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German band Rammstein slammed for dressing as concentration camp prisoners in music video

A host of German Jewish leaders condemned the video, despite hints that it might be a critique of German history.

One of the First Films About the Holocaust Remains a French Sensation

Around the tenth anniversary of the liberation of France, a French government agency decided to produce a documentary about Nazi concentration camps. A promising young man named Alain Resnais, who would later become a famous director, was recruited. At first he refused, stating that only a survivor should make such a film. But he came around, […]

This German Jewish Scientist Led the Way to Zyklon B

For a crash course in irony, look no further than the life of Fritz Haber, the Jewish chemist whose scientific research led to the invention of Zyklon B, the cyanide-based pesticide used in death camps during the Holocaust—including against his own family. Born in 1868 in Breslau, Haber wanted nothing more than to graduate from […]