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3 years

Train conductor on the 18.14 Frankfurt to Berlin: “Dear passengers, in Germany you still have to wear a mask… even if Boris Johnson has announced ‘happiness day’ in Great Britain… exceptions to the rule are… if you are eating, or under six, or a dog”

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8 years

At German citizenship test today, around 1/3 of 17 participants were Britons. The examiner asked, "are you here because of Brexit?" All: yes

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Afghan taxi driver in Frankfurt bursts out laughing when I tell him I'm British. "Your country's pretty f****d up, isn't it?!"

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English will remain EU's official language, EU commissioner Günther Oettinger says, "the Irish are staying & the Scots might come in" @DLF

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8 years

Austrians forced to watch Heimat dramas as they await the #bpw16 results

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8 years

And while waiting on Austrian elections results we see a lot of Austrian TV screenshots: v. @NiranjanAjit #bpw16

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3 years

Elisabeth Parschau plays her ruined piano in flooded Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler #hochwasser

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9 years

The courtyard of a #Dresden shopping centre has been named 'Edward #Snowden Platz' in honour of the #whistleblower on his 32nd birthday

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5 years

Judith Kerr‘s 'Up Europe!‘ drawing for the 'Drawing Europe Together‘ series. Her own biography is a fitting reminder of why that sentiment is so important.

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4 years

Sylvia Plath on intending to learn German

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5 years

Germany‘s most popular news satire "heute show"’s spot-on take on ‘Brexit: deal or no deal’ (with English subtitles) - YouTube

Brexit: deal or no deal? German political comedy "heute show"...

This week, we all got a bit closer to a no deal Brexit. For the umpteenth time, the British House of Commons failed to find a way out of this dead end.(from ...

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2 years

Manga-Bell Platz is no longer Nachtigal Platz

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8 years

Heute morgen, Glienicke Brücke

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5 years

Just took delivery of a box full of copies of my book: Exit Brexit: Wie ich Deutsch würde, officially out on Jan 28!

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5 years

Supermarket cashier insists on checking contents of my bag suspecting I might have stolen the milk she sees inside. “But you’ve known me for years,” I say, “a bit of trust would be nice”. “Trust is good, but control is better,” she fires back at me. Turns out it is a Lenin quote.

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4 years

Word of the day ‘Veredelungsaufschlag’ - ‘refinement surcharge’, for a cup of water

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2 years

Energy-saving illumination ban on Berlin's Brandenburg Gate was lifted this evening.

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8 years

Emotional Italian interior minister confirms death of Anis Amri and praises the fledgling policeman who killed him as 'very special person'

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5 years

“Why won’t you let Kevin play?“ - “We‘re playing the European Union and Kevin is Britain"

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2 years

Pete Buttigieg says US backs new Marshall plan to rebuild Ukraine

Pete Buttigieg calls for new Marshall plan to rebuild Ukraine

Exclusive: Transportation secretary says there is global support for reconstruction effort to help recovery from Russian invasion

www.theguardian.com

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8 years

If yr kids don't believe you when you say #Santa knows what they're up to, show them this #GDR watchtower in #Berlin

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7 years

Kathrin Göring Eckart of the Greens says parties have joint responsibility to stand up against "overtly right wing and in part racist party"

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1 year

If Germany has truly learned from its history, it will send tanks to defend Ukraine writes @fromTGA

If Germany has truly learned from its history, it will send tanks to defend Ukraine

While many have pledged support, Germany has a unique historical responsibility toward Zelenskiy and his people. It cannot shirk it, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

www.theguardian.com

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7 years

Alternating betw BBC & German radio this morning. Never heard word 'Schadenfreude' used so much in both languages in one day

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1 year

Savouring first non-mask wearing train journey in Germany for over two years, and enjoying ⁦ @hoyer_kat ⁩ 's new book Beyond The Wall - rethinking East Germany - out next month

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Today’s Doodle celebrates German journalist and poet Mina Witkojc, “widely know for her writing in the Lower Sorbian language”. Born on this day in 1893 in the Spreewald, died 1975 in Kolkwitz. Happy Birthday Mina.

