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Culture What Became of Europe’s Nazi-Looted Libraries?
The rhombicuboctahedronal National Library of Belarus sits on the northwest edge of Minsk, elevated above the surrounding landscape like a Brutalist disco ball. Few passersby would suspect that it’s home to some of the finest Jewish libraries of pre-war Paris, housing thousands of rare volumes that once inhabited the elegant studies and drawing rooms of…
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Fast Forward White House Hosts Pundit Who Compares Left To Nazis
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon welcomed to his office last week a right-wing pundit who has claimed that the American left is descended from Nazism. Dinesh D’Souza went to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday to share insights from his new book, “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left,” with White…
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Fast Forward Chinese Tourists Arrested For ‘Heil Hitler’ Salute In Germany
(JTA) — Two Chinese tourists were arrested in Germany for making the “Heil Hitler” salute. The men, ages 36 and 49, made the illegal salute in front of the Reichstag building, where the German parliament meets, Reuters reported. They were taking photos of each other making the salute. The men were arrested for “using symbols…
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Fast Forward The Last White House Comms Director To Resign This Quickly Was A Nazi Youth
After 10 days, Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director — but he’s not the only one who graced the West Wing for less than two weeks. John Koehler served as Ronald Reagan’s communications director from March 1 to March 13, 1987. He also belonged as a child to Jungvolk, a Nazi youth…
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Fast Forward Is It A Hate Crime To Train A Dog To Do A Nazi Salute?
(JTA) — A Scottish man arrested for teaching his girlfriend’s dog to do the Nazi salute denied in court that he committed a hate crime. Mark Meechan, 29, taught the pug, named Buddha, to respond with the Nazi salute when prompted by statements such as “Heil Hitler” and “gas the Jews.” Meechan posted videos of…
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Fast Forward Hitler Bunker Exhibit Asks: How Did Germans Become Nazis?
More than 70 years after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker in the final days of World War Two, an exhibition in the capital examines how he became a Nazi and what turned ordinary Germans into murderers during the Third Reich. The exhibition “Hitler – how could it happen” is set in a…
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Fast Forward Netherlands Builds Museum Out Of Former Nazi Tunnels
Dutch tourists can now roam former Nazi bunkers and tunnels for less than $10 per person. The new attraction in The Hague is made out of a restored Nazi fortification system, the Atlantikwall, which was made to prevent an invasion from the Allies. The bunkers were refurbished and opened to tourists in an effort to…
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Fast Forward Jewish High Jumper Barred From Nazi Olympics Dies at 103
Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a record-breaking athlete who was barred by the Nazis from competing for Germany in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics because she was Jewish, died in Queens, N.Y. on Tuesday at the age of 103. Lambert was known in her athletic prime as “The Great Jewish Hope.” Then known as Gretel Bergmann, she…
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