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Regina Laska wrote that CDA chairman Dennis Radtke (CDU) referred to Gerhard Schröder's recent appearance in Moscow in the Tagesspiegel as a "case of moral bankruptcy" and called on the SPD to expel the former chancellor from the party. Laska agreed with him. Schröder was too ill to testify before a parliamentary inquiry but fit enough to celebrate Vladimir Putin's birthday in Moscow and accept a new supervisory board position in Russia. According to Laska, the SPD state chairpersons in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are now also demanding a new expulsion procedure. The SPD district of Upper Palatinate voted unanimously in favor of it on Saturday. Schleswig-Holstein's SPD leader Ulf Kämpfer stated that the paths of the party and Schröder had parted ways many years ago. Laska asked why Schröder was still a member of the SPD. Previous expulsion procedures had failed in 2022 and 2023. It is not only about Schröder's differing stance on Russia policy, Laska wrote, but also about his demonstrative loyalty to Putin, who has been waging a war of annihilation against Ukraine for more than four and a half years. She also pointed out that SPD foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner had praised Schröder's visit to Putin. Pierre Orthen, chairman of the SPD local club in Baden-Württemberg's Leutenbach, publicly questioned whether this was in line with the responsibilities of a member of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee. Laska wrote that Stegner had held talks with Kremlin-affiliated representatives in Baku in April 2025. It apparently concerned the future of the Petersburg Dialogue, which Schröder co-founded with Putin in 2001. In June 2026, Stegner was said to have praised Schröder's connection to Putin; now he had attended Putin's birthday party. Laska asked what these contacts had achieved for peace in Ukraine and wrote that anyone justifying such talks as efforts for peace must also be able to explain what they had accomplished. #Schröder #Ukraine #SPD (translated)

Faces of War remembered the Bücherl family from Arnstein in the Upper Palatinate, who lost three sons at the Eastern Front. Hans fell in December 1942, his brother Zacharias on October 10, 1944, and Josef a few weeks later, on October 28, 1944. Hans was 17, Zacharias 18, and Josef 24 years old. In an excerpt of a poem, the account described the consecutive losses as further wounds and as sacrifices that had to be borne. With the hashtags #NeverAgainWar and #WeWillNotForget, he commemorated the brothers. #NieWiederKrieg #WirVergessenNicht #NieWiederKrieg #WirVergessenNicht #Opfer (translated)

During a weapon check in Berngau in the Upper Palatinate, a man was shot and another person was seriously injured, while the alleged perpetrator remained hidden in a residential building and a large police operation is underway. #Bayern #Waffenkontrolle #Polizeieinsatz (translated)

In Berngau in the Upper Palatinate, two people were seriously injured by gunfire after the police ordered a larger operation due to several emergency calls about gunshot-like sounds and located the alleged perpetrator in a residential building. #Berngau #Polizei #Oberpfalz (translated)

During a weapons control in Berngau (Upper Palatinate), an employee of the district office was shot, while his colleague is still in the perpetrator's house, and the police have sealed off the area with a large contingent, including armored vehicles. #Oberpfalz #Waffenkontrolle #Berngau (translated)

Ein Hotel in der Oberpfalz, das einem israelischen Gast mit Keine Juden erlaubt antwortete, steht im Mittelpunkt eines möglichen Volksverhetzungsverfahrens, während die Generalkonsulin Israels die Antwort mit einem Verweis auf die nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung kommentierte; das Hotel entschuldigte sich später und bot dem Gast einen kostenlosen Aufenthalt an. #Oberpfalz #Antisemitismus #Hotelskandal

Am Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof in Weiden i.d. Oberpfalz wurde ein Busfahrer von einem 19-jährigen Mann angegriffen, nachdem ein ursprünglich verbaler Streit zwischen den beiden, der bereits zuvor aufgetreten war, in eine körperliche Auseinandersetzung mündete; die Polizei sucht nun Zeugen, um den Vorfall vollständig aufzuklären. #Busfahrer #Gewalt #Zeugen gesucht