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4 years

In Germany there’s a cleaning solution for every problem, even those you didn’t even realise you had - just found the ingenious Jalousienreiniger (window-blind cleaner)

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5 years

Out today: Exit Brexit - Wie ich Deutsch wurde. Thanks to Cajsa Holgersson for the fine illustration, Kirsten Riesselmann for translating & @hanserverlage for publishing

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9 years

Is the fusion cuisine in the #Bundestag cantine a sign that #Greeks & Germans can come together? #Moussaka &KrautSalat http://t.co/11w7HBSFUZ

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5 years

A sea of red carnations at the graves of Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht #LL -Demo

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3 years

Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, always a pleasure to see you

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5 years

Brandenburg Gate -contender for one of best slogans of the day: ‘Grandpa what is a snowman’ #Klimastreik #climatestrike #berlin

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4 years

Glimpse of the morning papers in Germany, wishing GB ‘Bye-Bye’. My favourite is @taz , which focusses on feet: the sock and the high-heel of two government ministers “Goodbye and good luck”

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4 years

RIP Christo. My souvenir snippet of the cloth he & his wife Jeanne Claude used to wrap the Reichstag in 1995. A very memorable summer.

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3 years

German public broadcaster appears to have bowed to pressure from the public to 'follow the BBC' and has scheduled teaching programmes to help in home schooling from next week

Schulschließungen: ARD und ZDF vergrößern Angebot an Lerninhalten

Nach der BBC will auch der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk in Deutschland seine Schulsendungen ausbauen. So wird der Bildungskanal ARD-alpha sein Programm »Schule daheim« werktags drei Stunden bringen.

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2 years

East German feminist author Brigitte Reimann gets English debut, 50 years after death

East German feminist author gets English debut, 50 years after death

Translation of Brigitte Reimann’s 1963 work, considered a classic of GDR literature, is out in February

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5 years

Good plug for @AngusRobertson ‘s @progressscot in @naughtiej ‘s thoughtful analysis on how Brexit has significantly shifted the plates in the arguments for Scottish independence #r4Today

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8 years

Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but I knew nothing’

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2 years

Today in north-east Berlin a square and a street named after German colonisers of Africa (Cameroon & Namibia) are to be renamed after those who were murdered for resisting them - Nachtigalplatz to Manga-Bell Platz & Lüderitzstraße to Cornelius Fredericks Straße

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5 years

Mein Buch ist da! Exit Brexit: Wie ich Deutsch Wurde. Herausgebracht von Hanser! #ExitBrexit

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1 year

Do you know your Buchstabieralphabet? Had to resort to telephone banking today and it took 5 tries before I got the machine to understand my spellings. No longer Zeppelin, but Zacharias, not Siegfried but Samuel, & Xanthippe completely new to me

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3 months

Super Bericht in @DIEZEIT von Carolin Würfel, über Ostdeutsche Frauen: Angela Merkel, Jenny Erpenbeck, und last but by no means least, Sandra Hüller

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3 years

The German Greens will send Annalena Baerbock into the election campaign as its chancellor candidate, Robert Habeck literally leaving the stage for her today after making the announcement. The party is now being referred to as 'the New Greens‘, this decision marking a new era

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4 years

Using the phonetic alphabet table is normal part of daily life in Germany. But I had no idea that when I said “S like Siegfried” or “N like North Pole” I was using the Nazi-era table Now it is to be abolished & the Jewish names such as S - Samuel & N - Nathan to be reinstated 1/2

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4 years

You swine! German nudist chases wild boar that stole laptop

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1 year

Germany plans to ban installation of most oil and gas heating from 2024

Bill due before Bundestag in June would encourage homeowners to switch to renewables

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3 years

In old-fashioned, on the breakfast table clarity

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1 year

RIP Milan Kundera whose death Czech TV has just reported at the age of 94.

