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Fast Forward Host Uses Nazi Slogan To Berate Assange’s Mother
An Australian radio host who claims Jewish descent was suspended for one month for shouting “Sieg Heil” three times at the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. John Michael Howson, 76, a talk-back host on 3AW Radio, reacted angrily with the Nazi taunts after Assange’s mother, Christine, said she would not conduct an interview on…
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Fast Forward 50 Nazi Descendants Take Part in Auschwitz March
Fifty descendants of officers of the era Nazi SS, Wehrmacht and World War II-era German police officers will be among the participants in the March of Life, which will start on Sunday at Auschwitz. Several hundred people from Poland, Israel and Germany will take part in the program, which will commemorate the victims of the…
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Fast Forward Demjanjuk’s Estate Files New Citizenship Appeal
The estate of convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk again has asked an appeals court to help posthumously restore his U.S. citizenship. In a filing Monday, Demjanjuk’s estate asked the full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to take up the case. In June, a three-judge panel of the court ruled that Demjanjuk’s…
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Fast Forward Survivor Who Told on Eichmann is Honored
Lothar Hermann, a German Jew who advised Israel that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was residing in Argentina, was honored. On Monday, Hermann was publicly recognized by Israeli representatives in Buenos Aires and the Argentinian Jewish umbrella organization DAIA. He also was recognized by the Coronel Suarez City municipality in which he lived and where…
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News Hungary Raises Ire by Clearing War Criminal
Trained by life in surmounting grief, Marika Weinberger focuses on the silver lining in the recent decision in Budapest not to try Hungarian war criminal Laszlo Csatary in connection with the murder of her nine uncles in 1941. “At least now I won’t need to testify and relive the pain,” Weinberger, 84, told JTA in…
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News Jews in Rome Protest at 99-Year-Old Nazi’s Home
About 20 Roman Jews protested outside the apartment building of convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke over his freedom of movement. Monday’s demonstrators staged a brief silent protest in front of the building where the former SS officer, who is 99, is serving a life sentence under house arrest for his role in the World…
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Opinion It’s a Nazi Slogan, Dude
Readers might not expect a lot of historical analysis from the British tabloid The Daily Mail. But it shouldn’t be too much for the editors to at least remember Nazi Germany and some of its signature evil. That’s why it was particularly disturbing to see this item uncovered by the Twittersphere this morning from a…
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Fast Forward Australian Radio Apologizes for Hitler Prank
Australia’s public broadcaster apologized after a radio host asked his listeners to play a word association game involving Hitler and fan-forced ovens. The prank broadcast Aug. 9 on triple j, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s youth radio station, caused Dvir Abramovich, the director of the Center for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Melbourne,…
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