With support from the University of Richmond

History News Network

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web. Join us to learn more about the past, now.

Germany's Foreign Ministry orders removal of Nazi-era portraits

Holocaust survivors welcomed the decision, calling it "a symbolic signal of modern Germany's moral and political maturity", said Elan Steinberg, Vice-President of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants.

The decision follows the publication of a book which reveals the ministry played a more active role in the Holocaust than previously thought.

"The intention is to only include the portraits of diplomats sent abroad since the Foreign Office was re-established in 1951 – as is the case already at the Foreign Office headquarters," the spokesman said....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)