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Fast Forward 92-Year-Old Nazi Faces Trial for Killing of Resistance Fighter
A 92-year-old who served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler’s elite Nazi troops, went on trial on Monday in the western city of Hagen on charges of having shot in the back and killed a Dutch resistance fighter at the end of World War Two. In an televised interview with broadcaster Das Erste, accused killer Siert…
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Culture Did Jews Win the Second World War?
● How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism By Benjamin Ginsberg Rowman & Littlefield, 234 pages, $35 Benjamin Ginsberg’s intriguing new book, “How the Jews Defeated Hitler,” offers a provocative new answer to an old question. In seeking to explain why the Jews failed to resist…
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Fast Forward Jews Urge Ukraine Clergy To Shun Neo-Nazis
The World Jewish Congress urged Ukrainian clergy to refrain from attending neo-Nazi events. “Moral authority” is necessary to “prevent any further rehabilitation of Nazism or the SS,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder wrote in a letter Thursday to the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Filaret. In his letter, Lauder referenced a recent…
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Fast Forward New Zealand Jews Slam Sale of Nazi Mementos
Jewish students in the New Zealand coastal city of Dunedin condemned a sale of Nazi memorabilia, calling it a “slap in the face” to the local and national Jewish community. “The decision to run this auction shows a lack of taste and sensitivity to those who lived through these atrocities and their families,” Ben Isaacs,…
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Fast Forward JP Morgan Isn’t Really Similar to Nazis, Bloomberg News Report Finds
A Bloomberg News article that compared a bank deal gone sour to the Nazis destruction of an Italian town during World War II went “too far,” according to a recent review of the incident. JPMorgan has voiced their displeasure over a 2011 article by the media conglomerate that compared skyrocketing interest rates in Cassino, Italy,…
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Fast Forward A New Tel Aviv Holocaust Monument Will Honor Gays Persecuted By Nazis
JERUSALEM — A monument to gays persecuted by the Nazis will be built in Tel Aviv. The monument, the first of its kind in Israel, will be constructed in Meir Park, near the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association Center in the central part of the city, Haaretz reported. It will include a concrete pink…
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Opinion When Jewish Toronto Fought Back — 80 Years Ago
Was the carving of two swastikas into a Toronto golf course last weekend a random hate crime — or a twisted nod to history? Police think it was a run-of-the-mill act of anti-Semitic vandalism. But some note the crime took place on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the historic Christie Pits riots, when…
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Books Joseph Goebbels Novel Faces Ban in Russia
Russian prosecutors are investigating the appearance of a Russian-language edition of a book by Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, to rule whether it is extremist and should be banned. State prosecutors in Russia’s second largest city, St Petersburg, launched the probe into the novel “Michael” this week after it appeared in early 2013 on…
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