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Fast Forward Bulgarian Neo-Nazis Rally In Capital Despite Municipal Ban
(JTA) — An annual neo-Nazi rally was held in the capital of Bulgaria despite a municipal ban. The Lukov March, which celebrates the Bulgarian alliance with Nazi Germany, went off as scheduled on Saturday night in Sofia despite the ban issued by Mayor Yordanka Fandakova. The rally honoring the then-Bulgarian war minister Hristo Lukov, who…
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Fast Forward 27 Concentration Camp Letters Written In Urine Expose Gruesome Nazi Medical Experiments
Some 27 letters written in urine by Polish women inmates to report on gruesome medical experiments performed on them by Nazi concentration camp doctors have been given to a small museum in Poland to be preserved. The letters, which informed the world about the deadly experiments made on 74 women at the Ravensbrueck camp in…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Visits Dachau Concentration Camp Site
(JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence visited the site of a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. Pence, his wife Karen, and their daughter Charlotte arrived at Dachau, located near Munich, on Sunday morning. Pence was attending the Munich Security Conference, and was scheduled to travel on to Brussels later Sunday for meetings with NATO and…
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Fast Forward Swastika T-Shirt Vendor Kicked Off USC Campus
A Nazi symbol or a piece of art? A vendor at the University of Southern California tried to explain that T-shirts featuring swastikas he was selling on campus were no more than an artistic expression. But according to a report on the local NBC news, the campus rabbi did not share the artistic value of…
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Fast Forward Brothers Who Survived Auschwitz Barred From Joining Suit Against Nazi Medic
BERLIN (JTA) — A judge in Germany has barred two Jewish brothers from Boulder, Colorado, from being co-plaintiffs in an accessory to murder trial against 96-year-old former Auschwitz SS medic Hubert Zafke. Chief Judge Klaus Kabisch in the Neubrandenburg state court explained on Tuesday that brothers Walter and William Plywaski – themselves Auschwitz survivors – could not join the trial because…
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Fast Forward Austrian Chancellor Celebrates Anti-Nazi Resistance By Railway Firm
(JTA) — Austria’s chancellor praised workers of his country’s railway company for what he called their outsize resistance to Nazism during the Holocaust. Christian Kern’s praise for the partisans of the Austrian federal railways, or BBO, appeared in a statement he penned for an exhibition about the firm’s role during the Holocaust that opened last…
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Fast Forward Verzijl Masterpiece Looted by Nazis Returned to Jewish Collector’s Foundation
MONTREAL (JTA) — The FBI returned a Nazi-looted painting to officials of the Montreal-based foundation named for the German Jewish art dealer whose gallery once owned it. At a ceremony Wednesday at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, Jan Franse Verzijl’s “Young Man as Bacchus” was handed over to the Max and Iris Stern Foundation…
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Fast Forward Steve Bannon Compared Occupy Protesters to Nazi Brownshirts
(JTA) — Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s senior strategist, compared left-wing protesters to Nazi Brownshirts in 2012. In interviews to promote his film “Occupy Unmasked,” Bannon made several comments likening the Occupy Wall Street protests against income inequality and financial industry predation to the actions of Nazi paramilitaries, CNN reported. “The Occupy movement is really a…
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