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How Germany’s Most Wanted Criminal Hid in Plain Sight
Daniela Klette, a militant from the Red Army Faction, was on the run for decades. Yet with publicly available digital recognition tools, German police could probably have found her much sooner.
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Criticism of Israel at Berlin Film Festival Stirs Antisemitism Debate
The backlash to some winners’ speeches at the festival shows how polarized and fraught Germany’s culture scene has become.
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Alfred Grosser, Champion of French-German Reconciliation, Dies at 99
A German-born Jew who became a French writer and activist, he devoted his life to healing the divide between two historic enemies after the trauma of World War II.
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Google Chatbot’s A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms
The company has suspended Gemini’s ability to generate human images while it vowed to fix the historical inaccuracy.
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Arts
Ukraine, Gaza and the Long Shadow of German Guilt
In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are still confronting and atoning for the atrocities of their government.
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Der Kaiser: Public Face of Germany’s Cup Effort
MUNICH, July 6 Regardless of who wins the World Cup final between Italy and France on Sunday, there will be one other victor: a trim 60-year-old fellow with swept-back white hair, rimless glasses, and an imperial bearing that has earned him the ...
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‘Dinner for One,’ a German New Year’s TV Tradition, Moves Online
The British comedy short has aired annually in Germany and other European countries for decades. Now, members of Gen Z are having fun with it on social media.
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Wolfgang Schäuble, German Politician Who Helped Forge European Unity, Dies at 81
A key figure in the reunification of East and West Germany, he was a strict fiscal hawk as finance minister and was once seen as a likely chancellor.
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A Fight at Columbia’s School of Social Work
More from our inbox: Rooming Houses as a Solution to HomelessnessMy Family’s StoryCredit...Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “What Is Happening at the Columbia School of Social Work?,” by Pamela Paul (column, Dec. 18 ...
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Arts
He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic
The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention.