Norway's government on Wednesday officially apologized to Norwegian women targeted for reprisals by authorities for having intimate relations with German soldiers during the country's war-time
occupation.
After embarking on a cruise with his family to Norway, a boy from Berlin returned home to an unwelcome bill amounting to €12,000, German media reported on Wednesday.
Spring is in the air and Trekker Willi, Germany's answer to Jack Kerouac, is hitting the road again aboard his trusty tractor “Robert” - with a destination well over the horizon.
A German priest on trial in Norway for having sex with a 15-year-old girl claimed he did so because he did not know the country's legal age of consent was higher than Germany's.
The wreck of a German World War II submarine that was sunk with 48 people on board has been found off Norway's coast during work on an oil pipe, a maritime museum official said on Monday.
The words of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik explaining the thinking behind his killing spree will be read in Berlin theatres next month - to shock the audience with the familiarity of his arguments.
Three Germans were killed when their light aircraft crashed into a mountain side in Norway in low visibility conditions, Norwegian police confirmed on Saturday.
A German woman expressing support for Anders Behring Breivik was denied entry to his trial and has been deported, police said Thursday, amid reports she claimed to be the Norway gunman's lover.
The Norwegian extremist on trial for killing 77 people told a court on Tuesday he had been ‘created’ by the same forces which had led to the German National Socialist Underground (NSU) cell, suspected of nine race-based murders.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich’s call to end anonymity for internet bloggers in the wake of the Norway massacre has been slammed by the opposition and even the conservatives’ coalition partners, the Free Democrats.
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has said there is no evidence that a Europe-wide network of right-wing extremists is evolving, casting doubt on claims by Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
In the wake of the Norwegian massacre, German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has warned that Germany is also endangered by right-wing extremists who go undetected.
State governments and the police union are pushing for more police officers to be recruited from immigrant communities to help combat extremism in all forms.
Norway’s mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik wanted the opposite of freedom. That's why open societies including Germany must resist xenophobia and isolationism in the face of terror. A commentary by Der Tagesspiegel’s Gerd Appenzeller.
Top Muslim leaders in Germany are calling on the federal government to take immediate action to stamp out growing anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of the Norway massacre.
A major German police union has called on internet users to help law enforcement prevent tragedies such as the Norway massacre by reporting violent extremist views expressed on blogs and web forums.
While Norway mourns the deaths of 93 people in one of the worst mass-murders in modern history, the country is honouring those who put their lives at risk to stop the killings – including a German man, Marcel Gleffe.
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said Sunday that the authorities routinely kept track on Germany's far-right scene, and had found no signs of the type of terrorism that struck Norway on Friday.
