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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Estonia
The Sinimäed Hills memorial, erected in 1999, has become the site of annual gatherings to honor the SS
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Hungary
Hitler ally Miklós Horthy has a bust in Budapest, Csókakő, and Kenderes
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Lithuania
Lithuania has installed monuments to Jonas Noreika and Kazys Škirpa, figures who are still celebrated by the country's far-right
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in North Macedonia
In 2019, the United Macedonia Diaspora petitioned the U.S. State Department for aid in pressuring North Macedonia to remove their memorials
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Romania
Octavian Goga is honored throughout Romania for his poetry. But as prime minister, he stripped a third of Romanian Jews of their citizenship
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in the United States
There are statues and streets in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin
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Community The use and misuse of Holocaust analogies after the attack on the Capitol
Among other awakenings last week, many Americans received a crash course about the Holocaust in the aftermath of the terrible events at the Capitol. Given recent studies showing Americans’ lack of knowledge about the Holocaust — along with slogans on display among last week’s mob in Washington, DC, including “Camp Auschwitz” and “Work Brings Freedom,”…
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Israel News Experts dismiss Israeli drive to vaccinate world’s Holocaust survivors as political stunt
An Israeli cabinet minister’s plan to vaccinate all 320,000 of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors immediately drew harsh criticism from survivor advocates, former diplomats and public health experts, who accused her of floating the monumental effort to boost her political profile ahead of the country’s upcoming parliamentary election. The Shalom Corps, a non-profit jointly owned…
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