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Fast Forward Berlin Museum Returns Nazi-Looted Sculpture To Jewish Heirs
(JTA) — A Berlin museum said a 15th–century religious sculpture looted by the Nazis was returned to the heirs of its former Jewish owners and then sold back to the museum. The Bode Museum said Monday that it had reached an agreement with the heirs, The Local reported. Michael Eissenhauer, the head of Berlin’s public museums, said…
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Fast Forward Himmler’s Pro-Nazi Daughter Was Spy In Postwar Germany
Germany’s intelligence service acknowledged on Friday that it had employed the daughter of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler in the 1960s, although she never renounced her father or Nazism, and remained active in far-right extremism. The revelation that Himmler’s daughter Gudrun Burwitz had worked for the BND spy agency – confirmed by the BND after it…
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Letters Sorry, Howard Dean, Pogroms In Ukraine Are Not ‘Russian Propaganda’
Dear Governor Dean: You recently tweeted about an article I wrote in these pages. The article was about anti-Semitism and anti-Roma pogroms in Ukraine. You were skeptical: Be interested to know if this is based on Russian disinformation. https://t.co/h2uKTYYKeR — Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) June 25, 2018 I’m glad you’re exhibiting a healthy skepticism. The next…
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Fast Forward Bidding Starts At $25,000 For Albert Einstein’s Letters About Nazi Germany
A four-page letter written by Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa, on the day Einstein renounced his German citizenship, will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on Thursday. Einstein wrote the letter to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein on March 28, 1933, aboard the S.S. Belgenland, ignoring pleas from friends and colleagues not to return…
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Fast Forward Shakira Pulled Nazi-Like Necklace From ‘El Dorado’ Tour Merchandise
Shakira is under fire for selling a tour merchandise necklace resembling a Nazi symbol, according to Hollywood Reporter. German publication Bento first called out the necklace, a featured product for the singer’s El Dorado tour, for bearing similarities to the Nazi Black Sun symbol, which encompasses swastikas. The Black Sun was first used in a…
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Fast Forward British University Uses Nazi Quote To ‘Inspire’ Students
The career advice department at the University of Exeter on the south west coast of England sent out an inspirational quote in a mass email. One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. But, as local newspaper the Falmouth Packet reports, the inspiration they are drawing on comes from Nazi…
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News Read This 16-Year-Old’s Good-Bye To Her Family, Written As Nazis Deported Her
When Sala Kirschner, formerly Sala Garncarz, was separated from her family in the midst of the Holocaust, she did not know when she would see them again. Kirschner and her family were stuck in a Jewish ghetto in occupied southwestern Poland’s Sosnowiec when Kirschner’s older sister, Raizel, was conscripted to work by the Germans. Kirschner…
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Fast Forward Sessions: We’re Not Like The Nazis Because They Tried To Keep Jews From Leaving
Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticized the growing number of public comparisons between the Trump administration’s new immigration policies and Nazi Germany, saying that such claims are not true because the Nazis were “keeping the Jews from leaving the country.” More than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at border crossings and placed in…
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