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Opinion When Is It Okay To Call Someone A Nazi?
The question isn’t really who has called someone else a Nazi, but who hasn’t. After decades of work educating young people about the awful history of the Nazi regime, we now reside in a world where every 7th grader (including myself, once upon a time) calls their teacher a Nazi, and where literally thousands of…
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Fast Forward Secretive Nazi Cult Probed By Chile — With German Help
Germany and Chile have agreed to create a commission to document crimes committed at a secretive sect founded by an ex-Nazi in the foothills of the Andes, the Chilean foreign relations ministry said on Thursday. The agreement, signed late Wednesday, will create a documentation center for the community, as well as a memorial for victims…
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Opinion Jane Looking Forward: Revisiting the Red Tent, Nazi Medical Ethics, Ivanka and More
The tragic story of Tulasi Shahi reads as if it belongs in the Dark Ages. As is the custom in her community in Nepal, the 18-year-old had been sent to stay in her uncle’s hut while she menstruated, forced to sleep on wooden boards in a rough structure normally housing cows. She died last Friday,…
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Culture Did The Nazis Really Have A System Of Medical Ethics?
At the conclusion of World War II, the first defendants to testify at the Nuremberg trials were Nazi physicians and public health officials who were interrogated about how and why they conducted horrific experiments on human beings, and mass murder in the name of science and medicine. It’s been convenient to believe that these perpetrators…
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Opinion Trump’s CNN Tweet Evoked The Nazis
Last week I was at Foehrenwald, the site of a former refugee camp where I grew up. Located in southern Germany, near Munich, next to the town of Wolfratshausen, it was once a refugee camp for displaced persons in the U.S. zone of occupation. There, under the auspices of United Nations relief agencies, 5,000 Holocaust…
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News The Nazis Built A Luxury Camp To Lull Jews — Then Slaughtered Them
(JTA) — WESTERBORK, Netherlands (JTA) — Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe’s largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland’s northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team…
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Fast Forward Nazi Bunker On Danish Coast Reopens As Museum
A concrete bunker jutting out of sand dunes on the Danish coast, that once was part of Hitler’s Atlantic wall, has been re-purposed as part of a new museum that was officially opened by Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik this week. The Tirpitz Museum now hosts exhibitions showing how Denmark’s coastline was used by the occupying…
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Fast Forward Secret Memorial For Nazi Spies Removed From Federal Land
National Park Service employee Jim Rosenstock was shocked when he heard about a memorial dedicated to six executed Nazi spies residing on federal land. After seeing the slab of granite for himself in Washington, D.C., he needed to find out who was behind the site, The Washington Post recounted on Friday. A group called the…
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