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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen’s Treasurer Published Pro-Nazi Facebook Posts For Years
Since she was elected president of the National Front in 2011, Marine Le Pen’s grand strategy has been to “de-demonize” the far-right party her father founded, which was known as a haven for Third Reich apologists. This new approach has translated into the near-complete deletion of overt anti-Semitic references in public speeches and the side-lining…
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Fast Forward Germany Pays $1.28 Million To Heir Of Nazi-Looted ‘Judgment Of Paris’
(JTA) — A painting looted by the Nazis from a Jewish collector will continue to hang in a German museum after the German government and a private foundation paid the heirs of the former Jewish owner. The German government announced Friday that $1.28 million had been transferred to an heir of Hans Hess in compensation…
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Culture The ‘Alt-Right’ Loves This Dead Nazi. Would He Have Loved Them Back?
Philosopher Martin Heidegger, widely considered to be the one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, is also widely considered to have been a truly terrible man. As a philosopher, Heidegger is known for his contributions to phenomenology, ontology, and existentialism, whose influence extended to thinkers such as Jean Paul Sartre and Hannah…
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Fast Forward Jewish Descendants Can Sue Germany For Return Of Nazi-Looted Guelph Treasure
(JTA) — A U.S. district court has cleared the way for descendants of Jewish art collectors to sue Germany in the United States over objects allegedly obtained from their ancestors under duress during the Nazi era. The ruling comes three years after a German investigative commission found that the owners of a collection – known…
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Fast Forward Sebastian Gorka Calls Forward Expose ‘Hatchet Job’ — But Won’t Condemn Nazi Allies
Sebastian Gorka, the controversial White House aide accused of vowing allegiance to a Nazi-allied group in Hungary, lashed out Sunday at revelations in a Forward expose about his far right wing ties as a “hatchet job.” “First I am an Islamophobe, then I’m an anti-Semite, then I am a fascist,” Gorka told The Telegraph, listing…
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Culture Why Does An Ad For An Amazon Show Make So Many People Mad?
Since the election of Donald Trump, a funny thing has started to happen — otherwise innocuous pieces of pop culture have become political battlegrounds. I mean funny both as curious and as downright hilarious. In the former camp, we have boycott movements growing around things like sneakers (New Balance) and cereal (Kellogg’s) – the newly extreme…
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Fast Forward Mennonite Sect Wrestles Publicy With Its Nazi Ties In Paraguay
Decades after officials worried they might be sheltering the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, members of the Mennonite sect in Paraguay are coming to terms with their historical ties with the Third Reich. Mennonites are supposed to embrace non-violence and shun political life. But that was not the case in Fernheim, the Paraguay settlement where…
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Fast Forward Erdogan Compares Muslims In Europe Today To Jews In Nazi Germany
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels that Europeans are treating their Muslim citizens and immigrants badly. Very badly. “The Jews were treated the same in the past,” Erdogan said Wednesday. “Europe is heading towards being drowned in its own fears.” The Turkish president spoke after weeks of increasing tension with Western European countries following the…
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