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German Officials Arrest Former Spy Chief on Espionage Charges

August Hanning is accused of helping foreign governments. His arrest shook the German political world and had roots in a steakhouse-heiress kidnapping plot.

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August Hanning in 2007, after he left the German intelligence service.
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German Officials Arrest Former Spy Chief on Espionage Charges

August Henning is accused of helping foreign governments. His arrest shook the German political world and had roots in a steakhouse-heiress kidnapping plot.

© Abdelhak Senna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

August Hanning in 2007, after he left the German intelligence service.
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Germany’s Far Right Claims Its First Statehouse Speaker Since 1945

After winning a state election last month, the Alternative for Germany is the first far-right party to oversee a state legislature since the Nazi era.

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Tobias Rausch was chosen as the first far-right leader of a German statehouse since 1945.
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German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews

Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.

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The artist Gunter Demnig placing plaques called “Stolpersteine,” or “stumbling stones,” on a street in Berlin in May.
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