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Barack Obama’s speech in front of Berlin’s Victory Column is about to begin. Here’s an open thread for it; the crowd looks enormous. The history of the Victory Column makes it a rather peculiar choice for this speech. The Victory Column originally stood in Königsplatz (now Platz der Republik), ...
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Can you blame him? A man has torn the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin’s Madame Tussauds museum today. A police spokesman said that the man, 41, had ripped off the head in protest at the exhibit. The waxwork figure ...
It’s looking more and more like the bad old days of the 1930s in Europe: Smoke bomb thrown into Jewish kindergarten in Berlin. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BERLIN (EJP)—- A tragedy was avoided on Sunday after a smoke bomb, thrown through a window of a Jewish kindergarten in Berlin, ...
Man stabs 20 at opening of Berlin train station. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BERLIN (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man attacked people streaming out of a gala ceremony for Berlin’s new central rail station on Friday night, injuring up to 20 before being arrested, police said. “A crazy man ran down ...
Youths are rioting in Berlin: Police brought in as teachers lose control at Berlin school. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) BERLIN - Violence at a Berlin school dominated by Arab and Turkish youths and the nearby slaying of police officer, shot in the head while trying to arrest muggers, has fuelled alarm ...