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Fast Forward Boys Celebrate Prom With A Sieg Heil In Wisconsin
The boys in a Wisconsin high school class appear to have posed in a Nazi salute in a junior prom photo, the Baraboo News Republic reported. The boys of the Baraboo High School Class of 2019, about 50 people, huddled together on the steps Sauk County Courthouse, where many held up their arms in a…
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Fast Forward Trudeau Apologizes For Canada’s Turning Back Jewish Refugees Fleeing Nazis
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on Wednesday for the country’s 1939 refusal to take in a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, adding that the country would do more to protect Canadian Jews from violence. The St. Louis left Hamburg in May 1939 in a desperate search for a safe haven from…
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Fast Forward French President Emmanuel Macron Praises Nazi Collaborator As ‘Great Soldier’
(JTA) — President Emmanuel Macron of France praised a Nazi collaborator and defended his plan to honor him, sparking the first major disagreement between mainstream French Jewish community leaders and Macron since his election last year. On Wednesday, Macron called Philippe Petain “a great soldier” in speaking to reporters amid criticism over his intention to pay homage…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Defends Nazi Collaborator Accused Of Killing Jews
(JTA) — Lithuania’s state historical institute on the Soviet domination of the country defended in court a deceased collaborator with Nazi Germany who is accused of murdering Jews. The Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of the Residents of Lithuania defended Jonas Noreika against the allegations by numerous historians last month in…
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Fast Forward Dad Surprised By Backlash Over Father-Son Nazi Halloween Costumes
A Kentucky man dressed him and his son up in Nazi costumes for a trick-or-treating event Thursday, drumming up outrage online, WEHT reported. A picture was posted online of Bryant Goldbach dressed as a Nazi soldier and his young son as Adolf Hitler during the city of Owensboro’s Trail of Treats event. Goldbach, who said…
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Fast Forward GOP Rep. Met With Nazi-Linked Group On Trip Funded By Holocaust Memorial Org
Rep. Steve King had an interview with members of a far-right Austrian party with Nazi ties, while on a trip funded by a Holocaust memorial group, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The Iowa Republican also criticized billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros in his interview, while lamenting that white Europeans will be replaced by immigrants….
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Opinion The Anti-Trans Nuremberg Laws Are Upon Us
When I came out in 1990 as a fifteen-year-old queer (my gender-nonconforming nature required no announcement) and promptly started being public about it, my father sat me down for a talk. My father, who attended a Hillel weekend in college that was surrounded by jeering anti-Semites from which he had to be snuck out a…
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Fast Forward Italian Jews Enraged Over Mussolini’s Granddaughter Threatening Tweet
ROME (JTA) – The granddaughter of Italy’s Nazi ally fascist dictator Benito Mussolini unleashed a storm of protest from the Jewish community with a tweeted threat to sue anyone who posted “pictures or phrases” that were “offensive” regarding her grandfather. Alessandra Mussolini, a longtime right-wing politician and currently an Italian member of the European Parliament,…
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