Archive for the ‘germany’ Category

Obama speaks in Berlin to largest crowd of his campaign

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

The AP reports on Obama's speech in Berlin: "...the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more, not less." The Christian Science Monitor has ...

Berliners welcome Obama as they did JFK

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

The centerpiece of Barack Obama's overseas tour comes Thursday in Berlin when the Democratic presidential candidate gives the only public foreign policy speech of his trip to an Obama-mad crowd of Germans who see him as another John F. Kennedy. He's in a country and a continent making no secret ...

The Olympic torch’s shadowy past: Nazi Germany

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

The idea of lighting the torch at the ancient Olympian site in Greece and then running it through different countries has much darker origins. It was invented in its modern form by the organisers of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. And it was planned with immense care by ...