Walk the Walk: What Do Germans Mean by ‘Never Again’?

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Walk the Walk: What Do Germans Mean by ‘Never Again’?

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May 20, 2024

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Dr Andrew Port, a historian at Wayne State University, discusses his new book Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, analyzing German responses to cases of genocide from the 1970s to the 1990s.

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May 20, 2024

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