This is a roundup of the top stories from and about Germany on November 14, 2026:
Events are taking place around Germany for the Volkstrauertag (people's day of mourning), a day on which armed forces personnel and civilians who died in armed conflicts and victims of violent state oppression are commemorated.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen is to speak in the parliament at the main commemoration ceremony of the German War Graves Commission at midday.
His presence reflects the large number of Austrians who were killed in action in the Second World War while fighting for the German Wehrmacht following the annexation of their country by Nazi Germany in 1938.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the patron of the commission, will also hold a speech and lay a wreath.
Last year, Steinmeier decreed that the Volkstrauertag should also commemorate people who were persecuted and killed by the Nazis because of their sexual identity, as well as police officers who have lost their lives in the course of duty.
There will also be a remembrance ceremony at the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin for those of the Jewish faith killed in World War I.
In remarks to the DPA news agency ahead of the remembrance day, the speaker of the lower house of German parliament, or Bundestag, Julia Klöckner, called on society…
