This is the Forward’s coverage of World War II, the global conflict during which Nazi Germany perpetrated the Holocaust.
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
Russia's invasion has made ordinarily outspoken critics of antisemitism wary of criticizing Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
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Culture Hidden in a famous WWII photo, two heroic Jewish stories
The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis — and cemented two Jewish soldiers in history
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Film & TV How Marlene Dietrich saved me — or maybe my twin sister — and helped inspire me to become a lifelong activist
Eleanor Rubin's first brush with fame and activism came unexpectedly during the 1942 Dietrich film 'The Lady Is Willing'
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Theater ‘Operation Mincemeat’ is a musical farce about fooling Hitler — with nothing much to say about Nazis
The delightful musical erases its main character’s Jewishness, and much of his true motivation
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News Why Nazis spent World War II in a luxury West Virginia resort
The strange, forgotten history of the Greenbrier hotel, where German diplomats and their families were treated to gourmet meals and spa treatments
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Opinion Neville Chamberlain taught us where Trump’s appeasement of Putin could lead
When Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement, he did not know he was paving the way for World War II
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Opinion Eric Adams said he’d ‘collaborate’ on immigration enforcement — so did Vichy France during WWII
New York's mayor has more in common with Marshal Pétain than a telling word choice
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Film & TV In a gripping film set in 1930’s Tel Aviv, lovers fight the tide of terrorism and colonialism
Michael Winterbottom's 'Shoshana' sets a passionate love story against a volatile political backdrop
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Opinion Americans are waking up to right-wing antisemitism. We’re still ignoring the root problem
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