In German-speaking Europe, as in other parts of the western world, questions of religious identity have been discussed with sudden urgency since the attacks of 9/11 . Nowhere was this clearer than in the heated controversy over the building of a mosque in the city of Cologne, which is the subject of Michael Hofmann s contribution to this volume. Turkish Germans have also found themselves defined by the religious background of their parents. For different reasons German Jews have faced pressure to reconnect with a religion that their forbears cast off sometimes more than a century ago. At the...
In German-speaking Europe, as in other parts of the western world, questions of religious identity have been discussed with sudden urgency since the a...
1. This is the dramatic story of Fritz Bauer, the prosecutor who played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann, the Auschwitz trials, and the post-war German justice system. 2. This work reveals new information on Bauer's life and the role his homosexuality and Jewishness played in his legal career. 3. Ronen Steinke is a lawyer and political journalist in Berlin.
1. This is the dramatic story of Fritz Bauer, the prosecutor who played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann, the Auschwitz trials, and the post...
