The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.

Football banning orders are one of the key tools we are using in the ongoing fight to keep Germany free from any travelling trouble-makers.

You can sit here and you can visit the national library of Australia, of Great Britain, of France, of Germany, ... And that's the nature of reading today.

Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims.

[News of the deal broke on Oct. 5, when Adidas announced the partnership at its Investor Day in Germany, and sports business mavens took notice.] To have historically the No. 1 soccer brand in the world invest in your league as a key sponsor is a great legitimizing statement to the league at a time when it's looking to expand again, ... My initial response when I first heard of the deal was that [sixth-year MLS commissioner] Don Garber and his group are sort of hitting their stride. The long-term approach to building a soccer league with managed and realistic expectations has really begun to show its dividends.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.