Tories may pull out troops from Germany British
troops could be withdrawn from Germany by a future Tory government if other
Nato states agreed to take over the UK's commitments there, the shadow defence
secretary, Liam Fox, has said.
Fox said it is "no longer necessary" to keep 20,000 military personnel in
Germany, nearly 70 years after the end of the second world war. Ending the
deployment would free up forces to carry out vital Nato operations outside
Europe, he said. - Read article
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Reuters - News - 17.11.2009
German
expellees leader raises pressure on Merkel
FRANKFURT, Nov 17 (Reuters) - German conservative politician Erika Steinbach
on Tuesday reaffirmed her desire to head a new World War Two museum, raising
the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to settle a major dispute within
her coalition.
Steinbach, head of the League of Expellees and a member of Merkel's Christian
Democrats (CDU), has been a driving force behind the museum, which will
depict the plight of Germans and other groups forced out of eastern Europe
after the war. - Read 2 articles
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Deutsche Welle - DW-World.de -
European Union - 12.10.2009
Germans
criticize Czech demand for Lisbon Treaty opt-out
With Poland's signature on the Lisbon Treaty in the bag, there is just one
left to collect. But that is easier said than done, as the president of
the Czech Republic appears at pains to demonstrate.
Euroskeptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus chose his moment well. Just hours
before Poland became a signatory to the much-talked about European treaty,
... - Read article ...
Raped
by Red Army soldiers, they talk for the first time
The women were in their 20s when they were raped by Red Army soldiers invading
Germany at the end of World War II. Sixty years later, close to two million
women are talking about their ordeal for the very first time.
"The Americans retreated from the East German town of Halle and the Russians
marched in. ... -
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Spiegel Online - International,
09 Mar. 2009
ERIKA STEINBACH AND GERMAN
VICTIMS OF WWII
'I Want the Truth,
and Nothing But' Erika Steinbach is
a hated figure in Poland. She has dedicated her career to documenting the
suffering of Germans expelled from Eastern Europe following World War II.
SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to her about the most recent flare up in Berlin-Warsaw
relations and about what Poles must still learn about history.
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article ...
The New York Times Company,
26 Feb. 2009
Facing German Suffering,
and Not Looking Away MALBORK,
Poland — The damp mud falls away easily from the long thighbone jutting
out of the dirt wall of the trench at the gentle prod of the shovel’s tip.
Beyond the mass grave filled with the skeletal remains of some 2,000 people,
presumed to be Germans who died in the closing months of World War II, stands
the red-brick fortress of the Teutonic Knights that was once one of Germany’s
greatest landmarks until it was forced to cede the territory to Poland after
the war. -
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Spiegel-Online - International
- 08.01.2009
MALBORK
MASSACRE World War II Mass
Grave Unearthed in Poland
The Polish city of Malbork has found a mass grave with the remains of some
1,800 people, thought to be former German residents of the town. They apparently
died as the Red Army marched through Poland -- and some of them appear to
have been executed. -
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Photos
of the mass grave in Marienburg (Malbork) ...
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