An alternative, Britain's Chris Patten a conservative and a member of the commission was rejected by the Franco-German camp.
After returning to South Africa from their German camp on 30 May, South Africa's players will have a week's rest before entering the final phase of the hosts' World Cup preparations.
He was wounded, sent to a German POW camp and eventually saved by American forces.
Roman Halter was taken to Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps, then a German labour camp.
The film is about a Tuscan Jew (played by Mr Benigni) in fascist Italy who ends up with his five-year-old son in a German concentration camp.
In 1942, he sneaked into the Warsaw ghetto and a German death camp, then made it out to London and Washington no easy task at the time to call on Western leaders to save the Jews.
There was tight security as Mrs Merkel visited the main German base at Camp Marmal, outside Mazar-e Sharif, but a trip to another base at Kunduz was cancelled because of bad weather.
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He was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.
It is on this date that the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.
His months in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1940, he often said, were the happiest in his life.
At that very time Martin Vogel was guarding a German prisoner-of-war camp inside Germany, under the mandates of international law.
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Pope Benedict the XVI today winds up his four-day visit to Poland with what is likely to be its emotional highpoint: a visit to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by a German Pope.
Edith and Renee were taken to Auschwitz, then to German labour camps and eventually the Belsen concentration camp, where they were when it was liberated by British forces in 1945.
Notable is Ms Sereny's account of her sustained interviewing of Franz Stangl, who had been commandant of the extermination camp at Treblinka, after a German court had sentenced him to life imprisonment.
BERLIN A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.
Given the controversy, two German television crews showed up for the U.S. training camp in Colorado.
He insulted a German member of the European parliament, saying he should play the role of a Nazi concentration camp guard in a movie.
After a 23-year interval, the German government has funded the reopening of Jenin's open-air cinema on the slopes below the refugee camp.
Guido Steinberg, a terrorism expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, sees the project as a reflection of competition inside the Salafist camp.
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