The New York Times Is Awarded German Prize for ‘International Understanding’br 3, 2017br HAMBURG, Germany — The New York Times was awarded a major German prize on Sunday for its efforts to remain "a beacon of reasonbr and enlightenment in an era of ‘alternative facts’ and allegations of ‘fake news,’" the jury said.br I consider that my greatest accomplishment as publisher of The New York Times." Ms. Dönhoff, who died in 2002, participated in the German resistance against Hitler, whose followers sometimes called herbr "the red countess." Fleeing to western Germany as the Soviets took over her ancestral home, she joined the fledging Die Zeit in 1946 as political editor, and rose to be editor and then publisher.br Mr. Steinmeier, who has been engaged in pressing German political parties to negotiate a new coalition agreement to avoid new elections, told the story of Walter Jacob,br who at age 8 watched Nazi rioters destroy his father’s synagogue in his hometown, Augsburg, during Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, on Nov. 10, 1938.br " Mr. Sulzberger said, "more than when I took over 25 years ago.