Germany

German president under fire for congratulating Iranian regime on 40th anniversary

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has defended his actions as a diplomatic custom that keeps doors open to the regime.

By Toby Axelrod February 28, 2019 10:27 am

Sausage museum says it won’t build on site of former Nazi camp in Germany

(JTA) — The chairman of an association supporting a German sausage museum said it will not build a new facility on the site of a former Nazi slave labor camp. The German Bratwurst Museum had received permission on Thursday night from the Muhlhausen City Council to build a new museum, as well as a theater […]

February 3, 2019 10:04 am

40 years ago, an American miniseries changed the way Germans thought about their history. Now ‘Holocaust’ is being shown there again.

The four-part drama, starring a young Meryl Streep, burned itself into the consciences of its millions of German viewers.

January 23, 2019 12:38 pm

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German president under fire for congratulating Iranian regime on 40th anniversary

Sausage museum says it won’t build on site of former Nazi camp in Germany

40 years ago, an American miniseries changed the way Germans thought about their history. Now ‘Holocaust’ is being shown there again.

Trial of former Nazi SS guard suspended due to his ill health

Soviet immigration, once a bane of Germany’s Jews, has become their salvation

Ukraine Jewish cemetery gets protective fence with German funds

Kosher ban is OK with Jewish supporters of Germany’s far-right party

Jewish high school students read aloud the names of 55,696 Berlin Jews murdered by the Nazis

Former Nazi SS guard, 94, goes on trial in deaths of hundreds of prisoners at Stutthof camp

A German Jewish community’s longtime leader may not be Jewish

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