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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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Fast Forward Nazi War Criminal’s Funeral Met by Angry Protests in Italy
Enraged Italians shouted abuse and kicked the hearse of a Nazi war criminal at his funeral ceremony on Tuesday, which went ahead near Rome despite attempts by the local mayor to prevent it. German former SS officer Erich Priebke died last week aged 100. He had been serving a life sentence under house arrest in…
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Fast Forward Nazi War Criminal’s Son Blames Jews for Italy Burial Feud
The son of convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke said his father “can be buried in Israel so that they will be happy,” referring to Jews. Jorge Priebke, reacting to rejections by Rome, Argentina and his father’s hometown in German to provide a venue for the funeral, told the Italian news agency Ansa that his…
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Fast Forward Turkish Students Make Nazi Salute at Majdanek
Two students from Turkey were arrested in Poland for using a Nazi salute on a group of Israeli students visiting the Majdanek concentration camp. The Turkish students were taken into custody in Poland. The incident last week was reported in the Turkish media on Friday, according to Today’s Zaman. The students reportedly made the Nazi…
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