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Viewfinder: Farming Conifers for Christmas Trees in Northern Germany

Two men carry freshly cut conifers to be used as Christmas trees at the Gut Kuehren plantation in Kuehren near Kiel, northern Germany.

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Viewfinder: Inspecting Santa Candidates in Germany

An employee at the job center in the city of Rostock, Germany, inspects candidates for a position at the center's Santa Claus agency on December 11th, 2018.

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Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (right) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier light Europe's largest menorah during a public lighting ceremony on the first night of Hanukkah, on December 2nd, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

Viewfinder: Celebrating Hanukkah in Berlin

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (right) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier light Europe's largest menorah during a public ceremony on the first night of Hanukkah, on December 2nd, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

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Defendant Dr. Johann R., whose face is pixelated by court order, sits with his lawyers at a session of his trial at the Regional Court in Muenster, Germany, on November 6th, 2018. The 94-year-old former SS guard faces trial, charged with complicity in the mass murders at the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II. Johann R. was a watchman at the Nazi camp near what was then the free city of Danzig, now Gdansk, in Poland. He also stands accused of complicity in the murders of several hundred camp prisoners between 1942 and 1945. As the former SS guard was not yet 21 at the time of the crimes, he will be tried before a juvenile court.

Viewfinder: An SS Guard Faces Trial for Nazi Crimes

The 94-year-old former SS guard faces trial, charged with complicity in the mass murders at the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II.

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Protesters walk in the smoke while demonstrating against rising housing rental prices on October 20th, 2018, in Frankfurt, Germany. Skyrocketing costs for housing have become a major issue in cities across Germany, with local government scrambling to find policy solutions. Frankfurt in particular is already attracting wealthy newcomers as the city becomes an alternative for companies in the financial sphere relocating from Brexit-afflicted London. In other cities, especially Berlin, foreign investors, including from China, are parking their money in luxury apartment purchases.

German Parties Prepare for a Regional Election (in Photos)

The state election could serve as an effective referendum on Angela Merkel's government.

Emma Sarappo

Viewfinder: A Hostage Situation in Cologne

Policemen block an exit in Cologne's main railway station, where a man took a hostage in the early afternoon on October 15th, 2018, at Cologne Central Station in Cologne, Germany.

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People walk in front of the Brandenburg Gate, decorated with a photo collage by the French street artist and photographer known as JR for German Unity Day, on October 3rd, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. The national holiday celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990.

Viewfinder: Germans Celebrate Unity Day

The national holiday celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990.

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Police forces invade the Hambach Forest to evict activists protesting the expansion of an adjacent open-pit coal mine on September 13th, 2018, near Julich, Germany. The anti-coal activists have been living in tree houses in the forest in an effort to prevent German utility RWE from clearing the last 250 acres of forest.

German Police Evict Anti-Coal Activists From a 12,000-Year-Old Forest (in Photos)

The protesters have occupied a community of tree houses for six years to oppose a nearby coal mine.

Emily Moon

People holding German flags arrive at a right-wing protest gathering near a statue of Karl Marx the day after a man was stabbed and died of his injuries on August 27th, 2018, in Chemnitz, Germany. A German man died after being stabbed in the early hours of August 26th following an altercation, leading a xenophobic mob of approximately 800 people to take to the streets. Left- and right-wing groups of over a thousand people each confronted each other as riot police stood in between.

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Viewfinder: Far-Right Protesters and Anti-Nazi Counter-Protesters Clash in Germany

People holding German flags arrive at a right-wing protest gathering near a statue of Karl Marx the day after a man was stabbed and died of his injuries on August 27th, 2018, in Chemnitz, Germany.

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Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.

PS Picks: German Playwright Friedrich Schiller’s ‘Love and Intrigue’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore