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Germany reports new jump in far-right crime, nearing 20-year record

The number of crimes committed by right-wing extremists in Germany jumped to its highest level in at least four years in 2020, according to provisional police figures.

FC Bayern Munich contributes to synagogue restoration

Leading football club FC Bayern Munich is contributing 100,000 euros to the restoration of the Munich synagogue on the Reichenbachstrasse.

Germany upgrades IHRA’s legal status

Germany recognised the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as an international institution, strengthening in law its commitment to fighting antisemitism.

German commission rules museum must return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish heirs

A commission in Germany has ruled that a painting by expressionist Erich Heckel that is in a German art museum was likely unlawfully obtained under the Nazis and should be returned to the heirs of a Jewish historian who once owned it, officials said.

German Bundestag remembers Auschwitz liberation

The Bundestag, Germany's Lower House, held a special parliamentary session commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, 76 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

German president wants more Jewish Germans to get involved in politics

German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for more Jewish Germans to be active in political life.
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