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Fast Forward Study shows right-wing extremist attitudes on the rise in Germany
The study came days after more than 40 gravestones were overturned in a Jewish section of the town cemetery of Köthen, in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt
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News 50 years ago East Germany gained admission to the UN over one objection — Israel’s
Israel’s ambassador backed West Germany but said East Germany did not deserve to join the family of nations
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Culture Why a German anthem shouted at the US Open enraged one of the world’s top tennis players
When Alexander Zverev heard a shout of 'Deutschland Über Alles,' he understood the ugly history behind those words
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Special Report Does Germany offer a model — or a warning — for how the US should fight antisemitism?
Germany has taken an aggressive approach toward contemporary antisemitism. Some question whether it's working
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Culture Comparing his indictment to Nazi Germany, Donald Trump is right for extremely wrong reasons
The indicted former president's glib accusations unwittingly invoke the specter of the philosopher Carl Schmitt
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Fast Forward The Nazis destroyed a Munich synagogue in 1938. Its remains were just found
Material from Munich's primary synagogue was used to buttress a nearby dam
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Books It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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Fast Forward In Berlin concert, Roger Waters compares death of Anne Frank to Shireen Abu Akleh
The former Pink Floyd singer also dressed up as a Nazi … again
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Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
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Fast Forward What does the election of Mark Carney mean for Canadian Jews and Israel?
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News Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
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