Writer: Miriam Dagan

April 20, 2017
11:56 am

An Associated Press photograph shows Adolf Hitler, German Reichsfuehrer, acknowledging the ecstatic cheers of Sudeten Germans, as he entered Asch, on the heels of German armies which took over the ceded Czechoslovakian territory, on Oct. 3, 1938. The AP caption notes: 'Party members grip each other's belt, straining to hold the enthusiastic crowds in check.' (AP Photo)

Even as horrors exposed, AP news agency kept secret pact with Nazis

After most foreign press corps fled Germany, the local Associated Press was absorbed by the Nazi Foreign Office, which regularly exchanged photos with the media outlet, archive material shows

By Miriam Dagan

August 18, 2016
4:00 pm

Self portrait of a a 'punk rock provocateur' (courtesy / copyright Daniel Josefsohn)

Goodbye, Daniel Josefsohn

The bad-boy photographer who died this week found a visual language to address the tense Germans-Jewish relationship

By Miriam Dagan

January 8, 2016
4:35 pm

A copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (dccarbone/CC-BY, viaFlickr)

New ‘Mein Kampf’ publication ‘a slap in the face to Holocaust survivors’

As scholars mark first German edition since 1944, Jewish community leaders unconvinced by idea of teaching Hitler’s manifesto ‘as a vaccine against extremism’

By Miriam Dagan

October 13, 2015
3:47 am

Kiga founder Aycan Demirel is a Turkish Muslim in Germany, teaching Muslim immigrant children about Jewish history. (Jirko Piberger)

In Germany, a Turkish Muslim educates immigrants not to hate Jews

Aycan Demirel’s nonprofit Kiga fights rising national prejudices by teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in classrooms

By Miriam Dagan