This is the Forward’s coverage of the Nazi regime, which came to power in Germany and orchestrated the Holocaust during World War II.
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The Schmooze Nazi Joke Gets Russell Brand Banned From GQ Party
Note to GQ: Don’t invite Russell Brand to your party if you don’t want your sponsors Nazi ties exposed. The troublemaking British comedian was banned from the GQ Men of the Year Awards festivities last week after bringing up the great taboo: sponsor Hugo Boss’ past as a Nazi tailor. Brand, onstage at London’s Royal…
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Fast Forward Last Witness to Adolf Hitler’s Final Days in Berlin Bunker Dies at 96
Rochus Misch, the last surviving witness of Adolf Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker who always referred to the Nazi dictator as “the Boss”, has died in his home at the age of 96, his book agent said on Friday. Misch, who told Reuters in a 2007 interview at his home that there was…
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Fast Forward Germany Calling for Prosecution of Former Auschwitz Guards
LUDWIGSBURG, Germany- German justice officials called on Tuesday for 30 former Nazi guards to face prosecution for their role in facilitating mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp during World War Two. The Nazis killed some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews but also Roma, Poles and others, at Auschwitz in occupied Poland between 1940 and…
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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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