The Latest Breaking News from Munich

Munich by Robert Harris audiobook review – inside the backrooms of power

David Rintoul is the authoritative narrator of this thriller about the negotiations between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the leadup to the second world war

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2022

England clash with Germany in Nations League to be played at Allinaz Arena in Munich

England will travel to Munich’s Allianz Arena for next year’s crunch clash with Germany in the Uefa Nations League.

Evening Standard · Feb 2, 2022

England Nations League clash with Germany to be played in Munich

The match will be played on 7 June

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2022

Critics of former pope are scapegoating him over abuse, Vatican says

The Vatican on Wednesday hit back at critics of former Pope Benedict, under scrutiny over his handling of sex abuse in Germany decades ago, accusing them of seeking a scapegoat over what should be a "collective examination" of the Church's past.

Reuters · Jan 26, 2022

Vatican defends Benedict after report faults abuse record

The Vatican is strongly defending Pope Benedict XVI’s record in fighting clergy sexual abuse after an independent report faulted his handling of four cases of abuse when he was archbishop of Munich, Germany

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2022

Former pope was at meeting where pedophile priest discussed

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that he did attend a 1980 meeting at which the transfer of a pedophile priest to his then-diocese was discussed, saying an editorial error was responsible for his previous assertion that he wasn’t there

The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2022

Ex-Pope Benedict acknowledges faulty testimony in German abuse case

Former Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged on Monday he had been at a 1980 meeting over a sexual abuse case when archbishop of Munich, saying he mistakenly told German investigators he was not there.

Reuters · Jan 24, 2022

My Berlin meeting with an ex Nazi

Thirty years ago, Jay Rayner sat down for lunch with Ewald Althans, a Holocaust denier and rising star of the far right. So how did the former Nazi end up working in the arts and marrying his Taiwanese boyfriend?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2022

'Munich: The Edge of War' review: Historic thriller tackles inevitable

The handsome and involving brink-of-WWII drama "Munich: The Edge of War" does a decent enough job of making viewers believe something they know happened might not happen.

Tribune News Service · Jan 21, 2022

Munich – The Edge of War: women in historical films are too often unrealistic

In September 1938, Britain, Germany, Italy and France met in Munich as a new European war loomed. Hitler was demanding to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia so in a bid to avoid war the Four Powers Agreement was signed and Czechoslovakia would surrender its border regions and defences. British…

The Conversation · Jan 21, 2022