World Focus: The Munich Olympic massacre in perspective
According to an official West German account of the tragedy at the Munich Olympics, at about 4a.m. on Sept. 5. 1972, eight men in track suits climbed the fence at Munich’s Olympic Village, carrying ...
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Holocaust Center’s Kristallnacht commemoration examines last ghetto’s music
There, she would join an impassioned group of 140,000 inmates who played, composed and listened to music over the 3 1/2 years ...
The 10 best Danube river cruises to book now
Rising in Germany’s Black Forest and meandering 1,170 miles through 10 countries and four capital cities – Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava and Belgrade – to the Black Sea, the Danube offers countless ...
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Germany’s Muddle on Antisemitism
A resolution adopted by the German Bundestag last week on curbing antisemitism and protecting Jewish life could negatively ...
From the GI Bill to reparations: The next Congress must right a history of injustice
The G.I. Bill, which provided life-changing education and housing benefits to millions of World War II veterans, excluded ...
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Chinese Investor’s Role in Major Port Raises Concerns in Tbilisi
The idea of building a new Black Sea Port in Georgia has a storied history that reaches far back into Georgia ... between ...
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A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. 86 years later, the relic is returning home.
On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...
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Oregon Democrat Janelle Bynum declares victory in 5th Congressional District
Surrounded by a group of campaign volunteers, Democrat Janelle Bynum declared victory in Oregon’s closest congressional race.
35 years later: How fall of the Berlin Wall shaped, divided, and united a generation
The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989. It was meant to stop Germans from fleeing the communist East to the more prosperous West ...
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New York Giants’ Return to Germany Triggers Historical Reflections of Antisemitism and the 1936 Olympic Games
The New York Giants return to Germany this weekend for the first since 1994 when legendary broadcaster Marty Glickman made ...