Germany news: Fire flares up at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat
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Fire broke out again overnight at a former mountain retreat used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, a survey shows most people in Germany feel the days of the governing coalition are numbered. DW has more.
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Read below for a roundup of stories making news in Germany for the weekend of October 24-25.
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A cruise ship has collided with a container ship in the northern port city of Bremerhaven, police told the DPA news agency.
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Tui Cruises confirmed the collision of Mein Schiff 3 in response to a DPA request.
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The cruise ship had reportedly returned to the pier where the damage was being assessed.
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As a German reporter, suddenly seeing German CEO Gernot Döllner pop up in the middle of a Trump campaign speech in Perry, Georgia, was a particular surprise.
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Publicly, German automakers have said they won't be blackmailed. But this was a clear transaction made under pressure.
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Trump's remark on Audi's investment, that "without tariffs they would not have been coming in," left no doubt of his understanding of the "deal."
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The crowd cheered the $4.2 billion (€3.8 billion) investment that Trump said will help create up to 30,000 jobs.
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But the open instrumentalization of German business investments just days ahead of a US election is already ruffling feathers in Germany.
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"A disgrace," said a lawmaker from the junior governing coalition partner SPD.
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An "undignified spectacle," were the words used by the Handelsblatt daily business publication to describe it.
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A fire that broke out on Friday evening at the Eagle's Nest mountain retreat in southern Germany that was once used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler erupted again overnight to Sunday in the almost destroyed building, Bavarian police said.
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A police officer said flames there burnt again at "room height" after smoldering embers provoked a flare-up in what the officer said was a common occurrence in the case of such conflagrations.
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The renewed fire triggered another deployment of firefighters to the site, known as Kehlsteinhaus in German, at the top of the Obersalzberg mountain.
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The site, formerly used by Hitler to receive diplomats and other foreign guests, has been a restaurant since 1952 but was closed on Friday when the fire broke out. No one was injured.
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Police arrested a 33-year-old German man suspected of having lit the fire, with an initial psychiatric assessement indicating mental illness.
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The building was largely destroyed by the blaze, which caused millions of euros of damage.
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After US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that car producer Audi would build a $4 billion (€3.77 billion) assembly plant in the state of Georgia, the company has defended its planned move against criticism that it goes against German interests.
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"This decision was preceded by many months of careful planning and intense negotiations," CEO Gerbot Döllner told reporters on Sunday.
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"If the American president invites you, you accept the invitation. That is what respect for the office and for the country in which we invest demands," he said, arguing that the plan could protect jobs in Germany by boosting the carmaker's global business.
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The move is yet to be approved by the supervisory board of Volkswagen, which owns Audi.
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You can read more here: Trump announces Audi will build $4 billion factory in US.
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has presented this year's prestigious German Environmental Prize, worth €500,000 ($560,150), to a lawyer specializing in environmental cases and an engineer who has developed high-performance filters for wastewater plants.
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At a ceremony in the western city of Aachen, Steinmeier commended Hamburg-based lawyer Roda Verheyen and engineer Klaus Vossenkaul as models of environmental protection.
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"They show that each and every individual can make a difference," he said.
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According to the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), which awards the prize, Verheyen received the honor for "getting justice done for the environment."
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In his speech, Steinmeier said she had shown many people ways to fight for their interests amid human-induced climate change.
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Among other things, he said, her constitutional complaint against the climate protection law in 2021 played a decisive role in the Constitutional Court's ruling that Germany should become climate-neutral by 2045.
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Speaking about Vossenkaul, Steinmeier said the engineer was a prime example of "creativity and inventiveness" in the field of environmental protection.
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The president said the membrane technology developed by Vossenkaul helped to make wastewater plants more economical in terms of space, energy and cost, thus protecting "our basis of life."
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Just one in four people in Germany (23%) believes that the coalition of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) will last its full term till the next federal elections at the start of 2029, a survey has shown.
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Some 44% said they believed the coalition would end within the next two years, according to the YouGov survey of 2,202 eligible voters, while around 13% are even convinced that the coalition will not see out the year.
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Conservative voters who support parties in the so-called Union — the alliance of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) — are less optimistic about the coalition's continued existence than SPD supporters.
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A whole 53% of CDU/CSU voters expect a premature end to the coalition, compared with just 32% who think it will last out its term.
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That compares with the 46% of SPD voters who doubt the coalition's long-term viability, with 34% trusting it will cohere until 2029.
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Twenty percent gave no opinion on the issue.
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The coalition has been divided over a reform of Germany's pension and welfare systems, as well as over the best way to deal with the challenge posed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which beat the mainstream parties in recent state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany is set to remain in hospital for several days and will be missing for a number of weeks after collapsing at the club's training center on Friday.
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The 40-year-old Belgian had recently been suffering from a virus and collapsed while observing a reserve team training session.
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"The good news is he's stable," said Bayern's director of sport, Max Eberl, on Saturday. "I spoke with him last night, and with his wife too. It wasn't a nice moment for any of us. He collapsed on the pitch yesterday and will spend a few more days in hospital until everything is checked over."
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Eberl said that doctors are "trying to find out what it is," adding: "The tests have already yielded some results, but further results are needed to determine exactly what it is and how long it will take for him to recover."
