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Stained glass windows that were deemed too controversial to display are now being shown in France after they were rediscovered in Notre Dame after a major fire. They have long been hidden from view, after being removed in 1939, and parts of them were rediscovered in boxes after the fire that tore through Notre Dame five years ago. The windows were initially considered too modern to display due to their bright colours and figurative style, but visitors to the Centre for Stained Glass in Troyes in north-eastern France can see them through to next year. The works, by 12 artists, recall Cubism in ...
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Stained glass windows that were deemed too controversial to display are now being shown in France after they were rediscovered in Notre Dame after a major fire. They have long been hidden from view, after being removed in 1939, and parts of them were rediscovered in boxes after the fire that tore through Notre Dame five years ago. The windows were initially considered too modern to display due to their bright colours and figurative style, but visitors to the Centre for Stained Glass in Troyes in north-eastern France can see them through to next year. The works, by 12 artists, recall Cubism in ...
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Grappling with the dark Nazi past of his own family deeply shaped German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, he says in a new magazine interview set to be published on Thursday. "Even as a teenager, I was intensively involved with the history of my family," Habeck told Bunte magazine. Habeck's great-grandfather Walter Granzow (1887-1952) belonged to the innermost leadership circle of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's regime and was a close friend of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. He was also a brigade leader in the notorious Nazi SS paramilitary and was convicted as a war criminal after World...
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A phosphorus bomb from World War II that was discovered on a construction site at Frankfurt Airport was successfully defused, a police spokesman said on Friday. The decades-old bomb was discovered during construction work around the new Terminal 3. Incendiary bombs containing white phosphorus were used on a large scale against Germany during World War II. An exclusion zone was set up in a radius of around 1,000 metres around the site of the discovery. The A5 motorway that runs near the airport was temporarily closed due to the bomb disposal operation. The airport advised passengers to leave en...
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A bomb dating back to World War II was found on the grounds of Frankfurt Airport on Friday. Police say it is a phosphorus bomb that was discovered during construction work. Incendiary bombs containing white phosphorus were used on a large scale during World War II. The bomb was to be detonated in a controlled manner in the late afternoon or evening. A radius of around 1,000 metres around the site was cordoned off in advance. Neither air traffic nor the roads around the airport have been affected so far, a spokesman said. There have been no evacuations.
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The trial of German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck for inciting hatred began on Friday at the Hamburg District Court. The 95-year-old, who is a prominent figure in right-wing extremist circles, was sentenced to 10 months in prison by the Hamburg District Court on November 12, 2015. She appealed, and almost nine years later the case is once again before the courts. The public prosecutor's office in Hamburg has charged Haverbeck with two counts of incitement of the people. On April 21, 2015, on the fringes of the trial of former SS member Oskar Gröning, Haverbeck is said to have told journali...
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Eight Holocaust survivors have appealed to young people in an open letter to use their vote in favour of democracy. "For millions of you, the European elections are the first election in your lives; For many of us, it could be the last," read the letter published in the German capital Berlin on Tuesday. "Give democracy a chance. Go and vote. Let's show together that 'Never again' is not just a phrase, but a promise. A promise that also applies today. And tomorrow. And forever." The signatories include 102-year-old Georg Stefan Troller, along with other contemporary witnesses Leon Weintraub, Wa...
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Eight Holocaust survivors have appealed to young people in an open letter to use their vote in favour of democracy. "For millions of you, the European elections are the first election in your lives; For many of us, it could be the last," read the letter published in the German capital Berlin on Tuesday. "Give democracy a chance. Go and vote. Let's show together that 'Never again' is not just a phrase, but a promise. A promise that also applies today. And tomorrow. And forever." The signatories include 102-year-old Georg Stefan Troller, along with other contemporary witnesses Leon Weintraub, Wa...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to attend a commemoration next Thursday of the Allied D-Day landings of troops in German-occupied France during World War II, a spokesman confirmed. Scholz will join the event at Omaha Beach in Normandy in the north of France at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, Wolfgang Büchner, the deputy spokesman for Scholz's government, said on Friday. Allied soldiers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Poland and France landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, despite fierce resistance from Nazi German troops. US President Jo...
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Berlin's world-famous Pergamon Museum, which is closed for several years of renovation work, is seeking to maintain its presence through international collaborations, one of the museum's directors said on Friday during a tour of the construction site. "We want to remain visible," said Barbara Helwing, director of the Near East Museum. Cooperation with other Berlin museums are already planned. Discussions were also under way about loans to institutions such as the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the British Museum in London. The ...
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