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 - 7 June 2018: German prosecutors are investigating suspected former member of Hitler�s mobile killing squads and SS Rottenfuehrer Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister for involvement in World War II massacres carried out by the 'Einsatzgruppen' in Ukraine - 6 November 2018: Former Nazi SS camp guard Johann Rehbogen allegedly serving 1942-1944 at German concentration camp Stutthof near the Polish city of Gdansk, is to begin trial on Tuesday, facing 100 counts of accessory to murder

November 2018: 10 November 2018: Though up to a million people are believed to have actively participated in the extermination of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust, only around 20,000 were ever found guilty of crimes, and fewer than 600 received heavy sentences, according to British Holocaust historian Mary Fulbrook, examining the German justice system�s prosecution of Nazi war crimes following World War II, saying that 'the total number of persons convicted under the Federal Republic for Nazi crimes was in itself fewer even than the number of people who had been employed at Auschwitz alone' and noting that West Germany�s post-war legal system was populated by many ex-Nazis

December 2018: 13 December 2018: Citing German legal regulations, Muenster state court ends proceedings against former SS guard Rehbogen at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp, facing hundreds of counts of accessory to murder

April 2019: 18 April 2019: 92-year-old ex-SS guard Dey charged with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp, now in Poland, as 100 families to celebrate seder on eve of Passover in Warsaw Ghetto, for first time since 1943, when Nazi German troops stormed in, expecting the deportation process to last three days, but were ambushed by Jewish rebels

24 July 2019 former SS soldier Karl Muenter charged: 24 juillet 2019: Suite à la plainte de familles de victimes du massacre de 86 civils à Ascq, commis dans la nuit du 1er au 2 avril 1944 par des SS y compris Karl Münter, ce l'ancien SS, qui a assuré que le chiffre de 6 millions de juifs assassinés par les nazis était exagéré lors d'un entretien à la chaîne publique ARD diffusé le 29 novembre 2018, qui a estimé que les victimes d'Ascq étaient aussi responsables de leur mort, est enfin mis en accusation maintenant pour incitation à la haine, après en mars 2018, le Parquet allemand avait en effet annoncé l'abandon des poursuites parce que le suspect avait déjà été condamné à mort par contumace par un tribunal militaire en France en 1949 et qu'il ne pouvait donc être jugé une seconde fois pour ces mêmes faits

August 2019: 8 August 2019: A Hamburg court ruled that 92-year-old former SS Bruno Dey will go on trial on 5,230 counts of accessory to murder on allegations that, in his role as a guard, he helped the Stutthof concentration camp function

16 October 2019 SS guard Bruno Dey case: 16 October 2019: Former SS guard Bruno Dey at Stutthof concentration camp will go on trial in Hamburg on Thursday, in what could be one of the last criminal cases of an individual charged over the Holocaust

20 January 2020 photos surface showing convicted Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk at Sobibor camp: 20 January 2020: Photos surface showing convicted Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk, who denied ever having been a guard at Sobibor and who was sentenced 2011 in Munich to five years in prison, at Sobibor camp

6 July 2020 three years in jail for former Nazi camp guard Bruno Dey demanded: 6 July 2020: German prosecutors demanded three years in jail for a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard Bruno Dey who they said was 'without a doubt' complicit in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II

22 July 2020 at Bruno Dey trial in Hamburg witness Marek Dunin-Wasowicz wants to be heard in Germany: 22 July 2020: Still haunted by the pyres of burning bodies, Marek Dunin-Wasowicz, who spent several months at Stutthof camp, initially built to imprison Polish leaders and intelligentsia in September 1939, where war crimes defendant Bruno Dey at trial in Hamburg served, wants to speak out for the more than 60,000 people killed at the camp and for the few survivors who are still alive, also wanting his testimony to be heard in Germany, the country where Nazism originated and at a time of rising neo-Nazism linked rhetoric, politics and crime in Halle, Hanau, Kassel, Frankfurt, Berlin etc. and in Europe, also reporting that Germans came up to his table in the courtroom to meet him, 'to ask forgiveness in the name of their grandfathers, their fathers', 'I was shocked', and also calling Germany�s long delay in bringing Nazi personnel like Dey to justice 'inexcusable'

23 July 2020 Nazi concentration camp guard Dey convicted over 5,232 murders: 23 July 2020: Nazi concentration camp guard convicted over 5,232 murders of mostly Jewish prisoners, as Bruno Dey found guilty of accessory to murders in final months of second world war, as now about 40 survivors or their descendants were co-plaintiffs in the trial, appearing mostly via a video link, and as Investigation of National Socialist Crimes' office says it is investigating a further 14 individuals over crimes committed in concentration camps

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

November 2018: 10 November 2018: Though up to a million people are believed to have actively participated in the extermination of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust, only around 20,000 were ever found guilty of crimes, and fewer than 600 received heavy sentences, according to British Holocaust historian Mary Fulbrook, examining the German justice system�s prosecution of Nazi war crimes following World War II, saying that 'the total number of persons convicted under the Federal Republic for Nazi crimes was in itself fewer even than the number of people who had been employed at Auschwitz alone' and noting that West Germany�s post-war legal system was populated by many ex-Nazis

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

Human rights in Germany: Human rights in Germany

Since October December 2000/2009 'Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union': Since October December 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, enshrining certain political, social, and economic rights for EU citizens and residents into EU law

Text of the 'Charter of Fundamental Rights': The text of the 'Charter of Fundamental Rights' contains some 54 articles divided into seven titles, as the first six titles deal with substantive rights under the headings dignity, freedoms, equality, solidarity, citizens' rights and justice, while the last title deals with the interpretation and application of the Charter

Title 'Freedoms': Title 'Freedoms', contain articles 6-19 including 'Right to liberty and security', 'Respect for private and family life' saying everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications, 'Protection of personal data', 'Right to marry and right to found a family', 'Freedom of thought, conscience and religion', 'Freedom of expression and information' saying everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers, the freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected, 'Freedom of assembly and of association', 'Freedom of the arts and sciences', 'Right to education' saying everyone has the right to education and to have access to vocational and continuing training, 'Freedom to choose an occupation and right to engage in work', saying everyone has the right to engage in work and to pursue a freely chosen or accepted occupation, and nationals of third countries who are authorised to work in the territories of the Member States are entitled to working conditions equivalent to those of citizens of the Union, 'Freedom to conduct a business', 'Right to property', 'Right to asylum', 'Protection in the event of removal, expulsion or extradition', saying collective expulsions are prohibited, and no one may be removed, expelled or extradited to a State where there is a serious risk that he or she would be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Title 'Solidarity': Title 'Solidarity' - title IV of the charter - contains 11 articles including 'Workers' right to information and consultation within the undertaking', 'Right of collective bargaining and action', 'Right of access to placement services', 'Protection in the event of unjustified dismissal', 'Fair and just working conditions', 'Prohibition of child labour and protection of young people at work', 'Family and professional life', 'Social security and social assistance', 'Health care' saying everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment, 'Access to services of general economic interest', 'Environmental protection', 'Consumer protection'

2015/2016 United Nations OHCHR monitoring Germany: 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

Jewish German history and antisemitism in Germany: Jewish German history - Antisemitism in Germany

1914-1918 German and Austrian empires' World War I and Jews: 1914-1918 World War I was the first war Jews fought in large numbers, and in a great spirit of volunteerism, on both sides, as in some countries, mainly Germany and Austro-Hungary, assimilation and civic equality for Jews were motivating factors to fight - An estimated 100,000 German Jewish military personnel served in the German Army during World War I, of whom 12,000 were killed in action

1933-1945 Antisemitism in Germany and the Holocaust: 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 Jewish people in the reunited Germany: 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

8 June 2018: The Jewish community of Mainz reacted with shock and grief Thursday after a 14-year-old girl was found dead, as police launched a manhunt for an Iraqi refugee suspected of killing her

8 October 2018: While some Jews and fewer than 20 people in the neo-Nazi linked German AfD party gathered and celebrated in muted fashion in Wiesbaden on Sunday, some 400 demonstrators attended a counterrally and all major Jewish-German groups united to criticize the new faction

9/10 November 2018: 9 November 2018: In one of numerous events in the capital and across the country students and rabbis in German capital read names of victims, light candles and pray at memorials 80 years after �Night of Broken Glass� with more recent anti-Jewish violence in the USA and elsewhere prevalent in people�s minds - 10 November 2018: In rare move, the Central Council rallied other mainstream Jewish organizations in a statement of opposition to the neo-Nazi linked AfD party and to a new small group calling itself Jews for the AfD - 10 November 2018: Following Germany's 'Kristallnacht' rescued Kindertransport children 80 years on remain determined to resist the resurgence of inhuman movements and the 'hostile environment' towards displaced people, also reporting that a father, who had been German medical officer in World War I, 'for the rest of his life' 'had terrible nightmares that the Gestapo were coming for him'

January 2019: 24 January 2019: Charlotte Knobloch, Jewish community leader in the Bavarian city of Munich, said she had been targeted with threats and hate mail 'almost by the minute' since calling the AfD party a threat to democracy in a speech about Holocaust victims

May 2019: 28 May 2019: Following a warning that Jews should refrain from wearing skullcaps in public German chancellor expressed concerns over the country's rise in anti-Semitism saying every Jewish institution in Germany needs police protection

July 2019: 15 July 2019: Central Council of Jews in Germany slams �irresponsible and dangerous� Spiegel piece criticizing Jewish groups for �aggressive lobbying� against BDS

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

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

February 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

2 August 2019 genocide of Sinti and Roma remembered: 2 August 2019: After on 2 August 1944 more than 4,000 people were gassed to death in Auschwitz, the Nazi genocide of Sinti and Roma in Europe still affects many lives today, historian says

October 2019 'Forgotten Victims' exhibition in London: 27 October 2019: Nazi directives and accounts of Roma genocide go on display, as 'Forgotten Victims' exhibition in London documents fate of 500,000 Roma and Sinti

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 (or Arameans) in Germany: Assyrians in Germany, also known as Arameans and estimated at around 135,000 people with German citizenship, mainly coming from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Iran, as local communities exist in several cities such as Munich, Augsburg and Gütersloh with 13,000 Assyrian citizens

Italians in Germany: Italians in Germany

Kurds in Germany: Kurds in Germany

October 2019 Kurdish activists occupied CDU office in Chemnitz: 25 October 2019: Kurdish activists have occupied a CDU office in the Saxon Chemnitz, protesting against the military offensive of Turkey in northern Syria

20 February 2020 Kurds and other immigrants shocked after German gunman killed 9 people in Hanau: 20 February 2020: Germany's immigrant community in Hanau reeling after shootings, as for decades Turks, ethnic Kurds and other immigrants have coexisted in the town, leaving residents shocked after German gunman, who posted a hate-filled manifesto, killed nine people of foreign background

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 Russian regime's FM meddling in fabricated story: 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

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

November 2016: 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

1993-2011 Solingen arson attack and NSU: Solingen arson attack of 1993 - Since 1990th to 2011 'National Socialist Underground' terrorist group's serial murders

2014/2015: 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'

July 2018: 3 July 2018: German government deal over migration spells end of open borders for refugees

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

February 2015 Europe's fine art of anti-Semitism exhibition: 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

July 2018 Martin Luther letter critical of Jews goes up for auction: 10 July 2018: Discovered 1914 in the private collection of a German baron and now being sold by a German document collector, Martin Luther letter critical of Jews goes up for auction, saying Jewish people are 'devils incarnate'

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

January 2013 defamation of scientists: 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

September 2018 'tip of the iceberg' and calls for justice: 12 septembre 2018: Des milliers d'enfants ont été abusés sexuellement par des prêtres en Allemagne entre 1946 et 2014, selon une étude sur l'Eglise catholique allemande, qui est aussi accusée d'avoir sciemment caché les faits - 25 September 2018: German Catholic church presented the results of an investigation into decades of sexual abuse of children, detailing the cases of 3,677 children, the majority of whom are male, and of 1,670 implicated clerics, mainly priests, as justice minister says report probably shows only the tip of the iceberg, encouraging the church to work with the judicial system to bring as many cases as possible to court

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, childhood and children's rights in Germany: Children in Germany - Childhood in Germany - Children's rights in Germany

German childhood in Nazi Germany and World War II: German childhood in Nazi Germany and World War II

1938-2018 evacuated youngsters to Britain and elsewhere in Europe: 17 December 2018: 80 years after the start of effort to evacuate 10,000 youngsters to Britain and elsewhere in Europe to escape Hitler�s regime, Germany has agreed to one-time payments of 2,500 euros for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany, many of whom never saw their parents again, as about 1,000 survivors are thought to be alive today, with about half living in Britain, and the payment is seen as a 'symbolic recognition of their suffering', Claims Conference negotiator Greg Schneider said

22 July 2020 2.8 million children in Germany grow up in poverty: 22 July 2020: 2.8 million children in Germany grow up in poverty, as covid-19 crisis threatens to exacerbate the problems of child poverty, according to a new study, saying 'politicians are doing too little to save children from poverty'

Murdered children in Germany: Murdered children in Germany

Child abuse in Germany: Child abuse in Germany

Since January 2020 impact of covid-19 pandemic on children: Since January 2020 impact of the covid-19 pandemic on children in Germany and on education

11 June 2020 covid-19 outbreak and children: 11 June 2020 covid-19 outbreak, kids, and how covid-19 affects children - March 2020: Schools closed due to covid-19 and tips to help parents cope

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 of Germany: Schools by state of Germany - List of schools in Germany by 'Bundesland'

Schools named 'Anne-Frank-Schule' in Germany: Liste der nach Anne Frank benannten Schulen in Deutschland benannt nach Anne Frank (1929 in Frankfurt - 1945 in Bergen-Belsen)

August 2015 German schools named 'Janusz-Korczak-Schule': 24: August 2015: Interaktive Karte der Schulen benannt nach Janusz Korczak (1878 in Warsaw - 1942 in Treblinka)

November 2017 student honored for opposing racism: 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

Since 2019�20 impact of the 2019�20 Chinese coronavirus pandemic on education worldwide including Germany: Since 2019�20 impact of the 2019�20 Chinese coronavirus pandemic on education worldwide including Germany - 16 March 2020: 56 countries have closed schools nationwide, impacting over 516.6 million children and youth, and further 17 countries have implemented localized school closures and, should these closures become nationwide, hundreds of millions of additional learners will experience education disruption, as selected schools started in German states of Bavaria, Nordhein-Westfalen, Baden-Württemberg, Niedersachsen, Rheinland-Pfalz and several cities

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

28 October 2020 researchers say early humans used green Levant including Israel as steppingstone out of Africa: Early humans migrated out of Africa through the Middle East with the help of a favorable climatic window over some 8,000 years, using today�s Israel and the surrounding region as a steppingstone on their way to Europe and the rest of Asia, as Jordan Rift Valley likely provided a green corridor for early humans to migrate north during a regional 'humid interval' when people were first establishing a permanent foothold outside Africa, according to researchers from several German universities with findings based on archaeological remains in Jordan, which were correlated with ecological data from the Dead Sea to ascertain the local environment at the time

Libraries in Germany: Libraries in Germany - State libraries of Germany - Libraries in Germany by city - List of libraries in Germany

Museums in Germany: Museums in Germany - Museums in Germany by state - Museums in Germany by city - List of museums in Germany

History museums in Germany: History museums in Germany

Holocaust memorials and museums in Germany: List of Holocaust memorials and museums in Germany, included in a list of Holocaust memorials and museums worldwide, listed by country

Archives in Germany: Archives in Germany - List of archives in Germany

'International Tracing Service' in Bad Arolsen: 'International Tracing Service' in Bad Arolsen, an internationally governed centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions, containing about 30 million documents from concentration camps, details of forced labour, and files on displaced persons

May 2019: 21 May 2019: Arolsen Archives makes available details and artifacts of about 2.2 million people, including Nazi concentration camp prisoner cards and death notices

Since 1997 Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma: Since 1997 Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma was established in Heidelberg

Health in Germany: Health in Germany

Medical outbreaks and health disasters in Germany: Medical outbreaks in Germany - Health disasters in Germany - Man-made disasters in Germany

1918 flu pandemic during World War I, mistakenly called 'Spanish flu': 1918 World War I flu pandemic (mistakenly called 'Spanish flu') in the last year of German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman's empires' World War I 1914-1918, lasting from spring 1918 through spring or early summer 1919, and infecting 500 million people � about a third of the world's population at the time - as the death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history

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 flu pandemic: 2009 flu pandemic in Germany

2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak: 2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak

2011/2012 aftermath of 'Contergan-Skandal': 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 Fipronil scandal: Juni, Juli und August 2017 Fipronil Lebensmittelskandal, in Hühnereiern, Hühnerfleisch und Hühnerkot aus den Niederlanden, Belgien und Deutschland wurde Fipronil nachgewiesen, obwohl die Verwendung bei Tieren, die der Lebensmittelerzeugung dienen, verboten ist

2020 covid-19 pandemic in Germany: Since January 2020 Chinese coronavirus pandemic in Germany

Since January 2020 timeline of German government reactions to covid-19: Timeline of German government reactions to the 2020 Chinese coronavirus pandemic spreading in the country

5 April 2020 current numbers of covid-19 cases in Germany: 5 April 2020: RKI reports - in its current numbers of registered cases in Germany since 24 February - total of 91,714 covid-19 infections, total of 1,342 deaths, 5,936 new cases and 184 new deaths

23 May 2020 new covid-19 cases following church service and visiting restaurant: 23 mai 2020: Une quarantaine de personnes ont été contaminées par le nouveau coronavirus dans un restaurant de la ville de Leer et après avoir assisté à une messe à Francfort début mai

30 May 2020 confirmed covid-19 cases in Germany increased by 738 to 181,196: 30 May 2020: The number of confirmed covid-19 cases in Germany increased by 738 to 181,196, data from the RKI for infectious diseases showed on Friday, as reported death toll rose by 39 to 8,489

13 June 2020 confirmed covid-19 cases rise by 348 to 186,022: 13 June 2020: The number of confirmed covid-19 cases in Germany increased by 348 to 186,022, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute

Since 25 February 2020 covid-19 pandemic in North Rhine-Westphalia: Since 25 February 2020 covid-19 pandemic in North Rhine-Westphalia

Since 27 February 2020 covid-19 pandemic in Heinsberg district: Since 27 February 2020 covid-19 pandemic in Heinsberg district in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia

Since May/June 2020 covid-19 pandemic in Gütersloh district: Juni 2020 covid-19-Ausbruch in Tönnies-Stammwerk in Rheda-Wiedenbrück im Kreis Gütersloh

18 June 2020 North Rhein Westphalia fresh outbreak of covid-19: 18 June 2020: In North Rhein Westphalia around 7,000 people placed in quarantine and schools and kindergartens have been closed after fresh outbreak of covid-19, as spread is believed to have come from meat processing plant Tönnies in Rheda-Wiedenbrück with now 657 confirmed cases of the virus with people living in very cramped conditions

19 June 2020 Tönnies managers opted against taking basic safety precaution: 19 June 2020: For months, human rights activists, labor rights experts and doctors have demanded that workers be given a bedroom each to reduce the risk of a covid-19 outbreak, but Tönnies managers opted against taking this basic safety precaution, as it would have slightly diminished their profits

20 June 2020 more than 1.000 Tönnies workers tested positive for covid-19: 20 June 2020: More than 1,000 workers have tested positive for covid-19 at Tönnies slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in northwestern Germany, as results have prompted local authorities to shut down the plant, and suspend all schools and daycare centers in the region until the summer holidays

2 August 2020 neo-Nazis, others hold massive Berlin protest against covid-19 restrictions: 2 August 2020: Neo-Nazis, others hold massive Berlin protest against covid-19 restrictions, as some 20,000 people rally outside Brandenburg gate, calling pandemic �the biggest conspiracy theory�

2 August 2020 2 Guineans injured in an apparent racially-motivated attack in Erfurt: 2 August 2020: Two Guineans were injured, one of them critically, in an apparent racially-motivated attack near a known far-right hangout in Germany's Erfurt, as 12 German nationals were arrested but later freed

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

1933-1945 Nazi healthcare and medical experiments: Health and healthcare in NDSAP-Germany

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

2016 Germany's healthcare system is losing money to scammers, also linked to the Russian mafia: 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

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 robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant: 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

9 September 2019 call for SUV ban in city: 9 September 2019: Berliners call for SUV ban after a driver reportedly lost control of his car and hit a group of pedestrians in the German capital, killing four people

10 September 2019: 10 September 2019: Emissions from diesel cars, even newer and supposedly cleaner models, increase on hot days, a new study has found, raising questions over how cities suffering from air pollution can deal with urban heat islands and the climate crisis

November 2019 Mercedes-Benz to axe more than 1,000 jobs in cost-cutting drive: 14 November 2019: Mercedes-Benz plans to save �1.65bn by cutting more than 1,000 jobs in the latest sign German carmakers are struggling to make big investments in electric car technology

February 2020 automobile industry facing weaker demand from abroad, stricter emission rules and electrification: 22 February 2020: Problems in Germany�s mighty automobile industry, caused by weaker demand from abroad, stricter emission rules and electrification, is starting to leave a wider mark on Europe�s largest economy by pushing up unemployment, eroding job security and hitting pay

May 2020 German court rules against Volkswagen in 'dieselgate' scandal: 25 May 2020: After years Volkswagen has lost a landmark legal battle in Germany�s highest civil court in 'dieselgate' scandal, in which Volkswagen and fellow German carmaker Daimler have paid more than �30bn, as VW was found to have installed software that artificially lowered emissions of nitrogen oxides when the vehicles were being tested, meaning the output of the harmful pollutants were much higher in real-life conditions, and showing that 'a large corporation is not above the law'

German car parts makers:

August 2020 Germany�s Continental says it used slave labor to supply Nazis: 28 August 2020: German car parts maker Continental, founded in 1871 in Hanover and developed from a consumer and leisure focused company into an armaments business, revealed Thursday that it played a key role in the Nazi war effort and used thousands of slave laborers during World War II, as company was the world�s biggest producer of rubber materials at the time, supplying the Nazi war machine as the horrors of the Holocaust unfolded

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

Since 2018 Bayer and glyphosate: 8 juin 2018: Le syndicat apicole de l'Aisne en France a porté plainte mercredi contre Bayer, qui vient de boucler le rachat de Monsanto, après la découverte de glyphosate dans le miel d'un de ses adhérents

August 2018 Monsanto�s Roundup verdict: 11 August 2018: Monsanto, now a unit of Bayer AG, suffered a major blow with a San Francisco jury ruling that the company was liable for terminally ill Dewayne Johnson�s cancer, awarding him $289m in damages, after Monsanto�s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer without warning him of the health hazards from exposure, and after the jury further found that Monsanto 'acted with malice or oppression' and 'fought science' for years, targeting academics who spoke up about possible health risks of the herbicide product - 10 July 2018: Monsanto faces 5,000 lawsuits nationwide alleging Roundup caused cancer, mainly in USA state courts

Monsanto legal cases: Monsanto legal cases

April-July 2019: 30 juillet 2019: Environ 5000 procédures supplémentaires à l'encontre du groupe pharmaceutique et de sa filiale Monsanto sont venues s'ajouter aux quelque 13 000 relevées en avril

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

October 2019 new military exports to the UAE: German government, headed by CDU's Angela Merkel, has given its approval for new military exports to the UAE, despite an agreement by the ruling coalition to no longer supply military hardware to countries 'directly' involved in the war in Yemen

November 2019 arms export record: 13 November 2019: Data revealed by the Economy Ministry in response to a Left party information request showed that in the first 10 months of 2019, Germany authorized �7.4 billion in arms exports, closing in on a new annual record

December 2019 arms exports in Germany in 2019 hit record highs: 27 December 2019: Arms exports in Germany in 2019 hit record highs, prompting opposition to criticise government's willingness to sell arms to authoritarian regimes including Haftar supporting Egypt, as sales have hit �7.95 billion in the calendar year and Ministry of the Economy said there was a rise of 65% on 2018, and as Greens said exports to crisis regions destabilize

Energy in Germany: Energy in Germany, sourced predominantly by fossil fuels, followed by wind, nuclear power, solar, biomass (wood and biofuels) and hydro

Renewable energy in Germany: Renewable energy in Germany

Electricity sector in Germany: Electricity sector in Germany - List of power stations in Germany

Nuclear power in Germany: Nuclear power in Germany - Nuclear power phase-out in Germany

Search for a repository for a repository for highly radioactive waste: Mit der Endlagersuche für ein Endlager für hochradioaktive Abfälle soll ein geeigneter Standort in tiefer geologischer Formation gefunden werden, der Suchprozess für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist im Standortauswahlgesetz beschrieben

29 September 2020 potential storage sites for radioactive waste: 29 September 2020: Germany published list of potential storage sites for radioactive waste, following parliament's approval three years ago for a science-based search for a site, and identifying 90 areas covering 54% of the country's surface area as potentially geologically suitable

Agriculture in Germany: Agriculture in Germany - products include cereals, sugar beets, vegetables, milk, pork, beef, fruits, grapes and wine, beverages - Agricultural productivity - Agricultural machinery manufacturers of Germany - History of agriculture in Germany

Food industry in Germany: Food industry in Germany

Livestock and animal husbandry in Germany: Viehwirtschaft in Deutschland - Livestock and animal husbandry in Germany - Livestock - Animal husbandry - Poultry farming - Animal welfare in agriculture in Germany - Fleischkonsum in Deutschland

22 June 2020 meat plant 'system is built on using low-paid, badly exploited workers': 22 June 2020: Covid-19 outbreaks that have struck workers in meat plants around the world are due to poor working conditions and living quarters in a sector that is in a 'disastrous race to the bottom' in the quest for cheap meat, according to trade union representatives, saying 'the whole system is built on using low-paid, badly exploited workers'

23 September 2020 German police raid meat-processing firms suspected of smuggling workers: 23 September 2020: Police have raided the premises of several companies suspected of illegally smuggling eastern European agency workers into the German meat industry, as about 800 officers launched raids on more than 40 private homes and business premises in Berlin, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and North-Rhine Westphalia, but the companies targeted have not yet been named

Animal diseases: Animal diseases

10 September 2020 Germany confirms swine fever on its territory leading to crisis measures: 10 September 2020: Germany confirms 1st case of swine fever on its territory - 10 September 2020: German farmers face possible pig culls as African swine fever discovered, as discovery of deadly virus in wild boar cadaver leads to crisis measures including hunting, harvesting and leisure bans

Dairy farming in Germany: Dairy farming in Germany

German wine: German wine - Wine regions of Germany

2016 German government refuses legal ban on shredding chicks: 18 March 2016: German government refuses legal ban on shredding chicks, as around 45 million male chicks are shredded every year in Germany because they cannot produce eggs

Organic farming in Germany: Organic farming in Germany - Sustainable agriculture agriculture - Agricultural biodiversity - Outline of sustainable agriculture

2014 1,047,633 hectares of farmland for organic agriculture in Germany: In 2014 Germany reached 1,047,633 hectares of farmland for organic agriculture accounting for 6.3% of total farmland

Wolf attacks on livestock and people in Germany:

April 2018 40 sheep killed by wolf: 30 April 2018: Wolf attack kills more than 40 sheep in southwestern Germany

November 2018: 29 November 2018: Wolf attacks man working on the cemetery in the village of Steinfeld in Lower Saxony as three other wolves watching from a distance

February 2019: 17 February 2019: Wolf attacks on livestock increased drastically in 2017, reportedly carrying out 472 attacks, an increase of 66% over the previous year, as the number of killed, injured or missing livestock � mostly sheep and goats � rose 55%, to 1,667

Forestry in Germany: Forestry in Germany - Forests and woodlands of Germany - Western European broadleaf forests

Foreign trade of Germany: Foreign trade of Germany

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

April 2019 'Deutsche Bank' role in Russian money-laundering scheme: 17 April 2019: Germany�s troubled Deutsche Bank faces fines, legal action and the possible prosecution of 'senior management' because of its role in a $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme, a confidential internal report seen by the Guardian says

7 July 2020 New York state penalizes Deutsche Bank $150M for Epstein dealings: 7 July 2020: New York state penalizes Deutsche Bank $150M for dealings with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

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

Economic history and economic cycles in Germany: Economic history of Germany since 1945

1932-1939 unemployment rate in Germany: 1932-1939 unemployment rate in Germany

Since 2007/2008 Financial crisis and ongoing European sovereign debt crisis: 2007-2008 Financial crisis - European sovereign debt crisis (ongoing) - During the late 2000s and early 2010s international 'Great Recession'

2008-2013 recession, economies of EU members and German states: Late 2000s recession in Germany - Economies of EU member states - GDP, growth, deficit and unemployment 2005-2013 - List of German states by GDP 2008-2013

2011/2012: 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.)

16 August 2011: German economy grew by just 0,1% in second quarter 2011 - 15 February 2012: German economy shrinks 0.2% in fourth quarter 2011 - 15 November 2012: Germany's economy grew by 0.2% between July and September

10 December 2012: General Motors to close Opel plant in Bochum

March 2020 looming recession in German economy: 30 March 2020: The coronavirus outbreak has made a recession in Germany's economy inevitable in the first half of this year, country's council of economic advisers said, predicting that output could shrink by up to 5.4% this year, as others have been more pessimistic

29 April 2020 Germany expects record recession in 2020 due to covid-19 pandemic: 29 April 2020: Germany expects record recession in 2020 due to covid-19 pandemic

15 May 2020 German economy in recession: 15 May 2020: German economy in recession amid covid-19 pandemic as first official snapshot shows GDP down 2.2% in first quarter, 'The Guardian' reports

30 July 2020 German economy shrinks by 10.1% in second quarter: 30 July 2020: The German economy collapsed at a record pace over the second quarter of this year as covid-19 crisis took hold, as GDP fell by 10.1 percent from April to June compared to the previous quarter

Labor and labor relations in Germany: Labor in Germany - German labour law - Trade unions in Germany

Cooperatives in Germany: Cooperatives in Germany - Worker cooperatives in Europe

Since 2014 Heiler-Glas: Since 2014 Heiler-Glas GmbH in Kirrlach self-managed by its workers

Unemployment in Germany: Unemployment in Germany - List of German states by unemployment rate, ranking from 2,7 to 10,2% in July 2019

Poverty in Germany: Poverty in Germany - Welfare in Germany

2012/2013 gap between rich and poor grows: 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

October 2014 wealth inequality in Germany: 23 October 2014: Wealth inequality in Germany likely to be higher than previously thought

March 2017 15.7% of Germans in poverty: 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

October 2019 growing gap between the rich and the poor: 7 October 2019: The gap between the rich and the poor in Germany is growing, according to a WSI study, as the findings come in contrast to the greater economic prosperity that Germany has enjoyed for the past 10 years

Wealth in Germany: Wealth in Germany - Alphabetical list of German billionaires - List of German billionaires by net worth

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

August 2019 taxpayers pay millions for questionable 'extra tuition': 8 August 2019: Between January and June 2019, the German Defense Ministry and its affiliated institutions spent �155 million on external consultants and support services, almost as much as all 13 other ministries put together, as ministry has long faced scrutiny over equipment deficiencies and why it resorts to consultancy despite having a staff of over 20,000 under CDU's Ursula von der Leyen, now designated president of the European Commission

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 - 28 May 2018: 25,000 activists rally in German capital shout 'Nazis out' to eclipse nationalist AFD party's 5,000-strong march

July 2018: 8 July 2018: Thousands of people marched through German cities on Saturday to protest against EU policy on refugees and support NGOs helping rescue migrants in the Mediterranean

July 2018: 19 July 2018: Hundreds took to the streets of Bonn to protest anti-Semitism after an assault on an Israeli professor ended in embarrassment for police when they apprehended the victim instead of the attacker - 23 July 2018: Thousands rally in Munich to protest 'politics of fear', as members of Seehofer's CSU party tried to stop employees of theaters in Munich from attending the protest

15 September 2018: 15 September 2018: Thousands demonstrate against too high rental prices in Munich

17 September 2018: 17. September 2018: Proteste gegen die Räumung des Hambacher Waldes und bevorstehende Rodung dauern an

6 October 2018: 6 October 2018: Thousands of anti-coal demonstrators descended on Germany�s Hambach forest to celebrate an unexpected court victory that suspended an energy company�s planned razing of the woodland to expand a giant opencast mine

13/14 October 2018: 14 October 2018: Tens of thousands, organizers said at least 242,000 people marched in Berlin Saturday in a protest against racism amid growing concern over xenophobic incidents in the east of the country

December 2018: 2 December 2018: Thousands of demonstrators took to streets Saturday in Berlin and Cologne to protest the government's climate policy ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference

January 2019 remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht: In January 2019 German democrats commemorated the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht - 13 January 2019: Jewish-born anti-war and anti-racism activist and scientist Rosa Luxemburg, who was killed in 1919 amid renewed repression following WWI, commemorated Sunday two days before the 100th anniversary of her murder in Berlin, as a whole week of events is planned for the commemoration, although neo-Nazi linked politicians have tried to ban demonstrations honoring 'enemies of democracy and free society' - 13 janvier 2019: Karl Liebknecht, autre personnage majeur contre la guerre 1914-1918, assassiné lui aussi en janvier 1919, a attiré plusieurs milliers de sympathisants dimanche dans le centre de la capitale

March 2019: 24 mars 2019: Des dizaines de milliers de manifestants ont défilé ce samedi à Berlin contre le projet de réforme du droit d'auteur

April 2019 protests against rising rent prices: 6 April 2019: Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Berlin to protest against rising rent prices, as estimates say housing costs in the German capital have doubled over the past 10 years, as protesters are calling for the local government to seize properties owned by private landlords, and as similar protests also took place in Munich and Cologne

June 2019: 1 June 2019: Hundreds of counter-protesters, showing solidarity with Israel, and anti-Israel protesters face off in Berlin, Germany's capital since 1871, as numbers at 'al-Quds Day' rally reportedly lower than expected

7 July 2019: 7 July 2019: Protesters support humanitarian aid work to rescue refugees and save lives in the Mediterranean

15 July 2019: 15 juillet 2019: Des salariés de sept sites allemands d'Amazon étaient en grève lundi à l'appel de leur principal syndicat, pour réclamer une amélioration de leurs conditions de travail à l'occasion des journées de super promotions 'Prime Day' 'sur le dos des salaires'

20 July 2019 protest against neo-Nazi party: 20 July 2019: Thousands of people have staged a counterprotest against a planned demonstration by a neo-Nazi party in Kassel, several weeks after the murder of Walter Lübcke, one of the city's prominent pro-migrant politicians

