Excited to have received Katya Hoyer’s latest book in this morning’s post.

This is excellent and available on BBC iPlayer www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

The beautiful, harrowing photography of Ukrainian Julia Kochetova, unwitting war journalist, capturing the humanity and resilience of her countryfolk since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Following a conversation about potatoes with @kateconnolly.bsky.social I watched "An Audience with Victoria Wood" again. I'd forgotten how funny it is, such sharp wit. Perfect English humour. Almost 40 years old and it hasn't aged one bit. Just superb youtu.be/HNkVBwKCQcw?...

Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes across Berlin www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Spudulike? (Or spud-oo-lickay, as the late great Victoria Wood would have it) then pop to a potato hotspot in Berlin and take home, for free, a share of the recent bumper harvest. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Is anyone who took part in the Potato Action 4000-Tonnen in Berlin and is now wading through lashings of mashed potato and other culinary delights prepared to talk about it with me for The Guardian? Pls send me a DM. Vielen Dank!

Gibt es hier jemanden, der an der Kartoffelaktion 4000-Tonnen in Berlin teilgenommen hat und sich nun durch Unmengen von Kartoffelpüree und anderen kulinarischen Köstlichkeiten kämpft und bereit ist, mit mir für The Guardian darüber zu sprechen? DM bitte! Vielen Dank.

‘I was simply luckier’: Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities. People urged to stand up against populism and antisemitism as the world marks International Holocaust Memorial Day. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting on the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘I felt numb’: German bank heist victims devastated after thieves ransack 3,000 deposit boxes. A Gelsenkirchen savings bank was raided over Christmas by criminals who used a huge drill to access the vault www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

15 January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg was murdered in Berlin. Listen to a BBC 'In Our Time' radio programme about her life. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Enjoying Mary Anne Hobbs’ David Bowie Low album special. Marking 10 years since his death. Lots of Berlin anecdotes. On now! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Not surprisingly, after the recent Berlin Blackout (longest since WW2), I keep getting sent ads for wind-up radios. Certainly beats the unending notices for stair lifts.

Absolutely sensational find in Norfolk - the most complete carnyx or Iron Age battle trumpet ever discovered, anywhere. Buried in the first century AD in the territory of the Iceni… www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – for now www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... ‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy

Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

AfD hails US ban on European leftwing groups as historians fear crackdown on anti-fascists www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Hooray! Best story of the day. X www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Saddened to hear of the death of Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, who we interviewed in 2024. “I feel my revenge on the Nazis is the building of our lovely family.” RIP Manfred. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Saddened to hear of the death of Manfred Goldberg, Holocaust survivor, who we interviewed in 2024. “I feel my revenge on the Nazis is the building of our lovely family“. RIP Manfred. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

We live in hope… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

German retirees who continue working are set to earn €2000 a month tax free www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned’ (= one of the best headlines of the year so far) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Another great read from Salzburg by @kateconnolly.bsky.social

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Extraordinary story of how a Historian used AI to help identify a Nazi soldier who murdered a Jewish man by @deborahcole.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

How long does a man live? A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us, For as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

'Kontakthof': the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s... via @theguardian.com

Devastating news for European rail travellers. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

25 September 1970: Erich Maria Remarque, the author of "Im Westen nichts Neues", dies in Locarno www.ndr.de/geschichte/k... via @ndr.de

Berlin-based remote-driving firm paves the way for car revolution on Europe‘s roads www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘Raring to go:’ the German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

📢 #BGAEvent: 𝗥𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗵𝗹 - @theguardian.com journalist @kateconnolly.bsky.social in conversation with director 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗲𝗶𝗲𝗹 📅 Thu 25 Sep, 6.30pm 🗺️ On Zoom 👉 Join the BGA & register here: britishgermanassociation.org/event/riefen...

Young Finns are snubbing their mother tongue in favour of English books. One reason for popularity of English is that some find the sex scenes less embarrassing. “When you read in English you can detach yourself a little bit,” Miranda Bryant is told. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The Swiss natural cosmetics company Weleda allegedly supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, a historian has claimed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Cosmerics company provided cream used on prisoners in Nazi concentratuon camp, study shows www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of a German apartment block turned out to be a Nacktschnecke - a naked snail (slug). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Impressions from Art Exhibition on East German prefab housing ‚Wohnkomplex’ opening today at the Minsk in Potsdam. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - (Construction Block, on a typewriter) Christian Thoelke - Kaufhalle Uwe Pfeifer - Night scene in Halle www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Excellent Art Exhibition on East Germany’s Prefab housing ‚Wohnkomplex‘ at the Minsk in Potsdam, opening today. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘It’s time for us to be louder’: Germany’s Pride parades face up to rise in attacks www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Anti-AfD protesters interrupt Alice Weidel interview live on German TV www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A steakhouse heir, Israeli spies and a cross-border abduction: the custody battle gripping Germany www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Hope springs eternal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

River Seine opens to swimmers for first time in over a century. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A previously unknown novel by one of Europe’s most influential postwar journalists has been published in Germany after his children discovered the hand-written manuscript in his desk @kateconnolly.bsky.social‬ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...