Global Voices Online

Copydude reflects upon the sinking in 1944 of Wilhelm Gustloff - history's biggest civilian maritime catastrophy - inspired by a book on Kaliningrad by Isabel Denny.

Copydude writes about Moving Baltic Sea - a campaign to promote creative strategies for cultural and environmental co-operation among Baltic Sea states.

Otto's Random Thoughts discusses the question of belonging for the ethnic German diaspora in Russia against the background of regular displacement and forced movement.

East Ethnia writes about the arrest of a man thought to be Peter Egner, 86, “a member of the Nazi security police in Belgrade between 1941 and 1943 where he acted as an interpreter during interrogations of prisoners and guarded transports of prisoners (at least) between two prison camps in the city. During the first nine months of the occupation, it is charged, he was a member of a unit that killed thousands of civilians, mostly by asphyxiation.”

Hudin explains why Ebay Germany is “running the bulk of their customer support operations in Hungary.”

The Economist's Ceratin Ideas of Europe blog welcomes exhibit ideas for a Cold War museum that may be built “on a site near the old ‘Checkpoint Charlie' border-crossing point in Berlin.” One reader suggests “a section on anti-communist humour.”

Desmond McGrath of A Fistful of Euros writes about football and politics: “Part of the fun of football is the way in which it overturns the international order of power politics.”

The beatroot writes at Polandian that Poland, Germany and the UK aren't getting any votes at Eurovision, and something has to be done about it.