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...money will do the talking, and Germany's deep pockets give the nation plenty of clout. But around Europe, anger is rising that German politicians are playing a deadly game of poker with GM for which others might end up paying the price. "We cannot get into a situation where everyone is trying to outdo each other, in which we see how much money Germany can put on the table and how much we can," said Flemish Premier Kris Peeters. After all, he, too, faces elections this year...
...also includes the Belgians and the U.K.'s London and Continental Railways (LCR). DB has made no secret that it is looking to buy LCR's 33% stake - which the French also covet, in part to deny DB its dream of extending its routes into the U.K. Meanwhile, the German group has ordered 15 new ICE locomotives with a full range of signaling technology that can be adapted to virtually any rail system...
When Benno Ohnesorg was shot on June 2, 1967, by a policeman in West Berlin during a demonstration against the Shah of Iran, the young German student became a martyr for a generation of left-wing activists. The killing triggered the radicalization of the mass protest movement in West Germany, which directed its anger against the police, the government and the conservative establishment. The poignant image of a woman cradling Ohnesorg's head as he lay dying on the ground became etched in Germans' minds. But now it has emerged that the police officer who pulled the trigger was actually...
...communist regime's secret police records stumbled across the new information as she was carrying out research on another project. The former West Berlin cop, Karl-Heinz Kurras, has a bulging Stasi file of some 7,000 pages. Kurras, it turns out, was a member of the East German SED Communist Party as well as an active Stasi agent. He joined the West Berlin police at the age of 22 in 1950, but five years later he switched sides and went to the authorities in East Berlin. Kurras wanted to move to East Germany, but he was persuaded to stay...
...discovery of the new Kurras file confirms the view that the East German secret police, the Stasi, was also active in West Berlin and West Germany and had agents in important positions, as well as being active of course in East Germany," says Hans Altendorf, director of the Birthler Agency, which preserves the old Stasi files. "But no one would have thought that Kurras, a police officer, was also a Stasi man. It was unimaginable for us, for researchers, historians and ordinary Germans...