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The Schmooze Does This House Look Like Hitler?
Someone call the Simon Wiesenthal Center: Hitler has been spotted in Wales! Well, not Hitler, exactly, but his likeness — in the form, if you can believe, of a two-story house. A 22-year-old in Swansea noted the resemblance between the suburban home and the German dictator during a routine traffic stop, then set off a…
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The Schmooze Eva Braun Blackface Photo Reveals Her Love of Jewish Film
Hitler’s girlfriend apparently loved a film focused on the struggle to maintain Jewish tradition. A recently released photo now making the rounds online shows Eva Braun in 1937, in an image the dictator’s mistress titled “Al Jolson and Me.” Internet chatter about the picture has focused on Braun’s use of blackface, citing it as further…
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The Schmooze Will Galliano Go To Jail?
John Galliano could be headed from the fashion house to the big house. French prosecutors have confirmed they’ll [press charges][1] against the disgraced designer, who was fired from Christian Dior this week after the release of a video that showed him launching an anti-Semitic tirade at a Paris cafe last fall. Galliano told shocked onlookers,…
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The Schmooze Caught on Camera: Galliano Proclaims ‘I Love Hitler’
So much for that defamation suit. Fashion designer John Galliano is now in even deeper trouble after being arrested last week in Paris for an anti-Semitic tirade. (Anti-Semitic speech is illegal in France). England’s Sun newspaper posted video of the rant online today, with the clip immediately going viral, and contradicting Galliano’s denials last week…
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The Schmooze Did the Nazis Discover 3D Technology?
So much for James Cameron pioneering the 3D phenomenon. It turns out Hitler was about 70 years ahead of the curve. While conducting research for an upcoming film project in Berlin’s Federal Archives, Australian director Phillipe Mora discovered two 1936 black and white propaganda films shot in 3D. Born out of pre-war Nazi Germany, they…
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The Schmooze Did Snickers’ Super Bowl Commercial Have Anti-Semitic Message?
Adolf Hitler is giving a familiar salute in the chilling black-and-white photo. But the caption above his head carries an unexpected message: “I Hate Jews. But I Love Snickers.” The image is posted on Snickers Hates Jews, a Facebook page that sprang up after the junk-food brand aired a new Super Bowl commercial in which…
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The Schmooze Jesse James Has More Nazi Photos
Jesse James — the much-reviled, philandering ex of Sandra Bullock — sure looks happy in photos that appear in Us magazine this week. Unfortunately, he’s grinning as a passenger in his car gives a Nazi salute. Us, which last spring published a 2004 snapshot of James donning a Nazi cap and giving a “Sieg Heil”…
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Books Canada Remembers Holocaust Role With Daniel Libeskind Monument
Daniel Libeskind’s ‘Wheel of Conscience’ in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Courtesy Canadian Jewish Congress. The ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis, the Hamburg-based ocean liner intended to transport 907 mostly German Jewish refugees to Cuba in May 1939, has always played a central role in early Holocaust history, and not only because it unraveled, tragically,…
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