This is the Forward’s coverage of the Nazi regime, which came to power in Germany and orchestrated the Holocaust during World War II.
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Music Hitler’s Jewish Neighbor Remembers When
A former Jewish neighbor of Adolf Hitler in Munich has co-authored a book describing his childhood brushes with the dictator. Edgar Feuchtwanger, 88, has joined forces with French journalist Bertil Scali to write “Hitler, mon voisin, souvenirs d’un enfant juif,” or “My Neighbor Hitler: memories of a Jewish child.” The 320-page book is due out…
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Culture The Other Kindertransport
One hundred and fifty: a number simultaneously enormous and tiny. One hundred and fifty Czech Jewish teenagers left behind everything and everyone — the lives they’d known, their parents, their siblings, their grandparents and aunts and uncles. One hundred and fifty Czech teens, selected by the Jewish Agency’s Youth Aliyah and the Denmark branch of…
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Culture Broken Glass And Insufficient Metaphors
November 9–10, 1938, lives tragically in historical memory for the coordinated attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria by paramilitary forces and locals. A new book, “The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht,” argues that to sum up events in which some 400 Jews were murdered “or driven to suicide,” and 30,000 were…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Unite Amid Furor Over ‘List’
A week after a leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party called for lists of prominent Jews to be drawn up to protect national security, Janos Fonagy stepped forward. “My mother and father were Jewish, and so am I, whether you like it or not,” the state secretary of the Development Ministry told parliament, explaining he…
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Fast Forward Israeli Hoops Star Fined $2,500 for ‘Nazi’ Jibe
Guy Pnini of Maccabi Tel Aviv was fined and suspended by the Israeli Basketball Association for calling an opposing player a “Nazi.” The IBA also said that Pnini must perform 20 hours of community service in an institution that assists Holocaust survivors, the Times of Israel reported. He was suspended for four games and fined…
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Fast Forward Polish Film Stirs Debate on Shoah Complicity
A film about a Polish village whose residents help massacre their Jewish neighbours in World War Two has forced Poles to confront one of the most troubling episodes of their past. Most historians take the view that during the war the vast majority of Christian Poles were victims of the Nazi aggression that killed millions…
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Fast Forward Swiss Army Officer Lauds Nazi Gen. Erwin Rommel
A Swiss army commander reportedly praised Nazi-era German general Erwin Rommel before a group of officers, holding up Rommel as an example for the Swiss army to follow. According to a report in the Swiss newspaper Der Sonntag, the officer, a lieutenant colonel identified only as “PL,” defended his words as “no praise for Rommel…
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Fast Forward Aborigines Reenact Aussie March Against Nazis
Descendants of an Aboriginal elder who staged a unique protest against the Nazis in 1938 re-enacted his famous march to the German consulate in Melbourne. William Cooper, an elder of the Yorta Yorta tribe, led a delegation to the German Consulate in December 1938 to protest the “cruel persecution” of the Jews. He was denied…
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