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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Town Plans Face Protests in North Dakota
Hundreds of demonstrators turned out in the tiny North Dakota town of Leith on Sunday to protest plans by an American Nazi group to move in and take over the local government. The loud but peaceful demonstrators, many of them Native Americans from nearby reservations, were on hand for a visit from Jeff Schoep, commander…
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Opinion Why Was Denmark Different for Nazis?
Why did the Holocaust fail so spectacularly in Denmark while it succeeded in so many European countries? The peculiarities of the German occupation of Denmark may provide a clue. Denmark surrendered almost immediately after being invaded in April 1940, and agreed to cooperate with Germany. In return, the Nazis installed a plenipotentiary as supreme commander…
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News Denmark Forced by History To Revisit Heroic Tale of Jewish Rescue From Nazis
Few nations have been so lauded for their stance during the Holocaust as tiny Denmark. As October approaches, marking the 70th anniversary of the rescue of Danish Jewry, numerous events in Denmark and overseas commemorate the mass effort in which hundreds, possibly thousands, of Danes helped smuggle almost the entire Danish-Jewish community to coastal towns…
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Books German Literary Critic and Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dies at 93
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany’s best-known literary critic and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, died on Wednesday aged 93, his publisher said. Reich-Ranicki, a Jew born in Poland in 1920, almost perished at the Nazis’ hands in World War Two but went on to become one of the leading advocates of German literature and culture during…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Supporters Blamed in Stabbing of Anti-Racist Greek Rapper
Greek police searched the offices of the Golden Dawn party on Wednesday after an anti-racism rapper was stabbed to death by a man who sympathised with the far-right group. The killing touched a nerve in Greece, where an economic crisis has worsened social tensions, and rallies in several cities to mark the death turned violent….
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Fast Forward Belgium Teachers Urged To Compare Israel to Nazi Germany
A Belgian Education Ministry website offered teachers comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, a newspaper in Antwerp reported. The comparisons were available until recently on the KlasCement.be website, a major teaching resource offered to teachers in training by the Education Ministry of the Flemish Region, one of three entities that make up the federal Belgian…
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Fast Forward German Publishing Giant Kills Nazi-Glorifying Magazine
A German publisher said it would drop a magazine which was seen to glorify the action of troops involved in the Holocaust. The Hamburg-based Bauer Media Group said Sept. 13 it would stop publishing Der Landser, a magazine which has survived numerous challenges since being founded in the 1950s by a veteran of the German…
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Fast Forward Harry Reid Compares Assad Chemical Weapon Attacks to Nazi Gas Chambers
Harry Reid, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, compared Syrian President Bashar Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attacks against his citizens to the Nazi gas chambers. “Millions and millions of civilians and prisoners of war were murdered by gas in Nazi death camps, Treblinka, Auschwitz. ‘Never again,’ swore the world. Never again would we permit…
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