This is the Forward’s coverage of World War II, the global conflict during which Nazi Germany perpetrated the Holocaust.
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Fast Forward 82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest at home
Sher's remains were buried in Greenville, South Carolina
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Books The Nazis sent them to Hawaii to spy for the Japanese
in 'Family of Spies,' Christine Kuehn confronts a past that is stranger and more sinister than fiction
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Culture Is the movie ‘Nuremberg’ about the wrong psychiatrist?
The movie stars Rami Malek as the psychiatrist Douglas Kelley — but what about Leon Goldensohn?
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Books She claims she saw Hitler’s ashes and danced with Goering. But is any of it true?
In a memoir about her adventurous mother-in-law, Terese Svoboda tries to separate truth from fiction.
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Film & TV As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted
'Auction,' which concerns the provenance of an Egon Schiele painting, is only the latest film about Nazi-looted art
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Opinion Does that Trump Time magazine cover really reference a Nazi war criminal?
Careful observers have noticed an eerie resemblance between Trump's pose and that of Alfried Krupp
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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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Opinion The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream
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Opinion A quiet diplomatic shift in the Middle East, with monumental consequences for Israel
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News Why protests in Iran seem surprisingly pro-Israel
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