The Things I Never Thought Possible—Until October 7
Protesters in Berlin on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on the many illusions shattered by Hamas’s pogrom and the orgy of antisemitism it inspired.
I witnessed antisemitism for the very first time at school in Germany, when classmates taunted a Jewish girl I was friends with just for being Jewish. I saw pictures from Auschwitz for the very first time when the television series Holocaust showed images of the mass murder and the dead bodies piled up there.
On my first trip to Israel, I wept while talk…
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