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Mumiensturm
“Storm of mummies.” Joschka Fischer was in the German Green Party the first time it managed to join a ruling federal coalition. He became foreign minister (Secretary of State). Years later it turned...
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Achtung, die Historiker kommen
“Here come the historians.” For about a year now, reported tagesschau.de, historians have been studying the influence of ex-Nazis within post-WWII German federal ministries other than the Foreign...
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“Wissen, wie es war”
“To know what it was like.” Motto for the twentieth anniversary of the museum for the Stasi documents, the files and systems of the East German secret police, that were saved from destruction,...
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Akteneinsicht
“View into the files,” access to files, to audit records and check documentation systems. What inspectors and transparency advocates request. (OCT en EYE n zichh t.)
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Beweisvernichtungsbussgeld
“Fine for the destruction of evidence.” On 19 Sep 2013, Halliburton will plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in April 2010 and will pay the maximum fine...
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Seltene Sprachen und Dialekte, die über Crowdsourcing aufgenommen und...
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have created a free app that lets speakers of endangered languages, whether encountered by academics doing field work or self-selected in networks of...
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Legislativer Fussabdruck
Legislative footprint. A Spiegel.de article about the financial industry’s efforts to lobby officials in Brussels mentioned that the E.U. has voluntary self-registration of lobbyists in its...
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Europeana1914-1918.eu
Wonderful pan-European website of digitized photos and documents about World War One from libraries, archives, online submissions and, among other things, family history roadshows taking place in many...
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Handschrift des Arztes muss lesbar sein
“Physicians’ handwriting must be legible” in patients’ medical records according to the current version of Germany’s patients’ rights law, passed last year. Frank Leopold, head of a Verein that...
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Perfektion protegiert Pädophilie
Perfection sponsors pedophilia. In its thousand-year-old quest for perfection, the Vatican under St. Pope John Paul II was staffed with high officials who were supporters of a group called the Legion...
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Schlichtungsstelle für Suchmaschinen
Mediation board for search engines. Since the European Court of Justice’s recent decision that Google (and all search engines) must delete on request links to pages that E.U. burghers feel violate...
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Preußisches Heeresarchiv in Potsdam, Zentralnachweiseamt für Kriegerverluste...
The “Prussian Military Archive” in Potsdam and the “Central Registry Office for Warrior Losses and War Graves” in Berlin. These archives were destroyed by bombing in 1945, making it harder to research...
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