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The history of Jews in Germany is often reduced to the years of persecution under the National Socialist regime, but it actually extends all the way back to the fourth century A.D. Since then, Jews have been found in all segments of society. An estimated 200,000 Jews live in Germany today. The fact that, 75 years after the Shoah and the crimes of National Socialism, vibrant and self-confident Jewish life in all its diversity has developed in Germany is a reason to be glad and grateful.