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Fast Forward Hungary Protest Attacks Honor for Nazi Ally Miklos Horthy
Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party unveiled a statue of wartime leader Miklos Horthy, who presided over the country’s alliance with Nazi Germany, in Budapest on Sunday, sparking protests and highlighting concerns about anti-Semitism in the country. About a thousand Hungarians took to the streets of the capital to denounce the statue while the mayor of central…
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Fast Forward Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller Buried in Jewish Mass Grave
Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller was buried in a Jewish mass grave following World War II, a Berlin political scientist confirmed. Muller, who as head of Nazi Germany’s secret police helped organize the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust, was buried with about 2,400 others, many unidentified, in the Jewish cemetery on Grosse Hamburgerstrasse in…
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Culture Hitler’s Willing Hollywood Collaborators
Since its publication this past summer, Ben Urwand’s book, The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, has sparked intense debate. Its claim that Hollywood’s major (Jewish-run) film studios colluded with the government of Nazi Germany to protect their economic interests has elicited angry responses from critics who have objected that the book’s thesis is deceptively sensationalistic…
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News Rise of Austria’s Far-Right Seen Through Eyes of Lone Jewish Lawmaker
It is hard to imagine finding a line from the Talmud at the post-election celebration of Austria’s populist, far-right Freedom Party. The scene, in a tent on the glittering Ringstrasse right next to Vienna’s City Hall, was smoke-filled and dimly lit. The overwhelmingly male crowd sat at long rows of wooden tables and benches, drinking…
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Fast Forward Family of Nazi Demands Return of His Body From Italian Authorities
The family of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke demanded the return of his body on Thursday after his funeral was disrupted by protesters and his coffin taken away by Italian authorities. The former SS officer died last week, aged 100 in Rome, where he spent the end of his life under house arrest for commanding…
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Books The Ordinary Women Who Committed Nazi Atrocities
In her latest book, “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields,” American historian Wendy Lower takes on an under-examined aspect of Holocaust scholarship: What role did ordinary women have in perpetrating the horrors of the Third Reich? The book, for the most part, takes place not on actual killing fields, but in the…
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Fast Forward Rome Jewish Leader Cheers Protests Against Funeral of Nazi Killer
A leading rabbi praised Italian protesters who blocked the funeral of a convicted Nazi war criminal as Italy marked on Wednesday the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the Rome ghetto. Erich Priebke’s final resting place is now unclear after the protesters forced a suspension of his funeral on Tuesday in the Italian…
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Fast Forward Nazi Erich Priebke’s Body Taken to Rome Military Airport After Funeral Halted
The body of convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke lay at a military airport near Rome and its final destination remained unclear on Wednesday, a day after rival groups of protesters forced a suspension of his funeral. Priebke, a former German SS officer, died aged 100 last week in Rome, where he had been serving…
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