<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Pope's Home Town Went Along, but Not Always]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7751-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7751-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Nazi Party leaders in this predominantly Catholic town in southern Germany decreed in 1941 that all crucifixes be removed from the walls of school classrooms, nearly 2,000 women signed a petition in protest.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Idyllic Setting for Boy Who Would Become Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6077-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6077-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  TRAUNSTEIN, Germany, April 20  --  The Ratzinger family lived in a modest farmhouse at the far edge of this southern German town with a clear view of soaring pine trees and the majestic, snow-capped Bavarian Alps. Each day, Joseph, who was 12, and his older brother Georg hiked a half hour across town to St. Michael's Seminary, where both excelled at their studies.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muted Enthusiasm in Homeland]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2641-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2641-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The former archbishop of Munich, Ratzinger became a remote figure to Bavarians.]]></description><author> Petra Krischok  and Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survivors Mark Liberation of Nazi Camps]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61461-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61461-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of survivors of Nazi concentration camps on Sunday marked the liberation 60 years ago of three of the most notorious camps in the Third Reich's vast system: Ravensbrueck, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen.]]></description><author> Matt Surman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and the Dictator]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54997-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54997-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   STALIN<br>  A Biography<br> By Robert Service. Belknap/Harvard Univ. 715 pp. $29.95]]></description><author>Reviewed  Leon Aron</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the End of a Long, Turbulent Life, 'a Permanent Spring']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55057-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55057-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When history is harsh, it can break a man or build his character. But if he lives long enough, sometimes he is vindicated, and a subtle yet sublime victory is claimed.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Outmaneuvers Senator on Base Closings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22106-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22106-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bush used his recess-appointment power to thwart an effort by Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to stall the work of a military base-closing commission.]]></description><author> Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Soldier Convicted  In Iraqi Shooting Death]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17010-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17010-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A military court Thursday convicted a U.S. Army tank company commander of a lesser criminal charge in connection with the shooting death of a wounded Iraqi man last year.]]></description><author> Melissa Eddy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Town Swaps St. Nick for Santa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61509-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61509-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEMRE, Turkey  --  In the 4th century, a bishop named Nicholas was a local hero in this seaside town, living the kind of life that eventually led to sainthood. For most of the 16 centuries that followed, Saint Nicholas was known chiefly as the patron of sailors, barrel-makers, small children and Russians.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medal of Honor Recipient Ernest Childers Dies at 87]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58550-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58550-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ernest Childers, 87, a Native American and Army veteran who received the Medal of Honor for his combat service in Italy during World War II, died March 17 at a hospice in Tulsa after strokes. He lived in Coweta, near Tulsa.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz Closing In on World Bank Post]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55122-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55122-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz closed in  on  the presidency of the World Bank Monday when  Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said  Germany would not try to block Wolfowitz's candidacy.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart Device Keeps Hopes Alive]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35421-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35421-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Do you want to listen to your heart?" the intensive care nurse asked 14-month-old Akilah Austin as she handed her a stethoscope.]]></description><author> Avis Thomas-Lester</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[9/11 Panel's Findings Strain German Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18219-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18219-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HAMBURG, March 8  --  An attorney for the Sept. 11 commission testified Tuesday that the conspiracy to fly hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was conceived and planned outside Germany, complicating prosecutors' efforts to convict a Moroccan man for aiding the Hamburg cell that carried out the attacks.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewish Heirs Win Ruling in Germany]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8450-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid 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called on Iran Monday to hand over more documents relating to its nuclear program and make up for a lack of confidence created by years of concealment.]]></description><author> Dafna Linzer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zydeco Hero]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53471-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53471-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the low-budget "Schultze Gets the Blues," director Michael Schorr introduces an unlikely film star.]]></description><author> Philip Kennicott</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Debates 'Terrorist Chic']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38447-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid 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destruction by Allied forces 60 years ago, the biggest effort yet by fringe groups to portray Germans as equal victims of World War II.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows of Opportunity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17230-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17230-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 7:39:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Baden-Baden, Germany, architect Richard Meier sheds a refreshing light on museum design.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Bank Economist Hans Adler, 83]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17689-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/germany/post</link><guid 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Adler, 83, a senior economist at the World Bank, died Jan. 29 of pneumonia while on vacation in Captiva, Fla. He also had dementia. He was a resident of McLean.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item></channel></rss>