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Fast Forward Belgium Store Recalls Nazi Concentration Camp Costume
A Belgian supermarket chain has recalled a costume which is meant to allow children to dress up as prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The recall was announced Friday by the Delhaize chain in a press release that it issued conjointly with the Belgian League against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA. “Delhaize deplores this incident and regrets…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Looted Painting Returned to Poland in Emotional Ceremony
A painting by an 18th-century German artist, one of tens of thousands of Polish art objects looted by the Nazis and missing for 75 years, was returned to Poland by U.S. officials on Thursday. In an emotional ceremony in New York, Poland’s U.S. Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf thanked the officials as he accepted the painting by…
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Fast Forward Hungary Anti-Semitic Jobbik Party Plans Rally in Shuttered Synagogue
Efforts are underway to prevent Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party from holding a political rally in a former synagogue. Last week, the chairman of the local chapter of the opposition Hungarian Socialist Party sent an open letter to the mayor of Esztergom urging her to bar the rally from the synagogue. “The choice of location for…
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Fast Forward British Lawmaker Aiden Burley Quits Over Nazi-Themed Party
A British lawmaker who arranged a Nazi-themed bachelor party in France said he will not seek re-election. “After a difficult time, I have decided to announce I will stand down at the next general election,” Aiden Burley of the Conservative Party announced on Wednesday, The Guardian reported. The announcement came two weeks after an internal…
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Fast Forward Greek Leader Rants About Jewish ‘Hanukkah’ Conspiracy
A politician from the main opposition party in Greece has caused an uproar after posting an anti-Semitic rant on his Facebook page accusing the Greek prime minister of heading a Jewish conspiracy. Theodoros Karypidis, the left-wing Syriza Party’s candidate for governor of Western Macedonia, said Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was at the head of…
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Fast Forward George Clooney Vows To Use ‘Monuments Men’ in Push on Looted Art
For the most ambitious of his five films as director, George Clooney assembled a top-shelf cast of fellow actors to play art experts tasked with retrieving artistic treasure stolen by the Germans during World War Two. There is one person, though, who is not a Hollywood A-lister, not listed in the credits and who may…
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Fast Forward 90-Year-Old ‘Auschwitz Guard’ Probed for War Crimes
Croatian authorities are investigating a 90-year-old man suspected of committing war crimes as an SS soldier and guard at the Auschwitz death camp. Germany’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Investigation of Crimes during the Period of National Socialism last month alerted Croatian authorities to the presence in Croatia of Jacob Dencinger, the Croatian news outlet Jutarnji…
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Opinion Why All of France Should Shiver When Demonstrators Shout: ‘Jews Out’
Eighty years ago, on February 6, 1934, the French Republic had a near-death experience. On that wintry evening, tens of thousands of protestors, mostly young and mostly male, massed along the boulevards of Paris. Their aim was to bring down the Republic—or, as they called it, “la gueuse” or whore. In the eyes of contemporaries,…
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