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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News Strange But True Tale of How Biggest Nazi Archive Wound Up in Colorado
(JTA) — The yellowing document is crumbling and fading, but the smooth signature on its cover is as legible as it is chilling: Rudolf Hess, the Nazi who served as a Hitler deputy from 1933 to 1941. The signature, which adorns a 70-year-old leniency plea for top Nazi Hermann Goering during the postwar Nuremberg trials,…
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Fast Forward Liberation of Shanghai Ghetto To Be Commemorated
The World Jewish Congress and China’s government are preparing a joint commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Shanghai Ghetto. The People’s Republic of China and WJC intend to host the ceremony in September, the parties said in a joint statement to media on Wednesday. More than 23,000 Jewish refugees lived in…
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Culture ‘Woman in Gold’ Success Shows German Preoccupation With Nazi Past
(JTA) — Two starkly different images: a woman wrapped in shimmering gold, a man whipped and bleeding on a cold cement floor. The first, a 1907 painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, is the centerpiece of “Woman in Gold,” a film starring Helen Mirren that had its world premiere last week at the Berlinale International…
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Fast Forward Families Sue Germany for Return of Guelph Treasure ‘Sold’ to Nazis
Heirs of four Jewish art collectors filed suit against Germany to regain a medieval gold treasure they claim was forcibly sold to the Nazis in 1935. Alan Phillip and Gerald Stiebel filed their claim on Monday against Germany and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They are…
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Culture A Nacht at the Opera in Berlin
On a freezing January evening, a large crowd gathered to watch as three stolpersteine were hammered into the sidewalk outside the Komische Oper Berlin. These brass stones commemorate victims — mostly, but not all, Jewish — of Nazi persecution. The plaques laid in front of the opera commemorated Jews who were involved there before the…
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Fast Forward Cartoon Depicts German Minister as Nazi in Greek Paper
Germany condemned on Friday a cartoon published in a Greek leftist newspaper close to the new ruling party in Athens that depicts Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a Nazi uniform making comments that invoke the Holocaust. In the cartoon, carried in the daily Avgi (The Dawn), mouthpiece of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ Syriza party,…
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Fast Forward Luxembourg Joined Nazi Push Willingly, New Official Study Says
Luxembourg’s wartime leaders willingly cooperated with German Nazis in the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, a government-commissioned study determined. The report by a panel of historians led by Vincent Artuso of the University of Luxembourg was published on Tuesday, two years after it was commissioned by Jean-Claude Juncker, a former prime minister of the…
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Culture Will the Real Adolf Hitler Please Stand Up?
Incongruous as it may initially sound, “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare’s immortal line from “Romeo and Juliet” lies at the core of Matt Ogens’s endearingly offbeat documentary “Meet the Hitlers.” In the play, Juliet Capulet famously raises the question to declare that the stigma associated with the surname of her lover, Romeo Montague, will not…
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