The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, which strongly supports Israeli as a form of remorse and responsibility for murdering up to 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
The Boll Foundation called the comparison unacceptable, but the jury decided in the summer to award Gessen, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It said it couldn't cancel the award itself.
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