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Fast Forward Italy Jewish Leader Ordered To Pay Court Fees for 99-Year-Old Nazi
Italian tax collectors have ordered the president of Rome’s Jewish community and a TV reporter to pay the court fees of convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, who lost a lawsuit against them in 1996. “I won’t pay,” Jewish Community President Riccardo Pacifici told Italian media. Under Italian law, “all parties involved” must pay the…
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Fast Forward Sisters Fired Over ‘Happy Hanukkah’ Oven Jibe
Two Iowa sisters were fired from their jobs after joking about “burning the Jews” inside a toy oven. Christina and Susan Ott were dismissed from an assembly plant in New Hampton, Iowa, in January, the Des Moines Register reported , after walking around work on Dec. 19 with a toy oven in which they placed…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Guard Who Was No. 4 on ‘Most Wanted’ Nazi List Arrested in Germany
German police on Monday arrested a suspected former guard at the Auschwitz death camp and Nazi-hunting group Simon Wiesenthal named him as Hans Lipschis. Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart did not name the man but said police had arrested a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard with the “strong suspicion” he was involved in…
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Fast Forward Dutch Masterpiece Stolen by Nazis Expected To Fetch $2M at Auction
A 17th century Dutch masterpiece that once graced the collections of Catherine the Great’s art adviser and Russia’s Hermitage Museum before being seized by the Nazis could fetch more than $2 million at auction, Christie’s said on Friday. Gerrit van Honthorst’s “The Duet” was confiscated by the Nazis from Jewish art collector Bruno Spiro and…
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Fast Forward Fire Destroys Museum of Danish World War II Resistance
Most of the collection of the Museum of Danish Resistance in Copenhagen was saved from a fire that destroyed large parts of its building. The fire early Monday morning started in the museum cafe and spread to the exhibition hall, the Associated Press reported. The cause is unknown. The building likely will have to be…
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Fast Forward British Mandate Chief Compared Jewish Fighters to Nazis
The High Commissioner of Palestine viewed the behavior of Jewish fighters as comparable to that of the Nazis, newly published records show. On April 30, 1948, Alan Cunningham wrote to his superiors that as the Jews celebrated military successes their “broadcasts, both in content and in manner of delivery, are remarkably like those of Nazi…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank House Backs Justin Bieber Amid Furor
A museum dedicated to Anne Frank defended Canadian pop star Justin Bieber on Monday for writing in its guest book that he hoped the young Holocaust victim would have been a “belieber”, the popular term for his fans. Bieber, 19, came under fire on social media for his written comments after visiting the Anne Frank…
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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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