September 2019 transport policy protest: 14 September 2019: Tens of thousands of climate demonstrators turned up to protest at Germany's biggest car show in Frankfurt, using the event as a platform to demand the car industry address its role in damaging the environment

October 2019 Kurdish protests against Turkish aggression: 11 October 2019: Kurdish people took the streets in many German cities, as Turkish state's occupation attacks against northern and eastern Syria have been protested in tens of cities in Germany and were joined by tens of thousands of people

13 October 2019 German protests against anti-Semitism: 13 October 2019: Starting where Nazis burned books, 10,000 march in Berlin against anti-Semitism, as thousands more rally elsewhere in Germany four days after neo-Nazi attempted to massacre Jews in Halle on Yom Kippur, but failed to enter synagogue and killed 2 bystanders

20 October 2019 Dresden protest against xenophobic 'Pegida': 20. Oktober 2019: Unter dem Motto 'Herz statt Hetze' sind in Dresden Tausende Menschen gegen die ausländerfeindliche Pegida-Bewegung auf die Straße gegangen

23 November 2019 protest against encouraged neo-Nazis in Hannover, supported by court decision: 23 November 2019: Over 5,000 people demonstrate against 100 German neo-Nazi protesters and their NPD, which marches to intimidate journalists who have reported critically on the nationalist party, after police had tried to ban the NPD from protesting, but a court decided late Friday that the neo-Nazi action could go ahead

21 February 2020 thousands in vigils across Germany chanting 'Nazis out' after terrorist attack: 21 February 2020: Thousands of people have taken part in vigils across Germany chanting 'Nazis out' at vigils after gunman Rathjen with racist beliefs killed nine people with so-called 'migrant background' at restaurants in Hanau

11 April 2020 Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald quietly marks 75 years since liberation: 11 avril 2020: 75 ans après la libération de Buchenwald, le mémorial du camp de concentration, contraint d'annuler ses commémorations en raison de l'épidémie de Covid-19, a rendu hommage virtuellement samedi aux victimes du nazisme, racisme et l'antisémitisme

Subdivisions of Germany: Subdivisions of Germany

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

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

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

1933-1945 subcamps of the Natzweiler-Struthof complex of Nazi concentration camps: List of subcamps of the Natzweiler-Struthof complex of Nazi concentration camps, located on both sides of the German-French border, in Alsace and Lorraine as well as in the adjacent German provinces of Baden and Württemberg

Since 1942 World War II Axis advance stalls: Since January 1942 and the German defeat in Stalingrad the Allied Forces of WWII, including the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the USA and 22 smaller or exiled governments including Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Free France, Poland etc., issued the Declaration by United Nations, affirming the Atlantic Charter, and agreeing not to sign a separate peace with the Axis powers and that defeating Germany was the primary objective - By 30 April 1945, German empire's army in Southwest Germany were defeated and all of Baden, Württemberg and Hohenzollern were completely occupied

1958-1978 Baden-Württemberg governed by former NSDAP members: Since the creation of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952, the state's Minister-presidents included 1958-1960 former NSDAP's Kurt Georg Kiesinger and 1966-1978 former NSDAP's Hans Filbinger

Since 1962 Nazigeneral 'Rommel-Kaserne' in Dornstadt: Since 1962 'Rommel-Kaserne' in Dornstadt, named to honour Nazigeneral Rommel

13/14 July 2020 police searching for threatening armed man in combat gear: 13 July 2020: Police in Baden-Württemberg are searching for a man in combat gear armed with a bow and arrow, a knife and a handgun who held up four police officers and stole their weapons, as schools, nurseries and lidos in Oppenau stay closed - 14 July 2020: Police are looking for armed man with a large contingent

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 1932 von Stauffenberg agreed with the Nazi party's racist and nationalistic aspects, later supporting and committing war crimes: Since 1932 during the German presidential election leutnant Claus von Stauffenberg agreed with the Nazi Party's racist and nationalistic aspects, had supported the German colonization of Poland and made extremist remarks regarding Polish Jews, and voiced support for Hitler, saying 'the idea of the Führer principle bound together with a Volksgemeinschaft .., the racial thought (Rassengedanke), and the will towards a new German-formed legal order appears to us healthy', later his regiment took part in the attack on Poland, and he supported the occupation of Poland, its handling by the Nazi regime, the use of Poles as slave workers, later Stauffenberg's unit was reorganized into a Panzer Division, and he served as an officer on the General Staff in the Battle of France, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class, then in 1943, Stauffenberg was promoted to Oberstleutnant of the general staff, was sent to Africa to join GFM Rommel launching his offensive against British, USA and French forces in Tunisia, later receiving multiple severe wounds in an airstrike, then beginning to change some of his views towards Hitler

8 November 1939 assassination attempt on Hitler by German resistance fighter: 8. November 1939 Bomben-Attentat auf Adolf Hitler und nahezu die gesamte nationalsozialistische Führungsspitze im Münchner Bürgerbräukeller durch den Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus Georg Elser, das nur knapp scheiterte - Memorials of the 8 November 1939 assassination attempt on Hitler

Since November 2012 neo-Nazis charged with murders of 11 people mostly immigrants: 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

October 2019 Oktoberfest methane emissions: 27 October 2019: Oktoberfest 'produces 10 times as much methane as Boston', as first analysis of environmental impact of Munich festival reveals extent of emissions

3 November 2019 neo-Nazi linked AfD target Indian-German 'Christ Child': 3 November 2019: Benigna Munsi, the daughter of Indian-German parents selected by the city of Nuremberg to play the 'Christ Child' and open its world-famous Christmas market, will speak to the press, days after she was targeted by a racist comment by the neo-Nazi linked AfD

28/29 April 2020 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp: 29 April 2020: Israel Defense Forces and USA Navy bands surprised Israeli Holocaust survivor Abba Naor this week to mark both Israel�s 72nd Independence Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp where at the start of Nazi dictatorship Eichmann's battalion of the Deutschland Regiment was quartered in 1934, playing for him a rendition of Israel�s national anthem, Hatikva

May 2020 Thailand's king living in the Bavarian Alps in luxury while his country suffers: 1 May 2020: The king of Thailand is enjoying life at a luxury hotel in the Bavarian Alps in Germany, while his subjects back home are suffering under covid-19, but criticizing the monarchy is outlawed, despite the king's 'embarrassing' behavior, enjoying special permission to reside at Garmisch-Partenkirchen's Hotel Sonnenbichl not open for normal accommodation, as his entourage of 100 includes a harem of at least 20 women and the king jet-setting around Germany in a private Boeing 737, after he reportedly didn't even disembark and took off again directly after landing

June 2020 Munich bans display of yellow stars at covid-19 lockdown protests: 2 June 2020: Munich bans display of yellow stars at covid-19 lockdown protests, after German Jewish groups raised concerns over using symbol meant to resemble the ones that Nazis forced Jews to wear during Holocaust

July/August 2020 Thailand struggles to cope with crises as king squanders people's product in Germany: 29 July 2020: Thailand struggles to cope with covid-19 crisis, as king is gallivanting miles away in Germany and Thai protesters call for end of monarchy on king's birthday, as Thai PM promises 'we will follow in His Majesty's footsteps' - 31 August 2020: Thai king 'releases his concubine from jail and flies her to Germany to join his harem' a year after she was stripped of royal titles

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

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 and timeline of Berlin: History of Berlin - Timeline of Berlin since foundation in 1163 - Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region since 1990

18 January 1871 Berlin becomes capital of the German Empire: Since 18 January 1871 Berlin becomes capital of the newly unified German Empire

1892 'German Peace Society' in Berlin: 1892 'German Peace Society', founded in 1892 in Berlin, still existing and known as the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft - Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (DFG-VK, German Peace Society - United War Resisters)

15 January 1919 war resisters Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht assassinated: 15 January 1919 war resisters Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht assassinated in Berlin by 'Freikorps' used by SPD leaders

February 1933 Reichstag fire: 27 February 1933 Reichstag fire, an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany - 1955 Testimony of SA-member Hans-Martin Lennings, published in July 2019, more than 80 years after the event

1933/1955/2019: 26/27 July 2019: When witness Hans-Martin Lennings and his colleagues of the Nazis' SA arrived with van der Lubbe at the Reichstag, he noticed 'a strange smell of burning and there were clouds of smoke billowing through the rooms', saying 1955 in an account confirmed by a Hanover court 'we were convinced that van der Lubbe could not possibly have been the arsonist, because according to our observation, the Reichstag had already been burning when we dropped him off there', as Reichstag blaze in Germany was used by Adolf Hitler used to claim a Communist plot and consolidate his influence with a crackdown

Since April 1933 Nazi 'Gestapo' in Berlin: 26 April 1933 Nazi 'Gestapo' (secret police) headquartered in Berlin on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, preceded by the 'Prussian Secret Police' since 1851

July 1933 Columbia concentration camp in Berlin: Since July 1933 Columbia concentration camp in Berlin established - 1936-1945 Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp, used primarily for political prisoners - Since 1936 Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp set up for Romani people by Nazi authorities

Since 30 January 1935 Nazi SS-Hauptamt in Berlin: Since 30 January 1935 Nazi SS-Hauptamt headquartered in Berlin, on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße

January 1940 'Wannsee Conference': 20 January 1940 'Wannsee Conference', a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and SS leaders to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders to implement the 'Final solution to the Jewish question', whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to occupied Poland and murdered

April 1968 assassination attempt against Rudi Dutschke: 11 April 1968 assassination attempt against the spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s Rudi Dutschke, who later died, by Josef Bachmann, who had contact with an active cell of Neonazis in Peine since 1961, participating in shooting practice with them

Since October 1990 German reunification, unified Berlin designated capital: 3 October 1990 German reunification, unified Berlin designated capital of the 'Federal Republic of Germany'

February 2019 BND headquarter in Berlin: 8 February 2019: After taking 12 years and �1bn of taxpayers to build, BND's, and world�s biggest, intelligence headquarters reopens in Berlin

29 August 2020 Berlin protests and planned counter-protests amid covid-19: 29 August 2020: Berlin braces for protest against covid-19 restrictions after court ruling, amid calls for counter-protests saying 'there must be no tolerance towards racists, anti-Semites, right-wing extremists and Nazis� - 29 August 2020: After mass protest against pandemic restrictions had been allowed to go ahead by German court after a bitter legal battle, Berlin police break up protest against covid-19 restrictionsh by 18,000 coronavirus sceptics because protesters were failing to respect social distancing

29 August 2020 'Reichsbürger' and neo-Nazi linked groups tried to storm German parliament: 29 August 2020: 'Anti-corona' extremists try to storm German parliament, some waving the flag of the German Reich since 1871 and neo-Nazi linked banners, but police prevent hundreds from entering Reichstag and disband march against covid protection measures

Society, ethnic groups and crime in Berlin: Berlin society - Ethnic groups in Berlin - Crime in Berlin - Since 1914 German war crimes promoted and ordered in Berlin

Jews and Judaism in Berlin: Jews and Judaism in Berlin

April 2018 Berlin anti-semitic attack: 17 April 2018 Berlin anti-semitic attack, when two young men wearing Jewish skullcaps were insulted by Arabic-speaking passers-by, and one of the two, an Israeli citizen, was beaten with a belt by a Palestinian attacker

March 2019 anti-Semitic attacks: 2 March 2019: For restaurateur Yorai Feinberg in Berlin, anti-Semitic attacks are routine, after he was taking a break outside his Berlin restaurant in December 2017, when a man screamed at him 'Go back to your gas chambers', filmed by his friend and posted as video on social media that went viral and unleashed a torrent of anti-Semitic hate mail

29 October 2019 Jewish man beaten on the street: 29 October 2019: A 70-year-old Jewish man was beaten on a Berlin street in an apparent anti-Semitic attack, after he was initially insulted by an unknown man as he walked in the Karow neighborhood

August 2020 neo-Nazi linked arson attack on Israeli-owned bar in Berlin: 20 August 2020: Berlin police investigate neo-Nazi link to arson attack on Israeli-owned bar that has been the repeated target of anti-Semitic harassment, as at a solidarity rally called by the Lichtenberg Anti-fascist Network the bar�s owner said he would not close shop, despite the repeated threats

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 protests G20 against summit in Hamburg: 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 transformation of Hamburg Gestapo headquarters: 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

3 May 2020 75th anniversary of the liberation of Hamburg and Neuengamme Concentration Camp: 3 May 2020: On 3 May 1945 British troops liberated Hamburg, but international commemorative ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Neuengamme Concentration Camp can unfortunately not take place this year due to covid-19 pandemic

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

February 2020 Hanau shootings: 19 February 2020 Hanau shootings, targeting two shisha bars/hookah lounges - 20 February 2020: 11 people dead, including suspect, after Hanau attacks at the opening of the actual carnival week starting on 'Fat Thursday', after the beginning of the 'Fifth Season' on 11 November at 11:11 a.m.

21 February 2020 people of Hanau rallied in the wake of racist assault as politicians, judiciary and media not tackling racism with full strength: 21 February 2020: As the people of Hanau rallied together in the wake of a deadly and racist assault on its community, there were not just whispers filled with fear but also cries for help and shouts of anger, as even German Constitutional Court needs 75 years to start probing the Nazi connections of its postwar judges, including long-serving judge NSDAP-member Willi Geiger, who served from 1951 to 1977, after during the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 Geiger handed down a number of death sentences for minor offenses while presiding over a special court under Adolf Hitler's NSDAP party

24 February 2020 Volkmarsen ramming attack: 24 February 2020 Volkmarsen ramming attack, as a car was driven by a German citizen from the local area into a crowd at a carnival parade in Volkmarsen and more 30 people were injured, seven seriously, and as a third of those injured were children - 24 février 2020: Une voiture a foncé dans un défilé de carnaval à Volkmarsen dans le centre de l'Allemagne, faisant une trentaine de blessés - 25 February 2020: The number of people confirmed as injured after a car ploughed into a carnival crowd in western Germany has risen to 52, as 18 of those hurt in Monday's incident are children

29 March 2020 police suspect finance minister Thomas Schäfer died by suicide: 29 March 2020: Police suspect finance minister for the state of Hesse Thomas Schäfer died by suicide after his body was found on train tracks near Wiesbaden, leaving a note before taking his own life referencing his reasons for his apparent suicide, after he regularly appeared in public in recent days to inform the public about financial assistance during the coronavirus crisis

16 June 2020 Frankfurt court hearing against two neo-Nazis in Walter Luebcke murder case: 16 June 2020: German court in Frankfurt begin hearing the case against two neo-Nazis accused of killing regional politician Walter Luebcke, as Stephan Ernst is accused of murder, attempted murder, serious bodily harm and firearms offenses, and as protesters against anti-immigrant Pegida movement hold a banner reading 'who always wanted to know, how it could happen with the Nazis, lives in the right time' during a demonstration on Monday

9 July 2020 Frankfurt police computer searched for data on politician receiving letters since February signed 'NSU 2.0': 9 July 2020: German police computer in Frankfurt was searched for data on politician Janine Wissler threatened by neo-Nazis, receiving several threatening letters and emails since February, signed 'NSU 2.0', a reference to the German neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground group that committed several racist murders in the 2000s, coming now as the German police and army find themselves under increased scrutiny for neo-Nazi linked and racist views in their ranks, a debate fuelled by the global Black Lives Matter protests

14 July 2020 Idil Baydar also received threatening letters from neo-Nazis: 14 July 2020: Idil Baydar also received threatening letters from neo-Nazi linked extremists, as data were said to have been requested from the Hessian police

August 2020 Frankfurt�s new Jewish museum reclaims Anne Frank�s forgotten roots in the city: 26 August 2020: Frankfurt�s new Jewish museum reclaims Anne Frank�s forgotten roots in the city, preparing to showcase the Frank family�s deep attachment to a city they left for the Dutch capital in 1933, when Anne was 4 years old

History of North Rhine-Westphalia: History of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia: Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia

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

After World War II since August 1946 creation of new state of 'North Rhine-Westphalia': On 23 August 1946 state of 'North Rhine-Westphalia' was established by the British military administration's 'Operation Marriage', including 'Westphalia', the northern parts of the 'Rhine Province', both formerly part of Prussia, as an 21 January 1947 the former state of 'Lippe' was merged with North Rhine-Westphalia, and the constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia was then ratified through a referendum

Since 1946 politics of North Rhine-Westphalia: Politics of North Rhine-Westphalia, legislation, executive branch, election results and Centre Party's, CDU's and SPD's minister-presidents since 1946

16/17 September 2020 29 German police officers suspended for sharing pictures of Hitler and refugees in gas chambers: 16/17 September 2020: 29 German police officers suspended for sharing pictures of Hitler, as officers also accused of sharing doctored images depicting refugees in gas chambers and using neo-Nazi chatrooms, as investigators searched 34 locations, including police stations and private apartments, and as opposition Green party calls for a nationwide review of extremism in the police force

November 2020 CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia dilettante and hostile to culture: 2. November 2020: NRW-Ministerpräsident Armin Laschet CDU verspricht im Interview zum covid-19 'Lockdown' im November 2020 u.a. auch gegen Musikschulen, den Sachverhalt zu den Musikschulen noch einmal genauer anschauen zu wollen, vor allem im Vergleich mit den Erfahrungen der anderen Bundesländer

History of cities and towns in North Rhine-Westphalia: History of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia - Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne governmental district: Cologne, one of the five governmental districts of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located in the south-west of that state and covers the hills of the Eifel as well as the Bergisches Land

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

Düsseldorf governmental district: Düsseldorf governmental district of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the north-west of the country covering the western part of the Ruhr Area, as well as the Niederrheinische Tiefebene, and the most populated of all German administrative areas of the kind

Münster governmental district: Münster governmental district, located in the north of the state, and named after the capital city of Münster, including the area which in medieval times was known as the Dreingau

Münster ciy: Münster ciy, an independent city located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region, and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648

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

Arnsberg governmental district: Arnsberg governmental district, located in the south-east of the country, covering the Sauerland hills as well as the east part of the Ruhr area

Economy of Arnsberg governmental district: Economy of Arnsberg governmental district, as its GDP was 124.8 billion � in 2018, accounting for 3.7% of German economic output

Detmold governmental district: Detmold governmental district, located in the north-east of the state, congruent with the administratively not existent area of Ostwestfalen-Lippe OWL (East Westphalia-Lippe)and created in 1947 when the former state of Lippe was incorporated into North Rhine-Westphalia - 1918-1947 'Free State of Lippe', a German state formed after the 'Principality of Lippe' was abolished following the German Revolution of 1918

January 1933 Lippe state election bringing NSDAP to power: 15 January 1933 'Free State of Lippe' state election was held to elect the members of the Landtag of Lippe, as the NSDAP won 39,5% of the vote, bringing NSDAP's Adolf Wedderwille to power, ahead of Nazi seizure and Adolf Hitler's rise to power on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues

Since 1937 'Nordlager' in Augustdorf: 'Nordlager' in Augustdorf since 1937, Hitler-General 'Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne' since 1961

Since 1961 Hitler-General 'Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne' in Augustdorf: Since 1961 Hitler-General 'Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne'

Bielefeld city and history: History of Bielefeld city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region with a population of 341,730 citizens in 2018 and the most populous city in the administrative region

Detmold city: Detmold city, with a population of about 73,400 in 2013, that was the capital of the county of Lippe since 16th century until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947, and today the administrative center of the district of Lippe and of the Regierungsbezirk Detmold

Lemgo city: Lemgo, a small town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia situated between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser Uplands, as the old hanseatic town had a population of 41,000 citizens in 2017 belonging to the OWL cluster region for mechanical engineering and industrial electronics in Germany

Education in Lemgo: Education and research in Lemgo

Timeline and history of Lemgo since 12th century: Timeline and history of Lemgo since 12th century when the city was founded at the crossroad of two merchant routes

Since 1958 principal of Lemgo's 'Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium' replaced by former 'SS-Hauptsturmführer': 1949-1958 principal of Lemgo's 'Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium' classical philologist und educationalist Dr Ernst Werner, who was born in Lódz, studied in Leipzig, worked in Bonn since German empire's defeat participating in efforts to end corporal punishment of children, came to the shool in 1949 but was forced by Lemgo's Nazis to leave the city in 1957/58 and was replaced by former NSDAP member and 'SS-Hauptsturmführer' Dr Wilhelm Kemper, also a 'National Political Institutes of Education' rector

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

September 2020 local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia: 13. September 2020 Kommunalwahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen

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 Saxony: History of Saxony

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

Dresden city: Dresden, the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig - Education in Dresden

Economy of Dresden: Economy of Dresden

Timeline of Dresden: Timeline of Dresden

1206 first documentation of Dresden: 1206 first documentation of Dresden

July 1760 siege of Dresden by Prussian army: July 1760 Siege of Dresden during the Third Silesian War, part of the Seven Years' War, when a Prussian force led by Frederick unsuccessfully besieged the city of Dresden in Saxony

July 1807 Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw: July 1807 Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw promulgated by Napoleon in Dresden

August 1813 Battle of Dresden part of Napoleonic Wars: August 1813 Battle of Dresden, a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, but the Sixth Coalition felt emboldened in their quest to expel the French from Central Europe, as Napoleon's victory did not lead to the collapse of the coalition, and the lack of effective French cavalry units, caused by a very heavy loss of French soldiers and horses during 1812 French invasion of Russia, precluded a major pursuit, and days after the battle, the Allies surrounded and captured a French corps at the Battle of Kulm

May 1849 Dresden uprising: May 1849 Uprising took place in Dresden, one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848, as from 1849 the German states saw a sharp rise in emigration as thousands deserted their homeland for political reasons, fearing for their lives, many of them artists, writers and other well-educated, prominent members of society, after the revolution had only a slight effect on the political system, in that the nobility lost some of its power in the lower house, but otherwise was a complete failure

February 1945 bombing of Dresden in Nazi Germany's World War II: February 1945 bombing of Dresden in Nazi Germany's World War II - 27 March 1945 last day of German V-2 rocket attacks on London, as one hits Hughes Mansions, Stepney, killing 134 citizens, as the last falls in Orpington with one fatality, and as more than 2,700 people died across London and more than 6,500 people were injured as a result of German rockets in their second World War in the 20th century - March 1945 end of the German V-1 attacks against England and assessment of German Blitz and V-1 attacks

Since April 1946 Sächsische Zeitung: Since April 1946 'Sächsische Zeitung', a regional German daily newspaper published in Dresden

Since 1961 Technical University of Dresden: Since 1961 Technical University of Dresden, as of the 20,620 students from Saxony, 12,351 or 59.9% were from Dresden, and as there were 3,442 international students enrolled at the TU Dresden in 2005/2006, with most of the foreign students coming from Europe 1,527, followed by Asia 1,404, and America 170

1989-1991 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig and East Germany: 1989-1991 Monday demonstrations in East Germany, a series of peaceful political protests against the government of the German Democratic Republic that took place in towns and cities all around the country on various days of the week

1992 Soviet forces withdrawn including KGB's Vladimir Putin: In 1992 Soviet forces withdrawn from Saxony and Dresden, including later Russian war criminal Vladimir Putin, who was stationed in Dresden by the KGB 1985-1990, and is admired and supported by German neo-Nazi linked AfD party since its foundations in 2013

August 2002 Dresden received significant damage amid European floods: August 2002 European floods, as Dresden received significant damage when the Elbe River reached an all-time high of 9.4 meters and Germany was the hardest hit, with over two-thirds of the flood's total losses

Since 2010 Dresden anti-fascist protests: Since 2010 Dresden anti-fascist protests against 'Pegida' movenment and AfD

February 2020 refugee Mozon al-Mleihan fleeing bombing and shelling to Jordan and the UK wins Dresden Peace Prize: 12 February 2020: Mozon al-Mleihan, who fled from the city of Daraa in Syria�s southwest because of the bombing and shelling, arrived with her family arrived in 2013 to the Zaatari camp in Jordan and now lives in the UK, has been awarded the Dresden Peace Prize for her work with children and education, reports Arab-Europe

Leipzig city: Leipzig, the most populous city in the German state of Saxony, with a population of 600,000 inhabitants in 2019 Germany's eighth most populous city - Education in Leipzig

Economy of Leipzig: Economy of Leipzig

Since 1082 timeline of Leipzig: Timeline of Leipzig since 1082

Since 1212 Thomas School in Leipzig: Since 1212 Thomas School in Leipzig, a co-educational and public boarding school founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and one of the oldest schools in the world - Notable alumni of Thomas School in Leipzig

Since 1409 Leipzig University and alumni: Since 1409 Leipzig University - List of Leipzig University people, including scientists, poets, musicians, and politicians - Since 1990 South African politician Jeffrey Thamsanqa 'Jeff' Radebe, born in August 1953, who studied at the University of Zululand and finished in International Law at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1981, and was arrested in 1986 after returning to South Africa, and sentenced to a 10-year imprisonment on Robben Island, but released from prison in 1990 after a successful hunger strike and served as minister first under Nelson Mandela after the 1994 democratic elections and later - CDU's Angela Merkel, born 1954 and Chancellor of Germany since 2005, was educated at Karl Marx University in Leipzig, where she studied physics from 1973 to 1978, and then studied and worked at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof from 1978 to 1990 - Student finance of Leipzig University people

Since 1543 Leipzig University Library: Since 1543 Leipzig University Library, the central library of the university and one of the oldest German university libraries

October 1813 Battle of Leipzig, the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I: October 1813 Battle of Leipzig, when coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia decisively defeated French Emperor Napoleon I's army, also containing Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine, involving 500,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of hundreds of thousands rounds of artillery ammunition, and causing 127,000 casualties, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I

Since 1837-1839 Leipzig�Dresden railway: Since 1837-1839 Leipzig�Dresden railway

Since 1843 University of Music and Theatre 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig': Since 1843 University of Music and Theatre 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig', a public university in Leipzig, founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as Conservatory of Music, the oldest university school of music in Germany - 1835-1847 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, concentrated on developing the town's musical life by working with the orchestra, the opera house, the Thomanerchor, the city's other choral and musical institutions, and founded the Leipzig Conservatory in 1843 - 1850 anti-Semitic composer Richard Wagner, who fled from Dresden, holds that Jews are unable to speak European languages properly and that Jewish speech took the character of an 'intolerably jumbled blabber', a 'creaking, squeaking, buzzing snuffle', incapable of expressing true passion, that debars them from any possibility of creating song or music, stating that Mendelssohn, whom Wagner damns with faint praise, is 'sweet and tinkling without depth', citing 'the redemption of Ahasuerus � Going under'

1855 Leipzig Synagogue built: 1855 Leipzig Synagogue was built by German Jewish architect Otto Simonson who had studied under Gottfried Semper, architect of the Semper Synagogue in Dresden

Since the 1950s 'Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University': Since the 1950s 'Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University', one of the largest music instrument museums in Europe alongside those of Brussels and of Paris including instruments from Europe and beyond, as well as music-related items from the Renaissance, the Baroque, and Bach's Leipzig period

Since 1933 history of Leipzig during Nazi regime: Since 1933 history of Leipzig during Nazi regime

9/10 November 1938 Jews and Jewish institutions suffered in 'Kristallnacht' in Leipzig: 9/10 November 1938 Jews and Jewish institutions suffered from attacks in Leipzig during the events called 'Kristallnacht' as in other German cities, taking its name because of all of the shattered glass from destroyed synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, Jewish-owned homes, schools, and Jewish-owned artifacts, as violence and destruction was carried out by members of the Sturmabteilung SA, Schutzstaffel SS, Gestapo, as well as German civilians, German and Nazi officials, as Jewish property in Leipzig turned to ash, affecting Jewish men, women, and children in Leipzig and other parts of Germany - Torture of Jews, violence against women and children during 'Kristallnacht' and aftermath

1938-1945 The Holocaust in Leipzig: Since 1938, following the 'pogromnacht' when 553 Jewish men were arrested and centers of Jewish communal life were destroyed, Nazi rule in Leipzig led to 'final deportations' until February 1945, when the last 220 Jews were deported to Theresienstadt, and by 1945 there were only 15 Jews remaining in the city

1989-1991 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig: 1989-1991 Monday demonstrations in East Germany and Leipzig, as demonstrations in Leipzig are the most well known and important - Revolutions of 1989 formed part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of dictatorship in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond

Since 1990s Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union: In 1989 the Jewish community numbered 30 members in Leipzig, but as a result of the immigration from the former Soviet Union, it began to grow and in 2012 the Jewish community numbered 1,300 members

Chemnitz city: Chemnitz, from 1953 to 1990 Karl-Marx-Stadt, the third largest city in Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and part of the Central German Metropolitan Region, located in the middle of a string of cities

Economy of Chemnitz: Economy of Chemnitz area, the largest in the Chemnitz-Zwickau urban area and one of the most important economic areas of Germany's new federal states

Since 1136 timeline of Chemnitz: Timeline of Chemnitz since 1136

Since 1836 Königliche Gewerbeschule (later Chemnitz University of Technology): Since 1836 Königliche Gewerbeschule and later Chemnitz University of Technology

Since 1852 Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof: Since 1852 Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof

Since 1918/19 Chemnitz during Weimar Republic: After World War I Chemnitz during Weimar Republic, as the working-class industrial city remained a powerful center of socialist political organization after the criminal war with 1,000 votes to three to break from the SPD and join the Communist Party behind their local leaders, and as in March 1919 the German Communist Party had over 10,000 members in Chemnitz

9 November 1938 'Kristallnacht' antisemitic Nazi violence: 9 November 1938 'Kristallnacht' antisemitic Nazi violence and Chemnitz synagogue destroyed

1939-1945 Chemnitz during World War II: 1939-1945 Chemnitz during World War II, as 41% of the built-up area of Chemnitz were destroyed because the city contained factories that produced military hardware and auto manufacturer Auto Union, relocated after war in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, and when city also had a Flossenbürg forced labor subcamp for Astra-Werke AG, until city was occupied by Soviet troops on 8 May 1945

August/September 2018 neo-Nazi violence targeting immigrants in Chemnitz: 28 August 2018: Neo-Nazi linked mob violence targeting immigrants in the German city of Chemnitz has again cast an ugly spotlight on the country� ex-communist east as a hotbed of xenophobia, since German-Cuban carpenter Daniel Hillig was stabbed to death in the early hours of Sunday, allegedly by an Iraqi and a Syrian who were arrested Monday - August/September 2018 Chemnitz riots and counter protests

August/September 2018 neo-Nazi attack on Jewish restaurant in Chemnitz: 8 September 2018: The Jewish restaurant 'Shalom' in the German town of Chemnitz was attacked by neo-Nazis on 27 August 2018

August/September 2019 Chemnitz violence on trial in Dresden: 22 août 2019: Un tribunal de Dresden a condamné jeudi à neuf ans et demi de prison un Syrien de 24 ans accusé d'avoir poignardé à mort un homme l'an dernier à Chemnitz, un meurtre qui avait déclenché des violences anti-étrangers - 30 September 2019: 8 alleged neo-Nazis have gone on trial in Dresden accused of plotting terror attacks, as federal prosecutors say the group planned to target immigrants, political opponents and the 'economic establishment'

History of Saxony-Anhalt: History of Saxony-Anhalt

September 2018: 10 September 2018: Germany's Merkel has expressed anger after neo-Nazi linked demonstrators chanted Nazi slogans as they marched over the death of a German man following a fight with two Afghans

September 2018 neo-Nazi linked demonstrations: 10 September 2018: Germany's Merkel has expressed anger after neo-Nazi linked demonstrators chanted Nazi slogans as they marched over the death of a German man following a fight with two Afghans

October 2019 Halle synagogue neo-Nazi shooting: 9 October 2019 Halle synagogue shooting in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

15 June 2020 neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet on trial in July: 15 June 2020: German man charged with a deadly anti-Semitic shooting in the eastern city of Halle last year will go on trial on July 21, regional court in Naumburg said Monday, as Stephan Balliet is accused of shooting dead two people in October after he tried and failed to storm the synagogue

21 July 2020 Stephan Balliet on trial for deadly Halle synagogue shooting: 21 July 2020: German Stephan Balliet goes on trial at the eastern German state court in Magdeburg for the Yom Kippur attack and deadly shooting targeting Jews in the city of Halle last year, accused of shooting dead two people after failing to storm Halle synagogue and after publishing documents online that called for the killing of all Jews

27 September 2020 a year after Halle terror attack disturbing systemic shortcomings: 27 September 2020: A year after Halle terror attack, Jews who were there still looking for answers, as shooting that killed two on Yom Kippur last year has underscored rising anti-Semitism in Germany, but investigations in its wake reveal even more disturbing systemic shortcomings

Parteienstaat mit alten Seilschaften: Politics of Germany

August 1949 West German federal election: 14 August 1949 West German federal election

September 1953 West German federal election: 6 September 1953 West German federal election

September 1957 West German federal election: 15 September 1957 West German federal election

September 1961 West German federal election: 17 September 1961 West German federal election, as the Social Democratic Party narrowly became the largest individual party in the Bundestag, winning 203 of the 521 seats

September 1965 West German federal election: 19 September 1965 West German federal election, as the Social Democratic Party remained the largest single party in the Bundestag, winning 251 of the 518 seats

1 December 1966 former NSDAP member chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger CDU: On 1 December 1966 upon the resignation of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard a grand coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats had governed West Germany under former NSDAP member chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger CDU with SPD chairman Willy Brandt as vice-chancellor and foreign minister

September 1969 West German federal election: 28 September 1969 West German federal election

21 October 1969 Willy Brandt SPD elected Chancellor of Germany: On 21 October 1969 Willy Brandt was elected Chancellor of Germany, the first SPD chancellor in the postwar period, after the last Social Democrat holding this position had been Hermann Müller from 1928 to 1930, with FDP chairman Walter Scheel succeeding Brandt as vice-chancellor and foreign minister, as several party switches in protest against Brandt's Ostpolitik of FDP and SPD members resulted in the snap election of 1972

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

July 2018: 12 July 2018: As German neo-Nazi jailed for NSU's killings, relatives of the victims want to know why their father, brother or son had to die, expressing 'hope all other supporters of the NSU are found and convicted', and spotlight falls on treatment of migrants in Germany

August 2018 Neo-Nazism in Russia, Berlin and Vienna: 19 August 2018: Neo-Nazis marched through Berlin on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Hitler's aide Rudolf Hess, carrying a banner reading 'I don't regret anything', as Putin and his poodle Merkel had a quiet drink outside Berlin, showing memory and admiration for Russian, Iranian and Assad's assaults on the Syrian people, murdering hundreds of thousands, for the effects of Sarin, BUK-missiles, Polonium-tea and Novichok-perfume, after Putin's dancing arm-in-arm with Austria's neo-Nazi linked FM Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday

