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Nazis

Stained glass mural
Posted inOpinion

Germany excels at restoring old synagogues — but can they foster new Jewish life?

A.J. Goldmann by A.J. Goldmann October 22, 2025October 22, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. I was in the pews when Munich reopened the […]

German Nazi doctor Josef Mengele standing at a train window in his SS uniform. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Argentina declassifies more than 1,800 files on Nazi escapes to South America

by Grace Gilson May 2, 2025May 2, 2025
Elon Musk is seen on a large screen as Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an election campaign rally in Halle, Germany, Jan. 25, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Germany formally classifies far-right AfD party as extremist

by Andrew Lapin May 2, 2025May 2, 2025
"Hitler and the Nazis" makes use of colorized archival footage — some from Leni Riefenstahl — as well as reenactments. (Photo/Courtesy of Netflix)
Posted inTV

Is Netflix’s new Hitler docuseries worth watching?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar June 10, 2024
A man in a T-shirt with a swastika and the phrase "white power" on it speaks during the Feb. 20, 2024 Walnut Creek City Council Meeting. (Screenshot/City of Walnut Creek via YouTube)
Posted inLocal Voice

I won’t stand by while white supremacists hijack my city council’s meetings

Jennie Chabon by Rabbi Cantor Jennie Chabon May 9, 2024
Remains of Munich's former main synagogue, seen at left on the eve of its destruction by the Nazis in 1938, were pulled from the Isar River on July 4, 2023.
Posted inWorld

Nazis destroyed Munich’s main synagogue in 1938. Parts of it were just found in the city’s river.

by Toby Axelrod July 7, 2023
Harrison Ford still has that Indiana Jones charm at 80.
Posted inCulture

Same old Indiana Jones is still fighting the same old Nazis — it almost got a lot more interesting

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 6, 2023July 6, 2023
Two pictures. On the left, a color photo of an ornate silver cup. On the right, a vintage photo of a woman smiling outside, sitting on a bench.
Posted inYom HaShoah

Nazi-looted silver cup comes home to Bay Area descendant after 80 years

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 17, 2023April 18, 2023
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy Gerald Schwab)
Posted inNews

Stanford releases full digital archive of Nuremberg trials

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 11, 2023
black and white photo of an angry man speaking into a microphone
Posted inHistory

How did Nazis use propaganda to justify their horrors? Stanford psychologist’s analysis explains

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 17, 2022November 22, 2022

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