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Fast Forward German Billionaires Found To Have Nazi Ties Own Einstein Bros. Bagels
The German billionaire family that owns Einstein Bros., Krispy Kreme and other beloved quick eats chains admitted its families ties to the Nazis and plans to donate millions of dollars, the Washington Post reported. The Reimanns are majority owners of Pret a Manger and Panera Bread. A report commissioned by the family found that the…
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Fast Forward Republican Club Leader Advised Nazi Sympathizing, Anti-Muslim German Party
The newly elected president of a storied Republican club in New York City said he advised a virulently anti-Muslim and Nazi-symapathizing German party, the Daily Beast reported. Ian Walsh Reilly was elected last week to lead the Metropolitan Republican Club, which has counted Theodore Roosevelt and Michael Bloomberg as members. In a speech during the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Antifa Group Vandalizes Nazi Collaborator Plaque
Members of a Jewish antifa group defaced a plaque on Monday in New York honoring a French leader who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. The plaque in the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan honored Philippe Petain, a French general in World War I who later led the Vichy regime, which oversaw…
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Fast Forward Connecticut Professor Fired For Giving Colleagues Nazi Salute
(JTA) — A community college in Connecticut fired a business professor who gave a Nazi salute at a faculty meeting days after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Paul Broadie II, the president of Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, on Thursday announced the firing of Charles Meyrick for performing the gesture while shouting Nazi slogans on Nov. 2…
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Fast Forward Minnesota HS Student Used Nazi Salute To Ask Classmate To School Dance
A Minnesota high school student asked a classmate to a “Sweethearts”-themed school dance using a Nazi-themed proposal. The incident shook Jewish students at Minnetonka High School in suburban Minneapolis. “They really feel uncomfortable going to school tomorrow,” Rabbi Tzvi Kupfer, the advisor to the high school’s Jewish Student Union, told local TV station WCCO. “They…
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Fast Forward Teachers Respond To Nazi Salute Prom Photo By Donating To Auschwitz Museum
Teachers at a Wisconsin high school are selling T-shirts to raise money for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in response to a viral photo of their students posing for a prom photo with a Nazi salute, the Baraboo News Republic reported. Members of the teachers’ union at Baraboo High School decided to make a donation…
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Fast Forward A Quarter Of All Holocaust Victims Killed In Just 3 Months In 1942
(JTA) — Nearly 1.5 million Jews, or about a quarter of all those murdered during the Holocaust, were murdered in just three months in 1942, a new study found. The expedited murder rate was part of Nazi Germany’s Operation Reinhard for annihilating the Jews of Poland, according to the study published this week by biomathematician…
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Fast Forward Heil Heavens? NASA Gives Far-Off Space Object Nazi-Friendly Name.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on Tuesday flew past a small icy object four billion miles from the sun named Ultima Thule — a record-setting mission that will give a glimpse of what lies on the edge of the solar system. It’s a moment that could define the future, but the name “Ultima Thule” is one…
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