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Lightning over windmills — Flashlights light the sky over a wind energy park during a thunderstorm near Jacobsdorf, eastern Germany, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Patrick Pleul)
Herding the swans — Swans are accompanied to the river Alster in Hamburg, northern Germany on April 9, 2013. The swans are brought to their summer residence after having spent the winter season at a smaller lake. (SVEN HOPPE/AFP/Getty Images)
Thieves make off with five tons of Nutella in chocolate-hazelnut heist worth more than $20,000
These thieves might really have sticky fingers. Police said Monday an unknown number of culprits made off with 5 metric tons of Nutella chocolate-hazelnut spread from a parked trailer in the central German town of Bad Hersfeld over the weekend.
The gooey loot is worth an estimated $20,710.
Fury as workers remove parts of Berlin Wall’s longest remaining stretch for upscale building project
Work crews backed by about 250 police removed parts of the Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery before dawn Wednesday to make way for an upscale building project, despite demands by protesters that the site be preserved.
Residents of the area expressed shock at the move, which followed several protests including one attended by David Hasselhoff.
By mid-morning the six-yard (meter) gap was covered by a wooden fence and protected by scores of police. Passers-by and a handful of protesters stared in disbelief.
“If you take these parts of the Wall away, you take away the soul of the city,” said Ivan McClostney, 32, who moved here a year ago from Ireland. “This way, you make it like every other city. It’s so sad.” (Britta Pedersen / The Associated Press)
Step-grandchildren of infamous Nazi propaganda boss Joseph Goebbels are hidden billionaires
the spring of 1945, Harald Quandt, a 23-year-old officer in the German Luftwaffe, was being held as a prisoner of war by Allied forces in the Libyan port city of Benghazi when he received a farewell letter from his mother, Magda Goebbels — the wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
The hand-written note confirmed the devastating news he had heard weeks earlier: his mother had committed suicide with her husband on May 1, after slipping their six children cyanide capsules in Adolf Hitler’s underground bunker in Berlin.
“My dear son! By now we’ve been in the Fuehrerbunker for six days already, Daddy, your six little siblings and I, to give our national socialistic lives the only possible, honorable ending,” she wrote. “Harald, dear son, I want to give you what I learned in life: Be loyal! Loyal to yourself, loyal to the people and loyal to your country!”
Quandt was released from captivity in 1947. Seven years later, he and his half-brother Herbert — Harald was the only remaining child from Magda Goebbels’ first marriage — would inherit the industrial empire built by their father, Guenther Quandt. The brothers took the business, which had produced Mauser firearms and anti-aircraft missiles for the Third Reich’s war machine. Their most valuable assets became stakes in car manufacturers Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Daimler AG. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Nazi flags, furious protests greet Angela Merkel as German leader arrives in Greece
ATHENS — Greek riot police fired stun grenades, pepper spray and tear gas to push back protesters throwing stones and petrol bombs during rallies this morning against visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel arrived in Greece on her first visit since Europe’s debt crisis erupted here three years ago, braving protests to deliver a message of support — but no new money — to a nation hammered by recession and fighting to stay in the euro.
Thousands of Greeks defied a ban on protests, gathering in Syntagma square in central Athens as Merkel’s plane touched down. Two protesters dressed in German military uniforms waved a red-black-and-white swastika flag and held out their arms in the Nazi salute. Merkel was meeting Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras only a few hundred metre away from the clashes, where austerity-weary Greeks are taking to the streets in one of the biggest protests in months. (Photos: REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)
Fans are pictured under a German flag during the Euro 2012 football championships quarter-final match Germany vs Greece.
Graphic: Greece and Germany – Europe’s economic extremes
As the Greek Prime Minister warned of potential dire consequences ahead of the country’s election, German Chancellor Angela Merkel described her country as Europe’s “stabilizing anchor and growth engine.” So how does Greece — an economic basketcase — compare to Germany — an economic powerhouse?
You, you, you otter know!
This is “Ferret” … the otter from Germany who is predicting Euro 2012 results. Ferret has chosen his home country (bias?) to beat the Netherlands in their Group B match today. Will he be right?
Photos of the day
Fifteen-year-old Patrick Sinner and friends attempt to break the longest spiral-shaped wall of domino world record, Jan. 6, 2012, in Kefenrod, Germany. (Photo: Emily Wabitsch/AFP/Getty Images)
Photos of the day
A nine day old mona monkey is presented by its keeper. Dec. 19, 2011 at the zoo in Magdeburg, eastern Germany. In the wild, the guenons live mainly in western African forests. (Jens Wolf/AFP/Getty Images)
Thirsty?
Driver Thomas Flohrschuetz of team Germany 1 drinks from a huge glass of beer after winning the four-men bobsleigh World Cup competition in the western German town of Winterberg, December 18, 2011. Photo: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
Odd Christmas photo of the day
Runners dressed as Father Christmas start in the 3rd Michendorfer Nikolaus Lauf race in Michendorf, Germany, December 4, 2011. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)
Cute animal photo of the day
Orangutan mother Daisy holds her baby Dodi on his second birthday, Nov. 24, 2011 at the zoo in Dresden, Germany. (Photo: Arno Burgi/AFP/Getty Images)
