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Fast Forward Justin Bieber Claims Nazi Victim Anne Frank Would’ve Been ‘Belieber’ Fan
Teen pop star Justin Bieber is taking heat on social media after the Anne Frank House reported he visited the Amsterdam museum and wrote in the guest book he hoped the young Holocaust victim would have been a “belieber,” the popular term for his fans. A post on Saturday on the Facebook page of the…
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Fast Forward ‘Normal’ Neo-Nazis’ Trial Forces Germany to Confront Painful Truth of Anti-Semitism
Twenty years ago in the drab pre-fab housing blocks outside the east German town of Jena, swaggering youths gave Sieg-Heil salutes and flaunted their far-right views, as the structures of the only state they’d ever known crumbled around them. Among them were three local teenagers, Beate Zschaepe, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt, whose racist hatred…
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Tried to Tax Concentration Camp Jews
The City of Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors for failing to pay taxes while they were in hiding or in concentration camps. The affair was exposed in an article in Het Parool, a local daily, on March 30. Many of the houses in question were confiscated and used by members of the NSB…
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Fast Forward David Miliband Quits Soccer Team Board After It Hired ‘Fascist’ Italian Manager
The former British foreign secretary has resigned from the board of a soccer team after it hired an Italian manager who boasted of his fascist sympathies — and once made a Nazi salute during a match. David Miliband stepped down from Sunderland’s board because of remarks that Paolo Di Canio made to Italian news agency…
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News When Jews Fleeing Holocaust and Nazis Shared Same Canadian Prison Camps
When Austrian and German Jews escaped Nazism by fleeing to Britain during the 1930s, the last thing they expected was to find themselves prisoners in Canada, interred in camps with some of the same Nazis they had tried to escape back home. But that’s what happened to some 7,000 European Jews and “Category A” prisoners…
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Fast Forward Greek Jews Step Up Fight Against Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn — and Win Results
Antonis Samaras stood in the pale morning light coming through the stained glass windows of the only Thessaloniki synagogue to survive World War II and vowed, “Never again.” For Greek Jews marking the 70th anniversary of the destruction of this city’s historic Jewish community, the Greek prime minister’s words were long awaited. So was his…
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Fast Forward French Return 7 Looted Paintings to Jewish Owners
France?s Ministry of Culture has returned seven valuable paintings looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust from two Jewish families. Six of the paintings were given to Thomas Selldorff, an 84-year-old resident of the Boston area, who came to Paris to collect them during a ceremony on Tuesday at the ministry in Paris, according to…
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Opinion Pope Francis, the Dirty War and the Jews
Confronted by what it considers the existential threat of communism, convinced that Christianity and nationalism are one and the same, and compelled by self-interest to place social order above political liberty: Welcome to the world of the Catholic Church in Argentina during the “dirty war.” But most French Catholics during the “dark years” of 1940–1944…
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