Ukraine

Germany’s far-right wants to downplay past, but centre holds

The election poster for Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany's far-right Alternativ für Deutschland party, seemed out of place at a bus stop a hundred metres (yards) from the House of the Wannsee Conference museum, the lakeside mansion where the Nazis plotted the extermination of the Jews. The museum is an integral part of Germany's…Read more Germany’s far-right wants to downplay past, but centre holds

Ukraine doc “Timestamp” is riveting study of schools in wartime

Cheers of “Slava Ukraini” (Glory to Ukraine) rang out in the Berlinale Palast on Thursday at the world premiere of the brilliant but heart-rending documentary “Strichka chasu” (Timestamp), about the superhuman efforts Ukraine has made to keep schools open during 10 years of war with Russia. Directed by Ukrainian documentary maker Kateryna Gornostai, the two-hour-long…Read more Ukraine doc “Timestamp” is riveting study of schools in wartime