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Fast Forward Eva Braun May Have Had Jewish Ancestry, Documentary Says
Eva Braun, the wife of Adolf Hitler, may have had Jewish ancestry, according to a new British documentary. “Dead Famous DNA,” which is scheduled to air Wednesday on Britain’s Channel 4, reported that hair samples from a brush believed to have been used by Braun were tested and show that a DNA sequence found in…
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Opinion Real Roots of Austria’s Nazi Comparisons
Supporters listen to Austrian Freedom Party head Heinz-Christian Strache in 2013. / Getty Images Last Friday, a German magazine article quoted Andreas Moelzer, a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Freedom Party of Austria, saying that the Third Reich had fewer rules, regulations and bans than the European Union, and probably looked informal…
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Fast Forward Internet Tycoon Kim Dotcom Defends Buying Signed ‘Mein Kampf’ as Investment
A German-born Internet tycoon who is fighting extradition from New Zealand to the United States for racketeering is under fire for admitting he owns a rare signed copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Kim Dotcom, whose actual name is Kim Schmitz, is the founder of MegaUpload, a file-transfer website that U.S. authorities shut down in 2012….
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Music Documents Signed by Adolf Hitler in 1909 Up for Auction
Two original “Harry Potter” book illustrations, Winston Churchill’s resignation letter, a dress worn by Princess Diana and documents signed by Adolf Hitler are just some of the eclectic items put on the block by auction house Nate D. Sanders. The sale features more than 600 lots and buyers can bid online until March 27. The…
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Fast Forward Jewish Heirs Won’t Get Back Art Treasure, German Panel Rules
A collection of medieval religious art worth an estimated $275 million will not be returned to the heirs of four German-Jewish art dealers. The descendants of another heir said, however, that they will not give up the fight for the Guelph Collection now held by the Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. In a ruling last…
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The Schmooze Vice Trades in March Madness for Hitler
Who’s more worthy of Hitler-comparison, Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein? Voldemort or Satan? Bashar Al-Assad or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? These are the hard-hitting questions that Vice is setting out to answer. Forget March Madness. They’ve come up with Hitler Madness, the tournament to “officially determine the most Hitlerish person of all time.” Per the rulebook: Some…
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The Schmooze ‘Reich Friends’ Re-Casts Sitcom With Hitler and Goebbels
I was once of the mind that there is no such thing as a bad “Friends” mashup. I was wrong. Behold “Reich Friends”, a spoof of the much-loved sitcom brought you by Spanish-language comedy collective Marca Blanca. Using historic footage of Adolf Hitler and his besties, Himmler, Goebbels, Göring and Eva Braun, the group recreates…
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Fast Forward ‘Mein Kampf’ Signed By Hitler Fetches $64,850 at L.A. Auction
A two-volume set of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” inscribed by Hitler sold at an auction in Los Angeles for $64,850. The books, from 1925 and 1926, were sold Thursday to an anonymous U.S. buyer. They were inscribed to Josef Bauer, one of the first members of the Nazi party. There were 11 bids for the…
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