The prime suspect in the high-profile case of Madeleine McCann's disappearance has been released from prison in Germany, where he has been serving a sentence for an unrelated offence.

In 1935, the Nazis under Adolf Hitler introduced laws to discriminate against the Jewish population in Germany, culminating in the Holocaust. This is one of the lessons learned from the Nazi regime's reign of terror from 1933 to 1945,

German Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer believes anti-Semitism is on the rise in the German and European cultural sector, claiming the situation is similar to that under the Nazi regime when Jewish artists were banned from performing at all.