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Nuremberg 90 Years Ago, and Where We Are Now

There are five concrete steps we can take to ensure Nuremberg’s lessons are actualized

|ByPAUL MILLER, STEPHAN KRAMER
1935 chart showing racial classifications under the Nuremberg Laws
President Donald Trump mourned conservative activist Charlie Kirk and vowed to retaliate in a video address after Kirk's assassination, September 10, 2025.

Antisemitism flares and ‘Reichstag’ mentions soar online in wake of Charlie Kirk assassination

“Charlie Kirk was assassinated by jews,” tweeted an account called Greatest Noticer, whose username is an apparent allusion to a neo-Nazi watchword.

|ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
German flag flutters half-mast on top of the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, March 25

Hundreds associated with antisemitic movement attempt to storm Reichstag

Several hundred were arrested in incidents at both the Reichstag building and the nearby Brandenburg Gate, where protesters reportedly threw stones and bottles

|ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
The Reichstag building burns, February 27 1933

Newly discovered account of 1933 Reichstag fire casts doubt on Nazi narrative

The seat of the German parliament was burned down on February 27, 1933. Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe was convicted of arson and executed.

|ByALEX WINSTON