Germans are told to stay at home over Easter t

Germans have been urged to stay at home over the Easter period to stem the third Covid-19 wave, as the country’s intensive care association calls for a two-week lockdown and a faster vaccination programme.  Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Germans on Thursday to stay at home over Easter and meet fewer people to help curb … Read more

37 million Germans face tough lockdown measures

Angela Merkel made an astonishing plea for forgiveness today as she scrapped plans for a strict Easter lockdown in Germany which she said were ‘my mistake, and my mistake alone’.  The planned five-day shutdown – in which even grocery stores would have shut on all but a single day – was agreed between Merkel and … Read more

Why the Germans helped get Brexit done

Give it a few years and I predict that Britons will look back on this unholy Brexit affair and credit two unlikely factors with saving the day: The pandemic… and the ghastly Germans. While the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier and his compatriot, the French president Emmanuel Macron, were all for giving you Brits a … Read more

ALEXANDER VON SCHOENBURG: Why my fellow Germans DO want a Brexit deal

What happened yesterday regarding the Brexit talks was reminiscent of the Battle of Waterloo – at least the version taught in my German school. The French had Britain on the brink of defeat, when Prussian troops stormed in and reprieved them. Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier – a former foreign minister of France, don’t forget … Read more

Merkel tells Germans they won’t be able to have New Year’s Eve parties

Angela Merkel has told Germans they can’t have New Year’s Eve parties and social contact will be restricted for all of the winter to tackle coronavirus. The chancellor warned ‘the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way off’ on the first day of a four-week lockdown which shutters bars, theatres, gyms … Read more

Angela Merkel warns Germans that ‘difficult months are ahead of us’

Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned Germans to expect ‘difficult months ahead’ as the country posts a new daily record of over 7,800 new coronavirus cases.  On Saturday she also urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus.  ‘Difficult months are ahead of us,’ she said … Read more

‘Germans’ episode of Fawlty Towers is taken off-air

An episode of Fawlty Towers from which the N-word and other offensive terms had previously been cut has been taken down from the BBC’s Netflix-style streaming service UKTV. The 1975 episode titled The Germans – fondly remembered for the repeated line ‘Don’t mention the war’ – is the latest in a series of British programmes to be culled from … Read more

Story of British crew dodging Germans for 11 days in Second World War comes to light 80 years on

The story of how a three-man tank crew escaped from behind enemy lines can be told after the radioactive compass that saved them came to light 80 years later. Brigadier Peter Vaux, Major Stewart Fernie and Lance Corporal Robert Burroughs were in a Light Mark VIB tank at the Battle of Arras in May 1940 … Read more

Hundreds of Germans gather in Berlin to mark May Day despite ban on mass public gatherings

Hundreds of people gathered in a square in Berlin yesterday to mark May Day in defiance of a ban on public gatherings of more than 20. The move has exposed deep frustrations with social distancing rules in place in Germany since mid-March to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Police blocked roads around the Kreuzberg district … Read more