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Fast Forward 12 Holocaust Memorial Stones Swiped On Eve Of Kristallnacht Anniversary
German police have launched an investigation into the theft of at least 12 inscribed metal memorial stones embedded in the pavement in Berlin to commemorate Nazi victims. The stones, called “Stolpersteine,” bear the names of the victims and are set in the ground in front of the last address where they lived before being murdered…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Mustache Shaved In Nazi-Killing Video Game
A new video game that lets you kill Hitler and his hordes of Nazi robots was forced by German law to shave Hitler’s infamous mustache for the game’s German version. While the English-language version of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, are replete with Nazi imagery and language, German law required the game’s makers to scrub…
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Fast Forward ‘Anne Frank’ High-Speed Train Draws Criticism Over Echo Of Nazi Deportations
Germany’s national railway company is drawing criticism after it proposed to name one of its trains after Anne Frank, the Telegraph reported. In a move that is being called “tasteless” and “insensitive,” Deutsche Bahn had planned the homage to Anne Frank as a symbol of tolerance. Critics have said that it is inappropriate to name…
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Fast Forward German Soccer Fans (Mis)use Anne Frank Image To Mock Rival Team
(JTA) — Stickers showing a doctored photo of Anne Frank wearing a German soccer team’s jersey appeared in Dusseldorf, Germany, a week after a similar incident in Rome. The stickers show the teenage Holocaust diarist in a Schalke team jersey. It is believed that the stickers were created by the Borussia Dortmund soccer team, which…
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Fast Forward Germany National Railway Names Train After Anne Frank
(JTA) — Germany’s national railway has triggered a storm on social media for naming one of its superfast trains after the famous Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, who died in a Nazi camp. After asking customers to weigh in with suggestions, Deutsche Bahn named several of its new trains after famous Germans, among them Frank, whose…
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Fast Forward How Nazis Used Martin Luther’s Virulent Anti-Semitism
A new museum exhibition in Berlin details how the Nazis made use of the anti-Semitic words of Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, RNS [reported]. The exhibit is located in the Topography of Terror, a museum about methods of Nazi repression that was built in the former headquarters of the Nazi secret police,…
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Fast Forward In Hitler’s Olympics Stadium, A Soccer Team Kneels To Protest Racism
In the stadium where Adolph Hitler watched the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Berlin’s football club kneeled last week in solidarity with American pro football players protesting the national anthem. The symbolic protest, carried out before a game, is believed to be the first such protest by an entire sports team outside the U.S., the Comeback reported….
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Fast Forward German TV To Air Interviews With Nazi Death Squad Soldiers
BERLIN (JTA) — A German television channel is broadcasting interviews with two alleged members of World War II Nazi death squads located with help from an Israeli hunter of Nazis. Efraim Zuroff, Jerusalem-based Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, went public with the names after German state investigators appeared to be dragging their feet,…
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