8 September 2018: 8 September 2018: Pressure grows on BfV domestic intelligence agency's Maassen, who told the mass-selling daily 'Bild', that he was skeptical about 'media reports on right-wing extremists hunting down people in Chemnitz', adding that a video circulating shows that the happening could have been faked, promoting the neo-Nazi linked AfD party with his untenable and false assertions and aggravating tensions about whether politicians and the authorities are being too complacent in the face of rising xenophobia in Germany, where many thought the lessons of its Nazi history had long been learned

18 September 2018: 18. September 2018: Bundesregierung befördert den Nazis und Neonazis schützenden Präsidenten des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz Maaßen zum Staatssekretär in das Bundesinnenministerium, als der er in die Besoldungsgruppe B 11 (Grundgehalt 14.157,33 �) statt bisher B 9 (Grundgehalt 11.577,13 �) auf Kosten der Steuerzahler vorrückt, auch ein Bonus dafür, daß Maaßen die juristisch geforderte Offenlegung der beim 'Verfassungsschutz' vorhandenen Akten zu dem NS-Kriegsverbrecher Alois Brunner 'erfolgreich' verweigert hat

November 2018: 5 November 2018: German spy chief Maaßen loses out on government role after firebrand speech

May 2019 European Parliament election in Germany: 26 May 2019 European Parliament election in Germany

June 2019 neo-Nazi death threats: 20 June 2019: Several German politicians who have publicly stood up for refugees have received death threats since what police are treating as the politically motivated murder of Walter Lübcke, including death threats against Mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker, the victim of an assassination attempt in 2015

August/September 2019: 30 August 2019: Now 80 years after Germany started off World War II, Germany and some nations grapple with their past, mixing victims in with perpetrators, turning Nazis and collaborators into national heroes, as Germany today honours Nazi general Erwin Rommel and sides with belligerent Iran and Russia, committing war crimes year after year

1 September 2019 neo-Nazi linked German AfD party make big gains: 4 September 2019: Anti-immigration and neo-Nazi linked AfD, the third-biggest party in the 2017 German general election, main opposition, and able to mobilise several hundred thousand people who had never voted before, overtakes German Left, Greens and SPD in Saxony and German CDU, Greens and Left in Brandenburg in state elections

7/8 September 2019 CDU, SPD and FDP elected neo-Nazi to head local authority: 8 September 2019: All representatives, including representatives of the CDU, SPD and FDP, of the Ortsbeirat of Altenstadt-Waldsiedlung had voted neo-Nazi Deputy NPD state chairman Stefan Jagsch as their head

20 September 2019: 21. September 2019: Umwelt- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler haben die Klimaschutz-Vereinbarungen der großen Koalition kritisiert, die sie für zu kleinteilig und in der Wirkungskraft zu begrenzt halten, während am Freitag 1,4 Millionen Menschen laut Fridays For Future in verschiedenen Städten für den Klimaschutz demonstrierten

3 October 2019: 3 October 2019: On 'German Unity Day' animal rescue services in Germany have been criticised for shooting dead a zebra after it escaped from a circus and ran on to a motorway, fired from a distance of about 10 metres and as 'there was no danger', according to a resident

30 October 2019: 30 octobre 2019: Quelques semaines après l'attentat antisémite à Halle, l'Allemagne a annoncé mercredi prendre des mesures pour combattre la violences antisémite et raciste

November 2019 commemorating 1938 'Kristallnacht': 8 November 2019: A resolution commemorating 1938 'Kristallnacht', that notes the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway, will be introduced by USA democrats, recalling the pogroms that erupted in Germany and Austria and marked the first wide-scale use of violence by the Nazis against Jews, as CDU could 'tear itself apart' after call for AfD coalition in Thuringia, beaten into third place by the openly xenophobic and neo-Nazi linked party - 9 novembre 2019: L'Allemagne et l'Europe célèbrent le 30e anniversaire de la chute du Mur de Berlin qui avait mis fin à la division du continent

15 November 2019 AfD party's Brandner removed from parliament�s Legal Affairs Committee chairmanship: 15 November 2019: AfD party's Brandner removed from parliament�s Legal Affairs Committee's chairmanship by German lawmakers, after he made comments that have been widely condemned as anti-Semitic and racist, and after he was choosen by the same lawmakers

November/December 2019 leadership vote of Social Democrats: 1 December 2019: After Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken, who are demanding a shift in policies, won a vote for leadership of Social Democrats, several senior conservatives on Sunday ruled out talks to renegotiate a governing agreement

December 2019 parliament urges to ban all activities by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Germany, citing its 'terrorist activities', especially in Syria: 19 December 2019: German parliament on Thursday approved a motion urging Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to ban all activities by the Iran-backed Hezbollah group on German soil, citing its 'terrorist activities', especially in Syria

15 January 1919 - 15 January 2020: 15 January 2020: Russian Jew David Dushman, one of the last surviving soldiers to have taken part in the liberation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945, since 1996 living in southern Germany and still struggling to explain how such a catastrophe could happen, joined the Red Army in 1941 after Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, today saying 'they were standing there, all of them in (prisoner) uniforms, only eyes, only eyes, very narrow - that was very terrible, very terrible'

6 February 2020 anti-Semitic AFD party's backing for Thuringia's new elected state premier Kemmerich shocks Germany: 6 February 2020: Anti-Semitic AFD party's backing for Thuringia's FDP politician and new elected state premier Kemmerich shocks Germany, also enjoying support from lawmakers of Chancellor Merkel�s CDU as well as his FDP stablemates, as tacit cooperation between CDU, FDP and AfD condemned by Josef Schuster, saying he was 'horrified' by Wednesday�s vote

10 February 2020 Kramp-Karrenbauer to quit as CDU leader and chancellor's candidacy: 10 février 2020: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, la dauphine désignée d'Angela Merkel, a annoncé lundi renoncer à lui succéder et vouloir abandonner la présidence du parti conservateur, tirant les le�ons de la crise politique ouverte par une alliance avec néonazis en Thuringe

14 February 2020 Germany's political crisis and deep divisions in CDU party: 14 February 2020: Germany's political crisis and shock resignation of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, that has laid bare deep divides in CDU party

13 April 2020 Germany will gradually facilitate covid-19 restrictions: 13 avril 2020: L'Allemagne envisage de lever progressivement des mesures de restriction liées à l'épidémie de nouveau coronavirus, profitant d'une situation moins dramatique que dans d'autres pays européens, avec notamment une mortalité encore inférieure

30 April 2020 Germany bans all Hezbollah activity on its soil: 30 April 2020: After USA and Israeli pressure, Germany bans all Hezbollah activity on its soil, designating the Iran-backed group a terrorist organizations, as Israel welcomes move as a 'valuable and significant step in the global fight against terrorism', urging more European states to follow

6 June 2020 loneliest of D-Day remembrances amid covid-19 as 'Bundeswehr' continues to praise Nazigeneral Rommel: 6 June 2020: The loneliest of D-Day remembrances is marked amid covid-19 pandemic, as small ceremony held a year after tens of thousands came to Normandy beaches to cheer the dwindling number of veterans and celebrate liberation from Nazi oppression, as German 'Bundeswehr' continues to praise and honour the Nazigeneral Rommel

24/25 June 2020 Germans back in lockdown demand accountability: 24 June 2020: Germans back in lockdown demand accountability, as residents and local businesses forced back into strict lockdown following a covid-19 outbreak at a local abattoir are demanding that those responsible are held to account and North Rhine-Westphalia�s Gütersloh district had its first full day under a reimposed covid-19 lockdown after more than 1,700 employees at the Tönnies abattoir and meat processing plant tested positive - 25 June 2020: Abattoir air cooling systems could pose covid-19 risks, expert warns, as analysis of Tönnies meat plant system in Gütersloh shows it contributed to spread of aerosol droplets laden with coronavirus

July 2020 SPD leader (2009-2017) Sigmar Gabriel paid as a consultant for the meat producer Toennies: 2 July 2020: 2009-2017 SPD leader and former Federal Minister of Economics Sigmar Gabriel paid as a consultant for the meat producer Toennies in Rheda since March 2020, as Gabriel reportedly received a flat fee of � 10,000 per month and an additional four-digit fee for each day of travel for his activity that should last two years

15 July 2020 German CDU Merkel supports 'Wirecard' China deal, CSU-Guttenbergs 'Spitzberg Partners': Am 15. Juli 2020 wurde bekannt, dass CSU-Guttenbergs 'Spitzberg Partners' 2019 dem Zahlungsdienstleister Wirecard, der 2020 Insolvenz angemeldet hat, beim Eintritt in das China-Geschäft unterstützt hat, und zugleich bei der Bundesregierung Lobbyarbeit für Wirecard leistete - 15. Juli 2020: Guttenberg warb bei der Bundesregierung für Wirecard und die Beratungsfirma des Ex-Ministers begleitete 2019 den China-Deal des Zahlungsdienstleisters, und suchte und fand bei CDU-Merkel Regierung Unterstützung für das Vorhaben

29 July 2020 draft bill against use of subcontractors in meat industry approved: a29 July 2020: CDU-Merkel's cabinet has approved a draft bill that would ban the use of subcontractors and agency workers in the meat industry, and that could mean working and housing conditions get better, as NGG, which represents workers in the food industry, welcomed the new regulations

August 2020 anniversary of 'SPD Arbeiterjugendtag in Hamburg' 28-30 August 1920: August 2020 hundredth anniversary of 'SPD Arbeiterjugendtag in Hamburg' 28-30 August 1920 - 1933 'Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft' ('promise of most loyal obedience'), a declaration by 88 German writers and poets of their loyalty to Adolf Hitler printed in the 'Vossische Zeitung' on 26 October 1933, publicised by the 'Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin' and in German media, such as the 'Frankfurter Zeitung', to widen public awareness of the confidence of the signed poets and writers in Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany

7 September 2020: German Greens well placed for share of power despite covid-19 setback: 7 September 2020: German Greens well placed for share of power despite covid-19 setback

16/17 September 2020 29 Green party calls for review of extremism in the police force sharing pictures of Hitler and refugees in gas chambers: 16/17 September 2020: Green party calls for a nationwide review of extremism in the police force, after investigators searched 34 locations, including police stations and private apartments, as 29 German police officers suspended for sharing pictures of Hitler, also accused of sharing doctored images depicting refugees in gas chambers and using neo-Nazi chatrooms

18 September 2020 German states push for police racism probe: 18 September 2020: Several Social Democrat-led regional governments in Germany are insisting their own studies into racism among police forces if Interior Minister Horst Seehofer does not initiate a nationwide study

20 September 2020 Seehofer plans Germany's racism probe: 20. September 2020: Seehofer plant breit angelegte Rassismus-Studie, stemmt sich aber weiterhin gegen eine Studie zu rassistischen Tendenzen bei der Polizei

24 September 2020 German CDU/CSU party's and Europe's memory: , 24 September 2020: Nazi general Rommel admiring Ursula von der Leyen continues to promote war criminal Rommel, assigned as commander of the 'Führerbegleitbatallion' during the invasion of Poland, since 1940 a military commander in Nazi Germany's conquest of western Europe, describing the Rommel Barracks as one of the most important installations of the German military - 24 September 2020: As site in Amsterdam�s Jewish Quarter will feature names of more than 102,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti who were murdered in or on their way to Nazi concentration camps, a school friend of World War II Jewish diarist Anne Frank laid the first stone Wednesday at a new memorial under construction in Amsterdam to honor all Dutch victims of the Holocaust, after Dutch court cleared the way last year for the memorial to be constructed

8 October 2020 AfD's Gottschalk chairman of Wirecard committee of inquiry with CDU and SPD support: ^8. Oktober 2020: AfD's Kay Gottschalk mit den Stimmen von CDU und SPD zun Ausschussvorsitzenden des Wirecard-Untersuchungsausschusses gewählt - 8 October 2020: Survivors relive terror in German trial of Halle synagogue attack

29 October 2020 German chancellor decries populists who say coronavirus is harmless: 29 October 2020: Populists who argue the coronavirus is harmless are dangerous and irresponsible, German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, defending a circuit break lockdown aimed at slowing the spread of the virus

19/20 November 2020 AfD-linked demonstrators penetrated the Bundestag as 75 years marked since Nuremberg trials: 20 November 2020: 75 years marked since Nuremberg trials that established concept of war criminals, as aggressive demonstrators supported by neo-Nazi linked AfD-party penetrated the Bundestag while parliamentarians were discussing a new Infection Protection Law, after party's Gauland in May described the 8 May 1945 a 'day of absolute defeat', also repeatly praising German war criminals, allied with other German politicians in the AfD, CDU, SPD and FDP

2021 next German federal election expected to be held between August and October 2021: 2021 next German federal election for the 20th Bundestag is expected to be held between August and October 2021

German state elections: Elections in subdivisions of Germany - German state elections

Baden-Württemberg: State elections in Baden-Württemberg

March 2011: March 2011 Baden-Württemberg state election - 11. Juli 2012: Staatsanwaltliches Ermittlungsverfahren gegen früheren CDU-Ministerpräsidenten Mappus wegen Untreue beim Kauf von EnBW-Aktien - 14. Juli 2012: CDU distanziert sich von Stefan Mappus

March 2016: 13. März 2016 Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg - 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

Bavaria: State elections in Bavaria

September/October 2013: September/October 2013 Bavaria state election - 16 September 2013: Christian Social Union wins in Bavaria

October 2018: 14 October 2018 Bavarian state election - 15 October 2018: After voters delivered the Christian Social Union CSU its worst showing since 1954, Germany�s ruling parties attempt to ride out the fallout from a disastrous regional election, as Green Party ends CSU�s 61-year political dominance in Bavaria

Berlin: Elections in Berlin

2011 Berlin state election: 2011 Berlin state election - Political parties - compare - 18 septembre 2011: Une majorité pour les sociaux-démocrates SPD (28,3%) avec les Verts (17,6%) au scrutin régional à Berlin - le parti libéral FDP (1,8%) est chassé du parlement

September 2016: 18 September 2016 Wahl zum Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin - 19 septembre 2016: Après les élections régionales à Berlin le maire actuel Michael Müller, SPD avec moins de 22% des voix, privilégie une coalition avec les écologistes, crédités de 15% des voix, et le parti 'Die Linke', qui progresse nettement et recueille un score voisin, plus que l'AfD - 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 deputy housing minister

Brandenburg: Elections in Brandenburg

September 2014 Brandenburg state election: 14 September 2014 Brandenburg state election - 14/15. September: Vorläufiges amtliches Ergebnis der Landtagswahl 2014 in Brandenburg

September 2019 Brandenburg state election: 1 September 2019 Brandenburg state election

Bremen: State elections in Bremen

May 2015: 10 May 2015 Bremen state election - 11 May 2015: Following state elections, Bremen�s mayor resigns despite SPD and Greens could proceed to govern with a slim bulk

May 2019 Bremen state election: 26 May 2019 Bremen state election

Hamburg: Elections in Hamburg

June and December 1982 Hamburg state election, Greens win 7,7%: 6 June 1982 Hamburg state election, Greens party wins 7,7% - 19 December 1982 Hamburg state election

February 2015 Hamburg state election: 15 February 2015 Hamburg state election - 16 February 2015: Conservatives suffer blow in Hamburg state vote but AfD wins seats in its first western regional assembly, turnout about 54%

February 2020 Hamburg state election: 23 February 2020 Hamburg state election - 2020 Hamburg state election opinion polling

24 February 2020 Greens and SPD victorious with 24.2% and 39% in Hamburg: 24 February 2020: Greens and SPD victorious with 24.2% and 39% in Hamburg state elections as crisis in the CDU, FDP and AfD deepens

Hesse: State elections in Hesse

September 2013: 22 September 2013 Hesse state election - 23. September 2013: Vorläufiges Ergebnis der Landtagswahl 2013

October 2018 Hessian state election: 28 October 2018 Hessian state election - 29 October 2018: After the CDU slumped to 27% in preliminary results in the state and the SPD tanked to 19.8% in a dead heat with the resurgent Green party for second place, giving the coalition 69 seats of 137, Merkel said national politics had had negative influence on the results in Hesse

Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen): Elections in Lower Saxony

2011 local elections in Lower Saxony: 11. September 2011 Kommunalwahlen Niedersachsen

January 2013: 20 January 2013 Lower Saxony state election - 21 janvier 2013: Obtenant un siège de plus l'alliance des sociaux-démocrates et des verts renverse la coalition des conservateurs et des libéraux en Basse-Saxe

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

14 July 2020 in Hanover Turkish business owners received threatening letters: 14 July 2020: In Hanover, Turkish business owners have received letters threatening to set fire, as police are investigating suspected sedition and threats, according to spokesman

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: State elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

September 2011: 4 September 2011 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election - 4. September 2011: SPD-Sieg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

September 2016: September 2016 Landtagswahl in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - 5 September 2016: Germany�s xenophobic and anti-migrant populists AfD beat Merkel�s party in local vote, obtaining around 21% in its first bid for seats in the regional parliament

North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen): State elections in North Rhine-Westphalia

March 2012: 14. März 2012: Selbstauflösung des NRW-Landesparlaments nach Machtpoker der Opposition

May 2012: 13 May 2012 North Rhine-Westphalia state election - 14 mai 2012: Avec 26,3% des voix le parti d'Angela Merkel CDU enregistre un sérieux revers électoral (SPD 39,1%, Les Verts 11,3%)

May 2017: 14 May 2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election - Frühjahr 2017 Landtagswahl in Nordrhein-Westfalen - 15/16 May 2017: Christian Democrats CDU defeat the ruling Social Democrats 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

September 2020 local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia: 13. September 2020 Kommunalwahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Rhineland-Palatinate: Elections in Rhineland-Palatinate

2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state election: March 2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state election

March 2016: 13. März 2016 Landtagswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz

Saarland: Elections in Saarland

March 2012 Saarland state election: 25 March 2012 Saarland state election - 25 March 2012: Provisional official results of the 25 March state poll - CDU 35,2%, SPD 30,6%, Linke 16,1%, Piraten 7,4%, Grüne 5% and the FDP is now the 1,2% party and is kicked out - 9. Mai 2012: Ministerpräsidentin Kramp-Karrenbauer an der Spitze einer CDU/SPD-Koalition im Amt bestätigt

March 2017: 26 March 2017 Saarland state election - 26. März 2017 Landtagswahl im Saarland

Saxony: Elections in Saxony

August 2014 Saxony state election: 31 August 2014 Saxony state election - 31 August 2014: Christian Democrats win nearly 40% of the vote, breakthrough of eurosceptics and right-leaning rival AfD

June 2019 local election in Goerlitz: 17 June 2019: CDU's Octavian Ursu, who came to Germany from Romania in 1990, received 55.1% of the vote in Sunday�s election in Goerlitz, as opponent AfD's Sebastian Wippel received 44.9% according to preliminary results

September 2019 Saxony state election: 1 September 2019 Saxony state election

Saxony-Anhalt: Elections in Saxony-Anhalt

2011 Saxony-Anhalt state election: March 2011 Saxony-Anhalt state election

March 2016 Saxony-Anhalt state election: 13. März 2016 Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein: Elections in Schleswig-Holstein

August 2011: 14. August 2011: Affäre des CDU-Landesvorsitzenden von Boetticher, Rücktritt von Parteivorsitz in Schleswig-Holstein und von Spitzenkandidatur für Landtagswahl in Neunmonatsfrist am 6. Mai 2012

May 2012 Schleswig-Holstein state election: 6 May 2012 Schleswig-Holstein state election - 6. Mai 2012: Grüne, Liberale und Piraten über den Erwartungen, diverse Koalitionsmöglichkeiten - 24 July 2013: Former HSH executive board all on trial over bank's near failure

May 2017: 7 May 2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election - Frühjahr 2017 Landtagswahl in Schleswig-Holstein - 8 May 2017: Reaction on regional election result in German Schleswig-Holstein state

Thuringia: Elections in Thuringia

September 2014 Thuringian state election: 14 September 2014 Thuringian state election - 14. September: Vorläufiges amtliches Ergebnis der Landtagswahl 2014 im Land Thüringen - Die amtierende Landesregierung ist eine rot-rot-grüne Koalition aus den Parteien Die Linke, SPD und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen seit dem 5. Dezember 2014

October 2019 Thuringian state election: 27 October 2019 Thuringian state election - 28 October 2019: Thuringia's 'Die Linke' party won about 31%, Merkel�s Christian Democrats won 21,8%, but far ahead of her coalition partner, the once powerful Social Democrats SPD, who scored only 8,2%, the xenophobic and neo-Nazi linked AfD party scored about 23,4%, more than doubling its 2014 result, after an 9 October attack in Halle, where a suspected neo-Nazi gunman tried and failed to storm a synagogue and then shot dead two people outside

5. Februar 2020 Josef Schuster verurteilt das Bündnis von FDP, AfD und CDU bei der Wahl Thomas Kemmerichs zum Ministerpräsidenten: 5. Februar 2020: Der Präsident des Zentralrats der Juden, Josef Schuster verurteilt das Bündnis von FDP, AfD und CDU bei der Wahl Thomas Kemmerichs zum thüringischen Ministerpräsidenten und erklärt 'damit verlässt die FDP den Konsens der demokratischen Parteien, nicht mit der AfD zusammenzuarbeiten oder auf die Unterstützung der Rechtspopulisten zu zählen'

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 Merkel's Iraq War support: 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 'unacceptable' is 'acceptable', Merkel-Germany's arms sales to Turkey rising: 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 - 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

May 2018: 18 May 2018: German chancellor Merkel in Sochi welcomed by war criminal and mass murderer Novichok/Polonium/Sarin-Putin

August 2018: 23 August 2018: Saxony�s CDU-led interior ministry confirmed that a police employee had attended a march by anti-Islam and neo-Nazi linked group Pegida last Saturday and had reported TV journalists covering the rally to police who detained them for 45 minutes

October 2018 CDU Tauber honours Nazi general Rommel: 17 October 2018: Homage to Nazi general Erwin Rommel by CDU's Peter Tauber, a former close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel

October 2018 arms sales to Saudi Arabia: 19 October 2018: German CDU led government approved half a billion Euros worth of arms sales to Saudi Arabian regime in 2018 - 2 October 2018 disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, later admitted assassination and international reactions - 20 October 2018: After the death of a Syrian prisoner in a cell fire in the prison Kleve, the opposition demands the resignation of North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of Justice Peter Biesenbach (CDU), saying 'he has misinformed Parliament and the public on a very central question'

November 2018: 22 November 2018: Would-be Merkel successor F. Merz (CDU) questions post-Nazi constitutional guarantee to asylum

February 2019: 9 February 2019: Despite opposition from many countries in eastern and central Europe and particularly Ukraine because it risks increasing Europe's dependence on Russian natural gas CDU-Merkel wishes pact with war criminals

June 2019: 20 June 2019: Downing of MH17 rallied the West against Russian regime, now, not so much, as push to drop European sanctions against murderous regime gains momentum also with Saxony's CDU Michael Kretschmer, who met with Putin in St. Petersburg - 24 June 2019: Merkel�s CDU party debates power sharing with the neo-Nazi linked AfD party, as some CDU politicians push for tie-ups with AfD on a regional level

July 2019 von der Leyen, EU, arms exports and parliamentary investigative commission: 3 July 2019: Lawmakers in the European Parliament and from across Germany's political spectrum slammed a proposal to make German Defense Minister CDU Ursula von der Leyen the next European Commission president, saying her nomination failed to meet pre-electoral promises to respect the lead candidate process and the results of the European elections, calling the nomination a 'classic victory of backroom politics over democracy' and a 'farce' - Since April 2018 von der Leyen promoted CDU-led German government's decisions on arms exports to Saudi Arabia and Turkey - In 2019 a parliamentary investigative commission was installed after the Federal Court of Auditors complained that rules of government procurement had been ignored when giving external consultancies in von Leyen's ministry from 2015 to 2016 and it turned out documents were destroyed to cover this up - 3 July 2019: Von der Leyen faces an investigation into suspected wrongdoing surrounding the use of outside consultants, including accusations that von der Leyen�s office circumvented public procurement rules in granting contracts worth millions of euros to the firms, as testimony from key witnesses appear to confirm suspicions of systematic corruption at the ministry

August 2019 taxpayers pay millions for questionable 'extra tuition': 8 August 2019: Between January and June 2019, the German Defense Ministry and its affiliated institutions spent �155 million on external consultants and support services, almost as much as all 13 other ministries put together, as ministry has long faced scrutiny over equipment deficiencies and why it resorts to consultancy despite having a staff of over 20,000 under CDU's Ursula von der Leyen, now designated president of the European Commission

September 2019 von der Leyen's �Protecting the European way of life�: 13 September 2019: CDU von der Leyen's �Protecting the European way of life� from migrants is a gift to the neo-Nazis - 11 September 2019: CDU, AfD find common ground in 18 towns, report says

August/September 2019 assassination of Khangoshvili: 23 August 2019 assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili - 2 September 2019: The murder of Chechen Khangoshvili in Berlin looks like a Russian operation, but the CDU/SPD Merkel government is not making a public fuss about that - 27 September 2019: New evidence links Russian state to Berlin assassination of Chechen Khangoshvili by suspected 'Vadim Andreevich Sokolov', Bellingcat reports

6 January 2020 German CDU-Merkel will visit Russia on 11 January: 6 January 2020: German CDU-Merkel will visit Russia on 11 January at Russian regime's, offering Polonium-tea, Novichok and hundreds of thousands of murdered Syrians and Ukrainians, war criminal Putin's invitation

February 2020 CDU supports neo-Nazi linked AfD and Secretary General denies solution of crisis: 5 February 2020: CDU and FDP politicians 'break taboo' voting with racist AfD and its state leader Björn Höcke, legally termed a fascist, to oust Thuringia premier Bodo Ramelow, defying the national party�s refusal to work with neo-Nazi linked parties - 23 February 2020: After lawmakers in Thuringia agreed on a way to vote in a new state government without the support of neo-Nazi party, avoiding a repeat of a decision earlier this month that caused a political uproar, CDU Secretary General Paul Ziemiak criticized party lawmakers for the way out of the crisis caused by the CDU (the party of NSDAP members Globke, Kiesinger Filbinger etc.), saying 'this is about the credibility of the CDU in general', adding that the party 'rejects all coalitions and similar forms of cooperation'

2 March 2020 CDU and EU von der Leyen's cronyism with Russian, Iranian and Assad regime's war criminals: 2 March 2020: Child drowns at sea off Greece in first fatality of CDU and EU von der Leyen's cronyism with Russian, Iranian and Assad regime's war criminals

15 July 2020 German CDU Merkel supports 'Wirecard' China deal, CSU-Guttenbergs 'Spitzberg Partners': Am 15. Juli 2020 wurde bekannt, dass CSU-Guttenbergs 'Spitzberg Partners' 2019 dem Zahlungsdienstleister Wirecard, der 2020 Insolvenz angemeldet hat, beim Eintritt in das China-Geschäft unterstützt hat, und zugleich bei der Bundesregierung Lobbyarbeit für Wirecard leistete - 15. Juli 2020: Guttenberg warb bei der Bundesregierung für Wirecard und die Beratungsfirma des Ex-Ministers begleitete 2019 den China-Deal des Zahlungsdienstleisters, und suchte und fand bei CDU-Merkel Regierung Unterstützung für das Vorhaben - CDU-Merkel, Richard-Wagner-Festspiele connection, companions and finance providers of anti-Semitic composer in Bayreuth

30 July 2020 Holocaust survivor launches legal claim against German railway: 30 July 2020: Holocaust survivor Salo Muller, whose parents were taken by rail from Amsterdam to their deaths at Auschwitz, has tabled a legal claim against the German state over the wartime role of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, demanding an apology and financial recompense for about 500 Dutch survivors and about 5,500 next of kin, as Muller�s lawyer also writes a letter to the German CDU-chancellor Merkel

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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 destruction and sacking of Kalisz: August 1914 destruction and sacking of the city of Kalisz by German Empire troops at the beginning of World War I, also known as the Pogrom of Kalisz or Poland�s Louvain, a part of German 'Schrecklichkeit' atrocities

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 - 22. März 1918: '... hat der deutsche Reichstag wie bisher alle Kriegskredite, so auch den neuen von 15 Milliarden in voller Einmütigkeit mit Ausnahme d. Kleinen Gruppe der unabhängigen Sozialdemokraten bewilligt und hat seine Zustimmung zu dem in Brest-Litowsk geschlossenen Frieden mit Rußland und zum Friedensvertrag mit Finland gegeben'

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

Aftermath of the First World War: Aftermath of the First World War

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

15 January 1919: 15. Januar 1919 Ermordung der in Zamosc geborenen Nationalökonomin Rosa Luxemburgs und Karl Liebknechts durch die Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division in Berlin, die von der SPD zur Bekämpfung der sozialdemokratischen Opposition - und vor allem für die Auslöschung der für die deutschen Kriegsverbrecher gefährlichen Kriegsgegner seit 1914 - herangezogen worden war, und die bzw. deren Mitglieder zusammen mit anderen militärischen und paramilitärischen Organisationen die spätere deutsche Revanchepolitik ausführten, seit 1933 unter dem NSDAP-Regime

1937-1939 German 'Special Prosecution Book-Poland': 1937-1939 'Special Prosecution Book-Poland', the proscription list prepared by the Germans immediately before the onset of war, that identified more than 61,000 of Polish people including scientists, activists, intelligentsia, scholars, actors, former officers, and prominent others, who were to be interned or shot on the spot upon their identification following the 1939 invasion, compiled by the 'Zentralstelle IIP Polen' unit of the 'Geheime Staatspolizei' with help from some members of the German minority living in pre-war Poland

1939-1945 German invasion of Poland 1939 and World War II: German invasion of Poland 1939, the beginning of World War II - War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II, called 'Schmutzstrecke' by German war criminals as for instance quartermaster-general Eduard Wagner - 'Germanisation' under Nazi Germany

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

1919-1946 SPD Gustav Noske: 1946 sieht SPD Gustav Noske, einer der Wegbereiter des Nationalsozialmus nach 1914-1918, in seinen Memoiren immer noch 'ostjüdischen' Einfluss in der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, und schreibt 'daß die ostjüdischen �Marxisten� eine besondere Veranlagung dafür besaßen, den Sozialismus zu einem Dogma auszubilden [�] Sie brüteten eine Geheimwissenschaft aus, die den deutschen Arbeitern stets unverständlich geblieben ist'

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

August 2018: 12 August 2018: As Sunday 11 November this year will mark 100 years since the armistice treaty was signed between first world war allies and Germany, bringing to an end four years of war, the British newspaper 'The Guardian' asks to 'share your letters, stories and photographs', as French village of Ors mayor says 'it is important that everyone learns from the mistakes of the past'

September 2018: 10 September 2018: As at the request of the USA Germany�s government is examining possible options for joining USA, British and French forces in any future military action if the Syrian Assad regime again uses chemical weapons, SPD's Nahles rejects any German participation against a renewed rupture of civilisation using chemical weapons, wanting to be friendly with Sarin-Polonium-Novichok Putin, after SPD's Heiko Maas called Russian murderous regime 'an important partner'

August 1914 - November 1918, November 2018: Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD's war opponents against World War I since August 1914 were expelled from the party by its Ebert/Scheidemann (since 1913/1917) leadership - Ab 4. Oktober 1918 Sozialdemokraten in der Regierung des deutschen Kaiserreiches - 11 November 1918/2018: Canadian Pvt. George Price was killed by a German sniper in Belgium's Mons just two minutes before the ceasefire on 11 November 1918, highlighting the folly of a Germam made war, supported by the unteachable SPD from start to finish, claiming some 14 million lives, including 9 million soldiers, sailors and airmen from 28 countries, settling into hellish trench warfare with battles having up to a million casualties, with poison gas coming to epitomize the cruel ruthlessness of a war the likes of which history had never seen - In the November 1918 German revolution, Ebert/Scheidemann SPD leadership sided with the Imperial Army command against war opponents - Since 1925 Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a German political foundation associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD, the political 'legacy' of Friedrich Ebert, today financed mainly through grants from the federal budget and the budgets of the various Bundesländer - 11 November 2018: As ceremonies in New Zealand, Australia, India, Hong Kong and Myanmar marked the start of the memorial events worldwide for a conflict that involved millions of troops from colonized countries in Asia and Africa, Israeli PM Netanyahu one of around 70 leaders attending French commemoration to mark 100 years since the end of World War I at a time of growing nationalism, diplomatic tensions and brutal wars

January 2019 'ideologischer Giftmüll' in Germany: 100 Jahre nach Rosa Luxemburgs Ermordung am 15. Januar 1919 als einer Folge des von der SPD unterstützten Angriffs- und Weltkriegs, zeigt sich die SPD Parteizeitung unfähig, die Bedeutung der Wissenschaftlerin, Kriegsgegnerin und Demokratin Luxemburg zu erkennen - 'ihr Verhältnis zur SPD war ambivalent', 'Karl Liebknecht war lange vergessen, auch Rosa Luxemburg war nicht deutlich in der historischen Erinnerung verankert', 'Der Romantizismus der 68er Bewegung erweckte den Luxemburg-Kult zu neuem Leben', '... doch wer ist legitimiert, über von Gewalt bestimmte Zeiten zu richten?' - aber die Ermordung der bedeutendsten Sozialdemokratin und die Verantwortung von Noske, Ebert und Scheidemann für diese Ermordung betreffend ist sich die Parteizeitung sicher - 'Die Erklärungen des verantwortlichen Offiziers aus den 1960er Jahren sind jedenfalls keine seriöse Quelle' - und außerdem 'ist nicht anzunehmen, dass Rosa Luxemburg gegen den Anspruch der Leninisten gewonnen und in deren System die �Freiheit der Andersdenkenden� gegolten hätte'

15 January 2019: 15 January 2019: Democrats in Germany remember Rosa Luxemburg 100 years after her murder committed by SPD-linked 'Freikorps' fascists

February/March 2019 SPD congratulations to the Iranian regime: 21 February 2019: Congratulations to the Iranian regime, that seeks the destruction of the Jewish state, by SPD politicians including Germany's social democratic FM Heiko Maas, who appeared in a photograph shaking hands with Iran's FM Javad Zarif at the weekend Munich Security conference, Germany's deputy FM SPD-Annen, who celebrated Iranian regime's seizure of power in its embassy in Berlin, and German president SPD-Steinmeier, who sends 'congratulations to the most dangerous regime in the world', condemned by Simon Wiesenthal Center's Abraham Cooper according to 'The Jerusalem Post' - 26 February 2019: Germany�s Central Council of Jews joins criticism of German president over Iran telegram, as Josef Schuster says that 'routine diplomacy appears to have overtaken critical thinking', also rejected as 'shocking' by Human Rights Watch�s Wenzel Michalski - 2 March 2019: OPCW investigators say 'toxic chemical� used in deadly attack on Syrian rebel town of Douma blamed on Assad regime in long-awaited final report by its fact finding mission that investigated the 7 April 2018 attack, as medical workers said at the time that the attack killed more than 40 people and opposition gave up the town days after the attack

March 2019: 8 March 2019: SPD Niels Annen, a minister of state at the German foreign ministry, told German magazine that terror group Hezbollah, allied with Syria's Assad and Iranian regime, is an important element in Lebanon�s society

26/27 October 2019: 26 October 2019: Turkish regime's Cavusoglu and German foreign minister Heiko Maas shake bloody hands at a joint news conference in Ankara, emphasizing German defense minister's proposal for an international security and safe zone under the UN umbrella on the Turkish-Syrian border, this means a peaceful solution, is 'unrealistic', after Kurds in Germany could speak in German TV, and after journalists on 20 October 2019 discussed Assad's war against the Syrian people and foreign involvements (Hezbollah terrorists, Iran, Russia and Turkey) since 2011 and since 9 October - 27 October 2019: Supporters of Erdogan's offensive 'Peace Spring' against Syrian Kurds in Europe burn the farm of a Kurdish activist, try to assassinate another

24 December 2019 federal president SPD Steinmeier's 'Christmas Message' to residents, refugees and migrants in Germany: 24 December 2019: Federal president SPD Steinmeier demands more vigor, decency and solidarity, as residents of northwest Syria flee new murderous Russian and Assad regime offensive, as troops push toward rebel-held town Maaret al-Numan and strategic road it controls, as civilians escape toward Turkish border and as UN warns, again since 2011, of another looming humanitarian crisis in 2019/2020

15 January 2020 murderous alliance of SPD, German TV and Iranian Mullah regime: 15 January 1919 SPD-supported murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in Berlin, 13 January 2020 German TV and SPD support for Iranian regime's denial of its brutal shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner, as Iranian regime's Rohani warned on 15 January that European soldiers in the Mideast 'could be in danger', as regime's FM acknowledged that Iranians 'were lied to' for days following its brutal shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner that killed 176 people, and as the state of Israel, founded following the Holocaust committed by Germany, is continuously forced to defend itself against terrorists also in Syria, where Assad is allied with the Russian, the Iranian Mullah regime and Hezbollah terrorists - 15 January 2020: Russian Jew David Dushman, one of the last surviving soldiers to have taken part in the liberation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945, since 1996 living in southern Germany and still struggling to explain how such a catastrophe could happen, joined the Red Army in 1941 after Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, today saying 'they were standing there, all of them in (prisoner) uniforms, only eyes, only eyes, very narrow - that was very terrible, very terrible'

10 October 2020 SPD-Steinmeier said 'everyone must stand up when the human dignity of others is violated': 10 October 2020: German politicians voice shame during commemoration to mark a year since deadly shooting on Yom Kippu, as tribute defaced a year after anti-Semitic attack, and as German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) said 'everyone must stand up when the human dignity of others is violated', as images with the inscription 'Never forget � Kevin and Jana' were smeared with red swastikas on Thursday night

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 - German media by state - Media in Germany by city

Freedom of press and censorship in Germany: Freedom of press in Germany - Censorship in Germany

August 2018: 23 August 2018: Saxony�s CDU-led interior ministry confirmed that a police employee had attended a march by anti-Islam and neo-Nazi linked group Pegida last Saturday and had reported TV journalists covering the rally to police who detained them for 45 minutes

August 2019 Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists: 8 August 2019: Monsanto operated a 'fusion center' to monitor and discredit journalists and activists, and targeted a reporter who wrote a critical book on the company, documents reveal, as records reviewed by the Guardian show Monsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target Reuters journalist Carey Gillam who investigated the company�s weedkiller and its links to cancer

Newspapers and broadcasting in Germany: Newspapers in Germany - Broadcasting in Germany - Radio in Germany - Television in Germany

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

Since March 1935 television history in Germany: Television history in Germany began in Berlin March 1935 - 1936 Nazi Germany's Summer Olympics were the first to have live television coverage, as the German Post Office, using equipment from Telefunken, broadcast over 70 hours of coverage to special viewing rooms

1918-1945 German NSDAP propaganda: 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

13 June 2018: 13 June 2018: Olaf Zimmermann, who heads the 'Conseil culturel allemand' ('German cultural council'), has called for the plug to be pulled on the nation�s multitude of political talkshows of public broadcasters for a year, arguing that their populist agenda has helped cement gloom-ridden public attitudes towards refugees and foreign cultures and fuel the rise of neo-Nazi linked parties and politicians

14 June 2018: 14 June 2018: Berlin Museum of Photography prepares an installation about the life of pro-Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, called by critics 'an absurd and disgusting obscenity' that will glorify the late director�s 'fascist aesthetics' and advance a rehabilitation that Riefenstahl does not deserve

15 June 2018: 15 June 2018: The founder of Germany�s first Jewish film festival Nicola Galliner, whose 24th annual Jewish Film Festival Berlin-Brandenburg begins later this month, has been awarded the highest honor in the state of Brandenburg

Sports broadcasting contracts in Germany: Sports broadcasting contracts in Germany

Media coverage of 'Ball treten' and broadcast income in football league's 'Bundesliga' business model: Football league 'Bundesliga' business model, as Bundesliga's turnover was �1.7bn one season, broken down into match-day revenue �424m, sponsorship receipts �573m and frontrunner broadcast income �594m - Media coverage of professional 'Ball treten', as Bundesliga TV, radio, internet, and mobile broadcast rights are distributed by DFL Sports Enterprises and broadcast rights are sold along with the broadcast rights to the Bundesliga Relegation Playoffs, 2. Bundesliga and DFL-Supercup

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

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

2009 European football betting scandal: 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 bidding committee of Germany�s 2006 World Cup bought votes: 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 Fifa investigatione: 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

November 2019 rockets at Berlin derby: 2 November 2019: Rockets were fired onto the pitch at Berlin derby, as German football official blames AfD for rising violence in the sport, claiming that the party has normalized 'social disinhibition� in the society

May 2020 resistance against resuming Bundesliga: 15 May 2020: Most fans don't even want the league to resume - the latest polls from German broadcasters show a growing majority are against it - but soccer authorities were desperate to get back on track with Bundesliga clubs for financial reasons

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

Film industry in Germany: Film industry in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century

February/March 2020 Berlinale reels from revelations that its founding director Alfred Bauer was a high-ranking Nazi: 29 February 2020: As the Berlinale reels from revelations that its founding director Alfred Bauer was a high-ranking Nazi, the issue of memory politics looms large over the film festival�s 70th anniversary, following a newspaper report last month alleging Bauer had been more involved in the Nazi regime than previously thought, as a number of films on the program set out to challenge dominant narratives about the past, also presenting 'example(s) of how long an accepted Nazi perpetrator could tell his own story as if he and those in his milieu didn�t have so much to do with it'

Sport in Germany: Sport in Germany - Sport in Germany by sport - Sport in Germany by state - Sport in Germany by city

Amateur sport in Germany: Amateur sport, called 'Breitensport' in Germany

'Professional' sports in Germany and 'Bundesliga': 'Professional' sports in Germany and 'Bundesliga'

January 2020 former German soccer president sent hundreds to die in Auschwitz: 25 January 2020: Former German soccer president sent hundreds to die in Auschwitz, as DFB in January 2020 reveals that Felix Linnemann, who led it from 1925 to 1945, �was directly involved� as the head of the Hannover Criminal Police control center in registering Sinti, Roma people before they were sent to the Nazi death camp

Sports broadcasting contracts in Germany: Sports broadcasting contracts in Germany

Broadcast income in football league's 'Bundesliga' business model: Football league 'Bundesliga' business model, as Bundesliga's turnover was �1.7bn one season, broken down into match-day revenue �424m, sponsorship receipts �573m and frontrunner broadcast income �594m

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

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

Football hooliganism, riots and racism in Germany: Football hooliganism and riots in Germany

March/April 2005: 28 March 2005: A 'friendly' weekend soccer match between Germany and Slovenia quickly turned sour as before, during and after the game, German fans participated in racist violence, prompting fears of a revival of hooliganism - 7 April 2005: German soccer hooligans have made a violent return to the international stage

June 2006: 15 June 2006: Police detained more than 300 people in Dortmund following clashes ahead of the World Cup Group Germany-Poland match

February 2007: 14 February 2007: Germany Cancels Soccer Schedule in Saxony in Response to Riots

June 2010: 27 June 2010: An English flag was burned down amongst a mob of German supporters in Duisburg-Hamborn in Germany

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

July 2020 Germany�s soccer captain Neuer filmed singing song by pro-Nazi Croatian singer: 13 July 2020: Germany�s soccer captain Neuer filmed singing song by pro-Nazi Croatian singer

Since 1950s doping in sport: Doping in sport in Germany - Drugs in sport in Germany

August 2013: August 2013: Systematisches und staatlich gefördertes Sport-Doping in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1970 laut Studie der Berliner Humboldt-Universität - 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 - 2013/2018: 21 April 2013: Speaking at 70th anniversary of historic rebellion in Warsaw, one of last three survivors of Ghetto uprising Simcha Rotem says 'we wanted to choose the kind of death we would die' - 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 - April 2018: Jews who fought Nazis recall the struggle - 23 December 2018: Simcha Rotem, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who was among the last-known Jewish fighters from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, has died at 94

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

27. Juli 2000 Sprengstoffanschlag in Düsseldorf: 27. Juli 2000 Sprengstoffanschlag in Düsseldorf mit einer mit TNT gefüllten Rohrbombe, die zehn Menschen zum Teil lebensgefährlich verletzt und das ungeborenes Kind einer im fünften Monat schwangeren Frau tötet - 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

2. Oktober 2000 Brandanschlag auf die Neue Synagoge in Düsseldorf: 2. Oktober 2000 Brandanschlag auf die Neue Synagoge in Düsseldorf durch zwei arabischstämmige junge Männer

July 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

July 2018: 8 July 2018: A group of 10 men and women chased a Syrian Jewish man in a park in Berlin who was wearing a Star of David, knocked him to the ground and beat him, putting him into the hospital for his injuries - 16 July 2018: Jewish professor Yitzhak Melamed, who teaches philosophy at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, accuses Bonn authorities of brutality and of falsely blaming him for provoking the assault after being assaulted in a Bonn park first by a Palestinian and then by police who slammed him to the ground and punched him in the face

August 2018: 8 August 2018: In Germany, anti-Semitic crimes up 10% in first half of 2018

September 2018: 8 septembre 2018: Un restaurant juif de Chemnitz a été la cible d'une attaque à caractère antisémite en marge d'une récente manifestation à l'appel des xénophobes et néonazis dans cette ville allemande sous tension depuis deux semaines

February 2019: 13 février 2019: L'Allemagne a enregistré une hausse des actes antisémites en 2018 qui atteignent un sommet depuis une décennie - 13 February 2019: After France and UK, Germany reports increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2018, as the number of anti-Semitic crimes increased from 1,504 in 2017 to 1,646, with the number of cases considered violent almost doubling

May 2019: 14 May 2019: Last year anti-Semitic incidents rose 19.6% to 1,799, 89.1% of those involving far-right perpetrators, as Xenophobic incidents rose 19.7% to 7,701 amid an overall uptick in hate crimes to 8,113 from 7,913, German officials say

June 2019: 28 June 2019: Witness says 31-year-old suspect Iyad B. wanted to kill real estate investor Michael Reicher in November 2018 he thought was Jewish, saying his people �destroyed my homeland�, as Germany�s BfV agency said in its annual report the number of anti-Semitic acts of violence rose sharply last year alongside a further increase in those identified as neo-Nazi linked extremists

August 2019: 15 August 2019: Rabbi assaulted and pushed to the ground by unidentified suspects in Berlin, two weeks after another rabbi reported being spat upon in a building in the same general neighborhood, and after a week ago in Munich a rabbi and his two sons said they were spit on and verbally attacked as they left a synagogue

9 October 2019 Halle synagogue attack: 9 October 2019 Halle synagogue attack - 10 October 2019: Jews demand action from Germany to protect the community after at least two people were shot dead in the eastern German city of Halle in an anti-Semitic gun attack on the holy day of Yom Kippur

31 December 2019 Jewish cemetery's tombstones vandalized: 31 December 2019: Two men were arrested in Germany on Monday for allegedly knocking over 40 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery near Aachen and spraying some of them with blue paint, police said

4 October 2020 Jewish student attacked with shovel and seriously hurt outside Hamburg synagogue: 4/5 October 2020: Jewish student wearing a kippa attacked with shovel, seriously hurt outside Hamburg synagogue and taken to the hospital with a �significant head injury', as suspect, a German of Kazakh origin, had paper with swastika in his pocket, and as anti-Semitic crimes have increased steadily in Germany in recent years with 2,032 anti-Semitic offenses recorded in 2019, up 13% on the previous year

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

June 2018 Nazi Heinrich Himmler's daughter employed by BND: 29 June 2018: Germany�s foreign intelligence service BND employed the daughter of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler in the early 1960s, although she never renounced her father or Nazism, remained active in far-right extremism all her life, fought to defend her father�s reputation and aided in the defense of SS members and Nazi war criminals

February 2019 BND headquarter: 8 February 2019: After taking 12 years and �1bn of taxpayers to build, BND's, and world�s biggest, intelligence headquarters reopens in Berlin

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 - 29 May 2018: As Germany is struggling with a new upsurge of racist attacks and neo-Nazi linked activism, including the entry into parliament of the Alternative for Germany AfD party following an influx of more than one million asylum seekers since 2015, Germany will hold memorial events on Tuesday for five ethnic Turkish victims of a neo-Nazi arson attack 25 years ago

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

10. Juni 2000 Neonazis ermorden den aus Mosambik stammenden Alberto Adriano: 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

9. September 2000 Enver Simsek erstes Opfer der NSU-Mordserie: 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

2. Oktober 2000 Brandanschlag auf die Neue Synagoge in Düsseldorf: 2. Oktober 2000 Brandanschlag auf die Neue Synagoge in Düsseldorf durch zwei arabischstämmige junge Männer

August 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

July2002: 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

January 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

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

April 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

April 2007: Polizistenmord von Heilbronn 25. April 2007

July 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

October/November 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

July 2011: 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

November/December 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

June 2018: 12 June 2018: AfD party ended a drive for the expulsion of member Bjoern Hoecke who suggested the country end its tradition of acknowledging and atoning for its Nazi past, also saying Berlin memorial to the Jews killed in the Holocaust is a 'monument of shame' - 14 June 2018: Berlin Museum of Photography prepares an installation about the life of pro-Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, called by critics 'an absurd and disgusting obscenity' that will glorify the late director�s 'fascist aesthetics' and advance a rehabilitation that Riefenstahl does not deserve

July 2018 neo-Nazi Zschaepe sentenced to life in prison: 11 July 2018: Munich court found the main defendant Zschaepe in a neo-Nazi trial guilty over the killing of 10 people - most of them migrants - who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that prompted accusations of institutional racism in the country's 'security' agencies - 18 July 2018: Munich state court ordered the release of Ralf Wohlleben convicted last week and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonmen as an accessory to the murder of nine victims of neo-Nazi group that targeted immigrants

July 2018: 25 July 2018: Germany experiences a resurgence in neo-Nazis, intel agency finds, saying the number of individuals in Germany who espouse extreme political views rose by 9% last year to 126,000

Since 2 August 2018 'NSU 2.0', signatories of serie of death, bomb and attack threats: Seit 2. August 2018 'NSU 2.0', Unterzeichner und mutmaßliche deutsche Neo-Nazis einer Serie von Mord-, Bomben- und Anschlagsdrohungen, die sie seit 2018 per Fax, E-Mail oder SMS über das Darknet an bestimmte Empfänger versenden, wobei die Unterschrift auf die Neo-Nazi Gruppe 'Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund' NSU anspielt, die zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2007 mindestens zehn Menschen ermordete, neun davon aus rassistischen Motiven

August 2018: August 2018 Ausschreitungen in Chemnitz nach Ermordung des Deutsch-Kubaners Daniel Hillig - 30 August 2018: A migrant was subjected to xenophobic insults and beaten up in the northern German city of Wismar Wednesday evening, police said, in an attack that comes as the country is shaken by neo-Nazi linked demonstrations against foreigners, following August 2018 Chemnitz stabbing attack and riots

September 2018: 4 September 2018: Germany's neo-Nazi linked Alternative for Germany AfD has overtaken the Social Democrats SPD, a poll showed on Tuesday, days after violent protests by AfD and xenophobic Pegida, chasing migrants through the streets, hurling bottles and fireworks and some even making the Hitler salute, as calls are mounting for the domestic intelligence agency to place the AfD under surveillance

October 2018: 1 October 2018: German police have arrested seven men belonging 'to the hooligan, skinhead and neo-Nazi scene in the area of Chemnitz', on suspicion of forming a 'far-right terrorist organization', which assaulted foreigners in Chemnitz, planned attacks on politicians and civil servants, according to the federal prosecutor's office, and reportedly 'wanted to achieve more than the National Socialist Underground' neo-Nazi group, uncovered in 2011, that murdered 10 people and planted three bombs - 7 octobre 2018: Huit policiers ont été blessés samedi soir lors d'un événement sous le slogan 'Rock contre le trop-plein d'étrangers' lors d'échauffourées avec des participants

Since November 2018 AfD preliminary proceedings: Seit November 2018 Ermittlungsverfahren gegen AfD und A. Weidel hinsichtlich illegaler Wahlkampfspenden aus dem Ausland

December 2018: 17 December 2018: Prosecutors are investigating a suspected neo-Nazi cell within the Frankfurt police force that is thought to have sent a German-Turkish lawyer a message threatening to kill her two-year-old daughter

January 2019 xenophobic car attack: 1 January 2019 Bottrop and Essen car attack targeting people from Syria and Afghanistan, classified as a terrorist attack - 2 janvier 2019: La justice allemande a placé en détention provisoire pour tentatives de meurtre l'Allemand accusé d'avoir délibérément foncé avec sa voiture sur des étrangers la nuit du Nouvel an, faisant huit blessés - 3 January 2019: Neo-Nazi linked NPD 'street patrol�, posting photos online of supporters wearing red protective vests to create 'safe spaces' including outside a refugee center in German town of Amberg where four Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers allegedly drunkenly attacked passers-by last weekend, according to local authorities

13 January 2019: Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz reportedly again received a threatening letter signed with 'NSU 2.0', as again data were used which can be found only in the register of migrants

February 2019: 28 February 2019: Police in Germany are under fire for their handling of a neo-Nazi torch-lit march from outside a refugee's home to the Nazi party's historic rally grounds in Nuremberg last Saturday, called an 'unacceptable provocation' by Jewish community's Josef Schuster

June 2019 murder of pro-refugee German politician Walter Lübcke: 2. Juni 2019 gewaltsamer Tod des Regierungspräsidenten des Regierungsbezirks Kassel Walter Lübcke - 9 June 2019: After neo-Nazi linked accounts on social media celebrated Lübcke�s death, drawing condemnation from across the political spectrum, detectives investigating the death of German politician Walter Lübcke have questioned a man in connection to the suspected murder - 17 June 2019: Identified only as Stephan E, with links to neo-Nazi groups, who once planted a pipe bomb outside a home for asylum seekers, is a suspect in the murder of German politician Lübcke, according to security sources - 26 June 2019: Stephan Ernst, a 45-year-old German man with a string of convictions for violent anti-migrant crime, has confessed to murdering a pro-refugee German politician Walter Lübcke

22/23 July 2019 Eritrean murdered: 23 July 2019: The drive-by shooting of a 26-year-old man from Eritrea in a small town in western Germany was 'very clearly' motivated by xenophobia, according to police, saying that the Eritrean 'became a victim because of his skin color', as the Eritrean survived the shooting, but the suspected shooter later died, presumably from a self-inflicted wound

September 2019 NPD politician elected by CDU, SPD and FDP: 7. September 2019: NPD-Politiker in Hessen mit Stimmen von CDU, SPD und FDP zum Ortsvorsteher in Altenburg gewählt

17 September 2019 wheelchair-bound Libyan migrant attacked: 17 September 2019: Police in Chemnitz say they're investigating an attack on a wheelchair-bound Libyan migrant as a possible far-right hate crime, after one of the assailants with a record for assaults and far-right crimes yelled anti-immigrant epithets and punched the victim

November 2019 German neo-Nazi linked AfD lawmakers meet Assad regime's representatives in Syria: 22 November 2019: German neo-Nazi linked AfD lawmakers meet Assad regime's representatives in Syria, as AfD's Steffen Kotre refers to a video saying that his party wants to send 70,000 refugees back to Syria and end sanctions against Assad's regime

December 2019 group with far-right 'prepper' links trains civilians for combat: 7 December 2019: A network of 'elite' German combatants with links to far-right 'prepper' circles secretly trained civilians in 'commando-like structures', raising fears the group planned to build up a paramilitary fighting unit, as former soldier behind group

February 2020 12 men arrested on suspicion of neo-Nazi linked plot to overthrow the political order: 16 February 2020: 12 men arrested on suspicion of involvement in a neo-Nazi linked plot to overthrow the political order by means of targeted attacks, planning to stage attacks on politicians, asylum seekers and Muslims, after German federal prosecutors won a court order - 17 février 2020: Les projets d'attentats en Allemagne qualifiés 'effrayants'

20 February 2020 German terrorist Rathjen published online manifesto before massacre: 20 February 2020: German terrorist Rathjen published online manifesto in January calling for eliminating entire countries, including Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Iran, Indian, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Philippines, before killing 10 citizens, including 5 Kurds, in the city of Hanau in Germany

19 March 2020 police raided sites across the country linked to 'Citizens of the Reich': 19 March 2020: German police have raided sites across the country linked to 'Citizens of the Reich', weeks after a suspected neo-Nazi shot dead nine people of migrant backgrounds, and as ministry spokesman said raids were being carried out in 10 of Germany�s 16 states

27 April 2020 German neo-Nazi linked AfD to drop 'fascist� spokesman: 27 April 2020: German neo-Nazi linked AfD party to drop 'fascist� spokesman Lueth, who described himself as a fascist and proud of 'Aryan' grandfather, as ARD daily news give party�s parliamentary leader Gauland once again talk time at the best time, who earlier praised German war crimes as achievements and dismissed the Nazi dictatorship as a 'speck of bird shit' in German history

29 April 2020 neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst charged with murder: 29 April 2020: Germany charges neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst with murder of pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke in 2019, as prosecutors say �racism and xenophobia founded on an ethnic-nationalist attitude were decisive� in his decision to kill

7 May 2020 neo-Nazi linked AfD party's Gauland calls 8 May 1945 a 'day of absolute defeat': 7 May 2020: Neo-Nazi linked AfD party's Gauland, describing the 8 May 1945 when World War II ended in Europe following Nazi Germany�s surrender, called this day a 'day of absolute defeat', saying end of conflict marked a 'loss of the possibility to shape things�

4 June 2020 dozens raided over hate comments on slain German politician Luebcke: 4 June 2020: German investigators carried out raids on dozens of people suspected of posting hate messages about politician Walter Luebcke from Chancellor Angela Merkel's party who was brutally killed last year

17 July 2020 two Germans arrested on suspicion of spearheading Nazism: 17 July 2020: Two German men arrested on suspicion of spearheading neo-Nazi 'Goyim Party Germany' group that posted pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic material online, including a call to kill Jews, according to prosecutors

5 August 2020 German neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst admits to murdering pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke: 5 August 2020: German neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst on trial admits to murdering pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke, implicates co-defendant in killing

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 and aftermath: 1972 Munich massacre, an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a West German police officer, after West German neo-Nazis had given the group logistical assistance and as its spokesman vainly demanded the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel and of the West German terrorists Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof

In the wake of the hostage-taking, public criticism of the Olympic Committee's decision to continue the games, but about 80,000 people who filled Munich's Olympic Stadium for a West German football match carried noisemakers, waved flags, and when several spectators unfurled a banner reading '17 dead, already forgotten?' security officers removed the sign and expelled those responsible from the grounds, the remaining members of the Israeli team withdrew from the Games and left Munich after a memorial service with the notorious Brundage - Accusation of German foreknowledge of the attack, revealed since 2012 - 1 December 2015: In 1992 the lawyer Mr. Zeltzer and Ms. Spitzer, the widow of the fencing coach Andre Spitzer, pressured the German government into releasing the file, which included the photographs 1972 Munich Olympic massacre's victims - 2 December 2015: Horrific new details emerge about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, as Israeli athletes were beaten until their bones snapped and one man was castrated by Palestinian terrorists

Surviving terrorists and Abu Daoud, the man who claims that the attack was his idea, and who is known to have died of natural causes in 2010 in Syria's Damascus under Assad's rule, praised by Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas - Salah Mesbah Khalaf (1933-1991), accused by Israel and the USA of having founded the Black September terrorist organization, was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the PLO, and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat

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

23 January 2020 neo-Nazi group Combat 18 banned: 23 January 2020: Germany bans neo-Nazi group Combat 18 Deutschland

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

August/September 2019 assassination of Khangoshvili: 23 August 2019 assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili - 2 September 2019: The murder of Chechen Khangoshvili in Berlin looks like a Russian operation, but the CDU/SPD Merkel government is not making a public fuss about that - 27 September 2019: New evidence links Russian state to Berlin assassination of Chechen Khangoshvili by suspected 'Vadim Andreevich Sokolov', Bellingcat reports

November 2019 death threats against Green politicians: 3 November 2019: Horrified by the death threats against the Green politicians Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir, people and politicians call for severe penalties for the sender

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

July 2916 Russian mafia 'increasingly active' in Germany: 11 July 2016: Russian mafia is becoming 'increasingly active' in Germany, with networks recruiting in German prisons and groups bringing in billions of euros each year, BKA says

May 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

July 2017 'invisible' mafia almost everywhere in Germany: 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

Murder victims in Germany: Murder victims in Germany

Illegal trade of arms in Germany: Illegaler Waffenhandel in Deutschland - Prohibited firearms in Germany

Human trafficking in Germany: Human trafficking in Germany

Crime in Germany by type and year: Crime in Germany by type - 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

Violence against women in Germany: Violence against women in Germany

Rape in Germany: Rape in/a> Germany

October 2018 Freiburg gang rape, aftermath and trial: Oktober 2018 Gruppenvergewaltigung in Freiburg

Child sexual abuse in Germany: Child sexual abuse in Germany - German people convicted of child sexual abuse

Since 2008 child sexual abuse in Lügde, responsibilities and 2019 trial:Seit 2008 Missbrauchsfall Lügde, ein Kriminalfall des schweren sexuellen Missbrauchs von Kindern sowie der Produktion und Verbreitung von Kinderpornografie in Lügde in Nordrhein-Westfalen

June 2020 German convicted paedophile Brückner and suspect in Madeleine McCann case linked to two more child disappearances: 7 June 2020: German convicted paedophile Brückner and now suspect in 2007 Madeleine McCann case linked to two more child disappearances in 1995 and 2015, as claims emerge that Brückner was flagged as a key suspect seven years ago by police but the report was ignored by the authorities

Since June 2020 investigation of 30,000 people suspected of taking part in a child abuse network: 30 June 2020: Authorities in western Germany are investigating 30,000 people suspected of taking part in a child abuse network, after police arrested a man in Bergisch Gladbach and investigators who searched his premises found vast amounts of electronic evidence that revealed the existence of a large paedophile network

Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in Germany: Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in Germany

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

January 2019 German personal data leaked online: January 2019 German personal data leaked online - 4 January 2019: Sensitive data belonging to hundreds of German politicians, celebrities and public figures has been published online via a Twitter account in what is thought to be one of the largest leaks in the country�s history

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

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

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

June 2020 suspected Wirecard 'falsification of accounts': Juni 2020 Verdacht der Marktmanipulation durch Markus Braun und drei weitere Vorstandsmitglieder des Bezahldienstleisters Wirecard

15 July 2020 German CDU Merkel government supports 'Wirecard' China deal and CSU-Guttenbergs 'Spitzberg Partners': Am 15. Juli 2020 wurde bekannt, dass CSU-Guttenbergs 'Spitzberg Partners' 2019 dem Zahlungsdienstleister Wirecard, der 2020 Insolvenz angemeldet hat, beim Eintritt in das China-Geschäft unterstützt hat, und zugleich bei der Bundesregierung Lobbyarbeit für Wirecard leistete - 15. Juli 2020: Guttenberg warb bei der Bundesregierung für Wirecard und die Beratungsfirma des Ex-Ministers begleitete 2019 den China-Deal des Zahlungsdienstleisters, und suchte und fand bei Merkel-Regierung Unterstützung für das Vorhaben

22 July 2020 more arrest warrants against Wirecard: 22 July 2020: Former CEO of Wirecard Braun has been arrested again, as according to prosecutors, arrest warrants were issued against two other ex-leaders, and Wirecard was already in red in 2015

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

September 2018: 19 September 2018: EU probes German car makers including BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen and Audi for suspected collusion to cheat emission tests

Arson in Germany: Arson in Germany

1955 Testimony of SA-member Hans-Martin Lennings: 1955 Testimony of SA-member Hans-Martin Lennings, published in July 2019, more than 80 years after the event

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

Juli 2019 NS-Vergangenheit von Bundesjustizministerium, Bundesanwaltschaft und Fortsetzung: 2. Juli 2019: Bis voraussichtlich Ende des Jahres lässt die Bundesanwaltschaft ihre NS-Vergangenheit aufarbeiten anknüpfend an ein Aufarbeitungsprojekt des Bundesjustizministeriums für die Zeit von etwa 1949/50 bis 1973, bei dem 2016 herausgekommen war, daß seit 1949 mehr als die Hälfte der Führungskräfte ehemalige NSDAP-Mitglieder waren, jeder Fünfte SA-Mann, und 16% aus dem früheren Reichsjustizministerium gekommen waren

June 2020 German courts and anti-Semitism: 20 June 2020: German church in Calbe near Berlin covers anti-Semitic �Jew pig� sculpture installed in the 15th century it was forced to keep, as pastor denounces carving as �an insult to Jewish citizens� and didn�t want the relief to be reinstalled at all, and as German Jews and others have campaigned to have the anti-Semitic imagery removed, with limited success, because in February German appeals court in Karlsruhe rejected a motion to remove one Judensau relief from a church in Wittenberg, saying Jewish plaintiff seeking removal of �Judensau� sculpture didn�t prove that it is of �slanderous character� or violates his rights

Courts in Germany: Courts in Germany

Seit 1947 Liste von bekannten Justizirrtümern: Liste von bekannten Justizirrtümern in der deutschen Rechtsprechung seit 1947

2009 murder of Marwa Ali El-Sherbini in court room: 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

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

November 2017 Frankfurt state court and flight refusal for Israeli: 16 November 2017: After an Israeli passenger was barred from a Frankfurt-Bangkok flight in 2016 despite having a valid ticket, the Frankfurt state court ruled that Kuwait�s national airline didn�t have to transport an Israeli citizen, noting in its decision that Kuwait Airways is not allowed to have contracts with Israelis under Kuwaiti law because of the Middle Eastern country�s boycott of Israel - 8 August 2018: A group of British pro-Israel attorneys says it has forced Kuwait Airways to agree to compensate Israeli Mandy Blumenthal it refused to allow on its flight from London to Bangkok last November on the grounds of her nationality

July/August 2018 alleged neo-Nazi acquitted: 31 juillet 2018: Le seul suspect d'un attentat raciste en Allemagne a été acquitté 18 ans après les faits, a annoncé mardi le tribunal de Düsseldorf qui le jugeait depuis janvier pour cette attaque à la bombe à Düsseldorf - 1 August 2018: An alleged neo-Nazi was acquitted by a German court in Düsseldorf Tuesday for a bombing 18 years ago targeting Jewish immigrants, in what angry victims� advocates called a historic 'legal mistake'

January 2019: 30 January 2019: Rejecting the complaint of a Jewish man against a Herxheim decision to allow the bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler to continue to hang in the town's church tower, German appeals court in Koblenz upheld the lower court's rejection of the complaint from the unidentified relative of Holocaust survivors, who argued the bell was a 'mockery and ridicule of the victims of Hitler's terror'

January 2020 Wittenberg anti-Semitic sculpture at the center of a court battle in Naumburg: 17 January 2020: High on the wall of a German church where Martin Luther once preached, the so-called 'Judensau' or 'Jew pig' sculpture on the Town Church in Wittenberg dating back to around 1300 and an ugly remnant of centuries of anti-Semitism, is now at the center of a court battle in the eastern city of Naumburg

February 2020 German appeals court denies bid to remove 700-year-old anti-Semitic 'Jew pig� statue: 5 February 2020: 75 years after the liberation of the German Auschwitz death camp, German appeals court denies bid to remove 700-year-old anti-Semitic 'Jew pig� statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached, as plaintiff Michael Duellmann argued that the sculpture is 'a defamation of and insult to the Jewish people' that has 'a terrible effect up to this day', telling AP that he will appeal the case to Germany�s Federal Court of Justice and is prepared to take it all the way to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary

Federal Constitutional Court: Federal Constitutional Court - Appointment of judges of the Federal Constitutional Court by the 'Bundestag' and the 'Bundesrat', composed of political parties' members

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

July 2018 promoting totalitarian tendencies: 18 July 2018: Promoting totalitarian tendencies, Germany�s Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a controversial financing scheme to support public broadcasters is legal, upholding the status quo, and saying that the fee isn�t a tax despite plaintiffs had argued it operates like a tax

May 2019 promoting neo-Nazis: 15 mai 2019: La Cour constitutionnelle allemande a contraint mercredi la première chaîne de télévision publique ARD à diffuser un spot de campagne du parti d'extrême droite NPD

28 November 2019 forgetting the victims of an irreversible crime in 1982: 28 November 2019: Forgetting the victims of an irreversible crime, who cannot take action, Germany's constitutional court found in favour of a man who was given a life sentence for killing two people on a yacht in 1982, saying the murderer has the right to be forgotten and have his name removed from online search results

February 2020 German Constitutional Court's Nazi connections: 19 February 2020: German Constitutional Court is to probe the Nazi connections of its postwar judges, as one long-serving judge is Willi Geiger, who served from 1951 to 1977, after during the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 Geiger handed down a number of death sentences for minor offenses while presiding over a special court under Adolf Hitler's NSDAP party

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

February 2019 BND headquarter: 8 February 2019: After taking 12 years and �1bn of taxpayers to build, BND's, and world�s biggest, intelligence headquarters reopens in Berlin

July 2019: 15 July 2019: Former German spy chief Georg Maaßen causes alarm by sharing far-right tweets, as critics question judgment of Maaßen for spreading �lies and extremist agitation�

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

Environment of Germany: Environment of Germany - Natural history of Germany - Climate of Germany

Natural regions of Germany: Natural regions of Germany - Western European broadleaf forests - Forests and woodlands of Germany

Environmental issues in Germany: Environmental issues in Germany include air pollution, emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries, acid rain, resulting from sulphur dioxide emissions, pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany, hazardous waste disposal - Environmentalism in Germany

Air pollution in Germany: Air pollution in Germany

Climate change in Germany: Climate change in Germany - German Climate Consortium - Climate-Alliance Germany - German Climate Action Plan 2050 - Green building in Germany

Water in Germany: Water in Germany - List of rivers of Germany by draining - Rivers of Germany by state - Alphabetical list of lakes of Germany - Lakes of Germany by state - Canals in Germany

Water supply and sanitation in Germany: Water supply and sanitation in Germany

Natural disasters in Germany: Natural disasters in Germany

Floods in Germany: Floods 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

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

Weather events and storms in Germany: Weather events and storms in Germany

2003 European heat wave: 2003 European heat wave

January 2007: January 2007 Cyclone Kyrill

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

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

Wildfires in Germany: Wildfires in Germany

August 1975: August 1975 Fire on the Lüneburg Heath

August 2018: 24 August 2018: Berlin residents have been told to shut windows and doors after a large forest fire sent a giant plume of smoke across the city, with unexploded munitions from the second world war complicating firefighting efforts

September 2018: 21 September 2018: Officials in north-west Germany's Emsland region have declared a disaster over a wildfire triggered two weeks ago by a rocket test on an army training site

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 and the European Union: Germany and the European Union

Representation of the European Commission in Germany

2016 tens of thousands of EU Holocaust survivors with property stolen during Nazi era waiting for compensation: 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

11/12 July 2020 the only EU country without comprehensive national legislation to return private property confiscated by the Nazis is Poland: 11 July 2020: As Poland is the only country in the EU that has not passed comprehensive national legislation to return, or provide compensation for, private property confiscated by the Nazis, Polish president rejects Holocaust restitution claims ahead of election, as Andrzej Duda vows no reparations for assets seized from Jews during World War II, saying 'damages should be paid by the one that started the war', and as EU leaders are split over covid-19 recovery ahead of this week�s emergency summit that will expose national divisions over budgets, the �750bn pandemic fund, but not yet over Nazi general Rommel admiring Ursula von der Leyen, promoting war criminal Rommel, assigned as commander of the Führerbegleitbatallion, tasked with guarding Hitler and his field headquarters during the invasion of Poland, which began on 1 September 1939, describing the Rommel Barracks as one of the most important installations of the German military

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

5 November 2020 Germany supporting UN resolutions broke recent promises to oppose anti-Israel bias at the UN: 5 November 2020: A committee at the UN General Assembly passed with overwhelming majorities a series of resolutions critical of Israel, lambasting the Jewish state, among other things, for ostensible human rights violations against Palestinians and 'repressive measures' against Syrians in the Golan Heights, as motions are passed annually by the 'UN�s Special Political and Decolonization Committee', with minor adjustments, and ratified by member states in December, with nearly all European countries, including staunch allies of Israel such as Germany and the Czech Republic, traditionally supporting most of these resolutions, and as UN Watch, a Geneva-based nonprofit monitoring the world body�s alleged anti-Israel bias, released a long statement decrying the resolutions passed Wednesday, saying 'world body now adds insult to injury' 'just two weeks after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group assaulted Israeli civilians with a barrage of rockets from Gaza � while the UN�s General Assembly and Human Rights Council stayed silent', and as 'same European nations have failed to introduce a single UNGA resolution on the human rights situation in China, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Turkey, Pakistan, Vietnam, Algeria, or on 175 other countries'

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/Africa relations: Germany/Africa relations

Since 1682 German colonization of Africa and slaving: Since 1682 German colonization of Africa, after in the 1680s the Margraviate of Brandenburg, then leading the broader realm of Brandenburg-Prussia, pursued limited imperial efforts in West Africa - 1682-1721 Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, a colony that existed from until 1720/1721, when king Frederick William I of Prussia sold it for 7200 ducats to the Dutch Republic - Brandenburg slaving, after in 1680 the first slaving ship sailed from Brandenburg to Africa - German colonial projects before 1871

August 2019 Israeli schools and North African Jews in the Holocaust: 20 August 2019: Israeli schools to teach about fate of North African Jews in the Holocaust, as education Minister Peretz insists history of Jewish people living in Muslim countries during World War II be included in curriculum

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

Armenians in Germany: Armenians in Germany are ethnic Armenians living within the modern republic of Germany, and like much of the Armenian diaspora, most Armenians immigrated to Germany after the Armenian Genocide of 1915

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'

2016/December 2017 'Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler': 'Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler' , a 2016 book by the professor of history at the University of Haifa Stefan Ihrig, which shows how violence against the Ottoman Armenians, from the 1890s massacres to the Armenian Genocide, influenced Germany, illustrating how the topic was debated in Germany after World War I and how these debates and historical perceptions influenced the Holocaust - 18 December 2017: Stefan Ihrig and Abraham Terian receive NAASR�s Aronian Armenian Studies book prizes

Germany/Austria relations: Germany/Austria relations

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

1938 German occupation 1938 called 'Anschluss': 1938 German occupation 1938 called 'Anschluss'

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

March 1945 Rechnitz massacre, Thyssen and aftermath: 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 October 2012 Vienna's first monument to remember people executed by the Nazis for deserting or refusing to serve: 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 Vienna's monument to remember resistance opened: 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 BND/NSA cooperation: 5. Mai 2015: Nach Berichten, daß der BND dem USA-Geheimdienst NSA beim Ausspionieren österreichischer Behörden geholfen habe, erstattet Österreich Strafanzeige

6 November 2020 German police raid flats, offices in several towns over November 2020 Vienna terrorist attack: 6 November 2020: German police raid flats, offices in several towns over November 2020 Vienna terrorist attack, as sites in Osnabrueck, Kassel and Pinneberg located 18 km northwest of the city centre of Hamburg were searched because 'there may be links to the alleged assassin', and carried out on a request from Austrian authorities, according to BKA

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

Early 20th century Minsk a centre for the worker's movement: In the early years of the 20th century, Minsk was a major centre for the worker's movement within Belarus, and also one of the major centres of Belarusian national revival, along with Vilnia

1915 Minsk battle-front city of German empire's World War I: By 1915, Minsk became a battle-front city of German empire's World War I and its eastern front

February 1918 German empire's occupation of Minsk and military rule: February 1918 German imperial forces occupied Minsk and Belarus remained under German military rule during 1918 until the defeat of the aggressor

1939-1945 Germany's World War II and Belarus: Belarus in World War II - Military history of Belarus during World War II - German war crimes in WW II

June 1941 German empire's bombing of Minsk in World War II: June 1941 German empire's bombing of Minsk in World War II, as much as 85% of the city's buildings and the entire infrastructure was destroyed, more than 1,000 people were killed

Since 1941 occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany forces and 'Hunger Plan': Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany - Quartermaster general of the German 'Wehrmacht' 1939-1944 - '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 - '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 - War crimes of the Wehrmacht - German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war - Hunger Plan - World War II casualties of the Soviet Union

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 German support against opposition in Belarus: 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

February 2019 WWII mass grave: 22 February 2019: A mass grave containing bones from hundreds of bodies with gunshot wounds to their skulls, human remains belonging to men, women and children as well as clothes, shoes and other personal items, were discovered during construction atop what used to be the ghetto of Brest in present-day Belarus, as Nazi Germany forces killed three million civilians in Belarus, of whom 800,000 were Jewish

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

February 2019 German payments to Nazi collaborators: 21 February 2019: Nearly 75 years after the second world war, Germany is still paying monthly pensions to collaborators of the wartime Nazi regime in several European countries including Belgium and Britain, as Belgian foreign affairs committee voted in favour of a resolution urging the German federal government to put an immediate stop to the payments and publish a full list of those receiving them

Germany/Bosnia and Herzegovina relations: Germany/Bosnia and Herzegovina relations

Since 1914 Balkans Campaign, World War I and II and German war crimes: 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: First World War centenary 2014-2018

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

May 2020 Jewish groups protest honoring Nazi collaborators: 14 May 2020: Bosnian Catholic cardinal to honor Nazi collaborators in memorial service, as Jewish groups and Israeli embassy protest event in memory of Ustasha forces, responsible for gory anti-Semitic killings during World War II

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/Bulgaria relations: Germany/Bulgaria relations

September 1915 treaty allied Bulgaria with the Central Powers in World War I: September 1915 Bulgaria�Germany treaty, as treaty along with the Secret Bulgarian-German agreement, the Military convention between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and the Bulgarian-Turkish convention also signed on 6 September allied Bulgaria with the Central Powers in World War I, and was to be secret until the official entering of Bulgaria in the war

1939-1945 World War II and Anti-Comintern Pact: World War II and Anti-Comintern Pact

March 1941 Tripartite Pact: Tripartite Pact, signed by Bulgaria on 1 March 1941

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:

Since 1868 German Woermann-Linie in Cameroon, 1884 Cameroon becomes a German colony: Since 1868 company Woermann-Linie in Cameroon, 1881 Woermann-Linie receives the authorization to build a factory (trading post) in Deido, 1884 Germans in power (the treaty between the Douala and Germans is signed; Cameroon becomes a German protectorate)

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

2015 Colonia Dignidad's Schäfer sentenced: 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

May 2019 Colonia Dignidad's Hartmut Hopp free in Germany: 8 May 2019: German prosecutors in Krefeld said Tuesday they had dropped their probe against former right-hand man and doctor in the Chilean 'Colonia Dignidad' sect Hartmut Hopp, the chief physician in the German led group that abused members, adults and children, and was used to torture and 'disappear' regime critics during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet - Hartmut Wilhelm Hopp, Klinikleiter der auslandsdeutschen Sekte bzw. totalitären religiösen Gemeinschaft 'Colonia Dignidad' in Chile und die rechte Hand ihres Anführers Paul Schäfer

Germany/PR of China relations: Germany/PR of China relations

1899-1901 Boxer rebellion: 1899-1901 Boxer rebellion

May 2013 red carpet for premier Li: 26 May 2013: Chinese premier Li meets Angela Merkel in Berlin on the red carpet amid EU-China trade dispute

September 2019 Joshua Wong calls for Germany to stop the export of riot control weapons: 11 September 2019: Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has called for Germany to stop the export of riot control weapons and equipment to Hong Kong police, as he embarked on a global tour to promote his pro-democracy message

20 October 2020 Germany has granted refugee status to a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist: 20 October 2020: Germany has granted refugee status to a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist facing a rioting charge in connection with the 2019 protests, the protester told Reuters on Monday

Germany/Czech Republic relations: Germany/Czech Republic relations

1938 Munich Agreement: Munich Agreement 1938 signed by France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, excluding the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia

1938-1945 German occupation of Czechoslovakia: German occupation of Czechoslovakia 1938-1945 - Lidice - Theresienstadt concentration camp - Theresienstadt use as propaganda tool - Hodonin concentration camp - Lety concentration camp - 'Aryanization' - History of the Jews in Czechoslovakia - History of the Jews in Prague

Czech resistance to Nazi occupation

2013: 15 July 2013: Bubny train station in Prague to be turned into a Holocaust memorial site by NGO Shoah Memorial Prague

2014: 23 March 2014: After Vratislavice in 2010 opened an ultra-modern, million-dollar memorial to Ferdinand Porsche, anti-Nazi war veterans and the Jewish community objected to the fact that the facility never mentioned Porsche's Nazi connections

2017: 3 October 2017: FIFA fined the German soccer federation 32,000 Swiss francs $33,000 on Monday because fans chanted Nazi slogans at a World Cup qualifying game in the Czech Republic

Germany/Denmark relations: Germany/Denmark relations

1940 German invasion of Denmark: German invasion of Denmark April 1940 - Occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany and Denmark in World War II 1939-1945 - 1940-1945 Greenland in World War II - The Holocaust in Denmark - Danish Folketing election 1943

Danish resistance movement: Danish resistance movement - Deportation of Danish police 1944

1943 rescue of the Danish Jews: 1943 rescue of the Danish Jews ensuring the safety of most Danish Jews

1943-1945 arrests and deportations of Danish Jews: Arrests and deportations of Danish Jews 1943-1945

1999: In 1999 Danish Minister of Justice Frank Jensen requested an extradition of Nazi criminal Soren Kam, later repeated by Jensen's successor Lene Espersen, but refused by Germany

2004, 2014: 10 December 2014: In 2004, a court in Lyngby ruled that former Danish SS officer S�ren Kam should be arrested in Germany and sent to Denmark to stand trial for the murder of anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in 1943, but Germany refused and Kam remains fifth on the Simon Wiesenthal Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals list

2007: 7 February 2007: As ex-Nazi officer S�ren Kam dodges EU extradition rules Denmark expresses disappointment

1940, 1956-2015: 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

Germany/Egypt relations: Germany/Egypt relations

Germany-Egypt economic relations and tourism

March 2019 German submarines: 22 March 2019: Former Israeli PM Olmert says in an interview he never imagined Germany would sell submarines to Egypt

May 2019: 5 May 2019: At the shipyards of shipbuilding company Thyssenkrupp in the city of Kiel, Libyan warlord Haftar backing Egypt receives third German submarine of four promised in deal that has caused considerable controversy in Israel

Germany/Eritrea relations: Germany/Eritrea relations

2015: 14/15 January 2015: Police investigates the killing of Eritrean refugee Khaled Idris Bahray in Dresden, who was stabbed to death on 12 January

Germany/Ethiopia relations: Germany/Ethiopia relations

Ethiopians in Germany: Ethiopians in Germany, as of 2016, there are a total 18,425 Ethiopia-born immigrants living in Germany

Germany/Finland relations: Germany/Finland relations

April 1918 Battle of Helsinki, German invasion and starvation as a weapon in warfare: April 1918 Battle of Helsinki, as the German empire invaded Helsinki despite the opposition of Finnish White Army leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim who wanted to attack the capital city with his own troops, but the Germans including their Ebert/Scheidemann supporters had their own interest in taking Helsinki as quickly as possible and then moving further east towards the Russian border - April-May 1918 Battle of Lahti - Baltic Sea Division comprising two army brigades from the German Eastern Front, as Germany aimed in 1918 to establish a chain of satellite states in eastern Europe in order to provide raw materials for German industry and food products - Hunger as A Weapon of War in Eastern Europe during the period of World War I - Detachment Brandenstein, unit assigned to cut the railway between Helsinki and Viipuri

1939-1945 Finland's cooperation with Nazi Germany and military history of Finland during World War II: Finland sided with Nazi Germany - World War II and Anti-Comintern Pact - Military history of Finland during World War II 1939-1945

1941-1944 Siege of Leningrad: 1941-1944 Siege of Leningrad, a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Russian city of Leningrad in World War II, as the Finnish army invaded from the north, co-operating with the Germans until they had recaptured territory lost in the recent Winter War

Soviet prisoners of war in Finland and East Karelian concentration camps: Soviet prisoners of war in Finland - East Karelian concentration camps organized by the armed forces supreme commander, the mortality rate of civilians in the camps was high due to famine and diseases

1941-1943 - February 2019 Finnish volunteers and Nazi Germany's atrocities: 10 February 2019: Finnish volunteer soldiers serving in the Nazi Waffen-SS units on the eastern front in World War II took part in the massacres of Jews, Russian prisoners of war, and civilians generally during the German march eastward through Ukraine and into the Caucasus from 1941 to 1943, a new report from the Finnish State Archives reveals

Germany/France relations: Germany/France relations

1870/71 Franco-German War: Franco-German War 19 July 1870 � 10 May 1871

Since September 1870 'French Third Republic', 1870/1871 'Prussian Siege of Paris' and 1871 proclamation of the 'German Empire' in Versailles: September 1870 - July 1940 French Third Republic - Parisian Deputies established the 'Government of National Defence' as a provisional government on 4 September 1870 - 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871 Siege of Paris and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian forces - 18 January 1871 proclamation of the 'German Empire' and 'Kaiser Wilhelm' in the Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles Palace - 'Paris Commune' from 18 March to 28 May 1871 - 10 May 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt between the French Third Republic and the German Empire

1870/2016: 16 February 2016: A letter from Charles Mesnier to his mother that was flown out of Paris by hot-air balloon during the Prussian siege in 1870/1871 and before Prussian sustained bombardment in late January 1871 shows suffering of the city's people

August/September 1914: 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

Since August 1914 German bombs on Paris: During the opening months of its war a German empire's pilot flying a Taube regularly dropped bombs on Paris, also slightly damaging Notre Dame Cathedral and dropping a note demanding the immediate surrender of Paris and the French nation

1914-1918 World War I: World War I 1914-1918 First Battle of the Marne September 1914 - German war crimes World War I - Chemical weapons in World War I - List of French villages destroyed in World War I - French World War I casualties

February 1915: 26 February 1915: German flamethrowers first used their modern weapons against French victims outside Verdun

Februar-December 1916: The Battle of Verdun from 21 February � 18 December 1916 was one of the largest battles of World War I, after the German 5th Army attacked the defences of the Région Fortifiée de Verdun and those of the Second Army garrisons on the right bank of the Meuse, intending to rapidly capture the Côtes de Meuse - In 1916 the German strategy was to inflict mass casualties on the French, to weaken the French Army to the point of collapse, therefore the Germans planned to use a large number of heavy and super-heavy guns to inflict a greater number of casualties than French artillery - In 1980, J. Terraine gave 750,000 Franco-German casualties in 299 days of Verdun battle, E.R. Dupuy and T.N. Dupuy gave 542,000 French casualties in 1993, H. Heer and K. Naumann calculated 377,231 French and 337,000 German casualties

March 1916: March 1916: Germans widen Verdun attack

July 1916: 17 July 2015: Hundreds of inscriptions made by British and Canadian soldiers as they sought refuge from German assaults during WWI have been found in underground caves in Northern France, dating back to 1916, many from the month of July, when the Somme battle began

31 August 1916: 31 August 1916, the close of 'The Defensive Battle of Verdun' of the French people against the aggression of the German empire, its regime, military and the Social Democratic Party of Germany

May/June 1940 German invasion of France during World War II and war crimes: German invasion of France May/June 1940 during World War II - Hitler's general Erwin Rommel and Nazi invasion of France and Belgium 1940, in 1961 the biggest German military barracks named 'Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne' - Hitler's general Heinz Guderian and Nazi invasion of France and Belgium 1940, after 1945 he advised on the re-establishment of military forces in West Germany - Hitler's quartermaster general of the German 'Wehrmacht' 1939-1944 - Allied casualties of the second German assault and war crime within 26 years include 85,310 French soldiers murdered (including 5,400 Maghrebis), 12,000 missing, 120,000 wounded and 1,540,000 prisoners (including 67,400 Maghrebis) - German Military Administration in France 1940-1944 - Vichy France 1940-1944 - German war crimes World War II - Oradour-sur-Glane in Nazi occupied France was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company - French World War II casualties

1940-1945/2009 German war crimes in France: 27. Juli 2009: Die 'Wehrmacht' des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands verletzte systematisch - in Deutschland jahrzehntelang geleugnet und verdrängt - die Genfer Kriegskonvention und verübte z.B. 1940 aus rassistischen Motiven Kriegsverbrechen, die der Historiker Raffael Scheck anhand von Dokumenten beschreibt, die belegen wie Wehrmachtseinheiten innerhalb nur eines Monats, zwischen dem 24. Mai und dem 24. Juni 1940 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 France 1940-1944: The Holocaust in France refers to the persecution and attempted extermination of Jews and Roma between 1940 and 1944 in occupied France during World War II - 28 December 2015: France releases more Holocaust era records on collaboration with NSDAP Germany, naming those from France who directly collaborated with Germany between 1940 and 1945

French Resistance 1940-1945: 'La Résistance fran�aise' were the resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II

Since June 1944 Allied invasion and liberation of France: Since 6 June 1944 Western Allies of World War II invasion of northern France when they attacked German army positions at Normandy, commanded by German 'Generalfeldmarschall' Gerd von Rundstedt and 'Generalfeldmarschall' Erwin Rommel, who participated in the invasions of Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, where he was responsible for the execution of prisoners

19-25 August 1944 liberation of Paris: 19-25 August 1944 liberation of Paris, a military battle that took place during World War II until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944

Since July 1945 Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad in Paris: Depuis 7 juillet 1945 Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad située dans les 10e et 19e arrondissements de Paris, qui commémore la ville de Russie où les armées soviétiques remportèrent une victoire décisive sur l'armée allemande du 17 juillet 1942 au 2 février 1943, commandée par 'Generalfeldmarschall' Paulus et 'Generalfeldmarschall' Manstein, après la guerre accusé et jugé coupable de crimes de guerre et contre les civils, y compris son commandement à ses troupes de participer aux opérations d'épuration à Simferopol en novembre 1941, aidant au massacre de 11 000 civils Juifs, mais en 1955 le criminel de guerre devient conseiller pour la nouvelle Armée de l'Allemagne de l'Ouest, la Bundeswehr - 'Generalfeldmarschall' Manstein's war crimes, involvement in the Holocaust, and 1949 trial in Hamburg

2012: 12 April 2012: French Resistance hero Raymond Aubrac, who fought against the occupying Germans during World War Two, dies aged 97 - 16 juillet 2012: Selon un sondage une majorité de jeunes ignore ce qu'est la rafle du Vel d'Hiv - 22. Juli 2012: Frankreichs Präsident Hollande hat die Deportation der Juden auf Anweisung Nazideutschlands im Jahr 1942 ein 'französisches Verbrechen' genannt

2013: 1 September 2013: The French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, set to receive a German president for the first time, has become a ghostly war crimes museum since Nazi troops burned it to the ground on June 10, 1944

2014: 8 janvier 2014: La justice allemande a inculpé un octogénaire pour meurtres lors du massacre d'Oradour-sur-Glane en 1944 - 14 April 2014: Senior French and German officials have warned that the surge in nationalism fueling the crisis in Ukraine, where separatists in the East are seeking to join Russia, echoes the ideas that led to World War I - 12 May 2014: 100 years on mine-clearers are still tackling the deadly WWI legacy in France

23 juillet 2014 jardins Rosa Luxemburg à Paris: 23 juillet 2014 jardins Rosa Luxemburg portant le nom de la journaliste allemande et opposant à la guerre Rosa Luxemburg ont été inaugurés, un espace vert du 18e arrondissement de Paris

December 2014: 5 December 2014: France to pay $60 million for Holocaust victims deported by state rail company to Nazi death camps

2015: 24 March 2015 Germanwings Airbus 320 Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps - 25 March: Expressions of support heard across the world in wake of Germanwings air tragedy - 26 March: Neighbours and friends struggle to explain actions of Germanwings first officer believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 in French Alps - 27 March: Family members of Germanwings Airbus A320 crash victims, mainly from Germany and Spain, arrived at site - 30 March: Along with helping local search teams at Germanwings crash site, Israeli volunteers will be tasked with recovering and returning for a Jewish burial in Israel the remains of Israeli passenger Eyal Baum

April 2015: 26 April 2015: Marking 70 years since Allied troops liberated the last Nazi camps, France's Francois Hollande visits gas chamber to honor Nazi victims and Jews, Roma and French resistance fighters at ceremony at Natzweiler-Struthof, the only German concentration camp in occupied France during World War II, urging vigilance against resurgent anti-Semitism and racism - 30 April 2015: EU's Jean-Claude Juncker expects that German government gets to the bottom of Brussels spy scandal after Germany reportedly snooped on the EU and France at Washington's behest

Mai-July 2015: 28 mai 2015: Les jeunes en France commémorent la journée de la Résistance - 21 July: Remains of Jewish victims of Nazi medical experiments found in France, as researcher uncovers test tubes at Strasbourg medical school containing human samples of Holocaust victims collected by Nazi doctor August Hirt

September 2015: 2015 'Volkswagen' scandale lié à l'utilisation par le groupe Volkswagen entre 2009 et 2015 d'un logiciel diminuant frauduleusement les émissions polluantes d'un de ses moteurs diesel lors des contrôles d'homologation - 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' - 25 septembre: 1,1 million de véhicules diesel sont potentiellement concernés dans l'Hexagone par la fraude aux émissions polluantes mise en place Volkswagen

November 2015: 3 November 2015: France to pay $60m into compensation fund for USA victims of Holocaust after SNCF trains transported 76,000 Jews across France to Nazi death camps between 1942 and 1944

1914-1918/2014-2018: First World War centenary 2014-2018 - World War I memorials - 12 octobre 2013: Les commémorations du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui devraient se prolonger sur cinq ans, ont été partiellement dévoilées à Blois - 17 octobre 2013: A moins de huit mois du 70e anniversaire de la Libération, en Normandie un bunker allemand 'au coeur du Débarquement' 1944 s'ouvre au public - 3 November 2013: From fertiliser to Zyklon B - 100 years of the scientific discovery of Fritz Haber - 7 novembre 2013: Le 7 novembre les commémorations du centenaire de la Grande Guerre seront placées sous le signe des 430 000 soldats des colonies fran�aises 'qui ont pris part à une guerre qui avait pu ne pas être la leur' - 11 November 2013: France remembers the Armistice that marked the end of World War I in 1918 after four years of bloody conflict that cost millions of lives - 12 November 2013: French police detained about 70 people at an Armistice Day memorial ceremony on Monday after protesters whom the government said were linked to the far right booed President Hollande - 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 - 29 mai 2016: Les africains, qui se sont battus dans les tranchées, et le centenaire de la bataille de Verdun de la première guerre mondiale déclarée par l'Allemagne - 29 mai 2016: Bayeux a commémoré le centenaire de la bataille de Verdun, con�ue par le commandant en chef de l'Armée allemande général Erich von Falkenhayn comme une bataille d'attrition pour 'saigner à blanc l'Armée fran�aise' sous un déluge d'obus - 29 mai 2016: Cannes commémore le centenaire de la bataille de Verdun, la plus terrible bataille que l'humanité ait connue - 29 mai 2016: Cent ans après l'enfer de Verdun, Fran�ois Hollande et Angela Merkel commémoraient la bataille de Verdun, une journée placée sous le signe de l'Europe dans un contexte difficile - 1 July 2016: Battle of the Somme centenary commemorations in France and in the United Kingdom - 1 juillet 2016: Près de 600 enfants - 300 Britanniques et 300 Fran�ais - doivent participer à la célébration à Thiepval pour célébrer le centenaire de la bataille de la Somme, la plus meurtrière de la Grande Guerre

August 1918/2018: 7 August 2018: British PM Theresa May will join 3,000 members of the public, including descendants of those who fought in the four-day assault, 100 years to the day of the start of the battle of Amiens that brought the war out of the trenches at a cost of 46,000 allied casualties and as many as 75,000 German losses, including those taken prisoner

24 July 2019 former SS soldier Karl Muenter charged: 24 July 2019: German prosecutors said they have filed charges against Karl Muenter for incitement and disparaging the memory of Nazi victims, after the former SS soldier Karl Muenter, who has a previous conviction in France for killing 86 people in the northern French village of Ascq on the night of 1 April 1944 during World War II, but was never imprisoned much more pardoned in 1955 as part of French-German 'reconciliation' and German whitewashing, has blamed French victims for their own death and denied 6 million Jews killed, making his inflammatory remarks in an interview broadcast by German channel ARD in November 2018

4 November 2019 French Resistance hero Yvette Lundy dies at 103: 4 November 2019: French Resistance hero Yvette Lundy, who provided fake papers to Jews fleeing Nazis, survived the concentration camps, liberated by the Soviet army in April 1945, and went on to teach reconciliation, giving talks to French as well as German students, dies at 103, as Mayor of Epernay Franck Leroy praised her 'incredible commitment to the duty of remembrance'

11 November 2019 France marks Remembrance Day: 11 November 2019: France marks Remembrance Day, 101 years since end of World War I

22 August 2020 centre de la mémoire d'Oradour vandalized: 22 août 2020: Le Centre de la mémoire d�Oradour-sur-Glane, village martyr de la Seconde guerre mondiale, a été vandalisé

20 November 2020 resistance fighter against Nazi occupation Daniel Cordier died aged 100: 20 November 2020: Daniel Cordier, one of last heroes of French resistance and secretary to resistance leader Jean Moulin, dies aged 100 after he helped organise fight against Nazi occupation

22 November 2020 resistance fighter Fran�aise No�lla Rouget died: 22 novembre 2020: Dimanche, la Fran�aise No�lla Rouget s�est éteinte dans sa 101e année, après elle s�était engagée dans la résistance en 1940, avant d�être envoyée dans un camp allemand en 1944

Germany/Gabon relations: Germany/Gabon relations

1911-1916 German colony 'Neukamerun': 1911-1916 'Neukamerun', Central African territories ceded by France to Germany in 1911, today forming part of Chad, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon

June 1940: Le 7 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' - 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 - 27. Juli 2009: Die 'Wehrmacht' des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands verletzte systematisch - in Deutschland jahrzehntelang geleugnet und verdrängt - die Genfer Kriegskonvention und verübte z.B. 1940 aus rassistischen Motiven Kriegsverbrechen, die der Historiker Raffael Scheck anhand von Dokumenten beschreibt, die belegen wie Wehrmachtseinheiten innerhalb nur eines Monats, zwischen dem 24. Mai und dem 24. Juni 1940 mindestens 3.000 schwarze Soldaten Frankreichs ermordeten, obwohl die sich bereits ergeben hatten oder verwundet waren und nicht mehr im Kampf standen

November 1940 Battle of Gabon during World War II: November 1940 Battle of Gabon during World War II, resulting in the Free French Forces taking the colony of Gabon and its capital Libreville from client state of Nazi Germany Vichy France's forces

Since 1961: Since 1961 the biggest West-German military barracks named Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne', named for 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

Germany/Georgia relations: Germany/Georgia relations

2014: 10 June 2014: German company Adidas accused of profiting from the absence of labour rights in Georgia

Germany/Greece relations: Germany/Greece relations - Invasion of Greece by Germany and Italy 1941 - Axis occupation of Greece 1941-1945 - Nazi war crimes in Greece - The Holocaust in Greece - Haidari concentration camp - 26 February 2014: Thessaloniki Jewish community takes Germany to court seeking return of huge ransom paid to Nazi occupiers to free thousands of slave laborers, who were sent to death camps anyway

1941�1944 Greek Resistance: Greek Resistance 1941�1944, establishment of Free Greece

1967-1974: Support for the Greek military dictatorship 1967-1974

2004: The Siemens bribery scandal in Greece was a corrupt and bribery scandal that hit Greece over deals between Siemens AG and Greek government officials during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece regarding security systems and purchases by OTE in the 1990s

Since 2010: German Ferrostal/HDW submarines for Greece - PASOK-Tsochatzopoulos corruption scandal 2010 (ongoing) - NZZ 11. April 2012: Der frühere PASOK-Verteidigungsminister Tsochatzopoulos ist wegen Korruptionsverdachts im Zusammenhang mit dem Kauf deutscher U-Boote verhaftet worden - 24 August 2013: EADS, ThyssenKrupp venture raided over suspected bribes in Greek order - 18 October 2013: 90-year-old former Nazi soldier Alfred Stork sentenced in absentia by a military court in Rome which found him guilty of taking part in the execution of at least 117 Italian officers on the Greek island of Cephalonia

2014: 4. Januar 2014: Griechische Waffenkäufer bei Firmen aus Deutschland, Russland, den USA und anderen Ländern legen Schmiergeld in der Schweiz an - 11 April 2014: Under azure blue skies Greek governmemt welcomes A. Merkel while protesters demand 'Merkel go home'

2015: 19 March 2015: German tourists enter town hall of Nafplio to hand over cheque saying they want to make up for their government�s attitude regarding second world war reparations, mayor Dimitris Kotsouros reports - 8 April 2015: Germany's economy minister Gabriel rejects Greece's demand for $305b in WWII reparations as 'stupid' - 13 July: Germany faces backlash over tough Greece bailout demands - 16 October 2015: Germany is willing to give Greece financial backing to deal with the refugee crisis on its own soil instead of exporting it north towards central Europe

Germany/Honduras relations: Relaciones Alemania-Honduras

2016: 23 February 2016: As 'Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras' COPINH struggles against privatization of rivers and privatized hydro-electric dam projects with international investors including German companies Siemens and Voith Hydro, Netherland�s Development Fund, Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd., Central American Bank for Economic Integration, Government of the USA, through USAID-MARKET Project, Honduran government continues to allow and is an accomplice to the violation of the human rights of the Lenca People in Río Blanco and northern Intibucá, supporting DESA�s second attempt to construct Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Project on the Gualcarque River which is a natural, cultural and economic heritage, as well as the habitat of the Lenca People, COPINH says

Germany/Hungary relations: Germany/Hungary relations

Since 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact and World War II 1939-1945: World War II and Anti-Comintern Pact

Military history of fascist Kingdom of Hungary 1920�46 during World War II: Military history of fascist Kingdom of Hungary 1920�46 during World War II

Hungarian resistance movement of World War II: Hungarian resistance movement of World War II

Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Hungary: Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Hungary

The Holocaust in Hungary: The Holocaust in Hungary - Holocaust locations in Hungary - Holocaust perpetrators in Hungary

1944-1945 Battle of Budapest: 1944-1945 Battle of Budapest, the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet forces of the Hungarian capital defended by Hungarian and German troops, ending with a strategic victory for the Allies in their push towards Berlin

2012: 15 juillet 2012: Le criminel nazi Laszlo Csatary retrouvé à Budapest - 16 July: The Simon Wiesenthal Center has urged Hungary to act against war crimes suspect Csatary - 18 July: Nazi war crimes suspect Csatary arrested in Hungary - 18 June 2013: Prosecutors in Hungary have indicted 98-year-old former police officer Csatary for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II - 12 August: Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatari dies age 98, after being sentenced in absentia by a Czechoslovakian court in 1948 and living for decades in Canada and Hungary

Germany/India relations: Germany/India relations - Hindu�German Conspiracy 1914-17 - Indian 'National' Army, ally of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan - India in World War II - 11 April 2013: India and Germany sign six new pacts including joint research in the field of higher education

Germany/Indonesia relations: Germany/Indonesia relations

Trade and investment: Trade and investment

Germany/Iran relations: Germany/Iran relations - German�Iranian trade

17 September 1992 Mykonos restaurant assassinations: 17 September 1992 Mykonos restaurant assassinations in Berlin - 14 December 2007: Terrorist freed in Germany is welcomed by Iranian regime

