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Germany’s Jewish Council warns against AfD’s “right-wing extremism”

Dr. Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany – the country’s EJC affiliate - has accused the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of having right-wing extremist tendencies.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial files charges against Holocaust denier

A man who reportedly denied the Holocaust during a visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial near Berlin is to face criminal charges, prosecutors confirmed.

Germany to put 92 year-old former SS guard on trial for Nazi crimes

A 92-year old German man will go on trial charged with helping to murder 5,230 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi death camp in World War II, prosecutors said.

German Jewish Central Council slam leading weekly magazine for stereotyping Jews

The German magazine Der Spiegel has found itself embroiled in a new antisemitism scandal after the weekly published an issue depicting contemporary Jews in Germany as ultra-Orthodox Eastern European Jews with side locks.

Rabbi and two sons spat at in Munich

A rabbi and his two sons said they were spit on and verbally attacked as they left a synagogue in the southern German city of Munich.

Rabbi spat on and cursed in Berlin

German police launched an investigation after a prominent Berlin rabbi said he was insulted and spat on while walking down a street in the German capital.
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