Suzanne Cords
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Jews once lived lived here: When houses tell stories (opens the original)
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Over the years, many people have passed through this fourth-floor apartment in an old Berlin building. Here, at Rosenheimer Straße 40, they have sat on the sofa and gathered around the kitchen table. They have looked out the window and let their minds wander. Marie Rolshoven has lived here with her family since 2007. "The feeling of crossing that threshold, the same one the former residents crossed for the last time, stays with you," she says. She knows that Jews once lived here, and none of the
Germany: From emigration to immigration destination (opens the original)
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"Why should [they] be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? [...] [They] will shortly be so numerous [...] and will never adopt our Language or Customs." These defamatory comments about refugees and asylum-seekers sound as if they might have been made today by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Yet in this instance, the people vilified and accused of refusing to integrate are German
Mata Hari: Celebrated dancer turns WWI spy (opens the original)
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Mata Hari was already a legend in her own lifetime. When she stepped into the Parisian limelight in 1905, she swept high society off its feet. "She danced with veils and jewel-encrusted bustiers and almost nothing else," the Parisian press reported. "Never had anyone dared to appear unveiled before the gods with such trembling ecstasy. And what wonderful movements she made — both daring and demure at the same time." Mata Hari had convinced audiences and the press that she was an exotic temple da
When London stank to high heaven (opens the original)
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The river reeked so badly, it left Londoners gasping for air. Those who could afford to fled the city. Those left behind soaked their curtains in lime chloride to keep the stench at bay and pressed handkerchiefs over their noses whenever they ventured outside. "Whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it, and may count himself lucky if he live to remember it," the local press wrote. It was 1858. For weeks, temperatures hovered above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). Not a drop of
How do Germans cope with having Nazi grandparents? (opens the original)
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"I always thought of my grandfather as a left-wing unionist, and now he's turned up in the NSDAP database," Hanno Dannenfeldt told DW. It was always said in the family that his paternal grandfather had clean hands. Now that the National Archives of the United States has published its collection of National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) membership cards, Dannenfeldt is one of countless Germans eager to find out whether their relatives were members of the party that ruled Germany during
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