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...

I love it when interesting new reading material turns up ! Danke,ich bin gespannt, 'Abschied' zu lesen @kateconnolly.bsky.social @sz-dossier.de @goetheuni.bsky.social @learngermanschool.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Newly-discovered novel by writer Sebastian Haffner becomes best-seller www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

From Berlin to Oslo, Europe’s urban swimmers take the plunge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

RIP pianist Alfred Brendel www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Duncan Campbell, celebrated Guardian crime reporter, dies aged 80

Haven’t read the ft magazine pieces in a bit on.ft.com/43avits The Hell’s Kitchen room that monitors every subway train in New York

Berlin’s last cinema poster artist A lovely uplifting read by deborahcole@bskysocial www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... An uplifting read by Deborah.cole@bskysocial

Second World War Eye Witnesses, aged 85 to 100, tell their stories www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The witnesses: second world war survivors from across Europe share their stories www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Why Pope Francis decided on this small niche - lovely report by ⁦‪@GiuffridaA‬⁩. “His simple wooden coffin will be entombed in a small niche that until now has been used to store candlestick holders.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘It is trance-like’: pianist Igor Levit’s marathon performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations (he’ll play it no less than 840 times) is underway in London www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests (wonderful tale of literary detective work band my favourite news story in a long time) www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

At the dentists

Happy to have heard on BBC this morning about this new journalling App Encounter by nature writer and broadcaster Melissa Harrison, whose beautiful podcast The Stubborn Light of Things was one of the precious jewels that got me through the lockdown