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News EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II, leaders of the organization have told the Forward. The elite order, known as the Vitézi…
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Fast Forward Twitter Accounts Hacked With Nazi-Themed Messages Amid Turkey Feud
A large number of Twitter accounts were hijacked and replaced with anti-Nazi messages in Turkish in a bizarre spinoff from a diplomatic spat between Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany. The attacks, using the hashtags #Nazialmanya (NaziGermany) or #Nazihollanda (NaziHolland), took over accounts of high-profile CEOs, publishers, government agencies, politicians and also some ordinary Twitter users….
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Life Today In Bad Ideas: Nazi Pilot Honored For Breaking Glass Ceiling
In The Canadian Jewish News, Janice Arnold reports that the Vancouver-based Institute for Women of Aviation Worldwide (IWAW), a non-profit sponsored partly by Air Canada, is honoring Hanna Reitsch for her barrier-breaking role as first woman helicopter pilot. “The problem,” writes Arnold, “is that Hanna Reitsch was a Nazi, and apparently an unrepentant one.” This…
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News Confession, My Best Friend Is A Nazi Twitter Egg
I have a confession: my best friend is a Nazi Twitter egg. It started when I humbly wished the Twitterverse a Happy Hanukkah. Not much traffic from my 11 followers, but @zeeg88 — a stranger! — responded with a picture of an oven captioned “lol is this where you’re celebrating.” @zeeg88, I thought, you haven’t…
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Culture The Incredible Holocaust Photographs Of Henryk Ross Show Daily Life In The Lodz Ghetto
From 1940 to 1944, photographer Henryk Ross documented life inside the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Officially, Ross worked for the ghetto’s Jewish Administration’s Statistics department, photographing the Jewish ghetto’s inhabitants for identification cards and for propaganda images to be used by the Nazis. When Ross was not working in his bureaucratic capacity however, he risked…
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News Pulling No Punches In Fight Against ‘Alt-Right’ And Neo-Nazis
How do you punch a Nazi in Yiddish? Maybe deliver a khsime, or “signature,” as in putting a “signature on someone’s face.” Or give them a shmir, an open-handed smack to the face, like lathering schmear on a bagel. Or maybe it takes der gubernator, “the governor,” jabbing your thumb into a person’s ribcage. Obscure?…
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Community Playing In The Shadow Of Hitler
As an original member of the band Twisted Sister, I have performed in almost 9,000 shows around the world. But the story of the craziest, historic and most emotionally affecting show I’ve ever played happened on September 30th, 1983 in Nuremberg, Germany — in Zeppelin field, the site of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies. We were a…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor And Granddaughter Of Nazis Make For Unlikely Roommates
They make for an unlikely pair of roommates. Ben Stern is a 95-year-old survivor of the Nazi concentration camps — who now lives with a 31-year-old German grandchild of Nazis, Lea Heitfeld. Stern and Heitfeld, a student at the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, live together in California — and find in each other’s company…
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