This is the Forward’s coverage of World War II, the global conflict during which Nazi Germany perpetrated the Holocaust.
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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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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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