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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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Fast Forward ‘Hitler’ Sign Pulled From Indian Store
Municipal authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat removed the sign for a men’s’ clothing store named Hitler. The sign – on which the letter “i” was dotted with a swastika – was removed Tuesday after hundreds of complaints from both within and outside of the Jewish community. “The store owners had voluntarily agreed to…
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Fast Forward Boy on Trial in Murder of Neo-Nazi Dad
A boy accused of murdering his neo-Nazi father when he was 10 years old went on trial in California on Tuesday, with prosecutors portraying the child as violent and troubled and a defense lawyer saying he acted to protect his family. Both sides agree that Joseph Hall, now 12, shot his father, Jeffrey Hall, at…
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Fast Forward Dutch Official Sorry for Honoring Nazis
A Netherlands church official apologized to a Jewish group for a memorial ceremony that commemorated Holocaust victims with soldiers who died fighting for Nazi Germany. Rob Mutsaerts, a bishop from Den Bosch in the southern Netherlands, in a letter last week expressed his regret to the small Jewish organization JFN. Mutsaerts apologized for a sermon…
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Fast Forward Suspected Nazi Sues Australia for Deport Try
Alleged Nazi war criminal Karoly “Charles” Zentai has paved the way for a damages suit against the Australian government for wrongful imprisonment during its unsuccessful extradition case against him. Zentai, a 91-year-old pensioner living in Perth, was imprisoned in Western Australia for almost two months in 2009. He filed a writ last week for unspecified…
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News Memorial to ‘Forgotten’ Roma Holocaust Opens in Germany
Germany remembered the Holocaust’s forgotten victims on Wednesday by opening a memorial in the heart of Berlin to the half a million ethnic Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis. As the mournful strains of a solo violin sounded through the trees, political leaders and frail survivors approached a dark pool close to the German…
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