What Democrats fighting Trump should learn from Germany’s failure to stop Hitler
As Trump assaults the rule of law, echoes of history reverberate in Washington and throughout America
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Opinion Right-wing insurrectionists tried to topple the German government in 1920 — it’s happening again in Trump’s America
Like the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, the perpetrators of the Kapp Putsch escaped punishment and accountability
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Opinion As fires burn in LA, has Trump found his Reichstag fire moment?
Trump's decision to call in the National Guard to quell unrest recalls the ways in which Hitler asserted and consolidated power
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Film & TV Babylon Berlin is famous for its attention to detail — did it get its Jewish story right?
The popular German series has religious Jews, but does it know how they practiced?
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Theater ‘It’s 60-year-old boy meets 60-year-old-girl’: Steven Skybell on his Tony-nominated turn in ‘Cabaret’
The Broadway actor discusses his Jewish identity and why 'Cabaret' is still relevant
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Theater In Germany, they were superstars — and then the Nazis came to power
'Harmony,' Barry Manilow's musical about the Comedian Harmonists, is a sometimes-labored labor of love
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Books It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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Opinion Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light
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Yiddish נײַ בוך וועגן אַמאָליקן ניו־יאָרק איז ווי אַ סעודה פֿאַר ייִדישיסטןNew book about old New York City is like a feast for Yiddishists
דער מחבר הענעך סאַפּאָזשניק איז אַ גאָר פֿעיִקער װעגװײַזער איבער אַ פֿאַרלוירענער װעלט.
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