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Deborah Cole

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Deborah Cole

    The German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victims (opens the original)

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    Heidenau council has halted the laying of Stolpersteine installed to remember individual victims of the Nazis The town hall of Heidenau, Germany has a freshly restored cream-coloured facade, tidy flower boxes on the windowsills and a charming shingled clocktower. At the entrance, closer inspection reveals a single brass plaque embedded in the pavement honouring the former mayor Paul Gröger, whom the Nazis hounded into killing himself. The plaque is one of 128,000 Stolpersteine (stumbling stones

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Deborah Cole

    ‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music (opens the original)

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    Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length Let’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start. Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended on Salzburg with stars, show tunes and a compelling, essentially true story of love and opposition to Adolf Hitler: The Sound of Music. The Austrian city, still economically and morally devastated from the Nazi period, wasn’t quite rea

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Deborah Cole

    Firewall compromised: has Friedrich Merz blown ‘democracy’s last shot’? (opens the original)

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    Many fear chancellor is wrong man for the job at a time when Germany’s defences against far right are crumbling A cataclysm. A 9.0 earthquake. A five-alarm fire. A bitter rejection of Germany’s joyous reunification three decades ago, and a threat to the democratic postwar order. Sizing up the repercussions of last weekend’s win for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in the former communist state of Saxony-Anhalt, German commentators expressed a sense of doom, panic and helple

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Deborah Cole

    German chancellor Friedrich Merz accuses far-right AfD party of seeking ‘ethnic cleansing’ (opens the original)

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    Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) of seeking “ethnic cleansing” with its “remigration” drive, after the nativist party’s seismic weekend victory in a state election. In his first public confrontation with the AfD since Sunday’s shock outcome in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz said at a raucous parliamentary debate that the far-right party would take an axe to one of the pillars of the German economy with a racist campaign of mass

  5. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Deborah Cole

    German chancellor accuses far-right AfD party of seeking ‘ethnic cleansing’ (opens the original)

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    Friedrich Merz says Alternative für Deutschland is ‘dividing our society’ after party won nearly 44% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt state election Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) of seeking “ethnic cleansing” with its “remigration” drive, after the nativist party’s seismic weekend victory in a state election. In his first public confrontation with the AfD since Sunday’s shock outcome in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz said at a

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