FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 photo a man with a Kippa walks up the ramp to Platform 17 (Gleis 17) to attend an hour of commemoration in Berlin. The dictionary of standard High German has changed its definition of Jews, or Jude in German. The Duden dictionary had recently added an explanation to its online edition saying “occasionally, the term Jew is perceived as discriminatory because of the memory of the National Socialist use of language. In these cases, formulations such as Jewish people, Jewish fellow citizens or people of the Jewish faith are usually chosen.” The explanation caused an uproar in the country’s Jewish community. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
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