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3 years

Germany and other countries sceptical about AstraZeneca are urged to look carefully at the Public Health England data showing it has drastically decreased deaths & hospitalisations across all ages, by Prof Anthony Pollard of the Oxford Vaccine Group (as 5000 a day die in Europe)

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4 years

Tag der Einheit, Berliner Mauerweg - Day of German Unity, Berlin Wall Trail, by bike. #30JahreEinheit

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3 years

David Bowie's 75th Birthday to be marked by German postal service, Deutsche Post, with commemorative stamp

Zum 75. Geburtstag: Deutsche Post ehrt David Bowie mit Sonderbriefmarke

2016 starb der britische Musiker David Bowie an Krebs, Anfang Januar wäre er 75 Jahre alt geworden. Zu diesem Anlass bringt die Deutsche Post nun eine Sondermarke und ein eigenes Paketset auf den...

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5 years

Always a pleasure to be in Berlin’s Haus des Rundfunks, the world’s first purpose-built broadcasting house, designed by Hans Poelzig, and completed in 1930; inc Georg Kolbe‘s The Night (a copy).

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5 years

Delighted to be sharing Dussmann Berlin bookshop’s Brexit window display with the likes of Axel Scheffler, Asterix, Alan Bennett & Ladybird. Just the occasion which is not so delightful. #ExitBrexit

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4 years

Fintan O'Toole in Die Zeit on post-Brexit Britain, in English and German - A ridiculous swagger/ Eine irrwitzige Wichtigtuerei via @zeitonline

Brexit: A ridiculous swagger

The quest for size has led to making Britain smaller. Is this the beginning of a development that will end with an English nation-state?

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5 years

Thousands gathering in Berlin right now for the #ll -demo to commemorate 100th anniv of murders of Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht

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5 years

Spot on! / Haargenau!

DW News

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5 years

Our @dw_culture colleague @RachelStewart04 is right: This is what the German citizenship test should REALLY look like 👇

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8 months

Top German journalist received €600,000 from Putin ally, leak reveals

Influential author and broadcaster Hubert Seipel received financial support for his work on two books described by many as sympathetic to Russian president

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6 years

You know that something football-related must be in the air when Germans voluntarily put their flags out...

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3 years

And in other news: ”The Meister is coming“ ⁦ @SZ ⁩

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9 years

"Woman of the ruins". If the #Euro collapse so too does #Merkel 's chancellorship says @Spiegel in title story http://t.co/ksDd4wtPU8

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6 years

Learning German is just the job for savvy millennials

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5 years

The estimated 18,000 British citizens living in Berlin are being offered the chance to apply for a FREE residency permit by Berlin‘s foreigners‘ registration office (Ausländerbehörde) -

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3 years

‘Flurfunk’ (lit. ‘corridor radio’) ‘office grapevine‘ - as in what a lot of people are missing right now. My new German word of the day

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7 years

Message to Brits in Die Welt's other front page today

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5 years

No argument over what to choose for bedtime reading tonight. RIP & thankyou, Judith Kerr

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5 years

Breakfast in Weimar: A Goethe quotation (”A human’s life is strangely laid out: after years of burden comes the burden of the years”) and eggs labelled according to how long they have been boiled

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5 years

100th anniversary today of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg. This monument marks the spot where her body was hurled into Berlin’s Landwehrkanal

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3 years

’Impf-fluenzer‘ - new word to add to Germany’s extensive virus vocabulary = Role models from worlds of sport, film, religion, who have been recruited by health minister Jens Spahn to persuade vaccine sceptics to get a jab. (Impf is German for vaccine).

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7 years

Bauhaus architect Poelzig‘s Lichthof, Funkhaus Berlin. Can’t believe I waited so long to see this

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3 years

Nobel prize winning Abdulrazak Gurnah‘s latest novel, Afterlives should be translated into German immediately, @faznet says in its editorial today, because it ”sheds light on a chapter of German East African history about which there has been little discourse in Germany"

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5 years

⁦ @DerSPIEGEL ⁩ just hit the mat

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4 years

Impressions of new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, opening on 31.10 2/2

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7 years

Hundreds of protesters are gathered at Alexander Platz outside AfD party shouting "Nazis weg" amid a strong police presence. Numbers growing

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5 years

”An Englishman will burn his bread to catch a flea,“ says SNP’s Angus MacNeil, in likely one of the more memorable quotes from the #Brexit debate, from @fotoole ‘s Heroic Failure: Brexit & The Politics of Pain (it’s Turkish in origin, he says)

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8 years

15 year old girl said to be among the dead. Numerous injured children taken to #Munich hospitals

