Hundreds of Nazi forced laborers died under the "personnel responsibility" of Herbert Quandt, who later rescued BMW. This doesn't stop his heirs from awarding a highly endowed journalism prize in his honor to this day – with proud winners. ereporter has been documenting this media scandal for years. What do BR, BILD, Correctiv, Deutschlandradio, Handelsblatt, HR, NDR, NZZ, SPIEGEL, ZEIT, and ZDF have in common? Journalists from these…
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For over four years, ereporter has been virtually the only media outlet in German-speaking countries to regularly report on the hundreds of thousands of "murders to order" of camp inmates in China. These are the latest developments. At an expert hearing before the US Congress at the end of March, investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann and Matthew Robertson of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation testified. Both are dealing with...
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First, the good in the bad: Azerbaijan's brutal attack on the Armenian civilian population in Nagorno-Karabakh—with bombs, rockets, and combat drones against men, women, and children—was indeed worthy of more extensive coverage by our colleagues in German editorial offices. A previous 10-month-long food blockade by Azerbaijan, which led to several deaths from starvation and numerous miscarriages, was not even mentioned until...
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The situation is dramatic: 120.000 men, women, and children in Nagorno-Karabakh have been systematically cut off from the outside world and starved for well over half a year. This is being done by Azerbaijan, a "reliable partner" for EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Apparently also for the self-proclaimed "values-based politician" and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. Azerbaijan's long-time dictator Ilham Aliyev...
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He was the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials: Benjamin Ferencz has died at the age of 103. At the age of 27, he served as chief prosecutor for the US Army during the "Einsatzgruppen Trial," one of the successors to the trial of the major Nazi war criminals. He had previously witnessed the horrors in the liberated concentration camps with his own eyes. Ferencz dedicated his life to...
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There are two film documents from the past few days that are remarkable in their own way: First, a highly worthwhile Arte documentary about the struggle for survival of the Armenian people, wedged between NATO member Turkey and Azerbaijan, a "reliable partner" of the EU (according to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen). Then, a panel discussion from this year's Munich Security Conference, at which the apparently...
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For over a month, soldiers described by Azerbaijan as "environmental activists" have been blocking the only road from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. Over 120.000 Armenians are cut off from supplies. Food and medicine are becoming increasingly scarce. While the EU likes to present itself as a peacekeeping force in the case of Ukraine, and most media outlets are almost in lockstep with the supposed rescue...
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The German Bundestag's 2016 resolution contained bold words: Against the backdrop of the German Empire's complicity and significant involvement in the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, the parliament emphasized Germany's special responsibility. The German Bundestag (...) deplores the actions of the then Young Turk government, which led to the almost complete...
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In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of "unspeakable atrocities." He referred to documented war crimes committed during Azerbaijan's attack on Armenia on September 13: "There are evidences of cases of torture, mutilation of captured or already dead servicemen, numerous instances of extra-judicial killings, and ill treatment of...
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