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...More than 20,000 teachers and day-care workers put down their crayons across Germany on Tuesday, including the states of North Rhine Westphalia and Bavaria, and eastern states such as Saxony and Thuringia. The teachers are demanding less stressful working conditions in the country's state-run kindergartens (which cater to children from the age of 2 or, in some states, age 1) and are calling for a new "health-protection contract." The industrial action is being organized by public-sector union Verdi and the GEW education union, which says that teachers are overburdened with red tape and suffer...
Like his predecessors, Kretschmer very likely "suffered from a severe personality disorder," says Lothar Adler from The Ecumenical Hainich Clinic in Muhlhausen, Thuringia. Adler is the author of "Amok - A Study" which was based on his analysis of almost 200 school shootings and other killing sprees. The psychiatrist, who was part of the post-Erfurt counseling team, explains that very often killers have pronounced narcissistic traits, problems in forming normal relationships and are easily offended. They also tend to have low frustration thresholds and can harbor grudges for long periods of time. Physiologically, Adler says, "they frequently also lack serotonin...
...Hitler's rise. The German daily Der Tagesspiegel recently reported a rise in the number of Neo-Nazis, citing intelligence sources. Polls suggest the far-right NPD party could maintain the foothold in Saxony's state parliament that they gained in 2004 and win seats in the state of Thuringia in elections this summer. In December, the police chief of the Bavarian city Passau survived a knife attack by a skinhead, thought to be a Neo-Nazi...
...government reflects the turn toward sobriety. "The home and the family are very important to us," says Dieter Althaus, governor of the state of Thuringia and a Merkel confidante. Merkel will still need the support of the old left to pass her reforms, but it's a safe bet that the style of German governance will change. "I was one of the last live rock 'n' rollers," Fischer said after last month's vote. Germans are ready for a different song...
...most prominent young leaders in the Christian Democrat party, told reporters last month: "We need to look at the 1968 generation with a greater degree of sophistication. They did bring about change. But in many cases they threw the baby out with the bathwater." Althaus, the Thuringia Governor who is also Merkel's point man for East Germany, puts it more starkly. Social justice and equality were the big issues of the older generation, he says, "but we place more importance on freedom than equality." Younger Germans seem to like the absence of ideological baggage that is typical...