Another case was under the German laws about Holocaust denial.
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Only recently, for example, the takeover of Bankers Trust by Deutsche Bank was held up for months by New York regulators who demanded a greater effort by German companies to retrieve Holocaust-era assets.
The fact is that in Germany, there is universal agreement that the truth, or honne, about the Holocaust is that it was an evil blot in German history never to be forgotten.
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In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).
Until the late 1970s, German suffering was regularly equated with the suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust in public rituals and monuments.
On Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who publicly criticised the Pope and called for a clearer rejection of Holocaust deniers, spoke by telephone to the pontiff.
On June 25th, after more than a decade of anguished debate, the German parliament at last agreed to the building of a huge memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust in the middle of Berlin.
It is illegal in Germany though and so if someone in Germany reads a piece which denies the Holocaust then the writer of that piece can be hauled up in front of a German court and tried and then punished.
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The US Holocaust Memorial Museum says that "Jews of Bulgarian citizenship were relatively secure from deportation to German-held territory".
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The Austrian move to compensate Holocaust survivors came as a deadline expired for Swiss companies to agree compensation for slave labourers used in their German affiliates during World War II.
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