“Give us our husbands back!”

In 1943 Berlin, Christian women gathered on Rosenstrasse to protest the detention of their Jewish husbands by the Nazis.

Days later, the men were released. It’s a rare moment when public protest forced the regime to back down.

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Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands’ freedom – and won

Couples in interfaith marriages came under intense pressure in Nazi Germany. But women’s protests in February 1943 may have helped save their husbands.

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