Global Voices Online

“According to a poll conducted by the European Union recently, in 2005, 65% of Germans consider Israel to be the greatest threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea,” Svetov writes on Jewcy. He adds: “Germany is the by far biggest European exporter to Achmadinejad's Iran. It is the largest European exporter of technology and machines to the Iranian mullahs.”

White Sun of the Desert writes about the “Russian threat to scrap the controversial Nord Stream pipeline project, which would supply Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea, bypassing the Baltic states.”

The 8th Circle posts a detailed critique of Jeffrey Tayler’s piece in The Atlantic: “[…] in the process of attempting to make the case against Ukraine’s membership in NATO, Tayler resorts (consciously or not) to claims that are either: misleading or factually inaccurate and/or are highly improbable to be true in the future.”

Copydude reflects upon the sinking in 1944 of Wilhelm Gustloff - history's biggest civilian maritime catastrophy - inspired by a book on Kaliningrad by Isabel Denny.

Copydude writes about Moving Baltic Sea - a campaign to promote creative strategies for cultural and environmental co-operation among Baltic Sea states.

Otto's Random Thoughts discusses the question of belonging for the ethnic German diaspora in Russia against the background of regular displacement and forced movement.

East Ethnia writes about the arrest of a man thought to be Peter Egner, 86, “a member of the Nazi security police in Belgrade between 1941 and 1943 where he acted as an interpreter during interrogations of prisoners and guarded transports of prisoners (at least) between two prison camps in the city. During the first nine months of the occupation, it is charged, he was a member of a unit that killed thousands of civilians, mostly by asphyxiation.”

Hudin explains why Ebay Germany is “running the bulk of their customer support operations in Hungary.”

The Economist's Ceratin Ideas of Europe blog welcomes exhibit ideas for a Cold War museum that may be built “on a site near the old ‘Checkpoint Charlie' border-crossing point in Berlin.” One reader suggests “a section on anti-communist humour.”