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Community The German Policeman Who Saved Torah Scrolls During The Holocaust
An old man in a blue kibbutz cap, who grew up in the same German village as my father, showed me the Torah that had been rescued during Kristallnacht — not by the Jews, but by Christian neighbors: “Ja , Nazi orders or no, the Christians decided to save what they could for the Jews. They…
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Fast Forward British Columnist Calls Nazi Troops The Heroes Of D-Day
(JTA) — A far-right race baiter who works as a columnist for a respected weekly British current affairs magazine wrote a piece sympathizing with the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany. In the column by Taki Theodoracopulos, a Greek writer who lives in London and New York, the author asks readers to feel…
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Fast Forward Massachusetts GOP Candidate Blames Holocaust On Gay Nazis
A Republican candidate who won enough support at the party’s Massachusetts convention to advance the primary for governor is a pastor who once wrote a book claiming that the Holocaust was caused by a conspiracy of gay men within the Nazi party. Scott Lively, an attorney and pastor who has advocated for anti-LGBT laws around…
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Fast Forward Pro-Trump Group’s Policy Adviser Praises Nazis: They Should’ve Kept ‘Going’
Update, 12:28 p.m.: As soon as The Hill was made aware of the video and comments made by Andrade, it stopped publishing his opinion pieces and removed his work from the site, according to an email from Shirin Al-Hussein, Account Executive at High10 Media. A policy adviser for the pro-Trump group America First Policies praised…
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Fast Forward Man Who Taught Dog To Do Nazi Salute Crowdfunds Over $185,000 For Court Appeal
(JTA) — The Scottish man who was found guilty of a hate crime and fined $1,100 for teaching his girlfriend’s dog to do the Nazi salute has raised tens of thousands of dollars for his appeal. Mark Meechan, 30, who was convicted last month, taught the pug, named Buddha, to respond with the Nazi salute when prompted…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Group Burns Massive Swastika After Georgia Protest
Two dozen neo-Nazi protesters flooded a small Georgia town outside Atlanta with law enforcement Saturday, before retreating to a hillside to burn a massive swastika and rune symbol, the New York Times reported. The group, the National Socialist Movement, obtained a permit to demonstrate in Newnan, Ga., last month. Over 700 law enforcement agents from…
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Fast Forward Famed Asperger’s Doctor Helped Nazis Kill Disabled Kids: Study
Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician who pioneered research into autism and after whom Asperger syndrome is named, “actively cooperated” with a Nazi program under which disabled children were killed, an academic paper published on Thursday says. The article by medical historian Herwig Czech published in the journal Molecular Autism says that Asperger referred severely disabled…
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Community Why Are We Still Honoring Nazis For Their Medical Discoveries?
Medical eponyms, honorary names the medical community gives to those who make a medical discovery or create an invention in the field, are very common. They include Crohn’s disease, named after Burrill Bernard Crohn, one of the scientists who first published an exhaustive description of the condition about the disease. But unfortunately, eponyms honoring Nazi…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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