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The Schmooze Toy Nazi Soldiers for Sale in Rome
Travelers preparing to take a train from Rome’s Termini Station can grab some food at a kiosk and pick up a magazine at a newsstand there. And while they’re at it, they can also buy for themselves some Nazi dolls as souvenirs of their stay in the Eternal City. Barak Talmor, an Israeli studying in…
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The Schmooze Looted Painting Returned to Jewish Heirs
What happened in this German casino will not be staying in this German casino. A gambling establishment in a German spa town will return a Dutch Old Master painting to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany, Bloomberg reports. “The Masters of the Goldsmith Guild in…
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The Schmooze Ikea Founder’s Nazi Ties Confirmed
You might want to sit down in your Skrurvska chair before reading this. A new book claims Ingvar Kamprad, the billionaire founder of cheap-furniture behemoth IKEA, “was a member of the Swedish Nazi party and was such a concern to secret service they opened a file on him,” reports the U.K. Telegraph. While the 83-year-old…
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The Schmooze Johannes Heesters, Hitler’s Favorite Singer, at 107
It seems evil people can live a really long time. Now 107(!) years old and still singing, Hitler’s favorite singer Johannes Heesters recently discovered his native Netherlands still regards him as a traitor. German chancellor Angela Merkel was recently hosting a formal state dinner for the visiting Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and invited Heesters,…
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The Schmooze ‘Magic’ T-Shirts Beg Neo-Nazis To Change Ways
Even following the usual instructions to wash t-shirts inside out to preserve their logos would not have made a difference in this case. Two-hundred-and-fifty attendees at a recent Neo-Nazi-sponsored “Rock for Germany” concert in Gera, Germany unwittingly ended up with souvenir t-shirts designed so that their logos would come off in the shirts’ first washings….
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The Schmooze Swedish Queen Decides Father Wasn’t a Nazi
The Swedish queen has wrapped up an investigation into her father’s alleged Nazi past, concluding — perhaps a bit conveniently — that one of his 1939 business deals was helping, not exploiting, a desperate German Jew. Rumors have long swirled about the history of German-born Queen Silvia, whose father, Walther Sommerlath, was said by some…
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The Schmooze Convicted Nazi War Criminal Convalesces in Alpine Nursing Home
In Bad Feilnbach, a postcard-perfect spa town in the Bavarian Alps, residents are crying NIMBY. It’s not a cell phone tower or nuclear energy plant they are concerned about, but rather something many find even more toxic — convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. The 91-year-old Demjanjuk, a free man while his appeal wends itself…
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The Schmooze ‘Dr. Death’ Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83
“Dr. Death” has finally lived up to his name. Jack Kevorkian, who has spent decades campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia, has died at 83. Kevorkian, who expired — unassisted — in a Detroit hospital, served eight years in prison and was arrested multiple times for helping more than 130 patients commit suicide between 1990…
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