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Times Online Business, 08.01.09 00:06 UTC

Adolf Merckle couldn’t bear pressure of possible sale of family business

Fewer than 12,000 people live in the south German village of Blaubeuren, but only one of them ever made it onto Forbes list of the internationally wealthy: Adolf Merckle, the entrepreneuer who thrwew ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 24.12.08 05:34 UTC

German Christmas markets sparkle in season

NUREMBERG, Germany -- This time of year, the Christmas spirit descends on Germany's cities and towns in the form of wooden stalls laden with pretzels, toys and baked goods of all shapes and sizes. ...

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WashingtonPost Top Stories, 21.12.08 20:30 UTC

Bah, Humbug? Not in Hamburg!

These Markets Are Stocked With Christmas Cheer

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Telegraph, 01.12.08 20:31 UTC

Christel Goltz

German soprano whose 'sensual' performances as Salome enthralled critics and audiences for a quarter of a century.

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guardian.co.uk, 28.11.08 01:09 UTC

Simon Jenkins: This show's diplomacy is for real - and it's worth a hundred Milibands

. This is a tale of two cities, both called Damascus, and a tale of two diplomacies. Two weeks ago the foreign secretary, David Miliband, visited Syria to plead with its dictator, Bashar al-Assad, to ...

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Daily Mail, 18.10.08 01:31 UTC

Sixty years late, a wrong is righted as bomber heroes will be given a fitting memorial

Night after night they climbed into their cramped and freezing aircraft to strike at Germany's cities and factories. And each time they flew, the odds of them surviving the night-fighters and flak ...

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Daily Mail, 17.10.08 16:01 UTC

WW2 Dresden bombing killed far fewer people than half a million, new records show

For more than 60 years Britain's Bomber Command led by Arthur 'Bomber' Harris has been vilified for causing up to 500,000 deaths in the carpet bombing of Dresden during World War II. But now, after a ...

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Economist, 16.10.08 16:38 UTC

German education - Bottom of the form

The chancellor looks for ways to improve Germany’s mediocre schools

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Telegraph, 15.10.08 14:35 UTC

Norway sues German company over use of flag in clothes popular with neo-Nazis

Norway is fighting a legal battle to stop a German clothing brand popular with neo-Nazis from using the Norwegian flag to promote its clothes.

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BBC Technology, 15.10.08 01:01 UTC

'Paperless' paper

By Steven Rosenberg BBC News, Dresden The electronic e-reader could replace the common newspaper I love reading newspapers. Really I do. But whenever I read one on the train to work or on the bus, I ...

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