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Germany Marks 73rd Anniversary of 1953 Uprising as National Memorial Project Advances

The federal government has moved a design competition into its decisive phase with €5 million earmarked for a monument to victims of the SED regime.

Hans Maier, Influential Bavarian Education Minister, Dies at 94

Konstantin Richter Wins Deutscher Sachbuchpreis for Dreihundert Männer

Hamburg Cancels Central 25th‑Anniversary Memorial for NSU Victim Taşköprü

Dresden Reveals Four Designs for Rebuilding the Carolabrücke

Coburger Convent Torch March Draws Hundreds of Protesters and Police Probe After Memorial Attack

Berlin Unveils Helmut-Kohl-Allee in Tiergarten

Georg Baselitz, Defiant Master of the Upside-Down Canvas, Dies at 88

WDR Marks 50 Years Since Michael Gartenschläger Exposed GDR Border Traps and Was Killed in a Stasi Ambush

Erfurt Marks 24 Years Since Gutenberg-Gymnasium Massacre

Steinmeier Visits Torgau Youth Home Memorial, Calls It a ‘Place of Terror’

Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Former German Post Minister, Dies at 95

Uta Bretschneider Named Program Director for Unity and Transformation Center in Halle

Germany Indicts Suspected RAF Member Daniela Klette Over 1990s Attacks

German Museum Ends Legal Fight, Discloses Sellers of Berlin Wall ‘Schabowski Note’

Tupoka Ogette Unveils Memoir as Podcast Charts a Life Between Worlds

‘Ein Sommer in Italien – WM 1990’ Opens Nationwide After Emotional Munich Premiere

Germany Marks Inaugural Day of Democracy History as Steinmeier Urges 'Democratic Patriotism'

Jürgen Habermas, Defining German Public Intellectual, Dies at 96

Lukas Rietzschel’s ‘Sanditz’ Puts the GDR’s Lasting Imprint at the Center of Today’s East