This Week in Germany

On the show this week, we cover the newly formed and controversial coalition in Thuringia that is being headed by the Left Party. The other member parties that make up this coalition are the SPD and the Greens. Listen to the interview with best selling Author Timur Vermes who wrote the highly popular "Er Ist Wieder Da". This books made headlines with it's satirical plot of having Adolf Hitler return to the present day. We also cover the release of a Russian spy from German prisons. She and her husband were in jail for over a year and now a possible prisoner swap has been made.