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Fast Forward The Associated Press Defends Itself Against Nazi Allegations
(Editor’s note: This is an updated post to The Forward’s original publication of a JTA story about the Associated Press and its use of photos supplied by Nazi propagandists.) The Associated Press has issued a full-throated defense against a historian’s accusations that its photographers worked closely with Adolf Hitler’s regime during World War II. The…
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News The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman
On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired…
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Fast Forward Microsoft’s A.I. Twitter Robot Praises Hitler, Endorses Trump, Denies Holocaust
Less than 24 hours ago, Microsoft deployed a “highly opinionated” artificial intelligence robot on Twitter. The first thing it learned? To hate. In no short order, the bot — named Tay — praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, hurled racist slurs at President Obama, and then it endorsed Donald Trump. And no, this is not a…
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Fast Forward U.S. Bidder Pays $20,000 for Hitler’s Personal Copy of Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of his autobiography “Mein Kampf” sold at auction for more than $20,000. An American was the top bidder for the red leather-bound book, which went on the block Friday at Alexander Historical Auctions at the Maryland Auction House in Chesapeake City, the French news agency AFP reported. The book sold for…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman’s ‘Hitler’ is ‘Bummed’ by Manhood Comparisons to Donald Trump
Just when you think Sarah Silverman can’t possibly do anything else to shock you, she goes ahead and does just that. In a must-see interview with Conan O’Brien, Silverman stepped out in full Nazi garb as Adolf Hitler to the sound of thunderous applause, addressing the recent “unfavorable” comparisons to GOP front-runner Donald Trump. “Don’t…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Defends Retweeting Quote From Mussolini
Donald Trump defended posting a quote from Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini on his Twitter account Sunday. The Republican frontrunner said he saw nothing wrong with retweeting the quote “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep” from a Twitter site named after Adolf Hitler’s closest wartime…
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Fast Forward 2 Ex-Presidents of Mexico Compare ‘Racist’ Donald Trump to Hitler
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s political rhetoric is “racist,” and evocative of Adolf Hitler, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon told reporters at an event in Mexico City on Saturday. “This logic of praising the white supremacy is not just anti-immigration,” Calderon said. “He is acting and speaking out against immigrants that have a different skin…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump’s Hollywood Star Defaced With Swastika
Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (yes, he has a star), has been defaced with a swastika. A posted a photo of the defaced star on a thread on Friday. The star was clean by Saturday morning. The Wrap reports that an actor who dresses up as Batman on Hollywood Boulevard confirmed…
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Books Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
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Culture Why are Jews buried in a plain pine coffin?
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