World & Nation
The dike along the rain-swollen Oder River burst Wednesday despite reinforcement by a million soggy sandbags, sending muddy water rushing into lowland villages.
July 24, 1997
Several substances seem to have contributed to a huge fish die-off in Germany’s Oder River, which forms much of the country’s border with Poland.
Aug. 23, 2022
More than 15,000 people were evacuated from the Polish town of Slubice on the Oder River between Poland and Germany as it rose to record high levels and threatened to swamp the area.
July 28, 1997
Six stained-glass windowpanes missing since World War II returned home Monday to a church in the eastern German town of Frankfurt an der Oder, 67 years after they were removed to protect them from war damage.
Nov. 18, 2008
Europe and the Soviet Union may be reconciled to the inevitability of a united Germany, but that’s not the same as being at ease with the prospect.
Feb. 22, 1990
Patrol: German guards use night-vision goggles, heat-sensing cameras and their own eyes and ears to intercept illegal immigrants.
June 22, 1997
Poland has deployed soldiers to help clean up the country’s second-longest river after 10 tons of dead fish surfaced in the waterway.
Aug. 12, 2022
A massive effort to shore up a rapidly eroding earthen dike kept a flooding river in eastern Germany from swallowing more villages Saturday, but officials warned that another wave of high water was on the way.
July 27, 1997
A senior member of Poland’s Solidarity trade union warned West Germany here Friday that the Federal Republic should not try to tamper with Poland’s postwar boundaries.
July 8, 1989
Deadly rain that has swollen rivers and swallowed people and villages whole in the past two weeks is still falling in southern Poland and the neighboring Czech Republic, and the devastation spread to Germany on Friday as streets and cellars in towns on the Polish border were flooded.
July 19, 1997