hoyos Mission and 'Blank cheque' in Berlin - 1914-1918 World War I

1938: German occupation 1938: "Anschluss"

1939-1945: The Holocaust in Austria during World War II - Nazi concentration camps in Austria

1945: März 1945 Massaker von Rechnitz - Thyssen family - 28 June 2017/13 July 2017: 'My aunt had a dinner party, and then she took her guests to kill 180 Jews' in March 1945, journalist Sacha Batthyany reveals more than 60 years later

2012: 12 October 2012: Vienna will erect first monument to remember the thousands of people executed by the Nazis for deserting or refusing to serve in the military during World War II

2014: 24. Oktober 2014: Denkmal für die Verfolgten der NS-Militärjustiz als zentrale österreichische Gedenkstätte für Deserteure des NS-Regimes am Wiener Ballhausplatz von Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer der Öffentlichkeit übergeben

2015: 5. Mai 2015: Nach Berichten, daß der BND dem USA-Geheimdienst NSA beim Ausspionieren österreichischer Behörden geholfen habe, erstattet Österreich Strafanzeige

Germany/Azerbaijan relations: Germany/Azerbaijan relations - Azerbaijan in World War II

Germany/Bangladesh relations: Germany/Bangladesh relations

2013: 24 April 2013: After the deadly collapse of a block housing garment factories in Dhaka, a website of a company, which had two factories in the building, listed 27 main buyers, including firms from Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United States

2015: 21 April 2015: 'Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit' expands assistance following the 2013 Rana Plaza accident in Bangladesh

Germany/Belarus relations: Germany/Belarus relations

1939-1945: Belarus in World War II - Military history of Belarus during World War II - Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany - 'Hunger Plan' developed during the planning phase for the German 'Wehrmacht' invasion of the Soviet Union since 1941, an engineered famine, planned and implemented as a rational act of policy to obtain the food from conquered lands at any cost and causing the deaths of millions of citizens in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union - World War II casualties of the Soviet Union - Quartermaster general of the German 'Wehrmacht' 1939-1944 - 'Einsatzgruppen' SS paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II

Nazi war crimes in Belarus: Nazi war crimes in Belarus - German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war - Hunger Plan - German war crimes in WW II - War crimes of the Wehrmacht

The Holocaust in Belarus: The Holocaust in Belarus - Minsk Ghetto - Maly Trostenets extermination camp

Belarusian resistance during World War II: Belarusian resistance during World War II

2012: 24. August 2012: Von 2008-2011 Schulung von Polizei und Miliz des Innenministeriums Weißrußlands in Deutschland für Einsätze gegen Demonstranten, sog. 'Rädelsführer' etc., auf Veranlassung der Regierung Merkel

Germany/Belgium relations: Germany/Belgium relations

1907: Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands - An der zweiten Konferenz 1907 waren 44 Staaten beteiligt, um eine internationale Rechtsordnung auszuarbeiten und Normen für friedliche Lösungen bei internationalen Streitfällen zu erreichen, konnten sich allerdings auf keine Abrüstungsschritte einigen und scheiterten bei der Einführung einer obligatorischen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit an der deutschen Ablehnung, der sich auch Österreich-Ungarn, die Türkei und einige kleinere Staaten anschlossen

5�16 August 1914 Battle of Liège: 5�16 August 1914 Battle of Liège, the opening German aggression in its invasion of Belgium and the first battle of World War I, the length of the siege of Liège may have delayed the German invasion of France by 4�5 days, railways needed by the German armies in eastern Belgium were closed for the duration of the siege and German murderous troops did not appear in strength before Namur until 20 August - On 6 August 1914 the German Army Zeppelin Z VI bombed the Belgian city of Liège, killing nine civilians, followed by night raids on Antwerp on 25 August and 2 September - Super-heavy howitzer developed by the German armaments manufacturer Krupp were used to destroy the Belgian forts at Liège, Namur, and Antwerp, and the French fort at Maubeuge, applauded by the German press and declared a 'Wunderwaffe' (wonder weapon)

