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Fast Forward Germany’s Merkel Says Refugees Will Get the Boot Once War Over
NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany — German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. Despite appearing increasingly isolated, Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx…
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Fast Forward German Jews Fear Rising Anti-Semitism With Muslim Refugee Influx
BERLIN – When Judith G. helped out at a refugee center near Frankfurt last October and identified herself as Jewish, she was spat on and insulted. German Jews say the case of Judith G., a 33-year-old optician who asked not to be fully named, isn’t isolated and underlines concerns many have about the record arrivals…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism in Germany ‘More Widespread Than We Can Imagine’ — Merkel
BERLIN — Germany must set clear boundaries in the fight against anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Anti-Semitism in Germany is “more widespread than we can imagine,” Merkel said in a conversation with Jewish media expert Oren Osterer in a podcast aired Saturday, noting several fronts: schools, social media and…
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News Muslim Refugees Arrested in Attack on French Jew
BERLIN — A kippah-wearing French businessman was attacked and robbed in an apparent anti-Semitic attack in Germany. Police later arrested the alleged attackers, refugees from Syria and Afghanistan. The early Saturday morning attack took place at a ferry and train station on the island of Puttgarden. The alleged assailants were released with the requirement that…
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Fast Forward U.S. Lawmakers Want German Museums To Look Again for Looted Art
In a letter emblazoned with the insignia of the U.S. House of Representatives, 29 members of Congress reprimanded the German state of Bavaria for neglecting its historical responsibility to victims of the Nazis. “The Free State of Bavaria has yet to fully honor its pledge regarding restitution or compensation for Holocaust-related confiscations of property, including…
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News ‘Mein Kampf’ No Longer Banned in Germany — Now What?
Nazi salutes, swastikas and other Third Reich symbols have long been outlawed in Germany. But as of midnight on New Year’s Eve, “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s infamous autobiographical tome, was off the list of suppressed Nazi icons. As a result, “Mein Kampf” will again hit bookstores in Germany, 70 years after its author’s death at the…
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Books Is Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Still Inflammatory or a Tool To Fight Hate — or Both?
BERLIN – For the first time since Hitler’s death, Germany is publishing the Nazi leader’s political treatise “Mein Kampf,” unleashing a highly charged row over whether the text is an inflammatory racist diatribe or a useful educational tool. The 70-year copyright on the text, written by Hitler between 1924-1926 and banned by the Allies at…
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Culture How To Spot a Neo-Nazi in Germany
‘Is this him?” my boyfriend, Jan, asked skeptically, showing me a photograph of a soft-faced man smiling angelically against a background of timber roofs and spires. We were lying in bed on a Sunday in my Kreuzberg apartment, too lazy and comfortable to head out into the bracing Berlin cold, and having just learned that…
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