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The Trump administration's decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany will upend many lives. We talked to people in the Rhineland who have seen German-American cooperation as a force for good, and a way of life theguardian.com/world/2026/m…

‘We love our Americans’: the German town rocked by Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops

American soldiers have been part of life in Landstuhl since 1945, giving the area a unique US-German identity

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I meet extraordinary people in this job. Thank you to Inka and Ralph Orth for sharing their daughter Johanna’s passion with me with such generosity and grace theguardian.com/world/2026/a…

How a mother turned her drowned daughter’s passion into a thriving patisserie

Hamburg shop set up in tribute to aspiring pastry chef becomes ‘happy’ pilgrimage site for grieving parents

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‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig theguardian.com/world/2025/o…

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig

The car magnate, who is restoring the Jewish author’s former villa, has been given permission to dig out a 500-metre road leading to a garage, causing consternation in the city

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

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

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Rising rents and gentrification in the once-cheap and abundant real estate market have put the pinch on Berlin's nightclubs theguardian.com/world/2025/a… via @guardian @doberah

‘March of commercialisation’: writing is on the wall for Berlin’s nightclubs

Rising rents and gentrification in the once-cheap and abundant real estate market have put the pinch on the clubbing scene

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Across Europe, emboldened by a plan to clean up the Seine River in time for last year’s Paris Olympics, city residents are pushing authorities to make their waterways swimmable. @guardian reporters like @doberah detail Europe’s coolest urban hotspots. theguardian.com/world/2025/j…

A Spree change: from Berlin to Oslo, Europe’s urban swimmers take the plunge

Parts of the Seine are opening to bathers and Berliners are pushing authorities to permit river dips, while other hotspots continue to delight city dwellers

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'A Spree change': from Berlin to Oslo, Europe’s urban swimmers take the plunge theguardian.com/world/2025/j… via @guardian @doberah

A Spree change: from Berlin to Oslo, Europe’s urban swimmers take the plunge

Parts of the Seine are opening to bathers and Berliners are pushing authorities to permit river dips, while other hotspots continue to delight city dwellers

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A free flat for a fortnight: the German city offering perks to fight depopulation theguardian.com/world/2025/j… via @guardian @doberah

A free flat for a fortnight: the German city offering perks to fight depopulation

Eisenhüttenstadt, once a socialist vision but now at risk of becoming a ghost town, seeks to ditch its far-right image

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‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart? theguardian.com/world/2025/j… via @guardian @connollyberlin

‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?

Bridge collapses caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure’

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Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up? ⁦@doberah⁩ theguardian.com/film/2025/ma…

No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?

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»Der Journalist und Historiker Felix Bohr, der gerade das Buch „Vor dem Untergang“ publiziert hat, sagt, für Wölks Geschichte gebe es außer ihren Interviews „keine Beweise“.« – Im @guardian hat mich @doberah zu dem neuen Film »Die Vorkosterinnen« befragt. theguardian.com/film/2025/ma…

No meat, no beer and hopefully no poison: the curious tale of Hitler’s food tasters

Based on Margot Wölk’s extraordinary account, Silvio Soldini’s film The Tasters sees a group of women seemingly risk their lives with each bite. But does the story add up?

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Blut, Eis und Netflix: Die Everest-Show beginnt, get the popcorn. Sie ist längst fest im Festivalkalender etabliert, wie Coachella & Eurovision. Die höchste Bühne der Welt bietet Erhebendes & Abgründe, Spektakel & Einkehr, Leben & Tod. tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft… via @Tagesspiegel

Blut, Eis und Netflix: Die Mount-Everest-Besteigung ist längst zur brutalen Gladiatorenshow geworden

Die Aufstiegssaison beginnt. Inzwischen ist sie ein Festival aus Abenteuer, Kommerz, Kulturkritik, Wahnsinn – und statistisch vier Toten pro Saison. Was soll das?

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‘I add the human touch’: the beautiful, bespoke work of Götz Valien, Berlin’s last cinema poster artist theguardian.com/artanddesign… via @guardian @doberah

‘I add the human touch’: the beautiful, bespoke work of Berlin’s last cinema poster artist

Götz Valien recreates promotional adverts in giant hand-painted images that add a distinct pop art flourish

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When German politics turns into the Met Gala
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NEW: Our exclusive deep dive into a suspected Russian-led cell behind the parcel bomb plots with the first interviews with those directly involved, revealing how the sabotage campaign unfolded on the ground With @shaunwalker7 theguardian.com/world/2025/m…

Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot

Exclusive account reveals previously unreported details and insights into how Kremlin’s sabotage campaign played out on the ground – and the multinational effort to track down the network behind it

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Berlin’s ancient ‘Dicke Marie’ oak feels effects of prolonged dry spell. The tree, believed to be city’s oldest, had already been damaged by the region’s increasingly arid climate. theguardian.com/world/2025/a… via @guardian @doberah

Berlin’s ancient ‘Dicke Marie’ oak feels effects of prolonged dry spell

The tree, believed to be city’s oldest, had already been damaged by the region’s increasingly arid climate

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Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by American troops 80 years ago today. @AFP spoke to camp survivor Jacques Moalic, 102. After war he workd the news agency for 40 years yahoo.com/news/buchenwald-ca…
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Germany is gripped by election fever … but Trump is pulling the strings. The machinations of Elon Musk and the incoming US president loom large in the minds of politicians and voters. theguardian.com/world/2025/j… via @guardian @doberah

Germany is gripped by election fever … but Trump is pulling the strings

The machinations of Elon Musk and the incoming US president loom large in the minds of politicians and voters

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Syrians in Germany ask to be allowed to visit home and keep protected status 🔗 @ashifa_k @doberah buff.ly/3Wov0wN
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“Never in the postwar period has remembrance been as important as now … We are at an enormous turning point. Everything’s changed very quickly... In these times we need some tangible points of reference." My interview with Auschwitz museum director theguardian.com/world/2025/j…

Speeches by politicians banned at 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation

Director of the memorial says he wants the focus to be on the last survivors of the Nazi concentration camp

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