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Fast Forward Berlin rally against Coronavirus rules features neo-Nazis, anti-Semitic displays
BERLIN (JTA) – A rally supported by neo-Nazi groups drew more than 20,000 protesters in Berlin Saturday to demand an end to coronavirus restrictions. The rally was called a “Day of Freedom,” an apparent reference to a 1935 documentary about the Nazi army by Adolf Hitler’s pet filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl. Some attendees displayed anti-Semitic slogans,…
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News Why is anti-Semitism in Germany on the rise?
Read this article in Yiddish. A year ago, I was waiting inside a crowded German bus station with my classmate from Trier University. “Don’t talk to me in Hebrew here,” she said. “You never know who’ll recognize that it’s a Jewish language.” I myself am not Jewish, so I often ask her questions about Jewish…
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Fast Forward International Olympics Committee removes video celebrating 1936 Berlin Olympics
(JTA) — The International Olympics Committee apologized for including a video of the first Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Berlin Olympics along with the words “stronger together” in a series of short videos celebrating the “message of unity and solidarity” of the Olympics. But the apology did not note the substance of the objection…
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Fast Forward Concentration camp guard gets suspended sentence for murder of 5,230
BERLIN (JTA) – In likely one of the last such trials, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard was given a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday – a decision that the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi hunter is calling a travesty. A Hamburg court found Bruno Dey guilty as an accessory in the murders of 5,230…
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Fast Forward Far-right German activist ordered to jail for insulting Jewish leader
BERLIN (JTA) — A far-right activist will go to jail for insulting a German Jewish leader after the country’s highest court denied his appeal. Sascha Krolzig, who heads the small far-right Die Rechte party, will serve a six-month sentence for calling the head of the Jewish community in Herford-Detmold an “insolent Jewish functionary” and praising…
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Fast Forward Dozens of gravestones vandalized in Europe’s oldest surviving Jewish cemetery
(JTA) — The oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe was vandalized. At least 50 gravestones in the medieval Jewish cemetery in the German city of Worms were smeared with a greenish paint, the city said in a statement. The incident took place on Thursday. The cemetery was ordered closed for a week. There are about…
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Fast Forward After World War II, there were 100 Jews left in Frankfurt. Today, the community has a potent voice.
BERLIN (JTA) — There were approximately 30,000 Jews in the city of Frankfurt before World War II, making it the largest community in Germany. By the time the U.S. military occupied the city in 1945, there were only about 100 left. “Jewish life was destroyed,” said Tobias Freimuller, author of the recently published “Frankfurt and…
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Fast Forward Munich bans yellow stars at coronavirus protests
BERLIN (JTA) – Germany has seen several protests in cities across the country over the government’s strict coronavirus lockdown, and at some, demonstrators have worn yellow Stars of David meant to resemble the ones that Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust. These stars often say “not vaccinated” or “vaccination will set you free,”…
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