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6 years

Eighty years after Kristallnacht, why my family has become German again | Robin Lustig | News | The Guardian

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2 years

German view on Liz Truss. Transl: ‘Supplies of British humour are safe for the next few years' #tazeins @tazgezwitscher

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Johnson-Nachfolge geklärt: #tazeins zur neuen Premierministerin Liz Truss @kongoecho @tazgezwitscher

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Russian oligarch’s yacht stuck in Norway as suppliers refuse to refuel

Local fuel sellers say they will not sell to crew of Ragnar, which is owned by Vladimir Strzhalkovsky

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3 years

Gerhard Richter gives his Birkenau Zyklus to Berlin.

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4 years

Call for demos following the #Hanau attacks in 50 German cities this evening by the anti-racist coalition movement #unteilbar /indivisible which came into being in 2018.

unteilbar – Solidarität statt Ausgrenzung

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Heute Abend raus auf die Straßen! #Solidarit ät zeigen mit den Angehörigen und Betroffenen des rassistischen Terroranschlags von #Hanau . Wir trauern, wir klagen an. Wir laden alle ein, sich den Kundgebungen, Demos&Mahnwachen anzuschließen. Gerne teilen! #rechterTerror #Rassismus

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“Brexit leaves Britain naked,” argues Camb Uni Economics Fellow, @vnbateman

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5 years

Felt nicely appropriate to be driving behind a Trabant 6015 on this, Day of German Unity today #TagderDeutschenEinheit

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8 years

Britain's view of its history 'dangerous', says former museum director

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4 years

Love all the directions this ventilation story has gone in

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4 years

It's really cute how The Guardian has to explain how normal windows work as opposed to whatever excuse gets installed in Britain.

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6 years

Leipzig Main Station, 11am

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‘Chance of a century’ – could department store become Berlin’s first central library? | Germany | The Guardian

‘Chance of a century’ – could department store become Berlin’s first central library?

City’s culture minister hopes to turn Galeries Lafayette store into German capital’s ‘new living room,’ but critics question likely cost

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4 years

I‘m hearing about something that’s music to my ears - the AdWaSpaGlüh, or WaSpaGlüh the Advent(licher) Wald Spaziergang mit Glühwein (Advent Forest Walk with Glühwein). Wood you?

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8 years

#Berlin film festival poster spot-on at a time when the city needs a little lurve #berlinale

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6 years

RIP Shoah director Claude Lanzmann, whose interview with the hairdresser from Auschwitz is one of the most powerful and memorable testaments of the Holocaust

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8 years

Merkel stresses importance of respect for democracy, freedom, law, regardless of origin, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation

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10 years

Remember #Berlin 's #falloffthewall25 balloon spectacle? The balloon that flew furthest landed 840 km away in #Riga http://t.co/ipgk5iDwDG

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3 years

New word to add to Germany’s coronavirus vocabulary: ‘Terminshopping’ - making an appointment to be able to shop in a particular establishment, @abbyyoungpowell

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5 years

Came into Guardian Berlin office this morning to find these stickers on my desk. Can only have been the caretaker or the postie who left them there...

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10 years

German bread just got even better after discovery of a #Goethe quotation on my bag of fresh rolls #LoveGermanBread http://t.co/UVNPHujguz

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4 years

Germany’s reproduction number - the famous ‘R rate’ has fallen to 0.65. Overall new infections continue to fall, measured on a week-by-week basis, says the disease control body, the Robert Koch Institute. But urging caution and says 2nd wave is inevitable

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7 years

So farewell then to the Berlin-Budapest nightsleeper. We will treasure the memories & do our best to continue avoiding the plane

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4 years

Germans embrace fresh air to ward off coronavirus | Germany | The Guardian

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7 years

Remembering the victims of the Berlin Christmas market attack. One year on bells chime for the length of time of the attack. Lights turned off. People holding candles hum Amazing Grace together.

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6 years

Want to understand Germany’s political chaos a little better? Tune into @damienmcguin ’s new weekly podcast with @dw_politics - Stammtisch: the latest political chatter from Berlin

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My interview with this woman before she leaves the stage was both fun and insightful

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