Holocaust
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The cross that outlasted Hitler
Nazi secularisation replaced crucifixes in German public buildings with portraits of Adolf Hitler. After the war, the crosses returned. In 2018 Bavaria mandated them at all public building entrances — not as religious symbols, the premier insisted, but as markers of regional identity.
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