This is the Forward’s coverage of World War II, the global conflict during which Nazi Germany perpetrated the Holocaust.
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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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Culture The true story of a Dutch Jewish survivor inspires a tale of WWII resistance
'A Place to Hide' is Ronald Balson's latest historical novel
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Culture Did ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ inspire Raoul Wallenberg’s Holocaust heroism?
Wallenberg saw an anti-Nazi remake about the superhero with a double life. ‘Pimpernel’ also inspired Stan Lee and Larry David
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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