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Culture Comparing his indictment to Nazi Germany, Donald Trump is right for extremely wrong reasons
The indicted former president's glib accusations unwittingly invoke the specter of the philosopher Carl Schmitt
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Fast Forward The Nazis destroyed a Munich synagogue in 1938. Its remains were just found
Material from Munich's primary synagogue was used to buttress a nearby dam
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Books It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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Fast Forward In Berlin concert, Roger Waters compares death of Anne Frank to Shireen Abu Akleh
The former Pink Floyd singer also dressed up as a Nazi … again
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Art To be a Jew in Berlin is to be a stranger in an all-too-familiar land
Jason Langer's photographs confront the contradictions of ordinary life playing out on sites of mass murder
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News Germany gave these Ukrainian Jews sanctuary. But do they want to call it home?
Before they found shelter in Germany, the Yakovemkos had stayed away from the country and associated it with the Nazis
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Books Descendants of Holocaust perpetrators are writing about their history — what can we learn from them?
Writing about their Nazi heritage, journalists Burkhard Bilger, Linda Kinstler and Géraldine Schwarz showcase a new kind of Holocaust testimony
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Fast Forward Munich says it can’t block Roger Waters concert
"I do not want to have him [Waters] here, but now we're going to have to endure it," the city's mayor said
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