Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany News

On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany - then under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist Party - formed a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH.

German holidaymakers normally flock to Greek destinations such as Rhodes, the largest of the Dodecanese Islands.

A 3% voting stake would make Volkswagen employees the companys fourth-largest shareholder after Porsche Automobil Holding with a 50.7% stake, the German state of Lower Saxony with just above 20% and Qatar Holding with 17% Volkswagen AGs top labour representative and deputy supervisory board chairman said yesterday he expects an agreement on staff ... (more)

Eurozone private sector activity suffered its worst monthly slide in nearly three years in May, a survey showed Thursday, which analysts said indicates it is locked in a dismal downturn.

American melodic metallers KAMELOT have inked a deal with King Records for the Japanese release of their next album, tentatively due in the fall.

A A A A A INTRO.:A A hymn which identifies Christ as the one who believers find is precious is "Jesus, Priceless Treasure."A The text was written by Johann Franck, who was born on June 1, 1618, at Guben in Brandenburg, Germany, 79 miles southeast of Berlin.A His father, a lawyer and judge also named Johann, died when his son was only two years ... (more)

Come spring-time each year Germans shed their typically sober attitude towards food to swoon over the freshness, the flavor and the girth of their asparagus.

Karin Flehmig arrived at the new airport here recently, grabbed her suitcase off the baggage belt and walked outside.

German cable company Kabel Deutschland has agreed to buy regional player Tele Columbus for about 618 million euros , snatching one of the last large targets left in the consolidation of Germany's once-fragmented cable market.

Robin Gibb-performing during a concert in Potsdam, Germany-in July 2011, died Sunday 'following a long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery,' his family announced in a statement.

Margot E. "Peggy" Hankins, 84, of Williamson, passed away Saturday, May 19, 2012, at the Appalachian Regional Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility in South Williamson, Ky.

The great French director Jean Renoir recalled that when he directed "La Grande illusion" , he partly drew its style from a song that a character plays on a flute.

Jean Renoir's 1937 "Grand Illusion," one of the most admired - and one of the most feared - films ever made, returns to theatrical screens in a fine digital restoration taken from the original camera negative just in time to celebrate its 75th anniversary.

Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion opened in an anxious France in June 1937, as wars were going badly for the Spanish and Chinese republics and Picasso's Guernica was drying on the easel.

Atmospheric scientist Mark Lawrence was named scientific director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, last October, after a 19-year research stint at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

The euro crisis has turned violent in Germany after a shady terror group torched a car belonging to the EU finance chief tasked with sorting out the Greek financial catastrophe.

German prosecutors say a car belonging to the head of a European Union task force for Greece has been destroyed in an apparent arson attack.

MOST of the large trailer manufacturers headquartered in Germany have multiple plants and operations in other countries.

Jean Renoir's 1937 film, "Grand Illusion," , is one of the very greatest of war films, made by a director who had himself been a soldier in the First World War - a flyer in a French squadron that provided the film with its setup .

This modern apartment from 1997 will be vacant from July, 2012. The top floor apartment offers an entrance hall; modern tiled bathroom with bathtub and window; fitted kitchen; bedroom and living room.