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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The Schmooze Gal Gadot May Star In Nazi Redemption Thriller
The great news: against all odds, a woman with a mysteriously unpronounceable last name from a desert country that is 1/90th the size of Mexico has become one of the world’s most beloved movie stars. The confusing news: her next movie, slated for late 2018, might be a post-World War II revenge thriller about a…
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Opinion The Nazi Who Saved Jews
Karl Rudolf Werner Best was your average run-of-the-mill Nazi, until he wasn’t. A curious footnote to history, Best both ordered and subsequently sabotaged the deportation of Denmark’s Jews, rendering him an enduring mystery. Born in Darmstadt on July 10, 1903, Best was an early and staunch German nationalist who founded the first local group of…
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Fast Forward Nazi Lego Soldiers, Tanks Are Being Sold On Amazon
Amazon is being criticized for allowing third-party vendors to sell Lego figurines depicting the Nazi army on its websites in Germany and the United States. Manuel Hegel, a father in Germany, discovered the toys when shopping online. He started a petition asking Lego and Amazon to take steps, including possible legal action, to prevent such…
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Community 75 Years Ago, Brave Poles Documented Nazi Atrocities
As we search for leaders of integrity and bravery, we would do very well to remember the actions of some outstanding and honourable Poles during World War II. Readers may be unaware that December 10 is the 75th Anniversary of an extraordinary but sad historical document, “The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland,”…
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The Schmooze No, Forcing Jews To Bake Swastika Cakes Is Not Like Forcing Homophobes To Bake Gay Cakes
New Year’s resolutions: get outdoors more often, read more books, and stop hanging out with people who only bring up the Holocaust as a way to illustrate unrelated arguments and never to talk about the systematic murder of six million Jews. This week the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published an editorial, “Wedding Cakes…
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Fast Forward Famed Holocaust Orphan Is Now A Loving Bubbe — With Many Ghosts
Ruth Saperstein Jaffe, of Sleepy Hollow, New York, was once Bela Raphael, an orphan of the Holocaust who brought hope to the world in the aftermath of the war. Brought to New York by a Jewish G.I. who pledged to raise a child orphaned by Hitler’s killing machine, Jaffe’s largely forgotten story is retold in…
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Fast Forward Without Mentioning Trump, Obama Cites Hitler In Talk On Nationalism
At a recent talk, former President Barack Obama warned U.S. citizens not to “grow complacent,” citing the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany’s culturally progressive Weimar Republic, Crain’s reported. The remarks came during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday. “We have to tend to this garden of…
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Community Should Neo-Nazis Be Fired From Their Jobs? Not If You Ask Them.
A funny thing happened on the way through our recent Nazi poll. On November 30, the Forward’s opinion editor inquired of the Twitterverse, asking, “Should neo-Nazis be fired from their jobs?” Should neo-Nazis be fired from their jobs? — Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) November 30, 2017 In the first few hours of the poll, the dozens…
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Opinion How I got AI to create fake Nazi memos — and what that means for the future of antisemitism
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