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Germany tightens border protections: Facts and figures

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has ordered asylum seekers to be turned away at the border. A move that is legally and politically controversial. The new Interior Minister Alexander ...
The Atlantic

German Character and History

IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...
NPR

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a look at how Germany remembers the past

Germany devotes enormous resources to educating school children about the Holocaust, antisemitism, and discrimination. Despite that, antisemitic and anti-immigrant rhetoric has increased. Today is ...
Kaleido Scope

Professor’s new textbook challenges myths about Nazi Germany

Except “none of that is true,” writes Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., professor and past chair of UAB’s Department of History in “Nazi Germany: Society, Culture and Politics,” a new book from Bloomsbury Press ...
Christian Science Monitor

Called to lead Europe, Germany weighs its national guilt. Is it time to move on?

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...