2012-2013: 15 August 2012: Four men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of illegally supplying Iran with parts needed to build a nuclear reactor - 8 December 2013: German firms sold sensitive equipment to Iran even during sanctions regime

2014: 8 April 2014: Activists from the Iranian group Naame Shaam held a demonstration in Berlin against the Iranian regime�s involvement in Syria, demanding that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards 'Sepah Pasdaran' and the Lebanese Hezbollah pull out all their fighters from the war-torn country immediately

2015: 24 January 2015: NGO in Berlin sharply criticized a delegation of Bundestag deputies Claudia Roth (Green Party), Dagmar Wöhrl (Conservatives) and Stefan Rebmann (Social Democrats) for January 2015 meeting with Iranian Holocaust deniers and hostage takers, following the meeting of SPD foreign policy speaker Niels Annen with Iranian terrorist mastermind Velayati in December - 19 July 2015: In first visit to Tehran of western official since 2015 nuclear deal, vice chancellor and economy minister Gabriel says Germans cannot accept questioning Israel's right to exist and that economic ties with Iran depend on improving relations with Israel - 21 July 2015: Iran dismisses Germany�s call for Israel recognition

2016: 17 June 2016: Germany�s FM 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 - 2 October 2016: Iran rejects German demand that it recognize Israel, as German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister 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

November 2017: 2 November 2017: Iran�s trade with the EU stood at �13.1 billion in the eight months ending August 2017, almost double compared with the same period of last year, as Iran-Germany trade increased in 2017 by 19% and Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says that a genocide is being perpetrated in Syria by the Assad regime and its allies, insisting that there is a moral responsibility to stop the bloodshed of civilians

January 2018: 16 January 2018: Germany conducts countrywide searches for suspected Iranian agents who allegedly spied on Israelis

February 2018: 28 February 2018: Germany's military refueled Iranian regime's FM Javad Zarif�s plane in Munich in mid-February after local fuel companies refused avoiding to violate sanctions against the murderous regime, as Zarif calls Netanyahu speech at Munich conference 'cartoonish circus�, saying Israeli PM�s critical remarks about Iran do not deserve 'the dignity of a response'

February 2019 SPD congratulations to the Iranian regime: 21 February 2019: Congratulations to the Iranian regime, that seeks the destruction of the Jewish state, by SPD politicians including Germany's social democratic FM Heiko Maas, who appeared in a photograph shaking hands with Iran's FM Javad Zarif at the weekend Munich Security conference, Germany's deputy FM SPD-Annen, who celebrated Iranian regime's seizure of power in its embassy in Berlin, and German president SPD-Steinmeier, who sends 'congratulations to the most dangerous regime in the world', condemned by Simon Wiesenthal Center's Abraham Cooper according to 'The Jerusalem Post' - 26 February 2019: Germany�s Central Council of Jews joins criticism of German president over Iran telegram, as Josef Schuster says that 'routine diplomacy appears to have overtaken critical thinking', also rejected as 'shocking' by Human Rights Watch�s Wenzel Michalski

Since 8 January 2020 airliner shoodown by Iranian regime's terrorist organization and victims from Germany: 10. Januar 2020: Durch den Abschuß eines ukrainischen Passagierflugzeugs im Iran durch das islamische Terrorregime sind 176 Menschen ums Leben gekommen, unter ihnen eine Mutter und zwei Kinder aus Werl in Nordrhein-Westfalen - 11 January 2020: Doctoral student Paniz Soltani from Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz killed on 8 January 2020 in airliner shoodown by Iranian regime's terrorist organization

25 January 2020 defecting Iranian only female Olympic medalist seeks new life in Germany: 25 January 2020: After defecting, Iran�s only female Olympic medalist seeks new life in Germany, as Kimia Alizadeh said she had left Iran citing sexism on the part of officials there

Germany/Iraq relations: Germany/Iraq relations

1941 Iraqi coup d'état: The 1941 Iraqi coup d'état was a nationalist and pro-Nazi Coup d'état in Iraq on 1 April 1941 - German and Italian support for the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état nationalists, including German air force's support

June 1941 pogrom against the Jewish population of Baghdad: June 1941 pogrom against the Jewish population of Baghdad, over 180 Jews were killed and 1,000 injured, looting of Jewish property took place and 900 Jewish homes were destroyed

Since 1970s: Since 1970s German firms helped build Iraqi chemical weapons facilities and first production buildings in the early 1980s under the cover of a pesticide plant, also sending 1,027 tons of precursors of mustard gas, sarin, tabun, and tear gasses in all and allowing Iraq to produce mustard agent and Tabun in 1983 and 1984 respectively, continuing throughout the decade, 52% of Iraq's international chemical weapon equipment was of German origin

Germany/Ireland relations: Germany/Ireland relations - Independent Ireland in World War II 1939-1945 - 1941 Bombing of Dublin in World War II by the Germman Luftwaffe

2014-2018: First World War centenary 2014-2018 - In 1914/1915 events of 'Christmas Truce' were friendly reported in British papers but strongly criticized in Germany

2015: 21 December 2015: War memorial in Tralee remembering all those from Tralee who died in the First World War vandalised in paint attack

Germany/Israel relations: Germany/Israel relations

History of the Jews in Germany: History of the Jews in Germany

Antisemitism and racism in Germany: Timeline of antisemitism - Antisemitism in Germany - Racism in Germany

Since 1882 Aliyah (immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel): Aliyah - immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel since 1882

1914-1918: 2 August 1914 Ottoman German Alliance in SPD supported 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

1915-1918 Sinai and Palestine Campaign: 1915-1918 Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre of SPD supported World War I, fought by the Arab Revolt and the British Empire, against the Ottoman Empire and its Imperial German allies, starting with an Ottoman attempt at raiding the Suez Canal in 1915, and ending with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, leading to the cession of Ottoman Syria and Palestine - November 1917 third Battle of Gaza fought between the German and Ottoman empire and the United Kingdom and allies

November/December 1917 'Battle of Jerusalem': 17 November � 30 December 1917 'Battle of Jerusalem' on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea north of Jaffa, into the Judean Hills and around Jerusalem fought between the German and Ottoman empire and the United Kingdom and allies

1933-1945: Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany - 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: Holocaust - 30 January 2014: In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1939 Hitler makes first call for Jews� annihilation - German war crimes

Jewish resistance under Nazi rule: Jewish resistance under Nazi rule - Ghetto uprising during World War II - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19 April - 16 May 1943 - Bialystok Ghetto Uprising - Nazi extermination camp Sobibor uprising 1943

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

1953-1963: 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'

1961: April-December 1961 Adolf Eichmann's, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, trial before the Jerusalem District Court after capture in Argentina in 1960

2012: Haaretz 8 April 2012: Interior Minister Eli Yishai condemns Gunter Grass' 'poem' (claiming that Israel is a threat to world peace) and says that he is declared a persona non grata in Israel for wearing SS uniform in the past - NZZ 12. April: Israels Innenminister Eli Yishai erklärt zum Einreiseverbot, daß 'ein Mensch, der sich freiwillig zu den SS-Totenkopfverbänden gemeldet hat, kein Recht hat, in das Land eines Volkes zu reisen, dessen Vernichtung er mitbetrieben hat' - 5 September: At Munich massacre memorial ceremony Jewish leaders criticized the bungled rescue, the former IOC president Brundage, who announced 1972 the continuation of the Munich Olympics, and the lack of commemoration during the 2012 London Olympics

2013: 14 June 2013: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, says the Jewish state would act - alone if necessary - to prevent a repetition of the Holocaust - 27 June: German court dismisses bid to release full Eichmann files - 8 November 2013: A fifth of Jewish respondents in an EU survey said they had experienced an anti-Semitic incident in the past 12 months, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency says - 9 November 2013: Holocaust survivors, citizens and politicians will marks Nazi pogrom of November 1938 with vigils and tributes to the victims

2014: 28 March 2014: Palestinian students visit Auschwitz in first organized visit in a program, that aims to teach Israeli and Palestinian students about the other side's suffering in effort to study how empathy could facilitate reconciliation - Yom HaShoah 28 April 2014 - 13 July: About 1,000 demonstrators, most of them Palestinian, hold unregistered march protesting Israel's Operation Protective Edge - 16 July: Following its German sister company�s lead, the Dutch branch of Europe�s TUI travel giant has called off all tours of Israel due to the rocket fire there - 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 - 24 July: As death toll in the Gaza/Israel conflict rises, officials indicate that ceasefire may take time - 24 July 2014: Parents in Gaza and Israel do not want their children to grow up to kill or be killed in a senseless war that has no end - 30 July: In Israel, 79-year-old Holocaust survivor worries about her Gazan daughter - 2014 Israel�Gaza conflict in video games

2015: 27 January: Holocaust survivors from around the world and visitors marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland - 24 March 2015 Germanwings Airbus 320 Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps - 30 March: Along with helping local search teams at Germanwings crash site, Israeli volunteers will be tasked with recovering and returning for a Jewish burial in Israel the remains of Israeli passenger Eyal Baum - 13 April: At Yad Vashem, 'Stars Without A Heaven' exhibition highlights the lives of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during World War II - 10 May 2015: Veterans living in Israel march through Jerusalem to mark World War II victory - 7 June 2015: Israel's PM Netanyahu chides world over silence after new Gaza rocket attacks in 2015, saying 'I have not heard a single international figure condemn the violence, not even at the United Nations' - 28 June 2015: The world�s Jewish population has grown to be nearly as large (16.5 million) as it was on the eve of the second world war before the Holocaust, Jewish People Policy Institute says in its annual report

2016: 2016 Bavarian republication of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' in Germany - 9 January 2016: New Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Bavarian publication in 2016 'a slap in the face to Holocaust survivors' - 15 January 2016: This Day in Jewish History 1919 - communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg together with her co-founder murdered by Ebert regime's 'Freikorps' in Berlin - 22 December 2016: Visiting Berlin from Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, Dalia Elyakim killed and her husband seriously injured in the truck-ramming attack at Berlin Christmas market outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, that killed 12 people

2017: 18 February 2017: After Israel�s defense minister said he was relishing the chance to denounce Iran�s aggression in the presence of its foreign minister, organizers of the Munich Security Conference cancel joint session - 19 February 2017: Speaking after Iranian foreign minister at the Munich conference, Israeli defense minister Liberman called for 'moderate' states, including Saudi Arabia, to stand together with Israel in opposing Tehran, and warned of Iran�s threat to the Middle East, saying that Iran violates the nuclear agreement with ballistic missile tests, smuggles weapons, gives funding to terror groups around the world, fights proxy wars in Yemen and Syria that destabilize the region, is committed to destroying the Jewish people, trumpeting Holocaust denial and writing 'Israel must be wiped out' on its ballistic missiles

2017: 25 April 2017: Visiting Israel German FM Sigmar Gabriel says that it would be 'regrettable' if PM Benjamin Netanyahu were to refuse to meet him due to his planned meeting with groups critical of the Israeli army, but insists that he will not change his plans - 26 April 2017: German FM Gabriel met with groups after defying to cancel the meeting, shortly after the meeting one of the groups, B�Tselem co-funded by the FordFoundation, called on the international community to punish Israel for the continued occupation of the West Bank - 10 July 2017: Six people including a number of former senior public officials, suspected of corruption in the potentially fraudulent purchase of naval vessels, questioned as part of the ongoing investigation into the 'submarine affair', in which PM Netanyahu�s personal lawyer David Shimron is suspected of attempting to sway multi-billion-shekel deals in favor of the German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, which he represented in Israel

September 2017: 25/26 September 2017: Day after election success xenophobic AfD party's Gauland questions whether the country's national interests include Israel's existence, as Israeli opposition lawmakers express concern over the rise of the AfD

December 2017: 11 December 2017: Germany�s Interior Minister has condemned the burning of Israeli flags at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Berlin, following the USA decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel last week

March 2018: 28 March 2018: Germany denies deal to give Israel UN council seat, despite agreement made 20 years ago when the Jewish state joined the Western European and Others WEOG regional group at the UN, said to have included promise to allow Israel to run unopposed for Security Council

May 2018: 15 May 2018: Naming the largest base of the German military 'Bundeswehr' in 'honour' of Hitler general and war criminal 'Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Barracks' since 1961, Germany wants an investigation into the deadly violence on the Israel-Gaza border after UN Security Council statement blocked in this respect, unable to punish own war crimes, to understand history, and to prevent new crimes against th Jewish people and in the Middle East, on the contrary supporting Iranian, Russian and Syrian war criminals

October 2018: 10 October 2018: Incendiary balloon, later neutralized by Israel police, lands in Jerusalem�s German Colony neighborhood, established in the second half of the 19th century by members of the German 'Temple Society'

20 January 2020 Rachel Hanan's son says Holocaust forum should have been honoring survivors first and foremost: 20 January 2020: Many leaders and even war criminal Putin - allied with the Iranian Mullah regime, Assad and Hezbollah terrorists - and German president, but few actual survivors invited to landmark Holocaust event, as Yaron Hanan, son of former Auschwitz prisoner Rachel Hanan, who was not among 30 given tickets to event, says forum should have been honoring survivors first and foremost, adding 'I think they�re no less essential to representing what took place there than anything else this ceremony is intended to achieve', and as Environmental Protection Minister Ze�ev Elkin says he would hand over his invitation to a survivor who wished to attend but was not invited, and called on his fellow ministers to do the same

21 January 2020 75 Holocaust survivors featured in a common commemorative photo project in Essen: 21 January 2020: 75 years after Auschwitz was liberated, 75 Holocaust survivors featured in a commemorative photo project that Israel�s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial produced along with award-winning German portrait photographer, opening Tuesday at Ruhr Museum in Essen

21 April 2020 Israeli Holocaust event in Germany 'zoom bombed' with anti-Semitic slurs: 21 April 2020: Israeli Holocaust event in Germany held by the Israeli embassy 'zoom bombed' with anti-Semitic slurs, as online testimony by survivor disrupted with images of Hitler and anti-Semitic slogans and had to be suspended, embassy says, voicing concern over Independence Day events next week

8 May 2020 60/75 years on Israeli prosecutor Gabriel Bach recalls Eichmann trial and German AfD lawmaker calls 8 May a 'day of absolute defeat': 8 May 2020: 60 years on, Israeli prosecutor Gabriel Bach recalls Eichmann trial after the world learnt that a key architect of Adolf Hitler�s 'Final Solution' to exterminate Europe�s Jews had been seized in Argentina by Israeli secret agents - 7 May 2020: Neo-Nazi linked AfD party's Gauland, describing the 8 May 1945 when World War II ended in Europe following Nazi Germany�s surrender, called this day a 'day of absolute defeat', saying end of conflict marked a 'loss of the possibility to shape things�

Germany/Italy relations: Germany/Italy relations

1914-1918 Austria-Hungary's and Germany's campaign against Italy in World War I and Erwin Rommel: Austria-Hungary's and Germany's campaign against Italy in World War I - Battles of the Isonzo 1915-1917 in World War I - The use of poison gas by the Germans played a key role in the collapse of the Italian Second Army in the Battle of Caporetto 1917, Erwin Rommel (later Hitler's favorite general) won the 'Pour le Mérite' for his role in the battle

1936/1937 Anti-Comintern Pact and 1939-1945 World War II: 1936/1937 Anti-Comintern Pact and 1939-1945 World War II

Since 1945 Germany refuses to extradite war criminals convicted in Italy: List of Germans convicted of war crimes committed in Italy during World War II, mostly never extradited by Germany

March 1944 Ardeatine massacre: Ardeatine massacre 24 March 1944 - 335 civilians, including Italian (political prisoners) and Jewish civilians, killed

29 June 1944 Civitella massacre of 244 civilians by german soldiers of the 'Wehrmacht', never charged in Germany: 29 June 1944 massacre of 244 civilians in Civitella was done by german soldiers of the 'Wehrmacht', never charged in Germany

August 1944 Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre: August 1944 Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre, German war crime committed in Sant'Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement, the Waffen-SS murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees, including 130 children, and burned their bodies

September/October 1944 Marzabotto massacre: September/October 1944 Marzabotto massacre, a mass murder of at least 770 civilians by German military, which took place in the territory around the small village of Marzabotto, in the mountainous area south of Bologna

Since 1945 'Schrank der Schande', 'Armadio della vergogna', 'LA MEMORIA': - LA MEMORIA - Armadio della vergogna - Schrank der Schande (staatlich versteckte Akten über deutsche Kriegsverbrechen)

1954 British court-martial in Padua tried SS General Max Simon in 1944 Marzabotto massacre: A British court-martial in Padua tried SS General Max Simon for his part in the 1944 Marzabotto massacre, sentenced to death, later changed to life in prison, Simon was released from German jail in Werl in 1954

2004/2012 no one was prosecuted for Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre apart from Max Simon until July 2004: Apart from the divisional commander Max Simon, no one was prosecuted for Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre until July 2004, when a trial of ten former Waffen-SS officers and NCOs living in Germany was held before a military court in Italy's La Spezia, that found the accused guilty of participation in the killings and sentenced them in absentia to life imprisonment, but in 2012 German prosecutors shelved their investigation of 17 unnamed former SS soldiers in the case

June 2012 anti-italian riots in German cities: 29 June 2012: Non solo a Wuppertal, infatti anche a Berlino, Monaco, Wolfsburg e in diverse città centinaia di pseudo-tifosi hanno aggredito fisicamente e verbalmente gli italiani in festa

2012/2013 report by Italian and German historians on German war crimes against Italians and reactions: 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 - 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 - 15 October 2013: Angry protests mark funeral of Nazi war criminal SS officer Erich Priebke in Italy - 16 October: Italy marked the 70th anniversary of the round-up and deportation of Jews from Rome's ghetto on Wednesday, amid turmoil over the burial of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke and his Holocaust-denying final statement - 18 October: 90-year-old former Nazi soldier Alfred Stork sentenced in absentia by a military court in Rome which found him guilty of taking part in the execution of at least 117 Italian officers on the Greek island of Cephalonia - 19 October 2013: Nazi war criminal Priebke to be buried in 'secret location' in Italy

15 August 2020 after 76 years victims of 1944 Nazi Fosse Ardeatine massacre identified: 15 August 2020: After 76 years, victims of 1944 Fosse Ardeatine massacre, in which civilians were killed by Nazi German occupation soldiers in reprisal for a partisan attack on an SS regiment in Italy, identified through DNA testing, as two of those who died can now finally be honored by families, and as David Reicher's father Marian, a Polish Jew who fled to Italy during WWII, was among the 335 civilians murdered in the indiscriminate mass killings, which targeted Jews and Gentiles of all ages, from all professions, and socioeconomic groups, during the German led massacre period following the overthrow of Mussolini, as Nazi Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel became commander of German Army Group B in Italy since July 1943, to force Italy to continue Nazi's war after the overthrow of the war criminal Mussolini, as EU's present-day president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen calls Erwin Rommel a resistance fighter

Germany/Japan relations: Germany/Japan relations

1683-1693 German physician and explorer Engelbert Kaempfer in Asia and Japan: 1683-1693 German naturalist, physician, explorer and writer Engelbert Kaempfer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan

1936 Anti-Comintern Pact: 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact and World War II

1939-1945 World War II: 1939-1945 World War II - Japanese war crimes - German war crimes in World War II - War crimes of the Wehrmacht

2013: 1 août 2013: En déclarant que le Japon pourrait s�inspirer de la manière dont le régime nazi avait réformé la Constitution allemande, le vice-Premier ministre japonais Taro Aso s�est attiré une volée de critiques

Germany�Korea relations: Germany�Korea relations

1883: Germany�Korea Treaty of 1883

Germany/North Korea relations: Germany/North Korea relations

February 2018 North Korea acquiring equipment and technology for its nuclear and weapons programmes through its Berlin embassy: 4 February 2018: North Korea has been acquiring equipment and technology for its nuclear and weapons programmes through its Berlin embassy, according to Germany�s domestic intelligence BfV

24 January 2020 'Munich Security Conference' invited North Korean regime to Munich 2020 23 January 2020: Lining up with German and international appeasement policy, 'Munich Security Conference' - to assume an air of own importance - invited North Korean regime to Munich 2020, encouraging regime's crimes, and coming a month after regime declared it was abandoning moratoriums on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests - 24 January 2020: North Korea appoints hardline ex-army officer Ri Son-gwon as new foreign minister, who has little diplomatic experience, as analysts say appointment of Ri Son-gwon suggests tougher stance on nuclear talks with USA

Germany/South Korea relations: Germany/South Korea relations

Germany/Kuwait relations: Germany/Kuwait relations

2016, November 2017, August 2018, Israeli passenger was barred from flight and Frankfurt state court: 16 November 2017: After an Israeli passenger was barred from a Frankfurt-Bangkok flight in 2016 despite having a valid ticket, the Frankfurt state court ruled that Kuwait�s national airline didn�t have to transport an Israeli citizen, noting in its decision that Kuwait Airways is not allowed to have contracts with Israelis under Kuwaiti law because of the Middle Eastern country�s boycott of Israel - 8 August 2018: A group of British pro-Israel attorneys says it has forced Kuwait Airways to agree to compensate Israeli Mandy Blumenthal it refused to allow on its flight from London to Bangkok last November on the grounds of her nationality

Germany/Lebanon relations: Germany/Lebanon relations

November 2017: 18 November 2017: Lebanon's Saad Hariri names Germany's Sigmar Gabriel when announcing that he was heading to the airport in Saudi Arabia, saying 'I am on the way to the airport Mr. Sigmar Gabriel', following Hezbollah terrorists' lies that he was not allowed to leave the country, and apparently singling out the German foreign minister because Gabriel had criticized meddling in Lebanon's affairs, amid Hezbollah's, Iranian, Russian aggressions in the region and their common war with Assad against the Syrian people since 2011 - 19 November 2017: In unprecedented footage, the IDF allowed an Israeli TV crew to film it opening the border gates to Syria, and allowing in a group of mothers and their children, who were then transported to an Israeli hospital for medical treatment

Germany/Libya relations: Germany/Libya relations

1936-1945 and German invasion of North Africa 1941: World War II North African campaign 1940-1943 and German invasion

The Holocaust in Italian Libya 1938-1943: The Jews of Libya after the passage of Italy's Manifesto of Race in 1938 and following the German intervention in 1941 during the Holocaust - The Holocaust in Italian Libya 1938-1943

Since 1970s: Libyen-Affäre - langjährige Ausbildungshilfe für Gaddafis Unterdrückungsapparat seit den 70iger Jahren

2011: 18 March 2011: UN Security Council resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya - China, Germany and Russia abstained - 31 August 2011: Große Anzahl deutscher Sturmgewehre in Gaddafis Armee - 4 September 2011: German spies worked with Gaddafi

Germany/Lithuania relations: Germany/Lithuania relations

Since 19 September 1915 German occupation of Lithuania District: Since 19 September 1915 German empire's invasion of Vilna Governorate and 1915-1918 Lithuania District of German-controlled territory of Ober-Ost during World War I

1939 German ultimatum and 1941-1945 Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany: 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania - Klaipeda Region - Occupation of the Baltic states by Nazi Germany 1941-1945 - Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany 1941-1945

/June/July 1941 - August 1944 German invasion, Ponary massacre and the Holocaust in Lithuania: June/July 1941 - August 1944 Ponary massacre, the mass murder of up to 100,000 people by German SD and SS and their Lithuanian collaborators, including Ypatingasis burys killing squads, during World War II - September 1941 - September 1943 Vilna Ghetto, a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius - The Holocaust in Lithuania - 1943-1944 KP 562, the site of a Nazi forced labor camp for Jews in Vilnius, during the Holocaust - Since 1942 'Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye', a Jewish resistance organization based in the Vilna Ghetto that organized armed resistance against the Nazis during World War II, founded by Communist and Zionist partisans

Resistance in Lithuania during World War II: Resistance in Lithuania during World War II

2013: 22 septembre 2013: La mémoire de la communauté juive de Lituanie revit sur internet - 23 septembre: La Lituanie a marqué lundi le 70e anniversaire de la liquidation par l'Allemagne nazie du ghetto juif de Vilnius et d'une fin quasi totale de la riche culture juive de la ville, surnommée autrefois 'la Jérusalem du Nord'

2017: 15 April 2017: 'Holocaust Escape Tunnel' documentary sheds new light on the attempt by 80 imprisoned men and women, mostly Lithuanian Jews, to make a break for freedom in the face of Nazi bullets

Germany/Luxembourg relations: Germany/Luxembourg relations

Since August/September 1914 'Septemberprogramm': 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

1 August 1914 German invasion of Luxembourg and occupation 1914-1918: 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 - German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I - German war crimes in the 20th century

1939-1945 German invasion of Luxembourg: The German invasion of Luxembourg was part of the German invasion of the Low Countries and France during World War II since 10 May 1940 - German occupation of Luxembourg during World War II - Luxembourg in World War II

Luxembourgish collaboration with Nazi Germany and Holocaust: Luxembourgish collaboration with Nazi Germany - The Holocaust in Luxembourg - 13 February 2015: Luxembourg�s wartime bosses willingly cooperated with German Nazis in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, a government-commissioned study determined

Luxembourg Resistance: Luxembourg Resistance - 1942 Luxembourgish general strike to protest against a directive that conscripted Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht, German authorities responded violently by sentencing 21 strikers to death

1959 Germany/Luxembourg Compensation Agreement for Victims of the Nazi Regime on paying DM 18 million: 1959 Germany/Luxembourg 'Bilateral Compensation Agreement for Victims of the Nazi Regime' on paying DM 18 million

2014-2018: First World War 1914-1918 centenary 2014-2018

Germany/Luxembourg economic and financial relations: Business in Luxembourg - Economy, finance and companies of Luxembourg

JAB Holding Company owned by the Reimann family: JAB Holding Company, a privately held German conglomerate owned by the Reimann family, headquartered in Luxembourg, that includes investments of companies operating in the arenas of consumer goods, forestry, coffee, luxury fashion, and fast food, among others

March 2019: On 24 March 2019, the Reimann family announced that Albert Reinmann Sr. and Albert Reinman Jr. were supporters of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party, and that historical research has revealed that the company used 175 forced labourers and employed a foreman who was known for his cruel treatment in 1943 and onwards - 24 March 2019: Following historical research since 2014, Reimann family, which owns Pret a Manger, Krispy Kreme and Peet�s Coffee, says ancestors 'belonged in jail� for use of Russian civilians and French POWs as forced laborers, also saying the family never spoke of the Nazi era, despite the Reimanns donated to the paramilitary SS even before the Nazis came to power

Germany/Malta relations: Germany/Malta relations

1940-1942 Siege of Malta by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: 1940-1942 Siege of Malta by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II, after the opening of a new front in North Africa in June 1940 increased the considerable value of the strategically important island of Malta

Since January 1941 German intervention: Since January 1941 German intervention

Since 1942: Since 1940 World War II sites in Malta

2017 sociétés 'boîte aux lettres': 10 mai 2017: Des milliers d'entreprises fictives enregistrées sur l'île de Malta et liées à de grands groupes allemands sont dans le viseur du fisc allemand

Germany/Mexico relations: Germany/Mexico relations - 1917 'Zimmermann Telegram' proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join an alliance with Germany in the event of the USA entering World War I - 7 May 2013: German arms manufacturer Heckler&Koch admitted to illegally selling thousands of rifles to Mexico, where the weapons were reportedly used to commit human rights violations - 25 December 2014: Protesters in Mexico claim that German arms manufacturers exported assault rifles to corrupt local police department implicated in the 2014 Iguala kidnapping of 43 students

Germany/Middle East relations: Germany/Middle East relations

1871-1945 Germany and the Middle East: 2004: Germany and the Middle East, 1871-1945

1914-1918 Central Powers Mediterranean U-boat Campaign and impunity: 1914-1918 Mediterranean U-boat Campaign during World War I in the Mediterranean Sea, fought by Austria-Hungary and German Empire (with some support by the Ottoman Empire) against the Allies, characterised by the ability of the Central Powers to raid with near impunity during the first years of the war, causing substantial shipping losses, until the introduction of the convoy system allowed the Allies to drastically cut their losses from 1917 on

1939-1945 submarine warfare in German, Italian and Japanese empires' World War II: Submarine warfare in World War II

15 September 2020 Hamas said to retrieve ammunition from WWI warship sunk off Gaza coast by a German submarine: 15 September 2020: Naval commandos from the Hamas terror group reportedly succeeded in retrieving a trove of ammunition, including large-caliber naval shells, from a sunken British warship off the coast of the Gaza Strip with the aim of using it to arm itself against Israel, as over a period of several weeks, divers removed the ammunition from HMS M15, which was sunk in 1917 during World War I by a German submarine and now lies about a kilometer northeast of Gaza City

Germany/Moldova relations: Germany/Moldova relations - 'Transnistria Governorate' Romanian-administered territory conquered by the Axis Powers and occupied 1941-1944 - The Holocaust in Transnistria

Germany/Mozambique relations: Germany/Mozambique relations

1894-1916 German Kionga Triangle in Portuguese Mozambique: 1894 the German empire established an outpost south of the Rovuma River designated as the border between the German and Portuguese colonies, naming the area Kionga Triangle - on 9 March 1916 during World War I Germany declared war on Portugal and the Portuguese military seized the disputed area in April 1916

November 1917 Battle of Ngomano: November 1917 Battle of Ngomano fought between the German Empire and Portugal during the East African Campaign of World War I

Dezember 1984 Anschlag bei Unango in Mosambik: 6. Dezember 1984 Anschlag bei Unango in Mosambik war einer der schwersten terroristischen Anschläge gegen DDR-Bürger

1990 Ausweisung mosambikanischer Vertragsarbeiter: Rund 15.000 Mosambikaner, die als Vertragsarbeiter aufgrund eines Staatsvertrages zwischen der DDR und Mosambik seit 1979 in der DDR arbeiteten, wurden nach der Wende in der DDR 1990 durch die Bundesrepublik bei ungeklärten Lohnforderungen nach Mosambik ausgewiesen

Juni 2000 Ermordung von Alberto Adriano: Alberto Adriano, mort le 14 juin 2000 à Dessau-Roßlau en ex Allemagne de l'Est RDA, était un charcutier allemand d'origine mozambicaine et victime mortelle de la violence néo-nazie en Allemagne, en août 2000 les suspects furent reconnus coupables de meurtre en association et condamnés

Germany/Myanmar (Burma) relations: Germany/Myanmar (Burma) relations

November 2019 German citizen killed in land mine explosion: 27 November 2019: Germany confirmed that a German citizen was killed in a land mine explosion in northern Myanmar, as Myanmar in 2018 recorded 430 land mine casualties, the fourth highest total in the world after Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, according to the 2019 Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor

Germany/Namibia relations: Germany/Namibia relations

1884-1915 'German South-West Africa' colony: Namibia 'German South-West Africa' colony 1884-1915 - Herero Wars 1904-1908, after German colonists occupied large areas of land since 1884, ignoring any claims by the Herero and other natives, and some of the Khoi and Herero tribes rose in revolt 1903

1904-1907 German empire's Herero and Nama genocide: 1904-1907 Herero and Nama genocide, a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment that the German Empire undertook in German South West Africa (modern-day Namibia) against the Herero, Nama and San people, considered the first genocide of the 20th century - Shark Island Concentration Camp, between 1,032 and 3000 Herero and Namaqua men, women, and children died in the camp between 1905 and 1907 - Since 1904 German military commander Lothar von Trotha in German South West Africa, in 1933 German Nazi authorities named a street in Munich as 'von Trotha Straße', in 2006 the Munich city council officially decided to change the name of this street to 'Herero Straße' in honour of the General's victims

1911 'Red Line' Police zone for controlling the indigenous population: 'Red Line' 1911, originally a Police zone for controlling north-south travel of the indigenous population in South-West Africa

1914-1915, World War I, Germany and South-West Africa: African Theatre of World War I describes campaigns in Africa instigated by the German and Ottoman empires, local rebellions against European colonial rule and Allied campaigns against the German colonies - 1914-1915 German South-West Africa campaign

2004: 16 August 2004: After hundred years, Germany apologised for the first time for the colonial-era genocide which killed 65,000 Herero people in Namibia

2015: 8. Juli 2015: Erst mehr als 100 Jahre später bezeichnet ein deutscher Bundestagspräsident (CDU-Lammert) die deutschen Kolonialverbrechen und die Niederschlagung des Herero-Aufstandes 1904 im heutigen Namibia als 'Völkermord'

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 - 13 July 2016: Germany to apologize for Namibian genocide - 14 octobre 2016: Deux peuples de l'actuelle Namibie ont dénoncé une 'insulte phénoménale' de l'Allemagne à propos de sa volonté de s'excuser pour le génocide des Héréro et Nama au début du XXe siècle tout en refusant des réparations - 25 December 2016: Germany moves to atone for 'forgotten genocide' in Namibia

2017: 5 January 2017: Germany sued in the USA for damages of genocide in Namibia by descendants of the Herero and Nama people, for what they called a campaign of genocide by German colonial troops in the early 1900s that led to more than 100,000 deaths

August 2018: 29 August 2018: Germany on Wednesday handed back human remains seized from Namibia a century ago after the slaughter of indigenous people under its colonial rule, but angry descendants slammed German government for failing to properly atone for the dark chapter - 29 August 2018: Genocide of African tribes was Germany�s Holocaust dress rehearsal, author Elizabeth Baer says after examining the chilling methods that decimated the Herero and Nama people in the early 20th century, as far less awareness exists of this previous genocide that occurred under German auspices

12 August 2020 Namibia says Germany's offered reparations for mass killings needed to be 'revised': 12 August 2020: Namibia�s president Hage Geingob said reparations offered by Germany for mass killings in its then colony at the start of the twentieth century needed to be 'revised', after German occupiers in Namibia killed tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people in 1904-1908 massacres, which historians have called the first genocide of the 20th century

Germany/Netherlands relations: Germany/Netherlands relations

1914-1918 German war crimes in SPD supported World War I: German war crimes in SPD supported World War I 1914-1918 - Buts de guerre des Empires centraux 1914-1918 - German war crimes since 1914 German invasion and 1914-1918 occupation 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

1918 Wilhelm's flight, 1920-1941 exile for war criminal Wilhelm II in the Netherland against the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, expressly providing in article 227 for the prosecution of Wilhelm for war crimes: 10 November 1918 flight and 1920-1941 exile and asylum for last German emperor and war criminal Wilhelm II in the Netherlands' 'Huis Doorn' was based on monarchist and family ties with Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina, in return Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940, committing war crimes not yet seen and Wilhelm went undisturbed by the German 'Wehrmacht' - 1919 Peace Treaty of Versailles, Articles 227-230: 'The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties. A special tribunal will be constituted to try the accused, thereby assuring him the guarantees essential to the right of defence.'

