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Fast Forward Germany Charges Official With Incitement for Death Camp Tattoos
A far-right German politician has been charged with incitement for publicly displaying a large tattoo of the Auschwitz death camp on his back. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that Marcel Zech, a county council member near Berlin, is accused of violating Germany’s ban on the public display of Nazi symbols, The Associated Press reported. Zech’s tattoo was…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Suspect Breaks Silence About German Murder Spree
The lone surviving suspect in a neo-Nazi murder case that shocked Germany denied on Wednesday playing any role in a seven-year racist killing spree by two close friends but admitted feeling moral guilt for the deaths. Breaking her two-and-a-half-year silence in a closely-watched trial in Munich, Beate Zschaepe said in a statement read out by…
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Fast Forward Israel Seeks Germany Aid in West Bank Labeling Feud
A senior Israeli offical called on Germany on Thursday to urge other European countries to oppose EU plans to require products from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories to be so labeled. “Obviously, there is no question of Germany following this disastrous move,” Israeli Knesset speaker Yuli Yoel Edelstein told Reuters after a forum on…
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Fast Forward BDS Backers Try to Label All Israeli Products in German Town
A team of self-styled “goods inspectors” in a German town tried to label all the Israeli products they could find as being “from illegal Israeli settlements.” On Saturday, the proponents of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement visited businesses in downtown Bremen, in northwest Germany, checking to see that products from Israeli settlements were…
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Fast Forward German Supermarket Pulls Golan Heights Wines in Labeling Fight
Germany’s famous KaDeWe department store in Berlin has taken wines made in the Golan Heights off its shelves to comply with a European Union labeling regulation A spokesperson for KaDeWe, Petra Fladenhofer, told German media on Friday that the store was removing eight wines from stock, due to the recent decision by the European Union…
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Fast Forward German Protestant Church Denounces Anti-Semitism of Founder Martin Luther
Germany’s main Protestant body distanced itself from the anti-Semitism of its founder, Martin Luther, and pledged to confront the dark side of its roots. In a unanimous decision Wednesday by its 120 members, the EKD Synod, the decision making body of the Evangelical Church in Germany, renounced the 16th century theologian’s calls to persecute and…
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Fast Forward Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor, Dies at 96
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from around Europe praised him as an architect of international cooperation and post-war European integration. Schmidt was then-West Germany’s second center-left government leader from 1974 to 1982, taking office at the height of the Cold War when fellow Social Democrat (SPD) Willy…
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Fast Forward 400-Year-Old Mikveh Unearthed on German Town’s ‘Jews Lane’
Archaeologists discovered a centuries-old mikvah underneath a vaulted cellar in the former East Germany. The ritual bath in the town of Schmalkalden is located near “Judengasse,” or “Jews’ Lane,” where a 17th-century synagogue stood until it was destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom exactly 77 years ago on Monday, the day the discovery was announced. The…
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