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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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Fast Forward Greek Soccer Star Banned for Nazi Salute
The AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis has been handed a life ban from all national teams by Greece’s football federation EPO after he appeared to give a Nazi salute to supporters during a match. Katidis, 20, a former captain of Greece’s Under-19 team, made the alleged salute in celebrating his winning goal in a 2-1…
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Fast Forward Austria Leader Says Nation Should Not Forget Nazi Past
Austria cannot draw a line under its Nazi past despite the desire of many Austrians to so do, its president said on the 75th anniversary of the country’s annexation by Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler and his troops marched unopposed on March 12, 1938 into an Austria weakened by political and economic turmoil and were cheered…
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Fast Forward Famed Vienna Orchestra Finally Admits Nazi Past
The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler’s rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a Nazi war criminal two decades after the end of World War Two. The orchestra, which has come under fire for covering up its history,…
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Fast Forward Greek Train Enthusiast Displays Rail Cars Used in Nazi Deportations of Jews
It was spring in northern Greece, 1943. Efthymios Kontopoulos, 13, had come to Thessaloniki for the day when he saw Nazis rounding up the city’s Jews. “My father brought me into town,” Kontopoulos, who is not Jewish, said. “We saw them being taken away. They were with their [yellow] badges.” On March 15, 1943, the…
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News Encountering a Nazi Relic in Odessa’s Fabled Tunnels
Odessa, as a city, reminds me of no place more than New Orleans. It’s not the geography or architecture of these two cities, it’s the similarity of character and of their place in the greater pantheon of the cities of their respective regions of the world. Like New Orleans, Odessa isn’t a capital. It isn’t…
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