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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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Fast Forward ‘Stumbling’ Memorial Hit on Kristallnacht Date
Police in the city of Greifswald in former East Germany believe neo-Nazis are behind the destruction of 11 “stumbling block” Holocaust memorials. The vandalism was discovered on Nov. 9, the 74th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews. According to Die Welt newspaper, the brass plaques, which bear the names of murdered Jews and are…
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Fast Forward $5.8M Looted Poster Collection Hits Block
A collection of pre-World War II posters that were returned to the heir of a Jewish dentist who fled the Nazis is going on sale. The more than 4,300 posters collected by Hans Sachs and looted by the Nazis will be auctioned at Guernsey’s in New York on Jan. 18, though the auction house is…
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Fast Forward Nazi Leader’s Sister Hid Jews During Holocaust
The sister of a Belgian Nazi leader hid three Jews in her home near Brussels during the Holocaust, according to one of the survivors. Hanna Nadel, now 86, said she, her mother and her niece were rescued by M. Cornet, the sister of Leon Degrelle, who, as leader of the Belgian Nazi Rexen movement, was…
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Fast Forward Greeks Hope To Blunt Rise of Golden Dawn
For every Jew who lives in Greece, there are about 100 Greeks who voted for the country’s neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, last spring. The party now controls 18 seats in Greece’s 300-member parliament, and its popularity is rising rapidly: A poll taken in October showed that if elections were held again today, Golden Dawn would…
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Fast Forward Jewish Family Wants Monet Painting Back
The heir of a wealthy Jewish businessman who sold a Monet painting for an artificially low price as he fled Europe to escape the Nazis is seeking its return from a Swiss foundation. Juan Carlos Emden of Chile is working to recover Claude Monet’s “Poppy Field near Vetheuil” from the Swiss Buehlre collection, the French…
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Culture Erwin Rommel’s Nazi Rebel Role Revisited
Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane “Desert Fox”, is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf Hitler and the dawning realisation that he was serving a devil. The drama, due to be broadcast on the public ARD television…
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