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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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 Duck Everlasting — The secret Jewish history of Donald Duck
Was Disney's sputtering creature a symbol of liberty or of mankind's fowl propensity to embrace duck-tatorship?
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Culture This Mexican diplomat helped Jews flee Hitler. Does that make him Mexico’s Schindler?
Some say Gilberto Bosques was just doing his job. Others call him a hero
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Culture Why a museum on prewar Jewish life in Europe was envisioned for New York, but never built
YIVO’s Museum of the Homes of the Past was both too early — and too late
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