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Deborah Cole
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Berlin correspondent, The Guardian and its Sunday paper, The Observer deborah.cole(at)https://t.co/I0cGfqKPzD http://deborahcole.bsky.soci
Sep 23, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Germany's election Sunday is shaping up as the most suspenseful in a generation and will see Chancellor Angela Merkel step down after 16 years in power. Beyond our daily news coverage, @AFP has prepared a series of stories sizing up the race. Here is the final package (thread): Germany goes to the polls on Sunday in an election that will see Angela Merkel step down after 16 years in power, sparking a knife-edge race to lead Europe's biggest economy. news.yahoo.com/germany-readie…
Nov 8, 2020 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
Fans of The Queen's Gambit, German history aficianados: I went out to Schulzendorf near the new BER airport to find the manor house that stood in for Beth's orphanage in the series. It's an evocative place linked to one of Berlin's most illustrious Jewish families (thread) Moritz Israel, scion of a Jewish retail dynasty in Berlin since the 1740s, bought the former feudal estate in the late 19th c and built this Renaissance-style villa. A year later he would give it to his son Richard & bride Bianca as a wedding present
Jun 26, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This 100 yo ad for a Jewish-owned clothing shop forced to close in '38 only recently came to light in Gelsenkirchen, Germany when the building next door was torn down. Debate raging how best to preserve it with construction plans already approved h/t Weiße Rose Gesellschaft City records show the Alexander family fled Nazi Germany in 1938 after they were stripped of their assets & ended up in Brazil & the US
Jul 2, 2019 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
In case it's useful, a few points about Ursula von der Leyen as seen from Berlin:
- Yes, her defense ministry is seen as scandal-plagued, with major equipment problems & a handful of sleaze allegations. - However the gigantic apparatus was long this way & a known as a political "ejector seat" for legions of ambitious pols. No one expected her to hold on this long (since 2013) but she's paid a high price in popularity (2nd from bottom in latest minister ranking).
Jun 23, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
A 45 y.o. architect living in the building, Simon Lütgemeyer, researched the fates of 83 Jews who were residents or owners during the Holocaust until they were deported & murdered or driven into exile. Then he had a plaque installed with the former residents' names next to silent doorbells, along with a commemoration of their fates in German & Hebrew. A QR code at the bottom leads you to their stories