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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Opinion Building Jewish Life on the Rubble of the Berlin Wall
The French writer François Mauriac is quoted with the sentence, “I love Germany so much that I am glad that there are two of them.” This was pretty much the attitude among the Jewish community in Germany, in which I grew up in the 1970s and ’80s. The Jews of postwar Germany felt protected by…
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Opinion Using Ex-Nazis as Spies? I Saw It Happen.
Hubertus Strughold worked for Hitler’s Luftwaffe throughout World War II — and was later recruited by the U.S. / U.S. Air Force I got an email the other day from a Jewish man who saw something in Germany 60 years ago that he can’t forget. The man reached out to me after reading my story…
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Fast Forward American Tourist Wearing Star of David Attacked in Cologne
An American tourist was robbed and called a “Jewish bastard” by youths after he asked them for directions in the Cologne train station. Police are seeking witnesses to the incident, which took place at approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday. On the same weekend in Cologne, some 5,000 people reportedly participated in a major anti-Muslim demonstration, mostly…
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Fast Forward Tourist Wearing ‘Star of David’ Beaten in Cologne
An American tourist was robbed and called a “Jewish bastard” by youths after he asked them for directions in the Cologne train station. Police are seeking witnesses to the incident, which took place at approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday. On the same weekend in Cologne, some 5,000 people reportedly participated in a major anti-Muslim demonstration, mostly…
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Fast Forward German Church Transformed Into Synagogue
A former church in the German city of Cottbus is to become Germany’s newest synagogue, and the first since 1938 in the state of Brandenburg. In ceremonies on Nov. 2, Ulrike Menzel, who has led the Evangelical parish in Cottbus since 2009, handed a key for the Schlolsskirche, or “castle church,” to the Jewish Association…
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Fast Forward German Museum Hangs Nazi-Looted Painting Backwards
A museum in Germany has come up with a novel plan to buy back a painting stolen from a Jewish collector during the Nazi era. The Wiesbaden Museum has hung the 19th century painting by Hans von Marées backwards, in a bid to raise public awareness and also the $118,000 it needs by Nov. 5…
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Fast Forward Nazis War Criminals Should Not Be Collecting Social Security, White House Says
Video: Nate Lavey Nazi war criminals should not be receiving Social Security benefits, a White House spokesman said. Deputy press secretary Eric Shultz made his comments Monday in response to an investigation by The Associated Press that found that dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars after being forced…
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News German Kosher Butcher Sells Treyf for Years
A kosher butcher in Frankfurt, Germany, admitted in court that he sold doctored tons of non-kosher meat for years as glatt kosher. A verdict is expected next month in Frankfurt District Court in the case against the owners of the now-bankrupt Aviv kosher butcher store. Leslie W., 48, and his partner Akiwa H., 56, are…
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