2016 Berlin truck attack
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On 19 December 2016, a truck was deliberately driven into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, leaving 12 people dead and 56 others injured. O
Aftermath of the attack
The path of the truck shown on a photograph of the market
The hijacked semi‑truck involved in the Berlin Christmas market attack at Breitscheidplatz, photographed in the aftermath on 20 December 2016
The truck involved, surrounded by emergency vehicles
Terrorism in Germany
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Terrorism in Germany has occurred in several distinct periods, most notably during the Weimar Republic and the Cold War. Acts of political violence have been carried out by far-left and far-right Germ
2016 Berlin truck attack
…victims. It is believed that he was wounded by a beam, sustaining serious head injuries. The police and public prosecutor investigated the incident as a terrorist attack. The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, said, "We must assume this was a terrorist attack." The German Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maizière…
Operatives of GSG 9, Germany's counter‑terrorism unit, returning from Mogadishu in 1977 after rescuing the hostages of Lufthansa Flight 181
Berlin citizens attending the funeral of assassinated police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck in 1931