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German Jews supported German colonial ambitions in Africa and Eastern Europe, out of the desire to increase German power and to rescue Eastern European Jews from Tsarist rule. The eastern advance became important for German Jews because it combined German military superiority with rescuing Eastern Jews from Russian brutality; Russian ...
Germany’s racial laws identified a “Jew” as anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents, regardless of their religious identity or practice. Conversions to Christianity were pronounced illegitimate going back two generations, formalizing and instituting Nazi racial theories.
People, pictures, places: German Jews across the centuries. Sabine Oelze. 07/03/2021. An exhibition in Cologne about 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany showcases personal stories through...
The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of millions of Jews, Romani people, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime from 1933‑1945.
Germany's Jewish history must be remembered and shared by all Germans, not just those in the Jewish community, DW's Christoph Strack writes.
From the earliest time on, Jewish culture stamped its mark on everyday German life and still does today. Three department heads of DHM collections, each starting with a selected object, describe aspects of Jewish-German life from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Germany celebrated the diversity of Jewish life in the anniversary year of 2021. Jewish-German history dates back 1,700 years and began with a Roman decree in 321 CE.
