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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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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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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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Culture At this interfaith calligraphy class, the lines between Jew and Muslim blur