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How a reading group helped young German students defy the Nazis and find their faith

For three weeks in April 2025, my “Theology of Christian Martyrdom” class studied how a group of German students and professors from Munich and Hamburg formed a resistance movement from 1942 to 1943 known as the “White Rose.” These individuals defied Nazi tyranny, they were imprisoned, and many were executed.

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Cocaine, corruption and bribes: the German port under siege by Europe’s criminal drug gangs

After seizure in Hamburg of 16 tonnes of high-purity powder, state attorney is accused of being on payroll of gang he was supposed to be prosecuting

The Guardian - UK

Bestselling German novelist Alexandra Fröhlich found dead on houseboat in Hamburg

Police say she was shot

The Independent UK

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Bestselling German novelist found killed on Hamburg houseboat

Police launch murder inquiry after Alexandra Fröhlich is found dead on her boat on the Elbe

The Guardian - UK

DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us review – party-starting nostalgist is as playful as ever

Appealingly rough around the edges, the Hamburg DJ’s fourth album voyages from a Damon Albarn amapiano track to harsh 90s drum’n’bass

The Guardian - UK

My disabled mother was left stranded at Hamburg airport

How could airport and airline staff miss an elderly woman with hearing problems in a wheelchair, left sitting there after the gate emptied?

The Guardian - UK

Luxury cruise on offer for £99 – so what’s the catch?

Passengers can head from the UK to Germany in style without breaking the bank

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Kenneth Stern obituary

Other lives: Lloyds insurance broker who fostered links between his birthplace of Hamburg and his adopted home of London

The Guardian - UK

Germany’s access all areas pass allows unlimited train travel and public transport – for just £1.60 a day

Hamburg to Munich and Cologne to Berlin: £48 buys a month of travel in central Europe’s largest nation

The Independent UK

Boy, 7, run over and killed by bin lorry in front of horrified father

Police investigate after boy cycling to school in Hamburg, Germany was hit by a turning rubbish truck

The Independent UK

Germany train crash: Train collides with truck in Hamburg, killing one and injuring 25

The high-speed train collided with a truck in Hamburg’s Rönneburg district, leaving a 55-year-old man dead

Evening Standard

One killed and 12 injured in German train crash

The ICE train had 291 people on board at the time of the collision on Tuesday

The Independent UK

‘Why are they destroying this?’: the battle for Germany’s Fanprojekte

In Germany Fanprojekte play a crucial social-work role with football fans but a court case in Karlsruhe is threatening their existence

The Guardian - UK

Human remains found in light aircraft recovered from sea off coast of Shetland

Cessna aircraft discovered by a trawler was reported missing in October 2023 after failing to return to Hamburg

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A Keith Haring carousel, a Basquiat ferris wheel: long-lost pop art carnival gets new life in New York

In 1987, the great and good of the art scene designed rides for an avant garde ‘theme park’ in Hamburg. Decades later, Luna Luna has been lovingly resurrected

The Conversation

Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom

Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an oral history interview. Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain…

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space

Citizen power forced Germany’s greenest city-state into a binding agreement balancing housing and nature

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Hamburg hero: Socceroo's promotion joy, Dortmund date

Socceroo Jackson Irvine will lead out FC St. Pauli in front of Borussia Dortmund's awe-inspiring Yellow Wall of fans and he can't wait.

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Metal Hammer

Watch power metal heroes Powerwolf burn their own keyboardist at the stake as part of their massive new arena show

Watch Powerwolf burn keyboardist Falk Maria Schlegel at the stake in Hamburg

The Independent UK

Trump ‘asked Putin for advice’ about whether the US should help arm Ukraine

Trump had only been in office for seven months when he met with Putin in Hamburg

The Independent UK

Suspected Marburg virus cases in Hamburg test negative amid fears of outbreak

Rwanda is currently experiencing an outbreak of Marburg virus with 36 cases confirmed as of Wednesday

Evening Standard

Hamburg train station platforms closed over suspected Marburg virus cases

A medical student and his girlfriend who had just returned from Rwanda fell ill while travelling through Germany

Guitar World

“One of the holy grails of historic Beatles guitars”: George Harrison’s Futurama – which starred in over 300 early Beatles shows, including the Fab Four’s historic Hamburg tour – is heading to auction

The oddball electric – which originally went up for auction back in 2019 – was also used on the Fab Four's first official Polydor recordings, having featured heavily during their early Cavern Club gigs

The Independent UK

The best last-minute family cruise deals for February half-term

Sail into the school holidays with our round-up of the top family-friendly cruises

Metal Hammer

"We’re so excited for players and fans to experience this!”: Watch Linkin Park debut new single Heavy Is The Crown at recent Hamburg show

Linkin Park unveiled the second single from their forthcoming reunion album From Zero at their show at Barclays Arena in Hamburg this weekend, and it's set to be used as the League Of Legends World Championship anthem

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