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Coronavirus: Germany looks back on a year of loss Germany has commemorated those who lost their lives to COVID-19. It is the darkest chapter of the pandemic and DW has reported on it from the beginning. An overview. Germany is commemorating the victims of COVID-19 In Germany, around 80,000 people have died from and with Covid-19. It's been over a year since Germany, on March 9, 2020, confirmed its first two coronavirus deaths: an 89-year-old woman in the town of Essen, and a 78-year-old man in Heinsberg, a town that was badly affected at the beginning of the pandemic. This Sunday, German pr...

Grave matter: Germans seek new ways to talk about dying Philip Oltermann in Berlin On a plane tree-lined shopping street in Berlin’s fashionable Gräfekiez neighbourhood, two children are glued to the front of a brightly lit ground-floor office space, decorated with the understated minimalism of a design agency. The object of their curiosity is a Lego window display, showing a miniature cemetery and a coffin carried by four tiny pallbearers, complete with black top hats. “I love this”, says their mother as Birgit Scheffler, the co-owner of funeral home Das Fährhaus (The...