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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Opinion The Nazis used us during the 1936 Olympics. We cannot fall for the same propaganda tactics in China
Editor’s Note: This article was written before President Biden’s decision to withhold U.S. diplomatic participation from the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Click here to read the author’s most recent analysis on this issue. In a recent telephone interview with Fox News, former President Donald Trump said he is opposed to a proposed boycott of the 2022…
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News The Jew with 5,000 guns
The long dirt road that leads to Dragon Land is lined with crushed cars pierced with bullet holes, with bloodied mannequins protruding from their shattered windows. “Is There Life After Death?” reads a sign along the way. “Trespass Here Tonight And Find Out.” The idea is that anyone thinking about robbing Dragon Land, a historical…
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Opinion On Kristallnacht, the world ignored Jewish suffering. Today, we risk repeating this mistake
On the way to school, 10-year-old Ruth Winkelmann saw Nazi stormtroopers painting a Star of David onto the back of a religious Jew’s coat. In an interview with the BBC, Ruth said: “I thought, ‘My dad is with me and nothing bad can happen to me,’ but it was a very disturbing sight, and I…
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Culture How a notorious Nazi almost got a Hollywood biopic — and why Kubrick refused to direct
Albert Speer, the Nazi architect who built a Cathedral of Light for Hitler and commanded millions of prisoners in the forced production of weaponry, had a comfortable second life. After serving 20 years in prison, Speer became a best-selling author, penning the memoir “Inside The Third Reich.” Naturally, in 1971, he and his publisher were…
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Opinion I was taught the ‘opposing perspective’ of the Holocaust in middle school. I’ll never forget it
In the fallout from NBC News’ revelations that teachers in Texas were told to teach “opposing perspectives” about the Holocaust, many people are asking what teaching “opposing perspectives” of the Holocaust looks like. I know from personal experience, since I attended a Holocaust class that invited us to consider the Nazi perspective in middle school….
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Fast Forward 4 GOP candidates in key House races invoke the Holocaust against mask and vaccine mandates
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sparked outrage when she called on “rational” Jewish people to back her claim that mask mandates are comparable to the Holocaust. The Georgia Republican later apologized and visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Then there’s Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican from North Carolina, who made a similar comparison…
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Culture Netflix’s Holocaust revenge drama changes the facts – is nationalism to blame, or just an actor’s mistake?
As villains go, you can’t do much better than the one at the center of Netflix’s latest, a man called “Doctor Death.” In “Jaguar,” a crew of Spanish Holocaust survivors in 1960s Madrid hunt down Aribert Heim, a real-life Nazi physician who escaped justice for nearly half a century. “He was a doctor at Mauthausen,”…
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Culture Nazis stole thousands of pieces of art — but that was only the beginning of the story
In most art exhibits, each piece has a plaque that identifies the title, artist, subject, and style. At The Jewish Museum’s newest exhibit, however, each plaque has two descriptions. The first is a standard explanation of the piece. The second explains who owned the painting before the Nazis stole it — and how it was…
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