Word: pomerania
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...went off near the synagogue site. Since discovering the suspected plot earlier this month, police have arrested 12 people on charges ranging from weapons violations to supporting a terrorist organization. In raids on homes and businesses in Munich, Berlin and cities in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, they discovered explosives, hand grenades, a hit list of potential targets and documents alluding to the Munich bomb plot. "The members of this group are being investigated on suspicion they have formed a terrorist organization," says Frauke-Katrin Scheuten, spokeswoman for the Bavarian federal prosecutor. Police uncovered evidence of a plot...
...around 20% in what she called a drive for "class instead of mass." But German consumers discovered last week that buying pricey organic products is no protection against tainted food. Officials reported that large amounts of organic animal feed used by 120 organic farms in Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt had been contaminated with a banned herbicide called Nitrofen. As a result, farmers said, at least 98,000 chickens would be destroyed. Worse, a number of big food chains like Metro announced that all organic products such as eggs, poultry and even...
...scientist at the University of Lüneburg. "At the moment there's a potential for a far-right protest party. But Schill can't control it in all of Germany." In addition to Saxony-Anhalt, Schill's party is putting up a slate of candidates in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. But that election takes place on Sept. 22, the same day as German national elections, and the party could be swamped by national parliamentary campaigns. Another problem for Schill: the crime issue has little impact in eastern Germany, where unemployment is the main issue. Judge Merciless may have to find...
After World War II, the Soviet Union bit off a large chunk of eastern Poland and compensated for it by moving Poland's border with Germany westward to the banks of the Oder and Neisse rivers. When the German territories of Silesia and Pomerania thus became Polish, more than 3 million Germans fled or were expelled, but hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans remain. In a series of postwar treaties, including the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, signed by 35 states, West Germany has promised not to challenge the new frontiers of Europe. But Bonn insists that final agreement must...
...Doudera puts the problem in even starker terms. "All of Germany's neighbors have got to be against reunification," he says. "Once East and West Germany have been unified, what is to stop the Germans from wanting to get back all their old lands in the east, from Pomerania to Silesia and Sudetenland...