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Breaking News 42% of Germans Want To Hear Less of Nazi Past
(Reuters) — Seventy years after the end of World War Two, some 42 percent of Germans want to draw a line under the Nazi past, a poll showed on Wednesday, as the nation’s complex legacy continues to shape its international role and domestic politics. On the day that survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp gather…
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Culture Let’s Get Honest About Gunter Grass
It has already started. In the obituaries for the late German novelist Günter Grass, he has been cast as “the writer who stirred Germany’s conscience,” “the conscience of Germany,” and “the conscience of his generation.” Grass looks set for canonization, but his place in German literary and political history should still be a matter of…
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Breaking News Gunter Grass, Controversial German Nobel Laureate, Dies at 87
German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum,” an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer’s duty was to…
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The Schmooze Real-Life Lawyer Behind ‘Woman in Gold’
(JTA) — When attorney E. Randol (Randy) Schoenberg saw himself portrayed on the big screen by hunky Ryan Reynolds in the movie “Woman in Gold,” he immediately spotted a difference. “Obviously, I’m not the sexiest man alive,” Schoenberg acknowledged in an interview at his West Los Angeles home, referring to People magazine’s designation of Reynolds in…
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Breaking News German Leftist Party Introduces Resolution To Recognize Palestinian State
A left-wing opposition party in the German parliament has introduced a resolution to recognize a Palestinian state, a position opposed by the current governing coalition. Die Linke, or The Left Party, submitted the petition on March 18, The Jerusalem Post reported. No date has yet been set for a vote by the Bundestag, and it…
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Breaking News Germany Agrees To Return Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs
Germany agreed to return a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of its Jewish owner. Germany signed a restitution agreement for the painting “Two Riders on the Beach,” by Max Liebermann. The painting was discovered among hundreds of artworks in the apartment of the late German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt. The painting’s provenance was traced back…
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Culture A Textbook Case of Anti-Semitism in Oldenburg
Oldenburg, Germany, is made of people who are historically ahead of their time. “In 1932,” a man tells me as I arrive there, “the people here were the first to vote for a local Nazi government. We did it before Berlin!” This man, I learn quickly, is not the only one in Oldenburg who remembers…
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Breaking News German Jewish Leader Warns Against Kippahs in Muslim Neighborhoods
Germany’s Jewish community leader has advised Jews not to wear skullcaps in areas with a large Muslim population, a warning that underscores fears about growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Josef Schuster of the Central Council of Jews told German radio that community members should not hide out of fear and that most Jewish institutions in Germany…
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