On June 27, the city of Munich unveiled its “Monument to the Gays and Lesbians Persecuted under the Nazi Regime.” The sidewalk memorial, commissioned by the city in 2011 and created by the German artist Ulla von Brandenburg, is a mosaic of colored concrete blocks that marks the site of a gay bar raided by…
BERLIN (JTA) — Six people have been charged with incitement to hate after spewing anti-Semitic abuse on passengers in a Munich city bus. Only two passengers – a couple from Munich – attempted to intervene in the weekend incident. According to news reports, the alleged perpetrators, all from Munich and Ebersberg and ranging in age from 18 to…
Israel on Sunday demanded a commemoration for its athletes killed at the 1972 Olympics at each Games opening ceremony, telling the International Olympic Committee “a black flag” will always fly over its multi-sports event. Days after the IOC announced a mourning site at each Olympic village with a minute’s silence in the memory of those…
Family members of the victims of the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians during the 1972 Games in Munich only learned the horrifying details of how they were treated 20 years later. The Israelis — athletes and coaches — were beaten and, in at least one case, castrated during the 20 hours that they were held…
The City Council voted Wednesday to keep the ban on the memorials, known as stumbling blocks, ignoring a petition signed by 100,000 people calling for a lifting of the prohibition in the German city. Some local Jewish groups have joined the council in opposing the memorials, which are set into the street, saying they are…
What would Adolf Hitler say today if he walked by Munich’s recently opened Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism? I posed this question to the German novelist Timur Vermes when we visited the city’s newest and most overdue museum together. Vermes was the perfect person to ask, as he is the author of…
Police in Munich are investigating a graffiti attack on an outdoor exhibit about local Jewish history. The exhibit is located in front of the Jewish museum and community center on Jakobsplatz, called the new Jewish center, in central Munich. The graffiti, which was discovered Monday, includes Hitler mustaches burned on photographs of rabbis and politicians….
The elderly recluse whose Munich apartment contained a secret art hoard, including masterpieces looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners in World War Two, has died after a heart operation, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Authorities stumbled upon Cornelius Gurlitt’s trove of paintings and drawings by the likes of Marc Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso…
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