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December 15, 2015

Will Syrian Refugees in Germany Learn What Germans Have Learned about the Nazi Past?

If they don't, anti-Semitism will grow.

Those fleeing Syria for Germany come from a country that has been at war with Israel since 1948 and where the government has disseminated anti-Semitic propaganda for decades. Germany, writes Jeffrey Herf, faces a decision: whether simply to allow these refugees to remain in its borders or to take difficult (and necessary) measures to integrate them into its social order. The latter would include encouraging them to shed received ideas about Jews and the Jewish state:

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