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Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, refers to the deliberate murder of Jewish people during the Nazi reign of Germany from 1933-1945. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on January 27.

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projection of the former synagogue in Dortmund

A light in the darkness: Remembering Germany's destroyed synagogues

A light in the darkness: Remembering Germany's destroyed synagogues

To commemorate the pogroms, images of destroyed synagogues were projected onto their original locations in 2023.
HistoryNovember 9, 20247 images
A group of Jewish men marching down a street, the two in the front have a large yellow star tied to them. Men in uniform walk in front of and alongside them

November 9 pogroms showed coming Nazi brutality

November 9 pogroms showed coming Nazi brutality

On the night of November 9, 1938, Nazis and mobs sympathetic to them carried out pogroms against Jews in plain sight.
CultureNovember 9, 2024
Fire engulfs Berlin's Eberswalde Synagogue on November 9, 1938

'Kristallnacht' not strong enough term for anti-Jewish riots

'Kristallnacht' not strong enough term for anti-Jewish riots

In Germany, the term "Kristallnacht" is falling out of favor when referring to the violent events of November 9, 1938.
HistoryNovember 9, 2024
Military and Nazi images used in Manga

Manga and anime: Nazi cult in comic style

Manga and anime: Nazi cult in comic style

Japanese mangas that glorify militarism and National Socialism: Are they dangerous?
CultureNovember 9, 202414:59 min
A black-and-white photo of two young girls wearing dirndls

Surviving the Holocaust: 'There is no God'

Surviving the Holocaust: 'There is no God'

The film "Verity Circle" tells the story of two sisters who survived the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
CultureNovember 8, 2024
Esso Hamburg

Brazil: Illegal salvage from Nazi ships poses oil threat

Brazil: Illegal salvage from Nazi ships poses oil threat

Brazilian researchers have warned that the hunt for raw materials in old wartime shipwrecks could cause oil spills.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 28, 2024
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Six Der Spiegel magazine covers featuring Hitler

'After Hitler': Changing German views of Nazism

From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have reconciled the Nazi past in very different ways across 80 years.
CultureSeptember 26, 2024
Bojanczyk family, Warsaw

Young Polish Jews rediscover their Jewish identity

Young Polish Jews are keen to explore their Jewish roots and live their Jewish identity.
SocietySeptember 16, 202403:20 min
black and white photo of a man casting his ballot in the polling station at Frankfurt train station

Germany remembers its first post-WWII national election

In 1949, four years after the end of dictatorship and war, Germans could once again elect a democratic parliament.
HistoryAugust 13, 2024
Heads of people carrying red flags and a VVN federation flag with a red triangle and blue stripes in Buchenwald

Red triangle symbol: Germany debating a ban

Once worn by political prisoners in Nazi camps, the symbol has recently been associated with Hamas.
SocietyAugust 4, 2024
Christian Pfeil

European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma

Christian Pfeil survived the Nazi genocide, and later experienced racist attacks. He has a warning for society.
HistoryAugust 1, 2024
Part of a memorial in Berlin, the words Lublin and Majdanek are written on stone and there is grass

80 years on: Marking the liberation of Majdanek Nazi camp

Majdanek in Poland was the first Nazi concentration camp to be liberated, almost a year before the end of World War II.
HistoryJuly 24, 2024
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