The defense ministers of Europe’s five top military spenders say they intend to continue increasing their investments in defense but described President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge for them to raise spending to 5% of their overall economic output as extremely difficult.

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free) gate is recognized the world over.

But not all of the leading conservative populist parties in the world are the same — in rhetoric or on policy.

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.

Zierler is one of dozens of teens for whom Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, a Conservative synagogue in Pasadena, has been a heart of Jewish life. The 434-family congregation has a biweekly religious school for students up to eighth grade and both an active youth group and an assistant teacher program for teens.

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From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

Birkenau, clutching her mother’s hand as they were being pushed by German soldiers and their barking dogs into the largest Nazi death camp. Now 91, Doniecka still remembers the German phrase “schneller,

Events marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in then-occupied Poland are taking place across the world. Some 1.1 million people were murdered there, 1 million of them Jews.

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