In August, I traveled to Rottleberode, a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, to research the story of my husband’s great-uncle, a Holocaust survivor. On one side of the street stood a memorial stone marking the presumed site of a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. On the other, directly across from the memorial, swastikas had been scrawled across election posters. You couldn’t make it up.
On November 9, Germany once again commemorates the pogroms of 1938. Politicians deliver speeches, lay wreaths, and promise to fight antisemitism. In less than three months, on January 27, the ritual will be repeated on the anniversary
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