1914 Western Front German massacres: Atrocités allemandes en 1914 en Wallonie, en Flandre et en France

1914-1918: In August 1914, Ebert led the Social Democratic Party to vote almost unanimously in favour of war loans - August-October 1914 German invasion of Belgium against 1839 Treaty of London - 1839 Treaty of London - the European powers recognized and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of Belgium, article VII required Belgium to remain perpetually neutral, and by implication committed the signatory powers to guard that neutrality in the event of invasion - German war crimes in World War I - 'The Rape of Belgium' is the usual historical term regarding the treatment of civilians during the 1914�18 German invasion and occupation of Belgium - 'Schrecklichkeit', German terror - 'Imperial German General Governorate of Belgium' 1914-1918 - October 1914 - October 1918 Battle of Ypres

1915-1918 Chemical weapons in World War I: Chemical weapons in World War I - April/May 1915 Second Battle of Ypres - Germany used the first time poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front - By 1916 the German Empire had become a military dictatorship under the control of Hindenburg and Ludendorff - The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 38 million, over 17 million deaths and 20 million wounded, including about 11 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians, the Allies lost about 6 million military personnel while the so-called Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) lost about 4 million, at least 2 million died from diseases and 6 million went missing, presumed dead

1939-1945: German occupation of Belgium during World War II - German war crimes World War II - Belgian prisoners of war in World War II - The Holocaust in Belgium

1940/2015: Battle of Dunkirk 26 May�4 June 1940 - Dunkirk evacuation - Little ships of Dunkirk, 700 private boats that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo to rescue more than 338,000 British and French soldiers - 21 May 2015: Dunkirk flotilla honours 75th anniversary of second world war mission, in which hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers were rescued facing German crimes

2013: 3. August 2013: Der 1. Weltkrieg, der vom Deutschen Reich vor 99 Jahren begonnen wurde, war die epochale Katastrophe

2014-2018: First World War centenary 2014-2018 - World War I memorials - 9 May 2014: Children to mark WWI's 'Christmas Truce' mainly in Flanders 1914, commemorating in UK's schools fraternisation between British, French and German troops in no man's land, seeing weapons set aside, greetings, gifts exchanged and even football matches played - In 1914/1915 events of 'Christmas Truce' were friendly reported in British papers but strongly criticized in Germany - 3 August: Mons prepares to mark centenary at place where first and last British soldiers fell - 4 August 2014: Government leaders will gather in Liege on Monday August 4 to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I with the German invasion of neutral Belgium in August 1914 - 28 October 2014: Representatives from World War I enemies in Nieuwpoort to mark the centenary of the first big battle on Flanders Fields and four years of death of hundreds of thousands

Germany/Bosnia and Herzegovina relations: Germany/Bosnia and Herzegovina relations - Balkans Campaign World War I - World War I casualties - 'Independent State of Croatia' - protectorate of Italy 1941�43, puppet state of Germany 1943�45 - 'Usta�e' Croatian fascist and terrorist organization active before and during World War II - Catholic clergy involvement with the 'Usta�e' - World War II persecution of Serbs - Concentration camps in the 'Independent State of Croatia'

2014-2018: First World War centenary 2014-2018 - 28/29 June 2014: Sarajevo marks 100 years since Franz Ferdinand was assassinated following Austro-Hungarian annexation, as divisions still run deep

Germany/Brazil relations: Germany/Brazil relations

Since 1942, 1951-1967 protection of Nazi war criminal Stangl: Since 1942 commandant of the Sobibor death camp Franz Stangl emigrated 1951 to Brazil where he was given an engineering job and after 1959 he worked at a Volkswagen AG factory, still using his own name as for years his responsibility in the deaths of hundreds of thousands Jewish men, women and children had been known to the Austrian authorities, tracked down by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, Stangl was arrested in Brazil on 28 February 1967 - 12 May 2017: After Stangl's arrest and extradition in 1967, it took German authorities three years to bring him to trial, charged with the deaths of 1.2 million people