1940-1945 German invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France: 'Slag om Nederland' part of 'Case Yellow', the German invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France during World War II

May 1940 German aerial bombardment of Rotterdam, German occupation and The Holocaust: Aerial bombardment of Rotterdam, destroying almost the entire historic city centre and killing nearly nine hundred civilians, by the 'Luftwaffe' on 14 May 1940 - History of the Netherlands 1939-1945: German invasion and occupation - Anne Frank - The Holocaust in the Netherlands

Dutch resistance and 1941 February General Strike during World War II against Nazi Germany: Dutch resistance against German occupation and war crimes - 1941 February Strike, general strike organized during World War II in the Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities of the Nazi Germany, its direct causes were the pogroms held by the Germans in the Jewish neighbourhood of Amsterdam

June 1942 - 1944 'The Diary of Anne Frank': Since June 1942 Dutch language diary of Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands 'Het Achterhuis', Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 � 1 Augustus 1944, first published in 1947

September 2013: 2 September 2013: Germany tries 92-year-old member of the Nazi Waffen SS Siert Bruins for Nazi war crime

November 2018: 28 November 2018: The Dutch state-owned rail company has said it will pay compensation to survivors and relatives of those transported by their trains to the Nazi death camps during the second world war after receiving a threat of litigation

Germany/New Zealand relations: Germany/New Zealand relations

1914-1918: Military history of New Zealand in World War I

1939-1945: Military history of New Zealand during World War II

Since 1939 New Zealand's participation in the liberation of Europe and the Pacific region: Since 1939 New Zealand's participation in the liberation of Europe and the Pacific region during World War II as on 13 December 1939 New Zealand deployed its naval forces against Germany and Italy - 20 December 2012: New Zealand was one of the first countries to become involved in the global conflict precipitated by Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, its 2176-day involvement encompassing all but three days of the period now accepted as the Second World War

Germany/North Macedonia relations: Germany/North Macedonia-Yugoslavia relations

1914-1918 Central Powers's World War I and destruction of Bitola: 1914-1918 during Central Powers's World War I, Bitola was taken in November 1915, divided into sections, remained a front line city and was bombarded almost daily by air bombardment and artillery fire and was nearly destroyed

Since 1941 German invasion of Yugoslavia: German invasion of Yugoslavia 1941 - Macedonia during the Second world war 1941-1945

The Holocaust in Macedonia 1941-1945: The Holocaust in Macedonia 1941-1945

2012: 13 December 2012: European Court of Human Rights rules that German citizen Khaled el-Masri, arrested 2003 in Macedonia, is an innocent victim of extraordinary rendition, torture and ill-treatment by USA CIA-agents

Germany/Norway relations: Germany/Norway relations

1939-1945: German Norwegian Campaign World War II - Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway - Occupation of Norway by Germany during World War II 1939-1945 - Quisling regime - Quisling organisations in World War II - Antisemitism in Norway

German occupation and the Holocaust in Norway: Jewish deportees from Norway during World War II - The Holocaust in Norway

Norwegian resistance movement: Norwegian resistance movement - Norwegian resistance movement in World War II Milorg (milit�r organisasjon)

1945-1948: May 1945 - August 1948 legal purge in Norway after World War II took place against anyone who was deemed to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country and German war criminals

1945-2007 NSDAP/CDU-Filbinger scandal: 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

October 2018: 22 October 2018: Joachim Roenneberg, the leader of a daring World War II raid to thwart Nazi Germany�s nuclear ambitions died in his home country of Norway

Germany/Palestinian territories relations: World War I 1914-1918 started by the German and Austrian empires - Defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922 - World War II 1939-1945 - The Holocaust, from 1941 to 1945, Jews were targeted and methodically murdered in a genocide by the German Empire

1920-1946: 1920-1946 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine - 28 November 1941: During the meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in Berlin, al-Husseini says that the Arabs were Germany�s natural friends because they had the same enemies, namely the English, the Jews and the Communists - 30 March 2017: In rediscovered 1943 telegram, SS chief Himmler offers Jerusalem�s pro-Nazi mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini help against 'Jewish intruders�

1947/1948: 1947�1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and Palestine war - 1948 Arab�Israeli War fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states

Since 1948: Since 1948 Arab�Israeli conflict

1967: Six-Day War 1967, fought in June 5 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt

2008/2009: Gaza War 2008�2009

2014: 2014 Israel�Gaza conflict

2015: 5 July 2015: A year after Operation Protective Edge, some 100,000 Gazans remain homeless, with unemployment and poverty even more crippling than they were a year ago - 6 July 2015: A year after the war, Gaza grieves for its child casualties

Germany/Papua New Guinea relations: Germany/Papua New Guinea relations

1884�1899 German New Guinea Company and colony 'German New Guinea': German New Guinea Company 1884�1899, a German Chartered Company which exploited insular territory in and near present Papua New Guinea after in the 1870s and 1880s German commercial firms including Hamburg's J.C. Godeffroy&Sohn and Hersheim&Company established trading stations leading to a German controlled plantation economy - German colony 1884�1919 'German New Guinea' - German colonial empire

1884-1919 'Kaiser-Wilhelmsland': 'Kaiser-Wilhelmsland' 1884-1919

Germany/Peru relations: Germany/Peru relations

2017: 30 November 2017: German court in Hamm has ruled that it will hear Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya�s case against energy giant RWE over climate change damage in the Andes

Germany/Poland relations: Germany/Poland relations

18th century three partitions of Poland: Towards the end of the 18th century three partitions of the Polish�Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years, and conducted by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria, which divided up the Commonwealth lands among themselves progressively in the process of territorial seizures

1772-1795: 1772 First Partition of Poland - 1793 Second Partition of Poland - 1795 Third Partition of Poland

Since 1772 Prussian Partition: Since 1772 Prussian Partition

1795�1918 History of Poland: History of Poland 1795�1918 - 1815�1867/1915 Congress Poland or Russian Poland, created by the 1815 Congress of Vienna, until 1832 a state of the Russian part of Poland connected by personal union with the Russian Empire, in 1867 made an official part of the Russian Empire, and in 1915 replaced by the Central Powers during World War I with the proposed puppet state 'Regency Kingdom of Poland'

Since 1885 mass deportation of Poles by the German Empire: Since 1885 mass deportation of Poles from territories controlled by the German Empire

August 1914 German destruction and sacking of Kalisz: August 1914 destruction and sacking of the city of Kalisz by German Empire troops at the beginning of World War I, also known as the Pogrom of Kalisz or Poland�s Louvain, a part of German 'Schrecklichkeit' atrocities

November-December 1914 Battle of Lódz following German aggession since August: November-December 1914 Battle of Lódz, fought between the German empire's Ninth Army, commanded by generals Erich Ludendorff and Mackensen and the Russian First, Second, and Fifth Armies, as assaulted forces counted 110,000 killed, wounded or captured soldiers

Since 1914/1915 German bombing and invasion of Warsaw: After aerial bombing of the city of Warsaw in 1914 with airships, German army's invasion of Warsaw since 1 August 1915

Aftermath of the First World War: Aftermath of the First World War

Januar 1919: 15. Januar 1919 Ermordung der in Zamosc geborenen Nationalökonomin Rosa Luxemburgs und Karl Liebknechts durch die Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division in Berlin, die von der SPD zur Bekämpfung der sozialdemokratischen Opposition - und vor allem für die Auslöschung der für die deutschen Kriegsverbrecher gefährlichen Kriegsgegner seit 1914 - herangezogen worden war, und die bzw. deren Mitglieder zusammen mit anderen militärischen und paramilitärischen Organisationen die spätere deutsche Revanchepolitik ausführten, seit 1933 unter dem NSDAP-Regime

1 September 1939 bombing of Wielun: 1 September 1939 bombing of Wielun comprised air raids on the Polish town of Wielun by Germany's Luftwaffe, that destroyed at least 70% of the town's buildings (as much as 90%, in the city center), causing hundreds of civilian casualties according to historian Norman Davies, described as the first war crime committed by Germany in World War II

Since 1 September 1939 Germann bombing of Warsaw: Since 1 September 1939 Germann bombing of Warsaw in World War II refers to the aerial bombing campaign of Warsaw by the German Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in the invasion of Poland in 1939, it also may refer to German bombing raids during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, as during the course of the war approximately 84% of the city was destroyed due to German mass bombings, heavy artillery fire and a planned demolition campaign

6-8 September 1939 Battle of Lódz during the German invasion of ill prepared Poland after French and British pressure not to mobilize: 6-8 September 1939 Battle of Lódz during the German invasion of Poland, fought between the armies of Poland and Nazi Germany in World War II, after reason for Poland's late and insufficient mobilization was pressure from the French and the British not to mobilize, and as since 29 August 1939, when the Poles re�started the mobilization against advice from Paris and London, it was too late - Since 1938 'Western betrayal' (and earlier) concerning the fact that France, the United Kingdom, and sometimes the USA failed to meet their legal, diplomatic, military, and moral obligations with respect to the Czechoslovak and Polish states during the prelude to and aftermath of World War II, also sometimes referring to the treatment of other Central and Eastern European states at the time, enabling World War II that lasted from 1939 to 1945, the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe, and the August 1945 atomic bombings forcing Japanese war criminals to surrender

1940 Lódz (renamed 'Litzmannstadt') an important industrial city for the German war machine: By 1940 the city of Lódz was renamed Litzmannstadt and became an important industrial city for the German war machine, as munitions and uniforms were manufactured in the newly established 'Ghetto Litzmannstadt' by Jewish slave labor, as Jews from Poland, Germany, Benelux and Czechoslovakia as well as Roma people from Austria were brought to live and work there in appalling conditions, while most of them were taken for extermination in the Nazi death camps, until Lódz was taken by the Soviet Army on 17 January 1945, and only 877 Jews survived to the moment of liberation from emerging and perishing German empire since 1793, 1848/1871, 1914 and 1939

September 1939 German bombing of Frampol, practicing skills to kill: September 1939 bombing of Frampol occurred during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, when the town of Frampol, without military value, but with a population of 4,000 people was bombed by German bombers under General von Richthofen on 13 September as a practice run for future missions and as German fighter pilots trained strafing techniques on refugees who were trying to flee from the city

1939/1940 German mass murder 'Intelligenzaktion': 1939/1940 German 'Intelligenzaktion', a secret mass murder conducted by NSDAP-Germany against the Polish third level educated people including teachers, priests, physicians, scientists) early in the German war 1939�45, conducted to realise the 'Germanization' of regions of occupied Poland before territorial annexation to the German Reich

1940 German mass murder 'Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion' in Poland: 1940 German 'Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion' in Poland, a second stage of the Nazi German campaign of violence and mass murder during World War II aimed to eliminate the intellectuals and the upper classes of Polish society across the territories slated for eventual annexation, as most of the killings were arranged in a form of mass disappearances from multiple cities and towns upon the German arrival, and in the spring and summer of 1940, more than 30,000 Poles were arrested by the Nazi authorities in German-occupied central Poland, about 7,000 of them including community leaders, professors, teachers and priests were subsequently massacred secretly at various locations including at the Palmiry forest, the others were sent to German concentration camps

August-October 1944 Warsaw Uprising: Warsaw Uprising 1 August � 2 October 1944 - Since 1942 prelude to the Warsaw Uprising, that occurred at a stage of the Second World War when it was becoming clear that Nazi Germany was likely to lose

1939-1945 World War II, the Holocaust in Poland and 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Holocaust in Poland - Warsaw Ghetto - Ghetto uprisings - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19 April 1943 � 16 May 1943 - Ringelblum Archive, a collection of documents from the World War II Warsaw Ghetto, collected and preserved by the group 'Oyneg Shabbos', which included historians, writers, rabbis and social workers, dedicated to chronicling life in the Ghetto during the Nazi occupation and started in September 1939 and ended in January 1943 - 18 October 2014: Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who in 1943 coined the term 'Genocide', spent his life trying to stop it

1944-1981 Majdanek trials in Poland and Germany: Since November 1944 Majdanek trials, a series of consecutive war-crime trials held in Poland and in Germany during and after World War II, constituting the overall longest Nazi war crimes trial in history spanning over 30 years, as the first judicial trial of Majdanek extermination camp officials took place November/December 1944 in Poland's Lublin, the last one in Germany's Düsseldorf 1975-1981, lasting 474 sessions

April 1946 - 1947 at Gdansk 'Stutthof war crime tribunals' for the prosecution of 1939-1945 Stutthof concentration camp staff and officials: April 1946 - November 1947 'Stutthof trials' a series of war crime tribunals held in postwar Poland for the prosecution of 1939-1945 Stutthof concentration camp staff and officials, responsible for the murder of up to 85,000 prisoners during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II

Since May 1945 war-crime trials in Poland following World War II: Trials in Poland, including 1947 Auschwitz trial Since May 1945 Chelmno trials, a series of consecutive war-crime trials of the Chelmno extermination camp personnel following World War II, held in Poland since May and in Germany 1962�65 - 1947 Auschwitz trial in Kraków, when Polish authorities tried 40 former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps - Holocaust trials - Survivor testimonies

1944-1945 Nazi concentration camp guard Dey convicted over 5,232 murders in July 2020: 23 July 2020: Nazi concentration camp guard convicted over 5,232 murders of mostly Jewish prisoners, as Bruno Dey found guilty of accessory to murders in final months of second world war, as now about 40 survivors or their descendants were co-plaintiffs in the trial, appearing mostly via a video link, and as Investigation of National Socialist Crimes' office says it is investigating a further 14 individuals over crimes committed in concentration camps

2013 for first time, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising diaries unveiled: 20 January 2013: For first time, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising diaries unveiled - 28 March 2013: German ZDF television drama about the Second World War has sparked outrage in Poland for trying to spread responsibility for the Holocaust - 1 April 2013: Cutting-edge 3D film 'Warszawa 1935' revives a Warsaw lost to war - 8 April: Thousands from across the globe marched solemnly at the former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to honour the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust during World War II - 18 April 2013: Poland's Warsaw ghetto uprising survivor Rotem recalls 'hell on earth'

2014 Yoram Friedman, who escaped the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, honored in Poland and Nazi military, that attacked Poland, honored in Germany: 8 January 2014: Movie that tells the story of the boy Yoram Friedman, who escaped the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, premieres in Poland - 20 July 2014: Germany on Sunday honored a group of Nazi-era officers who tried to kill Adolf Hitler 70 years ago, including Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who took part in the attack on Poland since 1 September 1939 together with Hitler general 'Generalfeldmarschall' Erwin Rommel, and supported the occupation of Poland and its handling by the Nazi regime and the use of Poles as slave workers to achieve German prosperity as well as German colonization and exploitation of Poland

January 2015: 18 January: Seventy years after Auschwitz�s guards fled and the last survivors will gather, a new exhibition will focus not just on the victims but the perpetrators - 27 January: Holocaust survivors from around the world and visitors marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland - 20 April 2015: Hundreds gather by monument to heroes outside Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw marking 72nd anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto uprising - 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

7/8 May 2015 commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II: 7/8 May 2015: Amid deep divisions over Russian regime's aggession against Ukraine, Poland's president is leading international commemorations in Gdansk marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Ukraine's Poroshenko pays tribute to those killed in World War II and UN's Ban Ki-moon demands to protect future generations from war and conflict

August 2015: 3 August 2015: Warsaw residents observe minute of silence for those who stood up against German occupiers in 1944

2016: 11 March 2016: After performing slave labour during the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany the survivor of the Auschwitz death camp Yisrael Kristal, who was born near Zarnow in Poland in 1903, now lives in the Israeli city of Haifa and is the world's oldest man

January/February 2018: 27 January 2018: Amid escalating tensions between Israel and Poland over a new bill passed in the lower house of Poland�s parliament, which would outlaw blaming Poles for crimes of the Holocaust, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center Yad Vashem said that 'while the term 'Polish death camps' is a historical misrepresentation', new Polish legislation may 'blur historical truths' on the help Germans received from Poles in Holocaust - 18 February 2018: Netanyahu slams Holocaust remark by Polish PM in Munich, who said - questioned by journalist Ronen Bergman who told of his mother's narrow escape from the Gestapo in Poland after learning that neighbours were planning to denounce them - that the Holocaust had involved 'Jewish perpetrators' as well as Polish, as the audience at the Munich Security Conference stayed quiet, according to Haaretz correspondent Noa Landau - 18 February 2018: Polish PM Morawiecki drew fresh criticism for paying his respects at the grave of Polish fighters who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II, hours after sparking outrage for claiming that Jews were involved in perpetrating the Holocaust

August/September 2018: 31 August 2018: Poland says it lost more than 5 million citizens, including 90% of Poland's Jewish population, and over $54 billion dollars worth of assets under the Nazi German occupation of the country during World War II

December 2018 Warsaw Ghetto fighter Simcha Rotem died: 23 December 2018: Simcha Rotem, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who was among the last-known Jewish fighters from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, has died at 94

March 2019 Israeli and Polish students at Auschwitz memorial site: 25 March 2019: At the memorial site at Auschwitz, Israeli and Polish students stood side-by-side and read out names of their relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust and during World War II at Auschwitz, Birkenau and other death camps

May 2019: 7 May 2019: Poland won�t pay WWII compensation because Poles were greatest victims, PM says, as Polish authorities are in the process of restitution of the property of pre-war Jewish communities, returning Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and other buildings to Jewish communities, a process that does not apply to private property, but the current electoral campaign for EU Parliament and the upcoming autumn elections for Polish parliament seats have returned the subject of restitution to the news

1 August 2019 Warsaw revolt and German revenge remembered: 1 August 2019: 75 years on, ex-nurse Maria Mostowska recalls bravery and carnage in failed 1944 Polish revolt against Nazis, as in largest act of resistance during World War II, 50,000 fighters of clandestine Home Army fought Germans for 63 days hoping for quick support from the Allies to free Warsaw from the Germans, but German bombings and mass executions led to the death of some 180,000 civilians, rebellious Warsaw was razed in revenge for the revolt and the Nazis expelled some 500,000 remaining residents, sending many to the Auschwitz death camp

6 December 2019 at Auschwitz Germany's Angela Merkel vows to battle new wave of anti-Semitism: 6 December 2019: Making her first visit to Nazi death camp as chancellor, Germany's Angela Merkel speaks of �deep shame� and vows fight against anti-Semitism and all hatred is priority for her government - 6 December 2019: Kaufering labor camp and Auschwitz survivor Frederick Terna fears global rise of anti-Semitism, saying Merkel�s first visit to Nazi camp is positive, but worried by similarities he sees between today�s politics and the �narrow nationalism� of the 1930s, also saying 'I had the idea of getting as far away from Europe as possible' after the war

27 January 2020 Holocaust survivors gather at the former German Auschwitz death camp: 27 January 2020: 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors gather at the former German Nazi death camp to honor its over 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and to share their testimony as a stark warning amid a recent surge of anti-Semitic attacks on both sides of the Atlantic and especially fresh concerns over anti-Semitism in Europe, after war criminal Novichok-Putin, falsely accusing Poland of colluding with German Nazi dictator Hitler and contributing to the outbreak of World War II, spoke in Jerusalem on 23 January, and as Germany since 1961 refuses to rename Nazi general Erwin Rommel barracks in Augustdorf, continuing Nazi propaganda, misleading and indoctrinating young people and generations, as neo-Nazis and AfD since 2015 got stronger in Germany and elsewhere

19 April 2020 anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising amid covid-19: 19 avril 2020: Une multitude d'hommages intimes, sur place ou depuis les lieux de confinement, ainsi que des initiatives en ligne ont remplacé dimanche les cérémonies anniversaires habituelles aux héros du soulèvement du ghetto de Varsovie de 1943, remodelées à cause de la pandémie covid-19

16 May 2020 Polish WWII pilot Jerzy Glowczewski dies due to covid-19: 16 May 2020: Jerzy Glowczewski, a Polish-born fighter pilot who flew World War II missions with Britain's Royal Air Force after Nazi Germany invaded his country, and who later was an architect in Poland and the USA, has died in New York City of complications from covid-19

11/12 July 2020 Poland the only EU country without comprehensive national legislation to return private property confiscated by the Nazis: 11 July 2020: As Poland is the only country in the EU that has not passed comprehensive national legislation to return, or provide compensation for, private property confiscated by the Nazis, Polish president rejects Holocaust restitution claims ahead of election, as Andrzej Duda vows no reparations for assets seized from Jews during World War II, saying 'damages should be paid by the one that started the war', and as EU leaders are split over covid-19 recovery ahead of this week�s emergency summit that will expose national divisions over budgets, the �750bn pandemic fund, but not yet over Nazi general Rommel admiring Ursula von der Leyen, promoting war criminal Rommel, assigned as commander of the Führerbegleitbatallion, tasked with guarding Hitler and his field headquarters during the invasion of Poland, which began on 1 September 1939, describing the Rommel Barracks as one of the most important installations of the German military

Germany/Portugal relations: Germany/Portugal relations

1914-1915 German campaign in southern Portuguese Angola: October 1914 � July 1915 German campaign in Angola, the campaign in southern Portuguese Angola took place before a formal state of war had been declared, the German empire didn't declare war on Portugal until 9 March 1916 - October-December 1914 Germans raided the Portuguese fort at Cuangar and attack the town and commune of Naulila

November 1917 Battle of Ngomano: November 1917 Battle of Ngomano fought between the German Empire and Portugal during the East African Campaign of World War I

April 1918 Battle of the Lys: April 1918 Battle of the Lys, also known as the Fourth Battle of Flanders, and casualties, including British, French, Portuguese and German

1590-1945: Portuguese Sephardic Jews, including refugees from Spain in the belief to find refuge in Portugal, fled the Kingdoms of Portugal and Spain under Philip II and Philip III following the increased persecution of Jews ordered by joint Catholic Monarchs' 1492-1968 edict of expulsion 'Alhambra Decree' and enforced by the 'Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition' - Since about 1590 Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg, in the twentieth century and systematic deportation and murder of their members during the Holocaust

Since 1936 siding with Nazi Germany against the Spanish republic: Siding with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Portuguese Salazar regime almost immediately supported Franco's fascist war 1936-1939 against the Spanish republic, playing a critical role in supplying Franco�s forces with ammunition and many other logistical resources

1941-1945 Portuguese wolfram export to Germany: After the invasion of the Soviet Union and as Nazi Germany became dependent on Portugal and Spain for its wolfram supplies in producing war munitions, Portuguese Salazar's 'Estado Novo' set up an export quota system in 1942 supplying equal division of products to belligerents, Salazar's regime survived the horrors of war significantly wealthier

Germany/Qatar relations: Germany/Qatar relations - 18 April 2013: More than 50 German Leopard 2 tanks and about 20 PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers bought by Qatar - 19. Mai 2014: Scheich aus Katar wird grösster Einzelaktionär der Deutschen Bank - 3 October: German weapons including tanks and machine guns are to be delivered to countries including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which had been accused of backing militants

Germany/Romania relations: Germany/Romania relations

1914-1918 Romania during World War I: Romania had the only oil fields in Europe and became part of the Balkan theatre of World War I, with Romania and Russia allied with Britain and France against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria, and Turkey in the Romanian campaign 1916-1918 - May 1918 Treaty of Bucharest - June 1919 Treaty of Versailles

March 1939: March 1939 German�Romanian Treaty for the Development of Economic Relations between the Two Countries - World War II and Anti-Comintern Pact

1939-1945 Romania in World War II: 1939-1945 Romania in World War II - Antonescu's rise to power - Military history of Romania during World War II

History of the Jews in Romania and the Holocaust: History of the Jews in Romania and the Holocaust in Romania - June 1941 Iasi pogrom

2017: 13 July 2017: 76 Years Later, survivors of the 1941 Iasi pogrom and of the so-called 'death trains' will for the first time be eligible to receive a pension from the German government

Germany/Russia relations: Germany/Russia relations

1 August 1914 German declaration of war: German declarations of war on Russia on 1st August, on France on August 3, on Belgium on August 4

1914-1918: 1914-1918 World War I - 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

January 1915: January 1915 first large-scale use of gas as a weapon by Germany against Russian positions on the Rawka River west of Warsaw

1917/1918: 3 March 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and the so-called Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) ended Russia's participation in World War I, following the 'Decree On Peace', passed by the Second Congress of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies on the 8 November 1917

1939-1945: World War II - German 'Generalplan Ost' for the colonization of Central and Eastern Europe, prepared 1939�1942 - World War II casualties, over 80 million killed people including deaths from war-related disease and famine, civilians killed totalled 50 to 55 million

1941-1945 Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union: Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II since 22 June 1941 - 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

1941: 22 August 1941: Huge numbers of prisoners were being taken by the German criminal forces in the encirclement battles where whole armies were captured in the Soviet Union and a very high proportion of those captured in the early battles would die by the end of the year, from starvation, sickness, maltreatment, exhaustion from the long marches, exposure to the elements, murdered by Germann SS

September 1941 � January 1944 Siege of Leningrad: September 1941 � January 1944 Siege of Leningrad, a military blockade by Nazi Germany, causing hundreds of thousands Soviet casualties - Effect of the Siege of Leningrad on the city

October 1941 - January 1942 Battle of Moscow: October 1941 - January 1942 Battle of Moscow, a Nazi Germany's military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, sources give figures of hundreds of thousands Soviet casualties between October and January

August 1942 � February 1943 bombing and battle of Stalingrad: August 1942 � February 1943 Battle of Stalingrad, the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, causing hundreds of thousands Soviet casualties - Bombing of Stalingrad, beginning on 23 August 1942 with aerial bombardments including 1,600 sorties using 1,000 tons of high explosives and incendiaries, turning Stalingrad into a sea of fire and killing thousands of civilians and soldiers

1925-1942 Sasha Filippov supported the Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad and was murdered: 1925-1942 Sasha Filippov, who had become a spy for the Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad, providing exact firing coordinates after the German assault on Stalingrad resulted in battalions overrunning suburbs of the city, and many Russian families were caught unaware and found themselves unable to flee in time - 23/24 December 1942 murder of Sasha Filippov, when he and two others were hanged in view of neighbors and his parents, while Sasha's mother remained alone with the bodies of her son and two other youngsters' after the soldiers had marched off

17 July 1944: 17 July 1944 Red Army reaches the Russian border, as some of the 57,000 German PoWs march through the streets of Moscow to demonstrate the success of the Red Army, amongst those captured 19 German Hitler-generals, before symbolically cleaning the streets afterwards - July 1944 Field Marshal von Rundstedt, at the time Commander-in-Chief in the West, had told Fuhrer HQ that it was 'time to make peace� and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, injured on the 17th July thanks to resistance against Nazi-Germany, sent his last report on the battle in France - Since 1941 German war crimes in the East under Field Marshal von Rundstedt's command, as Army Group South actively participated in the policies outlined in the Hunger Plan, the Nazi racial starvation policy, by 'living off the land', denying food supplies to Soviet prisoners of war and civilians, and as Rundstedt shared the general German Army prejudice against the 'Ostjuden', and killings took place with the knowledge and support of the German Army

German war crimes in Russia and the Soviet Union: German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war - '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 - Battle of Stalingrad 1942/1943 - World War II casualties of the Soviet Union - German war crimes in WW II - War crimes of the Wehrmacht

Resistance movement against the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II: Soviet partisans, resistance movement that fought a guerrilla war against the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II

1941-1945 Holocaust in the Soviet Union: The Holocaust in Russia refers to the Nazi crimes during the occupation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by Nazi Germany - The invasion of the Soviet Union and the beginnings of mass murder by Germany

1941�1945 Jews in the Red Army: 1941�1945 Jews in the Red Army - from 1941 to 1945 between 350,000 and 500,000 Jews served in various roles in the Red Army during the Soviet-German war of 1941-1945, in the Red Army itself the estimates of the number of Jews killed during the war range from 120,000 to 142,000 - 3 October 2017: How Soviet Jewish soldiers met the challenges of war

Since 1945: Aftermath of World War II and so-called 'Cold War'

2013: 7 April 2013: Demonstrators protest with posters of journalists Anastasia Baburova and Anna Politkovskaya outside the Congress centrum in Hannover, expecting Russia's Putin and Germany's Merkel - 18. Juli 2013: Geht es um Kleinstaaten, setzt SPD-Kanzlerkandidat Steinbrück auf die Kavallerie, geht es um Russland, empfiehlt er Taktgefühl und Zurückhaltung

2014: 14 March: Germany warns Putin regime of further EU sanctions if it doesn't step back in its intervention in Ukraine - 14 April 2014: Senior French and German officials have warned that the surge in nationalism fueling the crisis in Ukraine, where separatists in the East are seeking to join Russia, echoes the ideas that led to World War I - 27 April: A German-led eight-member group of OSCE military observers accused of being NATO spies by Ponomarev, the self-proclaimed 'people's mayor' of Slovyansk, remains in captivity - 28 April 2014: Violating international law, Russian television shows three captured Ukrainian security guards bloodied, blindfolded, stripped of their trousers and shoes, their arms bound with packing tape in Slovyansk, where OSCE observers are also being held - 29 April: The German government has sought to distance itself from the country's former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder after he was reported to have partied with Russia's Putin despite tension over the crisis in Ukraine - 13 October 2014: Chancellor Merkel refuses to meet with Putin 'given the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine', after a number of non-governmental organizations called on the German government to give up its participation in consultations with Putin

2015: 9 May 2015: The international boycott of the parade on 9 May in Russia has occurred due to the world support of Ukraine, against which Russia started an undeclared war, Ukraine's Poroshenko says, as Russian regime shows its military equipment in Moscow - 11/12 May 2015: 'We need to seek to secure Ukraine's territorial integrity', German PM Angela Merkel says in Moscow, adding that local elections in Donbas should help Kyiv restore control over border, urging Russian regime and Russian-backed separatists to let Ukrainian aid in Donbas, and explaining that 'due to the criminal and illegal, under international law, annexation of Crimea and the military conflicts in eastern Ukraine' cooperation between NATO and Russia has suffered a serious setback - 12 May: German PM Merkel's remark on Russian 'criminal' annexation of Crimea omitted in Russian translation in Moscow

2016: 27 March 2016: Regarding how Putin's aggression in eastern Ukraine is portrayed in the media around the world, German journalist and former Moscow bureau chief of Focus magazine shares his thoughts in Ukrainian TV-interview on the impact of Russian influnce in the German media - 24 April: Nearly half of Germans in favour of sanctions against Russia and 64% of respondents of a survey say 'Putin's Russia is no longer a 'trusted partner' - 16 June 2016: Mob of Russian 'ultras' put Spanish football fan in hospital in Germany, punching and kicking two tourists and their friends in an 'extremely aggressive and brutal' way - 22/23 June 2016: 75 years after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Ukraine's intelligence reports dozens of flights of Russian assault and reconnaissance drones, as Russian-backed separatist forces launched 46 attacks on Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine killing one Ukrainian soldier and injuring eleven overnight - 30 August 2016: As Russian regime's brutality in Syria and Ukraine continues and escalates, Germany's Merkel says 'I'm interested in lifting sanctions from Russia' - 20 October 2016: As French president Hollande uses the phrase 'war crimes', France and Germany allege to press Russian Putin regime to extend a pause in air strikes in Syria and halt the 'criminal' bombardment of civilians, Reuters reports

2017: 14 June 2017: Nord Stream 2 project, that involves piping gas directly from Russia to Germany through the Baltic sea, is unaffected by sanctions and its progress means that Europe is excoriating the Putin regime diplomatically while at the same time promising to inflate the same regime with billions of gas dollars - 17 November 2017: Questions over German politician's 'links to Russian pipeline' that critics say is opposed to EU interests

April 2018: 4 April 2018: The German government still agrees with Britain that Russia is probably responsible for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury with the nerve agent 'novichok' - 10 April 2018: German chancellor Angela Merkel has intervened in a row over Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project due to run from Russia to Germany, telling Russian regime's Putin he cannot exclude Ukraine from the transit route

May 2018: 18 May 2018: German Chancellor Polonium-Merkel in Sochi welcomed by Novichok/Polonium/Sarin-Putin

22 May 2018: Members of the neo-Nazi linked Alternative for Germany AfD received a sponsored flight to Moscow during the 2017 campaign, German media reported on Tuesday, citing Russian sources

August 2018: 19 August 2018: Putin's poodle Merkel welcomes Putin near Berlin on 18 August, showing admiration for the effects of Sarin, BUK-missiles, Polonium-tea and Novichok-perfume, and for Russian, Iranian and Assad's assaults on the Syrian people, murdering hundreds of thousands

2014-2018 First World War centenary: First World War centenary 2014-2018 - World War I memorials

January 2019: 27 janvier 2019: Il y a 75 ans finissait le terrible siège de Léningrad qui fait au moins 800'000 morts

August/September 2019 assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin: 30 August 2019: Similar to the Skripal case, suspected assassin 'Vadim Andreevich Sokolov' in the Berlin killing of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili used fake identity documents, a valid Moscow-issued passport and cover identity, created very recently and most likely custom-made for the specific operation in Berlin, leading to the possibilities that he may have been assassinated in an operation led by either of the FSB, the GRU or even Ramzan Kadyrov�s apparatus, Bellingcat says - 3 September 2019: Suspected assassin 'Vadim Sokolov' visited by Russian diplomats - 4 September 2019: Protesters demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Berlin against the suspected assassination of Chechen Khangoshvili, as British historian and specialist in Russian Intelligence Services Mark Galeotti sees parallels between this case and the attack on Skripal in the UK, saying that the new case is 'probably an assassination choreographed by state elements in Russia'

Since August 2019 search for Khangoshvili's assassins: 23 August 2019 assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin and international search for Khangoshvili's assassins

December 2019 Germany has expelled Russian regime's employees over the Khangoshvili case: 4 December 2019: Germany has expelled two Russians working at the Russian embassy in Berlin after federal prosecutors took over the case of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili killed in August in Berlin, saying they had concluded that evidence suggests state's involvement

17 February 2020 Russia's FSB planned and organized the murder of Khangoshvili in Berlin, Bellingcat reports: 17 February 2020: Russia's FSB security service planned and organized the murder of Georgian Khangoshvili in Berlin last summer, a killing that triggered diplomatic expulsions from Germany and Moscow, the investigative website Bellingcat said

18 June 2020 German prosecutors file murder charges against Russian FSB's Vadim K.: 18 June 2020: German prosecutors filed murder charges against Russian FSB's Vadim K. alias Vadim S accused in the brazen daylight slaying in Berlin last year of Georgian Zelimkhan Khangoshvili and said that the Russian state ordered the killing

