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How a decades-long campaign by local activists and historians is finally breaking the silence on my hometown's Nazi past
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BERLIN – The expropriation and persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany did not happen in a vacuum. Even today, it is often difficult to talk about the active role that everyday people played – especially in small towns where everyone knows each other, as is the case in Alsfeld, in the German state of Hesse, approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Frankfurt.
