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Germany news
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5 days ago

Germany's Buchenwald: Remembering Nazi atrocities

Hape Kerkeling honored his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, emphasizing the importance of remembering history and warning against rightwing populism.
fromThe Conversation
1 week ago
Philosophy

80 years later, scholarship is breaking silence on women's suffering and strength at Treblinka - including their role in its uprising

Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
5 days ago

Germany's Buchenwald: Remembering Nazi atrocities

Hape Kerkeling honored his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, emphasizing the importance of remembering history and warning against rightwing populism.
fromThe Conversation
1 week ago
Philosophy

80 years later, scholarship is breaking silence on women's suffering and strength at Treblinka - including their role in its uprising

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Berlin music
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

'Stay Alive,' About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

Ordinary Germans during the Nazi regime often remained silent, adapting to the system while some resisted and documented the truth.
Berlin music
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

'Stay Alive,' About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

Ordinary Germans during the Nazi regime often remained silent, adapting to the system while some resisted and documented the truth.
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Germany news
fromThe Local Germany
1 week ago

German-born immigrant faces deportation for vehicular manslaughter

A German-born Turk convicted of a fatal speeding accident may be deported after his appeal was rejected by the Stuttgart Administrative Court.
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

The far-right's dehumanization of trans people is similar to the Nazi's treatment of Jewish people - LGBTQ Nation

Authoritarian regimes use dehumanization to consolidate power and justify repression against perceived internal enemies.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Were Grandma and Grandpa Nazis?

Access to Nazi party membership records is available online, but information is incomplete and subject to strict privacy laws in Germany.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
1 month ago

Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands' freedom - and won

Non-Jewish German women protested on Rosenstrasse in February 1943 to demand the release of their arrested Jewish husbands, successfully challenging Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.
Berlin music
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Life in Hitler's Capital

A new book presents firsthand accounts from diverse Berlin residents during World War II, including students, musicians, Nazi members, and resistance fighters, revealing their personal experiences during wartime.
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Berlin
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Man jailed for 13-years over stabbing of tourist at Berlin Holocaust memorial

A Syrian refugee and Islamic State supporter was sentenced to 13 years in prison for stabbing a Spanish tourist at Berlin's Holocaust memorial, inflicting life-threatening injuries motivated by the Middle Eastern conflict.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Berlin Holocaust memorial attacker given 13 years in prison

A 20-year-old Syrian national received a 13-year prison sentence for stabbing a Spanish tourist at Berlin's Holocaust memorial in February 2025, motivated by Islamic State ideology.
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fromAxios
2 months ago
World news

Fewer than 200,000 Holocaust survivors remain as antisemitism rises globally

fromAxios
2 months ago
World news

Fewer than 200,000 Holocaust survivors remain as antisemitism rises globally

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fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Russia to convert Gulag museum into Nazi crimes memorial

Moscow is converting the Gulag History Museum into an exhibition emphasizing Nazi wartime crimes and Soviet victories after closing the Gulag-focused museum.
Social justice
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime - and Fighting Back

Mass detention systems expand through legal 'end runs' and normalization; rapid U.S. detention infrastructure growth signals a dangerous escalation requiring organized resistance.
US politics
fromNew York Daily News
2 months ago

Readers sound off on unconstitutional enforcers, Holocaust remembrance and cold plunges

ICE and Border Patrol agents, backed by political leaders, commit killings with impunity, undermining state sovereignty and endangering civil rights.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Europe remembers Nazi genocide

European institutions and national memorials will hold coordinated commemorations, survivor testimonies, and wreath-laying ceremonies marking Holocaust victims and the Auschwitz liberation anniversaries.
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Berlin
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 by Ian Buruma how Berliners defied their Nazi masters

Even as Nazi repression and wartime hardship increased, Berlin retained pockets of defiant, everyday resistance and nonconformity among ordinary citizens.
Right-wing politics
fromLEVEL Man
1 month ago

Why the Nazi Story in America Isn't History - It's a Mirror

American Nazi and KKK movements formed similarly, using scapegoating and charismatic leaders to build national organizations like the German Bund across the United States.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

We can see that courage': Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis' May Day executions

Photographs emerged showing 200 communist prisoners walking to execution at Kaisariani in May 1944, revealing their stoic defiance and renewing public attention.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
2 months ago

Bearing witness after the witnesses are gone: How to bring Holocaust education home for a new generation

Joe Engel, an Auschwitz survivor, became a prominent Holocaust educator in Charleston and helped establish a permanent memorial as survivor voices fade.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I was simply luckier': Holocaust survivors warn against forgetting Nazi atrocities

Survivors of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp, laid flowers and candles at the memorial site on Tuesday, as commemorations marking its liberation 81 years ago took place around Europe and beyond. Marking International Holocaust Memorial Day, Jewish leaders across the continent warned against forgetting the extermination of millions, while some of the few remaining survivors urged ordinary people to stand up against populism and extremism.
Germany news
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Tim Walz Compares Trump's ICE Raids to Anne Frank Getting Arrested by Nazis

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz compared President Trump's ICE and Border Patrol raids to Anne Frank's capture, urging federal agents to withdraw over immigrant children's fear.
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

The Strange Story of the Famed Anti-Fascist Lament "First They Came..."

In the dire months since Donald Trump's return to power, you've no doubt read a version of the famous mea culpa "First They Came"-perhaps woven into the lines of an essay or op-ed, perhaps thumbed out on social media. Part warning, part exhortation, the short text (it's often mistaken for a poem) comes to us as tragically earned wisdom from the rise of the Nazis, alas grimly relevant to the America of today.
History
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Germany updates: Parliament to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Two men reportedly fired shots at an elite police unit during a car chase in southern Germany Tuesday evening, causing a road accident in which five people were lightly injured. Officers from the Spezialeinsatzkommando (special deployment unit, or SEK) had attempted to arrest three men, aged 23, 24 and 30, in the small town of Absberg near the city of Nuremberg on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Germany updates: Bundestag marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Two men reportedly fired shots at an elite police unit during a car chase in southern Germany Tuesday evening, causing a road accident in which five people were lightly injured. Officers from the Spezialeinsatzkommando (special deployment unit, or SEK) had attempted to arrest three men, aged 23, 24 and 30, in the small town of Absberg near the city of Nuremberg on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons.
Germany news
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Berlin's young Jews: complex experiences with antisemitism

Rising antisemitic incidents in Berlin since October 2023 have increased caution among Jewish students and prompted expanded security at Jewish sites and events.
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