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Fast Forward Dutch Killer of Anti-Nazi Resistance Fighters Dies in Jail at 92
A 92-year-old Dutch former member of a Nazi death squad who lived unpunished in Germany for decades until his conviction in 2010 died on Sunday of natural causes in a German prison, justice officials said on Monday. Heinrich Boere, once high on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of most wanted crime suspects, was convicted in…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Hunters’ ‘Last Chance’ Campaign Bears Fruit With Arrests
Video: Nate Lavey At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months. The alleged Nazi war criminals were identified following an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded…
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News One Man’s Quixotic Hunt for Sunken Nazi Treasure in Frigid Lake
It’s cold this winter morning at Stolpsee Lake. It’s February 2013, and ice is floating on the lake, an hour’s drive north of Berlin. Reeds and trees are covered in snow. Yaron Svoray, 60, stands on the lake’s shore, dressed in a thick winter jacket, looking thoughtfully over the water. He has been waiting nearly…
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Fast Forward For New Jersey ‘Monuments Man’ Nazi Art Hunter, Munich Trove Brings It All Back
When news of a hidden trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich came to light this month, an 87-year-old man in a quiet retirement community in New Jersey straightened a copy of a Rembrandt self-portrait hanging on his wall, completely unsurprised. The picture is a constant reminder to Harry Ettlinger of his days with the “Monuments…
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Fast Forward Radio Reporter Donates Transcript of Nuremberg Nazi War Crimes Transcript to U.S. Holocaust Museum
A former reporter for the U.S. Army donated a transcript of radio coverage of the Nuremberg war crimes trials to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Harold Burson, 92, who covered the trials of Nazi leaders in 1945 and 1946 for the American Forces Network, gave the never-published transcript to the Washington museum on Tuesday. The…
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Fast Forward Vienna Museum Insists Jewish Owner Willingly Sold Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze for $750K
The Viennese museum that houses one of Gustav Klimt’s greatest artworks says it has evidence that its previous Jewish owner sold it to the Austrian state in an amicable transaction, rather than too cheaply under duress. The Secession museum is defending itself against a claim from some of the heirs of art collector Erich Lederer,…
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Opinion Stunning Nazi-Looted Art Find Reignites Question of German Restitution
The recent revelation that German authorities discovered a treasure trove of presumed-lost masterpieces of art in the dingy apartment of a Nazi art dealer’s son has reignited the complicated issue of reparations almost 50 years after Germany declared its job of restitution complete. Though the legal ramifications are byzantine, it appears that officials have a…
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Fast Forward Norway Academic Boycotts Kristallnacht Memorial as ‘Israeli Propaganda’
A Norwegian university distanced itself from a professor who said he opposed commemorating Nazi-era pogroms because it serves Israeli propaganda. The views expressed last week by Trond Andresen, an assistant professor in the department of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, are “far from what we stand for as…
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