Tübingen, a small university town in southern Germany, was once a leading center for research on the so-called "Jewish question." It was here that the theory of “racial hygiene”—a pseudoscientific justification for the Holocaust—was studied and promoted.

In the town center Nazis once held rallies. Today, in that same square, it’s historic buildings untouched by the past eighty years, people light Hanukkah candles.

It reminds me of another photo of Germany from that era: a menorah on a windowsill, facing a Nazi flag hanging from a building across the street.