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Fast Forward Vilnius University Won’t Honor Holocaust Victims Who Fought Nazis
(JTA) — Vilnius University in Lithuania said it would give academic degrees posthumously to Jewish students who were unable to graduate because they were murdered in the Holocaust — unless they were partisans. In a statement published on Wednesday on its website announcing the initiative entitled “Recovering Memory,” Vilnius University encouraged relatives of Holocaust victims…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Says French Not Responsible For Deporting Jews
(JTA) — Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said that her country is not responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps in 1942. Le Pen, who according to recent polls is one of the two leading candidates ahead of the first round of the elections on…
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Fast Forward Israeli Holocaust Survivor Returns Nazi-Looted Art To American Survivor
It’s not a normal story of art stolen by the Nazis being restored to its rightful owners. When it comes to Max Liebermann’s “Basket Weavers,” the unwitting Israeli purchaser of the looted painting was himself a Holocaust survivor, as was the American to whom it was returned this week. “This was not a legal case…
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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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