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Fast Forward GOP Aide Says ‘Democrats Are Doing What Hitler Did’
An aide to a New York state senator compared Democrats and a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to Nazis in a Facebook post. “The Democrats are doing exactly what Hitler did… He used the youth to disarm and control the people. This is scary!” Anthony Testaverde, an aide to Sen. Martin Golden,…
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Fast Forward Europe’s Life-Long Nazi Hunters Horrified By Rise In Anti-Semitism
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two of Europe’s most famous Nazi hunters, are preparing to publish a memoir as they confront Europe’s rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, the Washington Post reported. Over five decades the Klarsfelds, who are married, have tracked Nazis from Paris, their home, to as far away as Syria and Bolivia. Their most famous…
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Fast Forward Austria Recalls Israeli Embassy Employee Over Nazi Shirt
Austria’s foreign ministry has recalled an employee of its embassy in Israel after an Austrian weekly said he posted a picture of himself on social media wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of a Nazi tank division. The Falter weekly published a screenshot of the attache’s Facebook page which shows him in a green shirt…
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Fast Forward Scottish Man Who Taught Dog To Do Nazi Salute Found Guilty Of Hate Crime
(JTA) — A Scottish man who taught his girlfriend’s dog to do the Nazi salute was found guilty of a hate crime. Mark Meechan, 29, was convicted on Tuesday in Airdrie Sheriff’s Court in Scotland and is out on bail until his sentencing next month, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. He taught the pug, named…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Join Nazi War Veterans In Latvia March
RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Police arrested a man for displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews at the annual march by local veterans of two SS divisions that made up the Latvian Legion during World War II. The man was arrested Friday morning on the margins of the annual march of the Remembrance Day of…
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Fast Forward ‘Hunting Hitler’ Show Accidentally Reveals Face Of Nazi War Criminal’s Grandson
The History Channel tv show “Hunting Hitler” accidentally revealed the face of a Nazi war criminal’s grandson, the New York Daily News reported. During a recap of the interview during the show, footage from the interview was shown that did not blur the man’s face, as it had been when the interview was first shown….
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Fast Forward Polish Senator Suspended For Nazi Propaganda Video — Set To Klezmer Music
(JTA) — Poland’s ruling party suspended a senator who posted online footage from a Nazi propaganda movie depicting violence against Jews to the sounds of klezmer music. The Law and Justice party suspended Waldemar Bonkowski Thursday over his posting of the video on Facebook earlier this week, amid an acrimonious argument between many Poles and…
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Fast Forward Unearthed Letter From Einstein Thanked American Who Helped Jews Flee Nazis
Nearly 80 years after it was penned, a letter written by Albert Einstein thanking an American Jew for his efforts to rescue Jews from Nazi Germany has been revealed. Einstein sent the note to New York financier David Finck on June 10, 1939. The two men never met, but Finck attracted Einstein’s attention after he…
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