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Fast Forward French Court Upholds Ban on ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne’s Shows
A French court upheld a ban on a show scheduled in the central city of Tours for Friday by a comedian accused of insulting the memory of Holocaust victims, the second performance in a nationwide tour to be banned. A lawyer for comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala said he would seek to appeal the decision, which…
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Fast Forward Israeli Museums May Own Nazi-Looted Art and Judaica, Organization Claims
An Israeli organization that recovers Jewish assets stolen by the Nazis said hundreds of items in Israeli museums may have been looted. Hashava: The Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims’ Assets said Wednesday that hundreds of paintings, items of Judaica and other artworks in Israeli museums may be Nazi-looted art. Hashava was set…
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Opinion Germany’s Not Just Faking Holocaust Contrition
News that drunken revelers had, on New Year’s Eve, used Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe as a urinal came shortly after The New York Times published an op-ed by Yascha Mounk on the conflicts of being a German Jew. Together, these items create an image of a Germany not at ease with…
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Fast Forward ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne Wins Court Battle on Ban Over ‘Nazi’ Gesture
A French court threw out efforts by authorities to ban a show on Thursday by a comedian whom the government accuses of insulting the memory of Holocaust victims. Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who has been leading the effort to stop a national tour by comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, said he would appeal the ruling by…
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Fast Forward 88-Year-Old Former SS Soldier Charged With French Village Massacre
German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former member of Hitler’s elite Waffen SS with taking part in a World War Two massacre of hundreds of French villagers, nearly 70 years after one of the most infamous Nazi atrocities. In the methodical June 1944 slaughter, SS soldiers took the small village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France…
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Fast Forward German Court Dismisses Case Against Nazi Guard Over Lost Evidence
A German court dismissed a case on Wednesday against a 92-year-old man accused of killing a Dutch resistance fighter in World War Two when he was in Hitler’s elite Waffen SS, citing lost evidence. At the end of one of Germany’s last Nazi war crimes trials, the judge in the court in the western city…
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Fast Forward Comic Dieudonne, Creator of ‘Nazi’ Quenelle Salute, Banned by French Cities
Mayors of several French cities lined up on Tuesday to ban the shows of a comedian the government accuses of insulting the memory of Holocaust victims and threatening public order with anti-Semitic jibes. Local authorities in Nantes barred the opening date in Dieudonne M’bala M’bala’s tour set for Thursday, hours after similar shows were banned…
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Fast Forward French Athletes Defend ‘Nazi’ Quenelle Salute
French athletes have defended fellow players who performed the quenelle gesture, which is widely seen as anti-Semitic and echoing the Nazi salute. Meanwhile, popular French soccer player Alexy Bosetti said a picture of him performing the gesture was merely him showing off a tattoo. The founder of the Nice Dolphins – a French team playing…
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