Germany

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• SOURCE: 60 Minutes
  6/30/19
  

  Video of the Week: What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know

  More than 70 years ago, Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 commanders of the Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads at trial number 9 at Nuremberg. Now 99 years old, he's the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today.

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• 6/23/19
  

  On the 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, It's Time to Reexamine Its Legacy.

  by David Carlin

  Versailles did not destroy the German economy, make Germany into a permanent pariah, or inspire the German lust for revenge. Instead, the Nazis capitalized on a unique economic calamity (the Great Depression), German political instability, and deep seated radical nationalist currents.

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• 6/2/19
  

  Depicting the Devil: How Propaganda Posters Portrayed Nazi Ideology

  by Albinko Hasic

  The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods to incessantly repeat Nazi ideologies to the German public. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis?

  by Paul Hockenos

  The country’s culture of remembrance is crumbling.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/11/19
  

  Teaching the Holocaust in Germany as a Resurgent Far Right Questions It

  As those who lived through it are dying off, and some people claim it never happened, what will happen to sites of remembrance?

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Death of Appeasement: the 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of Prague

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  March 1939 was the real turning point in international relations. September 1939 was to be the climax.

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• 3/3/19
  

  Is Bernie Sanders Actually A Democratic Socialist?

  by Michael Sheng

  "For the sake of history, please tell your voters what you really believe, and don’t just throw out a label without a precise definition."

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• 3/10/19
  

  Hitler's Own Maginot Line

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What the diary of a German against the Third Reich can teach us about the Atlantic Wall. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/20/19
  

  Rethinking Black History Month in Germany

  by Tiffany Florvil

  This year will mark the 30th anniversary of the annual Black History Month celebrations in Berlin, which became a fixture in the Black German community. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/19/19
  

  Emergency powers helped Hitler’s rise. Germany has avoided them ever since.

  by Jeffrey Herf

  The lessons of the Weimar Republic.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/19
  

  At Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War History Confronts Crass Commercialism

  GWU Professor Hope Harrison is quoted extensively in the piece. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-26-2018
  

  The German sub sank 76 years ago. Now its story is being revealed in eerie fluorescent detail.

  A laser scan shows the sunken U-boat off the coast of the Outer Banks resting in 700 feet of water. Entombed are dozens of German sailors.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-23-2018
  

  Jerusalem Criticizes Berlin’s Jewish Museum for ‘Anti-Israel Activity’

  Its latest show, “Welcome to Jerusalem,” also got people talking. And it appeared to draw criticism from an unlikely source: the highest levels of the Israeli government.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-12-2018
  

  Putin’s Stasi ID Is Found in German Archive

  Long before he was president of Russia, Vladimir Putin worked as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden in the former East Germany and had access to Germany’s dreaded secret police.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-9-18
  

  Looking to History and Recent Events, German Leaders Defend Democracy and Pluralism

  Amid a resurgence of xenophobia that has reshaped Germany’s political landscape, the nation’s leaders warned that Germans must defend democracy to ensure that hate crimes like Kristallnacht, the Nazi-led burning of synagogues and plundering of Jewish shops 80 years ago, “never again” take place.

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• 10-30-18
  

  This Is Where Antisemitism Leads

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What a German diary from the Nazi era teaches us.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-11-18
  

  The Big Hole in Germany’s Nazi Reckoning? Its Colonial History

  Germany has yet to come to terms with its violent colonial legacy in Africa, which laid the groundwork for Nazi atrocities, historians and activists say.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-10-18
  

  Germany Will Now Allow Some Nazi Symbols in Video Games

  Here's what to know about the history of that ban.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-2-18
  

  Trump’s Ancestral Village Abounds With His Relatives

  Few admit a link.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  6-19-18
  

  UFO Toy Discontinued for Teaching Kids That Nazis Could Travel in Space

  The “round aircraft” stated in its product description that it was “the first object in the world capable of flying in space.”