This is the Forward’s coverage of the modern nation of Germany, the successor state to Nazi Germany, which perpetrated the Holocaust during World War II.
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Books In America, a German-Austrian novelist hears echoes of his father’s life under Nazism
Daniel Kehlmann's ‘The Director’ confronts his family history through the life of G.W. Pabst
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Fast Forward German chancellor issues rare public criticism of Israel, saying Gaza war ‘can no longer be justified’
“What the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip, I no longer understand,” said Friedrich Merz
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Fast Forward Authorities arrest self-proclaimed ‘king’ of Germany and ban his antisemitic group
The group, the “Kingdom of Germany,” is the largest organizing group of the Reichsbürger, or “citizens of the Reich” movement, which believes that the country’s Nazi-era 1937 borders still exist
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Film & TV In ‘The Rehearsal,’ Nathan Fielder fights the removal of his Holocaust fashion episode
Challenging German censorship, the auteur hits on a paradox of German memory culture
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Culture In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile
For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home
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Opinion The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump’s ruthless grab for power
Trump has created an American version of Adolf Hitler's 'Dolchstosslegende,' also known as the 'stabbed-in-the-back' lie
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Fast Forward German parties form government that excludes AfD, far-right party that worries many Jews
The announcement of a governing coalition formalizes what appeared destined to happen after February’s election
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Fast Forward Frankfurt’s Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure
The third-party hotline is unusual if not unprecedented for local Jewish communities, according to a U.S. advocate
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