Websites of several German airports not reachable
February 16, 2023 GMTBERLIN (AP) — The internet sites of several German airports were disrupted on Thursday after what may have been a hacker attack, German news agency dpa reported.
The disruptions did not appear to have an immediate impact on the country's air traffic, the agency said.
Holocaust memorial: Kristallnacht photos were already seen
November 13, 2022 GMTJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial acknowledged Sunday that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week.
Bayern, Chelsea teens play in Holocaust memorial tournament
July 31, 2022 GMTNUREMBERG, Germany (AP) — Silence endured long after Holocaust survivor Shaul Paul Ladany had finished speaking to some of the most talented young soccer players in Europe.
The 86-year-old Ladany hadn’t even mentioned that he completed a half-marathon 10 days before.
MATCHDAY: Dortmund in German Cup action to start new season
July 28, 2022 GMTA look at what’s happening in European soccer on Friday:
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European soccer restarts in earnest for the new season with Bundesliga teams Borussia Dortmund and Stuttgart playing lower-league opposition in the first round of the German Cup.
Horrific deja vu in Ukraine for those who fled other wars
March 4, 2022 GMTNUREMBERG, Germany (AP) — When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, a Syrian student in the city of Kharkiv joined the exodus of people fleeing the onslaught. It was the third time that 24-year-old Orwa Staif, who grew up in the suburbs of Damascus, was being displaced by war and crises.
Truck driver rams cars in Germany, 31 vehicles damaged
February 9, 2022 GMTBERLIN (AP) — An intoxicated truck driver rammed his vehicle into parked cars after ignoring a red light in southern Germany, shoving cars up against buildings and causing some of them to catch fire, police said.
German police: Train attacker stabbed passengers ‘at random’
November 7, 2021 GMTVIENNA (AP) — A 27-year-old man who stabbed four people with a knife on a German high-speed train apparently attacked his victims “at random” and showed signs of mental illness, authorities said Sunday.
Knife attack on German train severely injures 3 people
November 6, 2021 GMTBERLIN (AP) — A knife attack on a high-speed train in Germany left three people severely wounded, the Bavarian Red Cross said Saturday. Police said a man has been arrested in connection with the morning attack.
Biden on hand to rededicate The Dodd Center for Human Rights
October 15, 2021 GMTThe Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut was officially rededicated Friday as The Dodd Center for Human Rights to honor the late U.S. senator and Nuremberg prosecutor as well as his son, former U.S.
Biden to visit UConn for dedication of Dodd Center
October 12, 2021 GMTSTORRS, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to visit the University of Connecticut Friday for the dedication of a human rights center named after former U.S. Sens. Thomas and Christopher Dodd.
The Dodd Center for Human Rights serves as an umbrella home for the school's human rights programs and archives.
German police arrest suspect after highway bus incident
September 21, 2021 GMTBERLIN (AP) — A Serbian man was arrested in southern Germany on Tuesday after an altercation on board a Serbia-bound bus and an ensuing standoff led to the closure of a section of highway in Bavaria, police said.
John Davis, real singer behind Milli Vanilli, dies at 66
May 28, 2021 GMTCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — John Davis, one of the real singers behind the lip-synching pop duo Milli Vanilli, died of the coronavirus this week, according to his family. He was 66.
Davis died on Monday in Nuremberg, Germany, where he had lived and performed for a long time, his daughter Jasmin Davis said in a Facebook post.
Beam me up? Bavarian governor eyes top job after Merkel
February 19, 2021 GMTNUREMBERG, Germany (AP) — Markus Soeder is many things: the state governor of Bavaria, a conservative who believes in combating climate change, and a Star Trek fan...
Germany marks 75th anniversary of landmark Nuremberg trials
November 19, 2020 GMTBERLIN (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, the dock of Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was packed with some of the most nefarious figures of the 20th Century: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 other high-ranking Nazis...
German privacy watchdog fines H&M $41M for spying on workers
October 1, 2020 GMTBERLIN (AP) — A German privacy watchdog said Thursday that it is fining clothing retailer H&M 35...
Wirtz is youngest scorer in Bundesliga at 17 years, 34 days
June 6, 2020 GMTBERLIN (AP) — Bayer Leverkusen substitute Florian Wirtz has become the youngest person to score a goal in the Bundesliga at age 17 years, 34 days, with an impressive strike against Bayern Munich on Saturday.
Lives Lost: Veteran guarded Nazis during war crimes trial
May 28, 2020 GMTEmilio DiPalma was, as he liked to say, just a kid from western Massachusetts when he found himself in a front-row seat to history as a courtroom guard in Nuremberg, Germany, during the first and most famous trial of Nazi war criminals in 1945...
Last German honored for saving Jews during Holocaust dies
March 22, 2020 GMTBERLIN (AP) — Gertrud Steinl, the last surviving German honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust, has died...
Public to get access to Nuremberg trials digital recordings
October 10, 2019 GMTPARIS (AP) — Audio recordings from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders will be made available to the public for the first time in digital form after nearly two years of work conducted in secret...
A brief history of German neo-Nazi group NSU
July 10, 2018 GMTMUNICH (AP) — German authorities blame the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground for a string of violent crimes including the racially motivated killing of nine men, the killing of a policewoman, two bombings and more than a dozen bank robberies over a period of almost 14 years.
German woman writes apology to US man who lost home to Nazis
October 25, 2017 GMTMAPLEWOOD, New Jersey (AP) — Peter Hirschmann has often recounted his own story of fleeing Germany as a teenager to escape Adolf Hitler's persecution of the Jews, then joining the U...
Germany: woman argues she didn’t damage ‘crossword’ art work
August 3, 2016 GMTBERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for an elderly woman who filled in spaces on an art work depicting part of a crossword at a German museum says she contends that she was completing the piece, not damaging it...
The alleged victims of far-right terror in Germany
May 6, 2013 GMTMUNICH (AP) — The highest profile trial of neo-Nazis in years began Monday in Munich, with four men and a woman facing charges in the killings of nine ethnic minority businessmen — eight Turks and one Greek — and a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007.