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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Fast Forward Little East Europe Progress on Nazi-Looted Property
In 1988, Yehuda Evron received a memorable letter from Lech Walesa, the first post-communist president of Poland, on the eve of the country’s transition to democracy. “He wrote that within a few months we would get my wife’s property back,” recalled Evron, now 80. His wife was the only Holocaust survivor of a family that…
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Fast Forward Rally Denounces Hungary ‘Jewish List’ Party
Around 10,000 Hungarians protested on Sunday against the far-right opposition Jobbik party, after one of its lawmakers triggered outrage and memories of Nazism by calling for lists of Jews to be drawn up. The rally outside Budapest’s parliament brought together leaders from governing and opposition parties in an unprecedented show of unity in the country’s…
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Fast Forward Hungary Far Right Targets ‘Israeli’ Lawmaker
A lawmaker for Hungary’s ultra-nationalist Jobbik party has demanded a fellow lawmaker resign because she has Israeli citizenship. Elod Novak said during a news conference Nov. 29 that Katalin Ertsey of the opposition LMP Party should step down because she had an Israeli passport in addition to her Hungarian nationality. Index, a Hungarian news portal,…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Complain About Neo-Nazi ‘List’
A Hungarian Jewish organization said it will file a complaint against a lawmaker who proposed drawing up a list of “dangerous” Jews in government. “There is no alternative to legal recourse now,” the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation said on Tuesday in a statement about the parliamentary address the previous day by Márton Gyöngyösi of the…
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Fast Forward Dutch Give Out Nazi Barbed Wire as Museum ‘Souvenirs’
A Dutch Holocaust museum plans to hand out pieces of barbed wire from a Nazi concentration camp to visitors, to be kept as souvenirs. RTV Utrecht, a local television channel, reported that the management of the Camp Amersfoort National Monument decided to give away the wire after it had been criticized for putting the wire…
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Fast Forward ‘Ivan The Terrible’s Death Not Caused by Meds
Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk’s death was not hastened by medication administered at a nursing home in Bavaria, prosecutors said. Ulrich Busch, an attorney for Demjanjuk, who died in March, filed a complaint in May with German prosecutors asking them to open an investigation of five doctors and a nurse, alleging that the pain medication…
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Fast Forward California Synagogue Hit With Swastikas
A temple in an upscale neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., was vandalized. Two-foot tall swastikas and the words “Nazi” were painted in red spray-paint on the front of the Temple Israel building on Monday night. Temple Israel is the oldest Reform synagogue between Los Angeles and San Diego, the Long Beach Post reported. Long Beach…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazis Behind Attack on ‘Stumbling Blocks’ Site
Neo-Nazis are behind the destruction of 11 “stumbling block” Holocaust memorials, say police in the German city of Greifswald. The vandalism in the eastern Germany city was discovered Nov. 9, the 74th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews. According to the Die Welt newspaper, the brass plaques, which bear the names of murdered Jews…
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