The hosts of a tennis tournament in Germany caused a controversy by describing the Nazi era as a "golden age" for the club. The hosts of the German Open, Berlin’s LTTC Rot-Weiss Club, apologized last Friday for an article in the tournament’s program, which said the club enjoyed its best years after Jewish tennis players left Nazi Germany.
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