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This week we commemorate 71 years since Kristallnacht - the infamous pogrom instigated by German Nazis, which made clear to the world exactly what the National Socialist regime planned for its Jews: total eradication and debasement.
This day in German history - the 9th of November - has a conflicted identity. On the one hand, it [...]
Memorial to the Great Synagogue of Leipzig, which was destroyed during Kristallnacht, 1938.
Last week I conducted an extremely brief and therefore somewhat superficial tour of eastern Germany’s three main cities: Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin. While Berlin (in)famously symbolized division during the Cold War, the other two were deeply embedded in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), [...]
Kristallnacht - the night of shattered glass. Just take a moment, and think - sense - the word. We’re used to wailing sirens, the squeal of brakes, the odd private argument that’s become public. But imagine a normal weekday evening, coming home from work, sitting at the table and…suddenly hearing glass crashing, mobs yelling, the [...]
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