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• German election 2021 — at a glance
  Need a refresher on Germany's historic election as the Angela Merkel era comes to an end? DW has the most important facts and figures and the most important things you need to know right here.
• Germany: Two transgender women win parliamentary seats
  The two politicians come from opposite sides of the country but the same party: the Greens. One of the candidates said it was "historic" and another proclaimed it was "madness!"
• Olaf Scholz: The unlikely savior of Germany's SPD
  It's time to take a fresh look at the man who revived the SPD. Often likened to a robot, he has never really been popular within his own party. But now he might head the next German government.
• Berliners vote 'yes' on property expropriation, but what happens now?
  A referendum proposing that authorities in Berlin seize and take into public ownership more than 200,000 homes has passed resoundingly. But political and legal hurdles mean it may never become reality.
• Germany votes: Berlin gets first elected female mayor
  The SPD's Franziska Giffey won 21.4% of the vote, beating the Greens' Bettina Jarasch, who got 18.9%. Besides the national election, Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were also electing state legislatures.
• Most Germans find religion unimportant, survey shows
  A significant majority of Germans say religion plays no role in their life, a poll has shown. Fewer than one in eight adults believe that faith makes the world a fairer place, although younger people were more positive.
• Face mask killing sparks radicalization fears in Germany
  A man acting "out of anger" fatally shot a gas station clerk who asked him to wear a mask. Public figures have pointed to Germany's Querdenken movement, warning of possible radicalization among coronavirus skeptics.