22 August 2020 acutely ill politician and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny in Berlin: 22 August 2020: Politician, anti-corruption activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny arrives in Germany for medical treatment - 22 août 2020: L�opposant russe Navalny a atterri à Berlin où il doit être soigné, après l�opposant russe, possiblement victime d�un empoisonnement, a été évacué par voie aérienne vers l�Allemagne dans la nuit

24 August 2020 Navalny is in serious condition: 24 August 2020: Berlin�s Charité hospital's tests indicate that Alexei Navalny was the victim of a poisoning, clinic has reported in the first medical corroboration of an attempt on the Kremlin critic�s life, while Charité hospital did not identify the specific poison responsible for Navalny�s sudden illness, saying the substance was part of a group that affects the central nervous system, and includes nerve agents and pesticides, and that Navalny is in serious condition, but 'there is currently no acute danger to his life'

Germany/Rwanda relations: Germany/Rwanda relations - 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 - Maji Maji Rebellion 1905-1908 - East African Campaign (World War I) - Rwandan Genocide 1994

Germany/Samoa relations: Germany/Samoa relations

1900-1920 colonial German Samoa: First Samoan Civil War - 1887�1889 Samoan Crisis, confrontation between the USA, Imperial Germany and the British Empire over control of the Samoan Islands during the Samoan Civil War - 1889 Treaty of Berlin meant that Samoa's future was decided by imperial interests - 1899 Tripartite Convention formally partitioned the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a USA territory after years of rivalry between the USA, Imperial Germany and the British Empire - German Samoa 1900-1920 - Mau movement was a non-violent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule during the early 1900s

Germany/Saudi-Arabia relations: Germany/Saudi-Arabia relations

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 2011: Saudi sources confirm German tanks deal - 44 tanks already bought

2012/2013: 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: 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 - NZZ 10. Februar 2013: Saudi-Arabien will deutsche Patrouillenboote im Wert von 1,5 Milliarden Euro kaufen, Voranfrage der Bremer Lürssen Werft vom Bundessicherheitsrat positiv beschieden

2015: 25 January 2015: German government reportedly to stop arms exports to Saudi Arabia - 4 February 2015: German governmnt has approved the delivery of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Egypt - 7 June 2015: Germany accused of paying off Saudi Arabia with weapons to host 2006 World Cup

November 2017: 18 November 2017: Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador to Berlin over Lebanon comments, after German foreign minister S. Gabriel, supporting Hezbollah terrorists, suggested Lebanese PM Saad Hariri was held against his will in Riyadh

October 2018: 19 October 2018: Germany approved half a billion Euros worth of arms sales to Saudi Arabian regime in 2018 - 2 October 2018 disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, later admitted assassination and international reactions

Germany/Senegal relations: Germany/Senegal relations

June 1940: Le 7 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 - 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

Since 1940: On 20 June 1940 Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar Senghor was taken prisoner by the Germans in la Charité-sur-Loire and finally interned at Front Stalag 230 reserved for colonial troops, German soldiers wanted to execute him and the others the same day they were captured, but they escaped this fate by yelling Vive la France, vive l'Afrique noire!, and after French officer told the soldiers that executing the African prisoners would dishonour the Aryan race - 16 juin 2011: Le poète sénégalais Léopold Sédar Senghor raconte dans un rapport son internement au sein des camps de troupes coloniales de 1940 à 1942 - 21 juin 2011: Le sort des tirailleurs sénégalais pendant la campagne de France en mai-juin 1940, et leur massacre par l'armée régulière allemande

Germany/Serbia relations: Germany/Serbia relations - Serbian Campaign - World War I - German invasion of Yugoslavia - World War II - Kragujevac massacre was the murder of Serbian, Jewish and Roma men and boys by German Wehrmacht soldiers on 20 and 21 October 1941 - Serbia under German occupation 1941-1944 - 'Government of National Salvation' German puppet government in Serbia 1941-1944 - Banjica concentration camp - Crveni Krst concentration camp operated by the German Gestapo - Sajmi�te concentration camp - Topovske �upe concentration camp

The Holocaust in Serbia

2014-2018: First World War centenary 2014-2018

Germany/Singapore relations: Germany/Singapore relations - 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

Germany/Slovakia relations: Germany/Slovakia relations

1938 Munich Agreement and 1939-1945 German occupation of Czechoslovakia: Munich Agreement 1938 signed by France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, excluding the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia - 1939-1945 German occupation of Czechoslovakia

1939-1945 Resistance in German-occupied Czechoslovakia: Resistance in German-occupied Czechoslovakia

1939-1945 Slovak Republic client state of Nazi Germany: Slovak Republic 1939�1945, a client state of Nazi Germany - Slovak invasion of Poland September 1939 - World War II and Anti-Comintern Pact - 8 May 1945 Massacre in Trhová Kamenice, German troops escaping from Chrudim back to Nazi Germany passed through the village of Trhová Kamenice where they decided to punish supposed partisans and villagers

History of the Jews in Slovakia, the Slovak Republic 1939-1945 and the Holocaust: History of the Jews in Slovakia - The Slovak Republic and the Holocaust

1944-1946 anti-Jewish violence in Slovakia and Eastern Europe: Anti-Jewish violence in Slovakia and Eastern Europe 1944�46

August-October 1944 Slovak National Uprising: August-October 1944 Slovak National Uprising

2017: 25 March 2017: Auschwitz survivor Edita Grosman recalls horror 75 years on, saying 'I will never be free of it'

Germany/Slovenia relations: Germany/Slovenia relations - Battles of the Isonzo 1915-1917 in World War I - The use of poison gas by the Germans played a key role in the collapse of the Italian Second Army in the Battle of Caporetto 1917, Erwin Rommel (later Hitler's favorite general) won the 'Pour le Mérite' for his role in the battle - Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941 by the Axis Powers in World War II - World War II in Slovene Lands 1941-1945 - In the Frankolovo war crime February 1945 members of German 'Wehrmacht' killed one hundred Slovene civilians - The Holocaust in Slovenia

Resistance movement and Slovene Partisans 1941-1945: Slovene Resistance - Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation - Anti-Nazi resistance movement Slovene Partisans 1941-1945

Germany/Somalia relations:

2015: 21 September 2015: A Somali man launches legal action accusing the USA and Germany of complicity in his father�s death, claiming he was a civilian bystander killed in a USA drone strike in 2012

Germany/Spain relations: Germany/Spain relations

1899: 1899 German�Spanish Treaty between the German Empire and the Kingdom of Spain, with the latter selling the vast majority of its remaining Pacific Ocean islands to Germany for 25 million pesetas

1936-1939: 1936-1939 German involvement in the Spanish Civil War following the military coup of July 1936 against the Spanish democracy, with German dictator Hitler immediately sending in powerful air and armored units to assist General Franco and fascist Spain

1936-1939 Condor Legion: 1936-1939 Condor Legion composed of volunteers from the German Air Force and from the German Army serving the fascists during the civil war and developing methods of terror bombing which were used widely in the Second World War shortly afterwards - Maritime operations - Activities in support of ground forces became the main focus of Condor Legion, until the Republican defeat due to foreign military support against the Republicans and a mainly British policy of appeasement tacitly approving the decisive support against the Spanish Republic

1937 Bombing of Guernica: Bombing of Guernica 1937 by planes of the German 'Condor Legion' and the Italian 'Aviazione Legionaria'

1936-1945: Since November 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact between NSDAP-Germany and the Empire of Japan, formation of so-called 'Axis Powers' including Italy, revised pact including Spain, Hungary, Manchukuo, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, China-Nanjing, Turkey (observer) and World War II - Spanish 'Blue Division' active in the German Army 1941-1943 on the Eastern Front of the Second World War

1968: 28 October 1968: NSDAP/CDU Kurt Georg Kiesinger arrives on the first visit to fascist Spain ever made by a West German chancellor

2012: 13 July 2012: Germany to help Spain give skills to jobless youths as Spain's youth unemployment has soared to 52%

2015: 24 March 2015 Germanwings Airbus 320 Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps - 27 March: Family members of Germanwings Airbus A320 crash victims, mainly from Germany and Spain, arrived at site

April 2017: 26 April 2017: Eighty years after Nazi bombers devastated the Basque town of Guernica, inspiring Pablo Picasso�s famous painting, Madrid city council has removed a last, lingering trace of the most notorious atrocity of the Spanish civil war, dismantling a mausoleum in 'La Almudena' cemetery where seven pilots of the German Condor legion are buried

March 2018: 26 March 2018: Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is to appear in court following his arrest in Germany, which triggered a wave of demonstrations and sit-down protests in all four of Catalonia�s provincial capitals demanding freedom for political prisoners, as in Barcelona hundreds of citizens were beaten by police with batons - 26 March 2018: Former Catalan president Puigdemont has been remanded in custody in northern Germany, as German authorities have 60 days in which to reach a decision on the extradition request, which Puigdemont opposed during Monday�s hearing - 26 March 2018: Spanish spies reportedly 'tracked Carles Puigdemont via friend's phone'

Germany/Sweden relations: Germany/Sweden relations - Economic relations between Sweden and Germany

1914-1918: Swedish neutrality during Word War I 1914-1918

1915 Neutral Swedish ship torpedoed without warning by German submarine: 13 March 1915: First neutral ship Swedish S.S. 'Hanna' torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine

1939-1945 Swedish 'neutrality' and iron mining: Swedish 'neutrality' during Word War I 1939-1945 - Swedish iron mining during World War II - Operation Weserübung's - German occupation of Denmark and Norway - effects on Sweden

Humanitarian efforts during World War II: Sweden's humanitarian efforts during World War II

1975 West German embassy occupation: 24 April 1975 West German embassy occupation in Stockholm carried out by terrorists of the Red Army Faction

Since 1960s 'Ikea' gained from forced labour of political prisoners: 16 November 2012: The Swedish furniture company 'Ikea' used political prisoners as forced labour in the so-called 'German Democratic Republic' from the 1960s to 1980s

2017 Ausonius trial: 2 January 2017: John Ausonius is accused of murdering Blanka Zmigrod in Frankfurt during months-long shooting spree in 1992 - 13 December 2017: Swedish white nationalist Ausonius, whose shooting spree in the 1990s inspired terrorists such as Anders Breivik will go on trial in Germany for an unresolved murder of an Auschwitz survivor in Frankfurt 25 years ago

January 2019: 26 January 2019: Known as the 'the laserman' for using a precision-scope rifle to target immigrants, John Ausonius was in February 2018 found guilty of the murder of 68-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod in Frankfurt in 1992, and is now extradited to Sweden

Germany/Switzerland relations: Germany/Switzerland relations - Switzerland during World War I and World War II - Switzerland's 'neutrality' concerning crimes against humanity - Switzerland's Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts - Controversy over Switzerland's financial relationships with Nazi Germany

Since the 1990s CDU/CSU donations scandal: CDU donations scandal - CDU/CSU-Korruptions-, Spenden- und Schwarzgeldaffäre seit den 90iger Jahren, nicht abgeschlossen

2011/2012 tax evasion amnesty: 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 - 31 March: Swiss authorities issue arrest warrants for 3 German tax inspectors doing their duty to chase German tax cheats - 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 - 11 July: France, Germany tax evasion inquiries target Swiss bank (Credit Suisse and UBS) clients - 11 August: Accusations that Swiss banks (UBS etc.) are helping German citizens dodge taxes grow - 12. August: Vorwurf organisierter Kriminalität Schweizer Banken - 25 September: Efforts by German inspectors to trace tax evader's money in Switzerland are causing tensions between the two nations - 23 November 2012: Germany's upper house rejects deal with Switzerland to tax German assets held in Swiss bank accounts - 12 December 2012: The Swiss-German tax deal designed to regularise the estimated �200bn of undeclared German assets hidden in Swiss bank accounts has finally collapsed

2013/2014 U. Hoeneß tax evasion trial: U. Hoeneß held Swiss bank account for evading 28.5 million Euros in taxes - 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 - 13 March 2014: Munich court convicts Uli Hoeness of tax evasion and sentences him to 3-1/2 years in jail

2013/2014 tax evasion and money-laundering in Switzerland - the Mollath scandal: Tax evasion and money-laundering in Mollath scandal - 8. August 2013: Verschiebung von Schwarzgeldern einer Angestellten der Nürnberger Hypo-Vereinsbank in die Schweiz der Beginn des Falls Mollath, 7 Jahre in den Fängen einer bösartigen, politisch manipulierten Psychiatrie

2015: 2015 'Volkswagen' scandale lié à l'utilisation par le groupe Volkswagen entre 2009 et 2015 d'un logiciel diminuant frauduleusement les émissions polluantes d'un de ses moteurs diesel lors des contrôles d'homologation - 25 septembre 2015: La Suisse a interdit la commercialisation de véhicules du groupe allemand 'Volkswagen' qui présentent des moteurs truqués

Germany/Syria relations: Germany/Syria relations - Chemical warfare since World War I - Nerve agent 'Sarin' discovered 1938 in Germany by IG Farben

Syrians in Germany: Syrians in Germany refers to Syrian immigrants to Germany, as well as their descendants, including Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Assyrians as well as smaller minorities from Syria, the number of Syrians in Germany is estimated at around 360,000 people in December 2015 and consists mainly of refugees of Assad's war against the Syrian people

2013: 24 August 2013: Initial Western intelligence finds Assad forces used chemical weapons - 4/5 September: A Hezbollah official has said Bashar al-Assad ordered poison gas attack near Damascus on August 21, according to German spy agency - 17 September: The UN has confirmed that the chemical used in Damascus last month was sarin, one of the most murderous weapons in modern warfare with a deadly history - 18 September 2013: Germany exported 111 tons of chemicals to Syria between 2002 and 2006 that could be used in the production of sarin gas, according to a government document - 1 October: Germany delivered 350 tons of "dual-use" chemicals until 2011 to Syria - 27 December: Three months after the sarin chemical attack on al-Ghouta, in which some 1,500 people died, Dr Ali Abu Emad recalls the day

2014: 20 March 2014: According to OPCW, German companies shall have the Assad regime supplied technology for the production of chemical weapons from 1982 to 1993 - 20 March 2014: Prosecutors probe exporting equipment to Syria following reports that German firms played larger role in Syria's chemical weapons program - 20 May: Holocaust survivors call on Germany to take in more Syrian refugees - 20 May: Holocaust survivors call on Germany to take in more Syrian refugees - 12 October 2014: In the city of Duesseldorf more than 20,000 Kurds protested against attacks by Islamic State terrorists on Kurdish towns in Syria, particularly the besiegement of the town of Kobane

December 2014: 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 January: German companies reportedly helped the Syrian Assad regime (father and son Bashar) and Iraqi Saddam regime produce chemical weapons programs - 10 March 2015: A delegation of Syrian women attended the World Conference for Women held in Berlin and organized by the Iranian opposition - 8 June 2015: Despite Western sanctions, Assad's military forces and militias in possession of munitions from Germany, China, Egypt, Russia and USA (including cluster munitions used against many Syrian cities), leaked report claims - 19 June 2015: A hundred years since WW I 70 countries across the planet united in a letter, organized by Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, to express outrage over the Syrian regime's systematic use of barrel bombs and to demand an end to the deadly, indiscriminate attacks - 20 August 2015: Syrian Coalition calls for sit-in in Berlin on 2nd anniversary of Ghouta chemical massacre, to show solidarity with August 2015 Douma massacre victims, to pay homage to the victims of the 2013 Ghouta massacre and to all victims of Assad�s war on the Syrian people, and to decry the international silence and passiveness - 14 September: First Syrians halted minutes after German checks begin enforcing again asylum rules, that had been relaxed for those fleeing brutal civil war - 10 October: Syrian Coalition and the Syrian community in Germany call to join the demonstration in Berlin on 17 October to protest against the Russian invasion of Syria and Putin�s support for the dictator Assad - 19 October 2015: Demonstrations in Berlin to protest against Russia�s aggression on Syria - 3 December 2015: Evidence of oil and food transactions, including items imported from Russia, between the Assad regime and Islamic State terrorists reported by German Foreign Ministry and Syrian officer - 4 December: German parliament backs plan to join USA-led anti-Isis military campaign and to provide support staff and reconnaissance jets, but Germans will not actively engage in combat

2016: 8 February 2016: Germany's Angela Merkel 'horrified' by suffering under Russian airstrikes, deploring casualties as Russia-backed regime advances on Aleppo in what Turkey PM calls 'inhumane attack� - 13 February 2016: While Western leaders are not criminally responsible for the deaths of 470,000 Syrians so far murdered by the Assad regime since 2011, his helpers from Iran and Hezbollah and the Russian fighter jets bombing from high, it has happened on their watch and to a large degree through their inaction, Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' says - 23 February 2016: About 4,500 people including 366 civilians were killed over 17 months since the beginning of USA-led coalition airstrikes on Syria - 2 April 2016: Syrian Coalition�s representative to Germany Bassam al-Abdullah calls upon the Friends of the Syrian People Group and sponsors of the political process to deter the Assad regime�s repeated breaches of the ceasefire agreement, especially after the horrible massacre regime forces committed in Deir al-Assafir - 19 April 2016: 'Children of Syria� traces family from war-torn Aleppo to refuge in Germany

2017: 7 February 2017: Dubbed 'Monument', a sculpture - three passenger buses placed vertically like sniper barricades - in Dresden aims to evoke the barricades set up in the war-torn eastern city of Aleppo and the suffering of the people of Syria, the birthplace of artist Manaf Halbouni - 3 March 2017: Seven Syrian torture survivors, two lawyers and a human rights group have filed a criminal complaint in Germany against officials of Bashar al-Assad's secret service

January/February 2018: 23 January 2018: German government faces a slew of criticism over German-made tanks that Turkish regime deployed in its military offensive against Kurds in Syria, as some politicians call for an immediate halt to arms exports to Turkey and nixing a key deal - 29 January 2018: Turkish regime confirms use of German tanks in Afrin offensive against Kurds in Syria, criticized as illegal also by German lawmakers - 22 February 2018: Germany's Angela Merkel calls for end to 'massacre' in Syria, condemning the Syrian regime for targeting 'its own people', 'the killing of children, the destruction of hospitals'

March 2018: 7 March 2018: Syrian refugees and German politicians condemned a visit to Damascus by members of anti-immigrant 'Alternative for Germany' party, also meeting with Syria�s Grand Mufti Hassoun, who in 2011 threatened Europe and the USA with suicide bombers

8 March 2018: USA Holocaust Museum insists that Syrian carnage must be compared with the Shoah, as Cameron Hudson, curator of a new exhibit about the atrocities in Syria currently on show in Washington, says the museum doesn�t exist only to tell the story of the dead but also to teach lessons for the future

April 2018: 8 April 2018: Haaretz' Anshel Pfeffer describes how the West failed to prevent one Syrian chemical attack after another, saying that in the history of war, no war crime has been so well documented and so predictable to those who had it in their power to prevent it from recurring - 10 April 2018: The chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum, Avner Shalev, condemns an alleged chemical strike on a Syrian rebel-held town by Assad�s regime, calling it a 'wild attack on civilians' and charging that international organizations established after World War II to prevent a second Holocaust have failed

June 2018: 8 juin 2018: Le parquet fédéral allemand a émis à la suite de plaintes déposées par des Syriens réfugiés un mandat d'arrêt international contre Djamil Hassan, un des principaux lieutenants d'Assad, accusé de crimes contre l'humanité et de crimes de guerre - 15 June 2018: Assad�s property law delivers blow to hope of return for Syrians in Germany, as rights groups say Syrians risk becoming permanent exiles if they lose their property because it would remove a major incentive to return one day

September 2018: 10 September 2018: As at the request of the USA Germany�s government is examining possible options for joining USA, British and French forces in any future military action if the Syrian Assad regime again uses chemical weapons, SPD's Nahles rejects any German participation against a renewed rupture of civilisation using chemical weapons, wanting to be friendly Sarin-Polonium-Novichok Putin, after SPD's Heiko Maas called Russian murderous regime 'an important partner'

October 2018: 5 October 2018: Authorities in western Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia are 'apologizing' for mistakenly jailing a Syrian man who died following a fire in his cell after more than two months in custody - 20 October 2018: After the death of a Syrian prisoner in a cell fire in the prison Kleve, the opposition demands the resignation of North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of Justice Peter Biesenbach (CDU), saying 'he has misinformed Parliament and the public on a very central question'

March 2019: 8 March 2019: SPD Niels Annen, a minister of state at the German foreign ministry, told German magazine that terror group Hezbollah, allied with Syria's Assad and Iranian regime, is an important element in Lebanon�s society

June 2019: 25 June 2019: Despite European Union sanctions, German companies including BASF, Sasol Solvents Germany GmbH and Brenntag AG were involved in exporting weapons-grade chemicals, used in the production of chemical weapons and nerve agents such as VX and sarin gas, to Syria's Assad regime in the midst of Assad's war, according to a media report

October 2019 two Syrian regime's torturer charged with crimes against humanity: 29 October 2019: German prosecutors have charged two Syrians with crimes against humanity that include torturing and killing opposition activists, setting the stage for the first trial of suspected members of Bashar al-Assad's feared security service

March 2020 German court's criminal torture trial against Assad regime: 11 March 2020: German court of Koblenz announced world�s first criminal torture trial by suspected agents of Assad�s regime will begin on 23 April, saying it will apply the principle of universal jurisdiction, in a move that is sending an important signal to survivors and those affected by Assad regime�s system of mass oppression of citizens

21/23 April 2020 Syria refugees face their torturers in German court: 21 April 2020: This week Wassim Mukdad, who fled Syria fearing for his life, will come face-to-face with the man accused of running a regime detention center where Mukdad and thousands of others were tortured during the early months of the uprising against dictator Assad, as dozen witnesses will testify in trial in Koblenz - 23 April 2020: Anwar R. and Eyad A., accused of crimes against humanity, are first Assad regime representatives to face justice abroad after testimony from several Syrian refugees and torture victims reporting torture, now represented as co-plaintiffs in the case as allowed under German law

26 April 2020 Anwar Raslan charged with overseeing the murder of 58 people and the torture of 4,000 others: 26 April 2020: Main defendant Anwar Raslan in the first trial on regime-sponsored torture in Syria has sought police protection in Germany on the grounds of feeling threatened by Bashar Assad�s intelligence services for having switched sides, a German court was told on Friday, now in the docks charged with overseeing the murder of 58 people and the torture of 4,000 others while in charge of the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus, after in January 2011 Assad's soldiers began carrying out arbitrary arrests

23 June 2020 Syrian doctor Alaa M arrested in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity: 23 June 2020: 9 years later, Syrian doctor arrested in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity, as suspect, identified as Alaa M, accused of torturing man in prison run by Syrian intelligence service in 2011 - 23 June 2020: Father in Idlib of Syrian Yousef, who has been detained for about 7 years by the Assad regime, dies while looking at leaked photos of detainees tortured to death

6 October 2020 human rights groups ask Germany to probe Syria chemical attacks 2013 and 2017: 6 October 2020: Human rights groups ask Germany to probe Syria chemical attacks, as 3 organizations - including Open Society Justice Initiative, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression and the group Syrian Archive - want German AG to investigate deadly sarin attacks on Eastern Ghouta in 2013 and Khan Shaykhun in 2017, arguing there is enough evidence to blame regime and Assad - 6 October 2020: A group of NGOs has submitted a criminal complaint to the German courts over sarin gas attacks in Syria, a legal milestone which marks the first step on the long road to holding Bashar al-Assad�s regime accountable for its use of chemical weapons

Germany/Tanzania relations: Germany/Tanzania relations

1891-1919 German East Africa: 1891-1919 German East Africa, German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included what are now Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of present Tanzania

1905-1907 Maji Maji Rebellion: 1905-1907 Maji Maji Rebellion, armed rebellion against German colonial rule in German East Africa, triggered by a German policy designed to force the indigenous population to grow cotton for export

Since the 1890s German 'Mittelafrika' plans: Since the 1890s 'Mittelafrika' German plans to bring Belgian, French and Portuguese colonies in central, east and western Africa under German domination, incorporated into Germany's aims in World War I - 1914 'Septemberprogramm', the plan for the territorial expansion of Imperial Germany, prepared for Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg at the beginning of World War I 1914�1918 supported by all German political parties - Since 1887 German Colonial Society

1914-1918 German East African Campaign in World War I: 1914-1918 German East African Campaign in World War I - Battles of the East African Campaign

Casualties of German East African Campaign: Hundreds of thousands mostly African native people died during the East African Campaign

Post-war German East Africa forces' Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck: Commander of the German East Africa campaign's forces Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck returned home to Germany in early March 1919 to a hero's welcome, following World War II 1939-1945 four barracks of the 'Bundeswehr' in Leer, Hamburg-Jenfeld, Bremen, and Bad Segeberg and many streets were named after Lettow-Vorbeck

2018: 17 May 2018: Germany moves slowly on returning museum exhibits to ex-colonies, as the skeleton of the Brachiosaurus brancai, dug up between 1909 and 1913 in Tanzania, then part of the German empire�s largest colony, remains the star of Berlin�s natural history museum

November 2019 British mass burial grounds dishonoured its African first world war dead: 3 November 2019: British MP visited Kenya and Tanzania for a Remembrance Day TV documentary and found mass burial grounds that put Britain to shame, after over the decades, hundreds of thousands of war dead who served Britain in the first world war have been written out of the story

Germany/Thailand relations: Germany/Thailand relations

1939-1945 Axis powers World War II and Thailand's military alliance: 1939-1945 Axis powers World War II and Thailand's military alliance with Japan 1941�1945

June 2014 Thai 'ghost ships' enslaving workers linked to supermarkets in USA, UK, Europe: 10 June 2014: Thai 'ghost ships' that enslave, brutalise and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain producing prawns for supermarkets in USA, UK, Europe, including Walmart, Carrefour, Costco, Tesco, Aldi, Morrisons, the Co-operative and Iceland

Germany/Togo relations:

1884-1916 Togoland, 'protectorate' of the German Empire: 1884-1916 Togoland, 'protectorate' of the German Empire encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana, established during the period generally known as the 'Scramble for Africa' in 1884 in part of what was then the 'Slave Coast'

1914-1918 African theatre of World War I: 1914-1918 African theatre of World War I - August 1914 Togoland Campaign was a French and British invasion of the German colony of Togoland, in 1916 Togoland was partitioned by the victors and in July 1922 British Togoland and French Togoland were established as League of Nations mandates

Germany/Tunisia relations: Germany/Tunisia relations

1940-1943 North African and Tunisia Campaign during World War II: North African Campaign 1940-1943 including campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia between German/Italian Axis powers and assaulted Allies - 1942-1943 Tunisia Campaign, a series of battles during the North African Campaign of World War II between Allied forces and forces of Italy and Germany, led by Hitler's general Erwin Rommel

1943: February 1943 'Battle of Sidi Bou Zid' took place during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II and was fought between forces of Nazi Germany and forces of the USA - Sidi Bouzid was the site of the battle which took place in February 1943, part of the Tunisia Campaign of World War II, beginning on 14 February 1943 at nearby Faid Pass when the German 10th and 21st Panzer Divisions attacked elements of the USA 1st Armored Division and 168th Infantry

1914-present Sfax War Cemetery from World War I and II: Sfax War Cemetery contains one Commonwealth burial from World War I, 1253 Commonwealth burials from World War II (52 of them unidentified), and the grave of one Greek soldier from World War II

Germany/Turkey relations: Germany/Turkey relations

Since 2 August 1914 Ottoman�German alliance: Since 2 August 1914 Ottoman�German alliance

October 1914 Ottoman-German attack on Russian ports and entry into World War I: 29 October 1914 Black Sea Raid, an Ottoman naval sortie against Russian ports in the Black Sea, supported by Germany (including the SPD) and conceived by Ottoman War Minister Enver Pasha, German Admiral Wilhelm Souchon and the German foreign ministry, that led to the Ottoman entry into World War I - October 1914 Ottoman entry into World War I 1914-1918, starting with a German supported attack against Russian ports

1914-1918 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, there were five main campaigns, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign 28 January 1915 � 30 October 1918, the Mesopotamian Campaign 6 November 1914 � 14 November 1918, the Caucasus Campaign 24 October 1914 � 30 October 1918, the Persian Campaign December 1914 � October 1918, and the Gallipoli Campaign 25 April 1915 � 9 January 1916

1939-1945: 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, Turkey observer - 18 June 1941 German-Turkish Non-Aggression Pact in World War II intended to be in force for a period of ten years, lasted only until 24 October 1945

Since the 1960s: Turks in Germany since the 1960s - Mordanschlag von Mölln November 1992 - Solingen arson attack of 1993

Since 2000: NSU Neonazi-Mordserie 2000-2006 - 31 March 2013: Turkish FM Davutoglu asks German counterpart Westerwelle to assist in letting Turkish officials and journalists attend the NSU case - 1 August 2013: Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) discussed a secret plan with Margaret Thatcher in 1982 to reduce the number of Turks living in West Germany by 50%

2012: 23./26. November 2012: Bundespräsident Gauck hat ein Treffen mit den Opferfamilien der NSU-Morde abgelehnt und schlägt eine Bitte der Türkischen Gemeinde für ein persönliches Treffen zum Jahrestag der Aufdeckung der NSU-Mordserie aus

2015: 15 January 2015: Turkish PM Davutoglu compares Israel's PM Binyamin Netanyahu to 2015 Paris terror attackers murdering Jews, journalists and police officers - 25 April 2015: As Armenia marks 1915 Armenian Genocide, it is also called genocide in Turkey's World War I partner Germany

2016: 2 June 2016: After German MPs approved a motion, with one abstention and one vote against, describing the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman forces a century ago as genocide, Turkey has recalled its ambassador from Berlin - 1 August 2016: Turkish government condemns German court decision banning Erdogan from addressing his supporters by video link at a rally in Cologne amid the crackdown on the media and freedom of expression by the same government, condemned by leading press freedom bodies

2017: 1 March 2017: Angela Merkel is facing calls to ban the Turkish president Erdogan from entering for campaigning on German soil for the abolition of democracy while German journalist Deniz Yücel continues to be held in an Istanbul prison as part of Erdogan�s crackdown on the press - 2/3 March 2017: After German cities blocked pro-Erdogan rallies citing 'security reasons', German town Gaggenau that cancelled Turkish event receives bomb threat - 11 August/11 September 2017: Despite ongoing tension between over a German visit to military bases in Turkey, the detention of several German journalists, rights activists and Turkish asylum seekers, German firms sold Turkey more than 25 million euros worth of arms and ammunition since January 2017

January/February 2018 German Leopard tanks in Turkey's Afrin operation in Syria: 30 January 2018: Turkey confirms use of German Leopard tanks in Afrin operation in Syria, illegal under international law - 13 February 2018: Despite the pending approval, Rheinmetall brings the upgrade of Turkey's 'Leopard 2' tanks on the way

February 2018 detained German journalists: 16 February 2017: German reporter Deniz Yucel, detained as part of Erdogan's clampdown on civil society for more than a year, freed from Turkish jail pending trial, as others, including several Germans, remain in Turkish custody - 18 February 2018: German politician Özdemir given police protection at MSC, after Turkish delegation in Munich had complained to police that there was obviously a 'terrorist' staying in the hotel

February 2018 Germany approves 31 arms deals with Turkey: 26 February 2018: Germany approves 31 arms deals with Turkey - 27 February 2018: Under a contract signed with German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, Turkey is constructing a fleet of six new Type 214 air-independent propulsion submarines, the first submarine in the class is now expected to be delivered to the navy in 2021

March 2018 rising German arms sales to Turkey: 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 - 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

17 October 2019 German arms exports to Turkey rising: 17 October 2019: German arms exports to Turkey at 14-year high, data shows, despite an EU resolution to limit arms sales to Turkey's regime, on track to top the list of countries buying German weapons

26 October 2019 foreign minister's bloody hands: 26 October 2019: Turkish regime's Cavusoglu and German foreign minister Heiko Maas shake bloody hands at a joint news conference in Ankara, emphasizing German defense minister's proposal for an international security and safe zone under the UN umbrella on the Turkish-Syrian border, this means a peaceful solution, is 'unrealistic', after Kurds in Germany could speak in German TV, and after journalists on 20 October 2019 discussed Assad's war against the Syrian people and foreign involvements (Hezbollah terrorists, Iran, Russia and Turkey) since 2011 and since 9 October

27 October 2019 attacks against Kurds in Germany: 27 October 2019: Supporters of Erdogan's offensive 'Peace Spring' against Syrian Kurds in Germany reportedly burn the farm of a Kurdish activist, try to assassinate another

Germany/Ukraine relations: Germany/Ukraine relations

1914-1918 German and Austro-Hungarian empire's WWI split Ukrainians into two separate and opposing armies: Ukraine during World War I - Ukrainian State 29 April 1918 - December 1918

1939-1945 German empire's and Axis powers' World War II: Ukraine during World War II 1939-1945 - Quartermaster general of the German 'Wehrmacht' 1939-1944 - '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 - 'Einsatzgruppen' SS paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II - German war crimes in WW II - War crimes of the Wehrmacht

Battle of Kiev 1941 and 'Reichskommissariat' Ukraine 1941-1944: Battle of Kiev 1941 - 'Reichskommissariat' Ukraine 1941-1944 - 'Ost-Arbeiter' was a designation for slave workers gathered from Central and Eastern Europe to do forced labor in Germany during World War II, Ukrainians made up the largest portion and estimates put the number of Ostarbeiters between 3 million and 5.5 million - Forced labour under German rule during World War II - Ukrainian collaborationism with the Axis powers

The Holocaust in Ukraine: The Holocaust in Ukraine - Babi Yar - Ukrainian collaborators with Nazi Germany - 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Ukrainian) 1943-1945

Ukrainian resistance movement, Soviet partisans and Insurgent Army: Soviet partisans in Ukraine - Ukrainian Insurgent Army

2013 violent crackdown of pro-European protest: 30. November 2013: Spezialeinheiten der ukrainischen Polizei haben in der Nacht gewaltsam eine Demonstration für einen EU-Kurs des Landes aufgelöst

April 2014 Holocaust commemorated in Donetsk as mobs roam the streets: 28 April 2014: Holocaust commemorated in Donetsk as mobs roam the streets - 29 April 2014: After their attack on a peaceful Donetsk demonstration, injuring 25 people, pro-Russian separatists kidnapped seven participants of the pro-Ukrainian rally - 29 September: Ukrainian people will not allow reanimation of fascism, and the Babyn Yar tragedy should serve as a reminder, Petro Poroshenko says during a ceremony of honoring the victims of Babyn Yar