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Eberl said it will be a while before Kompany is fit to return to work. "We're not talking in terms of days, but weeks," he said. "We're all clear on that."
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Kompany will miss Bayern's game away at high-flying SC Freiburg on Sunday, with assistant coach Aaron Danks set to stand in for him. He will also miss next week's Bundesliga Klassiker at home to Borussia Dortmund and the difficult trip to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on November 3.
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"It shows again that health is the most important thing in life, not football," said Eberl, stressing that Kompany will "only come back when he's fit."
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Bayern will also travel to Freiburg on Sunday without captain Joshua Kimmich, whose father passed away aged 57 this week.
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Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will also miss the game due to "persistent tendonitis" in his foot, as will defender Min-jae Kim, playmaker Jamal Musiala and forward Luiz Diaz.
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Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair has closed its base at Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), and removed 12 routes there at the start of its winter timetable.
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The move was announced in April and confirmed in October, with the airline having long complained about high taxes and fees at German airports.
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Six of the 12 deleted routes, from BER to Palermo, Marseille, Triest, Reggio Calabria, Tallin and Pisa, can now no longer be directly reached on flights from the airport, the airline and the airport operator FBB said.
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The other six — Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Bologna, Thessaloniki and Vilnius — are served by other airlines flying from BER.
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The seven Ryanair aircraft that were based at the BER airport have been reassigned to airports in European Union countries that, according to Ryanair, have got rid of aviation taxes or reduced airport charges.
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Ryanair is to still fly to and from Berlin using planes based elsewhere.
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The operators of BER have pointed out that despite Ryanair's move, eight more destinations can be reached from the airport than last winter, as other airlines have expanded their services at the airport.
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Guten Morgen from DW's newsroom in Bonn as we return to our reporting on the German stories currently hitting the headlines.
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We will be looking again at developments as a fire at the Eagle's Nest mountain retreat in southern Germany once used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler flared up again overnight.
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Meanwhile, a survey has shown that most people in Germany do not believe the current conservative/center-left coalition under Chancellor Friedrich Merz will last the full four-year course of its term.
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And Europe's largest low-cost carrier, Ryanair, is closing its base at Berlin's international airport as previously announced, meaing that 50% of the carrier's flights there will be cut.
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Read on here for more on stories from and about Germany.
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We're pausing our coverage of the weekend's news out of Germany until later on Sunday morning.
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An overnight fire engulfed Eagle's Nest, a historic Nazi-era site once used by Adolf Hitler in Germany's Bavarian Alps. Firefighters faced difficult conditions battling the flames at the mountaintop location, while one suspect has been taken into temporary custody. Police are looking into whether this is a potential case of arson.
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DW spoke to historian Sven Keller of the Obersalzberg Documentation Center about the site's historical significance, why it was preserved, and how Germany deals with landmarks associated with its Nazi past.
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Germany's prosecutor's office said that a German national has been placed in pre-trial detention for allegedly attempting to join the so-called "Islamic State" terror group, while abroad, German news agency dpa reported.
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The agency cited a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office as saying that an arrest warrant had been executed and that a 21-year-old was extradited to Germany.
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The suspect is accused of travelling to Ethiopia from Berlin in January 2025, with the purpose of joining the IS terror group in Somalia and receive training there.
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Prosecutors allege that he never reached Somalia, but instead traveled to Pakistan to join Islamic State, where he was reportedly arrrested in February 2025.
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The suspect stands accused of attempted membership in a terrorist organization abroad. He is also accused of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz highlighted the threat Germany faces from extremist parties to foreign enemies, including a "massive threat" from Russia.
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"How do we safeguard our freedom and our security in Europe, in the face of growing threats from extremists within and foreign powers from without?" the chancellor said, adding that Russia was seeking "to destabilise Germany on a daily basis."
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Germany is one of the biggest military and political supporters of Ukraine and has been on high alert for acts of sabotage in recent months.
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That's especially since an explosive-laden drone was discovered near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig airport. Berlin said Moscow was behind the attempted attack.
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In one of the most recent incidents, on Thursday, police in the German state of Brandenburg arrested a Ukrainian man on suspicion of spying for Russia.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video German Chancellor Friedrich Merz once again stood firm on any notion of ever working with Germany's far-right.
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Merx restated his opposition to any change in the"firewall" policy of isolating the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) at the CSU conference in Munich.
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"Anyone who feels they have to vote for these people has no place in our Union. They have no place amongst us," Merz said.
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The AfD, has been topping national opinion polls although a Friday poll showed Merz's conservative bloc closing the gap.
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Nevertheless, according to the poll, Merz's coalition would still fall short of a majority were an election to be held.
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The poll, conducted for public broadcaster ZDF, asked voters which party they would support if a federal election were held this Sunday.
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz gave an indication that the electricity tax could be lowered next year.
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"If it’s possible — and I think it is — then the electricity tax must be lowered next year," Merz said Saturday at the CSU party convention in Munich.
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His coalition partners have already agreed to lower the electricity tax for everyone to the European minimum as quickly as possible.
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To date, the federal government has only approved reductions for industry, agriculture, and forestry and Germany's Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) has said there is not much wiggle room, despite forecasts of higher tax revenues.
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