1964-1988 Volkswagen AG participant in Brazilian military dictatorship's persecution and oppression of political opponents: 24 July 2017: Germany's car manufacturer Volkswagen AG reportedly was an active participant in the persecution and oppression of political opponents of Brazil's military dictatorship that was in power from 1964 to 1985

2016: 4 November 2016: After former employees filed a civil lawsuit in Brazil which claimed 12 workers were arrested and tortured in a VW factory near Sao Paulo during the 1964-1985 dictatorship, and dozens of people there were placed on a blacklist, 'Volkswagen' has appointed a historian to look into the carmaker�s actions during Brazil�s military dictatorship

December 2017: 16 December 2017: Security staff at Volkswagen�s Brazilian plant collaborated with the country�s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, leading to the arrest and torture of several employees, according to a landmark report commissioned by VW

Germany/Burundi relations: Germany/Burundi relations

1885�1919 Germany's 'East Africa' colonial territories and German 'Völkisch movement': German East Africa 1885�1919 - Founder of the German East Africa Company Carl Peters, a proponent of Social Darwinism and the 'Völkisch movement' - Evangelical Missionary Society for German East Africa

1914-1918 Burundi and German empire's World War I: German East Africa in 1914-1918 World War I, colony's military commander Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign inflicting upwards of 10,000 casualties - East African Campaign (World War I)

1939-1945 Burundi and German empire's World War II: Ruzagayura famine during World War II

1972 and 1993 Burundi genocide: Burundi genocide 1972 and 1993

1993-2005 Burundian Civil War: Burundian Civil War 1993-2005

Germany/Cameroon relations:

1884�1916 'German Cameroon' African colony of the German Empire: 1884�1916 'German Cameroon' was an African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon, also including northern parts of Gabon and the Congo with western parts of the Central African Republic, southwestern parts of Chad and far eastern parts of Nigeria - German West Africa - Since 1885 German West African Company

1911-1916 'Neukamerun': a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neukamerun">1911-1916 'Neukamerun' was the name of Central African territories ceded by France to Germany in 1911

1914-1916 Kamerun Campaign during World War I: 1914-1916 Kamerun Campaign during World War I, ending in a defeat for the German empire and the partition of its former colony between France and Britain

Germany/Canada relations: Germany/Canada relations

1914-1945: Canada in the World Wars and Interwar Years

2013: 14 November 2013: Arms-industry lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber, who fought extradition from Canada for 10 years and was involved in a corruption scandal linked to former German chancellor Kohl, has been convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 6� years in prison

2014: 29 October 2014: Thousands mourn Canadian corporal Nathan Cirillo killed at war memorial in Ottawa attack

2016: 12 March 2016: Canadian Jewish groups are calling on Canada to strip Canadian citizenship of Helmut Oberlander, who was a member of one of the most savage Nazi killing units, responsible for the murder of more than 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children during the Holocaust and who fraudulently gained Canadian citizenship in 1954

Germany/Chile relations: Germany/Chile relations

1848-1875: German Chileans chiefly descendants of about 30,000 immigrants who arrived between 1846�1914, most following the Revolutions of 1848 and the persecution in the German states - From 1850 to 1875 the region around Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue in Southern Chile received some 6,000 German immigrants as part of a state-led colonization scheme

1939-1945: Latin America during World War II

1973-1990: 15 October 2015: Late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime had ties to a secretive enclave founded by an ex-Nazi corporal that has been accused of collaborating in human rights abuses, according to a leaked report

2015: 19 October 2015: A Chilean court has sentenced a former intelligence official and two residents of secretive German community 'Colonia Dignidad', founded in 1961 by former medic in the Nazi-era German army Paul Schaefer in southern Chile, over the kidnapping and torturing of 50 people in 1975

Germany/PR of China relations: Germany/PR of China relations - 26 May 2013: Chinese premier Li meets Angela Merkel in Berlin on the red carpet amid EU-China trade dispute