On the night of October 9, the ferry Lisco Gloria north of Fehmarn caught fire. On board:more than 200 passengers. About a rescue that was possible thanks to quick reactions. by Isabelle Breitbach They have only just laid down when the fire on the Lisco Gloria breaks out:the more than 200 passeng
2018 is a year of extreme weather:North Germans are looking forward to a dream summer, but the long drought has serious consequences. A lot of snow and violent storms are also part of the balance sheet of this weather year. Super long, super warm, super sunny:The year 2018 brought the North Germans
On March 2, 1972, the police searched a house in Hamburg while searching for RAF terrorists. The head of the special commission, Hans Eckhardt, was shot. He dies three weeks later. by Axel Franz From todays perspective, the action seems reckless:On March 2, 1972, the police with a special commissi
Tatiana and Andra Bucci survived Auschwitz. From there, her cousin Sergio de Simone was sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp. On the night of April 20th, 1945, he was killed with 19 other children in the Bullenhuser Damm subcamp. by Stefanie Grossmann The Bucci sisters keep alive the memory o
In the spring of 2011, an epileptic drove into a group of people in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Four of them die, including Dietmar Mues and Günter Amendt. Hamburg is in shock. Was the man even allowed to drive? by Stefanie Grossmann It is March 12, 2011, a spring-like Saturday in Hamburg. At a busy inters
The end of the war also means traumatic experiences for many who lived through it. Brigitte Roßow was ten years old when she witnessed and was affected by the unprecedented mass suicide in Demmin at the beginning of May 1945. In 2020, after 75 years, Brigitte Roßow told the story of her trauma for
In the series Die Toten von Marnow a scandal about drug tests by Western pharmaceutical companies in the GDR is revealed. In fact there was. Her recovery started late. What really happened then? by Thomas Naedler and Siv Stippekohl Reports in the news magazine Der Spiegel and other newspapers in 2
For a long time, the construction of the Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline was controversial, and neighboring countries and environmental organizations have expressed strong criticism. Years passed before gas started flowing from Russia to Lubmin on September 6, 2011. The follow-up project Nord Stream
In the 1970s, the series Zur See was created on a real East German merchant ship with a crew. She became a street sweeper and was the inspiration for Das Traumschiff in the West. Three bars of the title melody and the viewers memory of one of the greatest successes of GDR television is awake again.
May 1945 - End of the war in Flensburg:The last Reich government takes its seat in Mürwik. At the same time, thousands of SS members come to cover their tracks on the Rat Line North. by Werner Junge March 11, 1946, 11 p.m.:Everything is still quiet on the Hansen farm in Gottrupel near Flensburg. S
When the Rendsburg Canal Tunnel opened on July 25, 1961, people in the region were relieved. Despite the bridge, drivers had to bring time and patience to cross the canal. by Christian Wolf The Kiel Canal (NOK) has been connecting the North Sea with the Baltic Sea for more than 125 years. Schleswi
Poverty and the integration of refugees characterize the post-war period in Schleswig-Holstein. A great challenge for the country that officially emerged from the province of the same name on August 23, 1946. by Janine Kuehl Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War:People suffer from food sho
After seven years of British occupation, the Schleswig-Holstein flag has been flying again on the North Sea island of Heligoland since March 1, 1952. The Heligolanders are allowed to return to their island - it is a return home to a field of rubble. Raise flag! - With these words, on March 1st, 195
The Skandinavienkai in Lübeck-Travemünde is one of the most important hubs on the German Baltic Sea coast for connections to Sweden, Finland and the Baltic States. The ferry dock was inaugurated on March 28, 1962. by Janine Kuehl With the Nils Holgersson to northern Europe:On March 28, 1962, the f
On May 19, 1952, peat workers came across human bones near Eckernförde. The wrong gender determination of the mummy leads to wild theses about her past. This is another reason why the Windeby bog body is one of the best-known in Germany. by Jochen Lambernd The week had just begun on Monday, May 19
Polluted water, dwindling animal populations:in the 1960s, the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea was in danger. On January 22, 1974, it became a nature reserve, and on October 1, 1985, it became a national park. It has been a World Heritage Site since 2009. The North Sea as a rubbish dump, dwindling pl
When Lower Saxony was founded 75 years ago, the island of Norderney was still firmly in British hands. Soldiers from the Army of the Rhine spend their holidays on the island. There are only a few German guests - they exchange liquor or cigarettes for vacation. by Stefanie Grossmann Even during the
The state of Lower Saxony has existed for 75 years. No other region there experienced a structural change like Emsland after the end of the Second World War. With the help of the Emsland plan, the poor house of the republic blossomed into a boom region. by Stefanie Grossmann For centuries, a swamp
On September 22, 2006, a Transrapid crashed into a maintenance vehicle on the test track in Emsland at a speed of 170 km/h. 23 people die, eleven others are injured, some seriously. A late summer morning ended a hitherto flawless success story. The Transrapid magnetic levitation train has been maki
On January 26, 1982, construction of the nuclear waste interim storage facility in Gorleben began. Since then there have been massive protests in Wendland for decades. Because the salt dome in Gorleben was also considered a potential repository for a long time. Since the nuclear waste interim stora
Quevedo said… a single stone can collapse a building and the stone that we are dealing with, which was thrown with very bad milk, crumbled the Church and crushed its visible head, Pope Lucius II , who did not last a year on the throne of Saint Peter (March 12, 1144 to February 15, 1145) As ha
In February 1825 a new formidable opponent set foot on Moria. It was Ibrahim, the stepson of the Egyptian dynast Mehmet Ali, who arrived at the head of regular troops, commanded by French and Italian officers. The Greeks had nothing to oppose him. Nothing, except the Old Man of Moria. Ibrahim wa
Thanks to the Asterix and Obelix comics we have an image of the Gauls as a people who put up great resistance to the Roman occupation, the reality is that the irreducible were the pre-Roman peoples who occupied the peninsula (Iberians, Celts...). It took Rome 8 years to occupy Gaul and 2 centurie
The peltasts, in contrast to the psilouis, are conventionally characterized as light infantry, simply because they were lighter than the hoplites. In reality the peltasts were multi-role infantry, an intermediate type between heavy infantry and acrobats. Peltastes were the main type of infantry in t