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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The Schmooze Only Jews Could Shock Berlin Like This
Remember New York in the 80’s? Than you can imagine what certain parts of Berlin look like today. Here you can still see entire neighborhoods serving as battlegrounds for graffiti writers and street artists. The graffiti scene always had a strong force in this city. The Berlin Wall was a prominent surface for protest slogans…
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Fast Forward Stephan Kramer Steps Down as Head of Central Council of Jews in Germany
Stephan Kramer has resigned as secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany after serving for 15 years. Kramer will leave at the end of this month, according to a statement released Thursday by the office of Central Council President Dieter Graumann. The statement said he decided on his own to step down. Graumann…
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Fast Forward Should Nazi Guillotine Be Displayed in Germany?
The discovery of a Nazi-era guillotine in a Bavarian museum warehouse has triggered a national debate about whether it should be put on display. The guillotine was used to kill at least 1,000 opponents of the Nazi regime. One of the last living members of the White Rose resistance movement, whose leaders were among those…
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Opinion Germany’s Not Just Faking Holocaust Contrition
News that drunken revelers had, on New Year’s Eve, used Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe as a urinal came shortly after The New York Times published an op-ed by Yascha Mounk on the conflicts of being a German Jew. Together, these items create an image of a Germany not at ease with…
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Fast Forward 88-Year-Old Former SS Soldier Charged With French Village Massacre
German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former member of Hitler’s elite Waffen SS with taking part in a World War Two massacre of hundreds of French villagers, nearly 70 years after one of the most infamous Nazi atrocities. In the methodical June 1944 slaughter, SS soldiers took the small village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France…
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Fast Forward German Court Dismisses Case Against Nazi Guard Over Lost Evidence
A German court dismissed a case on Wednesday against a 92-year-old man accused of killing a Dutch resistance fighter in World War Two when he was in Hitler’s elite Waffen SS, citing lost evidence. At the end of one of Germany’s last Nazi war crimes trials, the judge in the court in the western city…
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Opinion Ani DiFranco’s Slave Plantation Gaffe
At first glance, it seems that Ani DiFranco has become the latest example of how a mix of star-fueled insulation from the real world and white privilege can lead to bad public relations. After an Internet-inspired backlash, the feminist singer-songwriter has canceled a musical retreat at a former slave plantation in Louisiana, now a resort…
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Fast Forward 2 Paintings in Germany Parliament May Be Looted Art
Two artworks hanging in Germany’s parliament building in Berlin may have been confiscated or acquired at artificially depressed prices by the Nazis from the original owners, German newspapers reported. The news was first reported by Germany’s Bild newspaper. Further investigation by the Die Welt newspaper suggests that one of the works coincidentally stems from a…
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