This is the Forward’s coverage of World War II, the global conflict during which Nazi Germany perpetrated the Holocaust.
World War II
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Opinion Should we fear that Trump is this generation’s Neville Chamberlain? In a word, yes.
Trump's summit with Putin mirrors Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in stunning and sobering ways
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Theater When Walt Disney went South of the Border to fight Nazi influence
The new play ‘The Animals Speak’ details Disney’s 1941 visit to Latin America
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Culture Everything’s terrible — but at least there are Moomins
Coming out of WWII, one Finnish author and illustrator created something magical
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Yiddish World How my grandparents met: a Yiddish-American romance
Harry watched, captivated, as Lil spoke to the crowd at a peace demonstration
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Books In America, a German-Austrian novelist hears echoes of his father’s life under Nazism
Daniel Kehlmann's ‘The Director’ confronts his family history through the life of G.W. Pabst
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Books In WWII’s only all-female concentration camp, community was the key to survival
Lynne Olson’s book ‘The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück’ reveals the unsung stories of female French resistance fighters
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Culture How one Jewish woman fought the Nazis — and helped found a new Italian republic
80 years ago, Teresa Mattei fought with the resistance and went on to help write Italy's constitution.
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Opinion 80 years after Germany surrendered, we’re still learning the real lessons of World War II
The morality of the war was never as simple as Allies versus Axis
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