But the following 10-year procedure, including stakeholder conferences and citizen input, combined with the federal parliament (Bundestag) and states’ representatives (Bundesrat) having to vote on several decisions along the way, is expected to ensure a maximum of citizen support for whatever location the process will find in the end.

Police said that the two set the vehicle on fire and killed themselves when their vehicle was found. Gerlach was accused of renting a motorhome for the NSU, [11] which Böhnhardt and Mundlos went on to use in the murder of police officer Michèle Kiesewetter in Heilbronn.

The Yamal-Europe pipeline, which usually delivers Russian gas west into Europe, continued to send it eastward from Germany to Poland for a 28th successive day on Monday, data from German network operator Gascade showed. It’s a strange feeling to come into a dark, half-blasted bunker, see parts of stairways and cables hanging out of the wall and walk through rubble in between holes that go several meters down into the ground. The state’s position was that there was no such thing as punk in the GDR and that punk had nothing to do with a socialist state. The curators of the Osówka tunnel system offers a basic walking tour as well as an “extreme” tour during which you are pushed along flooded tunnels in a giant metal tub while holding a torch and praying you don’t drop your iPhone into the cold water.

Train cars that were rumored to be filled with Nazi gold that has never been accounted for since WWII ended. The nation’s 27,000 cubic metres of nuclear waste – accumulated after producing electricity in nuclear reactors over 62 years – could find its final resting place in 15 out of the 16 German states. Signed and inscribed by future CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles to Phlippe Thyraud de Vosjoli, dated August 20, 1951.Although Lorient was heavily damaged, the heavy fortifications ensured that the naval base survived through to the end of the war. The guns would have been able to fire ten dart-like explosive projectiles a minute – 600 rounds every hour – into the British capital, which Winston Churchill later commented would have constituted “the most devastating attack of all”. British punks were singing about their futures and socio-economic conditions, while the problem in East Germany was almost the direct opposite; they had too much future.