Berlin - A short, stocky and alert man, Erwin Goldberg sits in a first-floor room opposite Berlin's imposing Pergamon Museum, relating how a dramatic series of events swept him from Berlin to Italy and then to Argentina 70 years ago.
"I'm amazed I've survived this long. In the summer of 1938 I was given just 24 hours notice to leave the German capital by the Nazis," says Goldberg, now 95.
Berlin - Germany has recalled its ambassador to Iran because a German diplomat attended a military parade in Tehran, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said Saturday.
The spokeswoman confirmed a report in the news magazine Der Spiegel that Ambassador Herbert Honsowitz had been told to report to Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday morning.
The magazine said the foreign minister was "very angry" that the embassy's defence attache attended the parade after ambassadors from EU member states had agreed to boycott it.
Berlin - Politicians in Germany warned Saturday of the dangers posed by Islamists, following the arrest of two terrorist suspects and a police search for two others.
The arrests took place in Cologne on Friday when a Somali and a German of Somali descent were escorted off a plane bound for the Dutch city Amsterdam.
Security sources said the pair had been under observation for months and were planning to travel via the Netherlands to a training camp for militants on the Pakistan-Afghan border.
A search of their apartment had turned up letters in which the two men in the 20s had declared their readiness to die in a jihad or holy war, the sources said.
Berlin- Germany has recalled its ambassador to Iran because a German diplomat attended a military parade in Tehran, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said Saturday.
The spokeswoman confirmed a report in the news magazine Der Spiegel that Ambassador Herbert Honsowitz had been told to report to Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday morning.
The magazine said the foreign minister was "very angry" that the embassy's defence attache attended the parade after ambassadors from EU member states had agreed to boycott it.
A banner reading "Israel should re erased from the world" was displayed at the event, which was addressed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the report said.
Berlin - The southern German state of Bavaria was getting ready Saturday for an election that could result in heavy losses for a key ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Sunday's state election could see the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) losing its absolute majority in the state where it has ruled alone for 42 years, according to opinion polls.
If the CSU wins fewer than half the 180 seats in the state parliament in Munich, it could indicate dwindling support for the conservative camp and weaken Merkel's chances of retaining power in federal elections next year.
The CSU is the Bavarian sister party of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and has been a major source of support for the party at previous votes at national level.
Berlin - Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a growing number of people are romanticising about what daily life was like in the former communist East Germany.
Ostalgia, a pun of nostalgia and Ost (East), is on the rise and numerous businesses and individuals are cashing in on the trend.
Today, you can have your picture taken with a Soviet soldier
look-alike at the former Checkpoint Charlie crossing in Berlin or rent a room in a sparsely furnished apartment that is a replica of 1980s East German accommodation.
You can also take a tour of East Berlin in a plastic-body Trabi car that East Germans had to wait for years to buy.
Berlin - A short, stocky and alert man, Erwin Goldberg sits in a first-floor room opposite Berlin's imposing Pergamon Museum, relating how a dramatic series of events swept him from Berlin to Italy and then to Argentina 70 years ago.
Berlin - Germany has recalled its ambassador to Iran because a German diplomat attended a military parade in Tehran, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said Saturday.
