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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The popular German series has religious Jews, but does it know how they practiced?
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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
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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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Theater He was Germany’s most popular playwright — here’s why you may not have heard of him
Jewish writer Ernst Toller lived the radical ideals he expressed in his plays
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