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- Teachers Laura Nickel, right, and Max Teske pose for a photograph after an interview with The Associated Press in Cottbus, Germany, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Two teachers in eastern Germany tried to counter the far-right activities of students at their small town high school. Disheartened by what they say was a lack of support from fellow educators, Laura Nickel and Max Teske decided to leave Mina Witkojc School in Burg. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Two teachers called out far-right activities at their German school. Then they had to leave town.
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press
Tue,07/25/23-12:59AM , 666 Reads
BURG, Germany (AP) — Two teachers in eastern Germany tried to counter the far-right activities of students at their small town high school. They counseled bullies who threatened to beat up immigrant classmates. They gave more lessons about their country's Nazi past. They invited in a Black rapper to talk about mutual respect.
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- A election campaign poster of far-right AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann remains at a street at the outskirts of the small city Sonneberg at the German federal state Thuringia, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, candidate Robert Sesselmann won the runoff election for a local county administrator in Sonneberg county on June 25, 2023. Sonneberg has a relatively small population of 56,800, but the win is a symbolic milestone for the far-right populist party AfD.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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A German county elected a far-right candidate for the first time since the Nazi era, raising concern
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press
Sat,07/08/23-1:09AM , 442 Reads
SONNEBERG, Germany (AP) — Mike Knoth is more than thrilled that a far-right populist party's candidate recently won the county administration in his hometown in rural eastern Germany for the first time since the Nazi era.
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- Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal attends the unveiling of a graffiti wall at the entrance of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 12, 2023. The Pears Jewish Campus, run by the local Chabad community, is located in the German capital's Wilmersdorf neighbourhood and will be officially opened Sunday, June 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Germany's biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press
Fri,06/23/23-1:25AM , 526 Reads
BERLIN (AP) — When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust, most people who heard about the plan were skeptical.
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- Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of the 111 silver objects stolen by the Nazis from the Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, Saturday, June 10, 2023. Museum staff have made it their mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the original owners. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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German curator on a mission to return silver heirlooms stolen from Jewish families by the Nazis
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press
Tue,06/13/23-2:10AM , 315 Reads
MUNICH (AP) — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it.
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