Kate Connolly

‘Every piece of evidence is vital’: Holocaust survivor calls for victims’ shoes to be salvaged Manfred Goldberg, 94, urges authorities to preserve fragments of thousands of shoes left to rot at Stutthof concentration camp site

Saddened to hear of the death of Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, who we interviewed in 2024.
“I feel my revenge on the Nazis is the building of our lovely family.” RIP Manfred.

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‘Every piece of evidence is vital’: Holocaust survivor calls for victims’ shoes to be salvaged Manfred Goldberg, 94, urges authorities to preserve fragments of thousands of shoes left to rot at Stutthof concentration camp site

Saddened to hear of the death of Manfred Goldberg, Holocaust survivor, who we interviewed in 2024. “I feel my revenge on the Nazis is the building of our lovely family“. RIP Manfred.

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High-speed rail network possible by 2040, says European Commission Plan to cut journey times between major cities could reduce Berlin-Copenhagen trip from seven to four hours

We live in hope… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

German retirees who continue working set to earn €2,000 a month tax-free Active pension scheme expected to start in January is part of chancellor’s ‘autumn of reforms’ to tackle economic stagnation

German retirees who continue working are set to earn €2000 a month tax free

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You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

‘You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned’ (= one of the best headlines of the year so far)
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Another great read from Salzburg by @kateconnolly.bsky.social

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig The car magnate, who is restoring the Jewish author’s former villa, has been given permission to dig out a 500-metre road leading to a garage, causing consternation in the city

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

Extraordinary story of how a Historian used AI to help identify a Nazi soldier who murdered a Jewish man by @deborahcole.bsky.social

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Brian Patten obituary One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love

How long does a man live?

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us,
For as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams
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‘Trippy’: the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved?

'Kontakthof': the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s... via @theguardian.com

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Devastating news for European rail travellers.

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Thankyou Kim! X

"Im Westens nichts Neues" von Erich Maria Remarque: "Dachte immer, jeder Mensch sei gegen den Krieg" Als Jugendlicher kämpft Erich Paul Remark im Ersten Weltkrieg an der Westfront. Mit seinem Anti-Kriegsroman "Im Westen nichts Neues", der am 29. Januar 1929 erscheint, wird er als Erich Maria Remarque...

25 September 1970: Erich Maria Remarque, the author of "Im Westen nichts Neues", dies in Locarno www.ndr.de/geschichte/k... via @ndr.de

‘Raring to go:’ the German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December

Berlin-based remote-driving firm paves the way for car revolution on Europe‘s roads

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‘Raring to go:’ the German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant Europe has been slow to embrace robotaxis but Germany will allow remote-controlled rental cars from December

‘Raring to go:’ the German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

📢 #BGAEvent: 𝗥𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗵𝗹 - @theguardian.com journalist @kateconnolly.bsky.social in conversation with director 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗲𝗶𝗲𝗹

📅 Thu 25 Sep, 6.30pm

🗺️ On Zoom

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Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise

Young Finns are snubbing their mother tongue in favour of English books. One reason for popularity of English is that some find the sex scenes less embarrassing. “When you read in English you can detach yourself a little bit,” Miranda Bryant
is told.
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Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in deadly tests in early 1940s

The Swiss natural cosmetics company Weleda allegedly supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, a historian has claimed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in deadly tests in early 1940s

Cosmerics company provided cream used on prisoners in Nazi concentratuon camp, study shows www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug People suspected teenagers playing ding dong ditch and called police, who found animal crawling on the door panel

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of a German apartment block turned out to be a Nacktschnecke - a naked snail (slug).

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Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Impressions from Art Exhibition on East German prefab housing ‚Wohnkomplex’ opening today at the Minsk in Potsdam.

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - (Construction Block, on a typewriter)
Christian Thoelke - Kaufhalle
Uwe Pfeifer - Night scene in Halle

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Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience

Excellent Art Exhibition on East Germany’s Prefab housing ‚Wohnkomplex‘ at the Minsk in Potsdam, opening today. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘It’s time for us to be louder’: Germany’s Pride parades face up to rise in attacks Christopher Street Day event organisers urge vigilance amid increase in abuse from rightwing extremists

‘It’s time for us to be louder’: Germany’s Pride parades face up to rise in attacks

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Anti-AfD protesters interrupt Alice Weidel interview live on German TV Broadcaster to take precautions in future after whistling, shouting and music leave parts of exchange inaudible

Anti-AfD protesters interrupt Alice Weidel interview live on German TV

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A steakhouse heir, Israeli spies and a cross-border abduction: the custody battle gripping Germany Christina Block is standing trial in Hamburg accused of kidnapping two of her own children from her ex-husband

A steakhouse heir, Israeli spies and a cross-border abduction: the custody battle gripping Germany www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays Two southern states cling to past ruling that children are needed for harvest and claim the latest, most favoured slot

Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays

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Ukrainians hail Melania Trump for challenging husband’s faith in Putin US first lady celebrated as ‘Agent Melania Trumpenko’ for noting Russian leader’s duplicity

Hope springs eternal

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Paris reopens River Seine to public swimming after century-long ban About a thousand swimmers a day will be allowed to use three bathing sites after €1.4bn clean-up programme

River Seine opens to swimmers for first time in over a century. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller Sebastian Haffner’s love story set in final days of Weimar Republic published more than nine decades after it was written

A previously unknown novel by one of Europe’s most influential postwar journalists has been published in Germany after his children discovered the hand-written manuscript in his desk @kateconnolly.bsky.social‬ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...