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News Among White Nationalists, Catchy New Shorthand for the ‘Jewish Question’
When Nazi strategists gathered on the shores of Lake Wannsee outside Berlin to plan the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe,” they probably did not imagine future neo-Nazis using catchy shorthand for their ideas. As white nationalists rebrand their movement with the moniker “alt-right,” the Jewish Question has re-emerged with a new name…
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Fast Forward How Did ‘Swastika Trees’ Appear in a German Forest?
Long after Germans pulled down monuments to Nazi rule, there remained a forest outside Berlin that each fall would commemorate the Third Reich. Planted by an unknown person, the forest in the town of Zernikow was mostly evergreen pine trees. But a few strategically placed trees belonged to a different breed and would turn yellow…
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Fast Forward Was Anne Frank Caught in Probe of Trade in Ration Coupons?
AMSTERDAM — The raid on Anne Frank’s hiding place in Amsterdam may have been over illegal trade in food rations and other issues and not the result of betrayal, new research suggests. On Friday, the Anne Frank House in the Dutch capital published the results of its research into what led policemen working for the Nazi occupation…
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Culture Does Google Want Us To Think That Nazis Are Cool?
On Tuesday, Philosopher Nolen Gertz (whose twitter account you should definitely follow if you don’t already) tweeted the following picture (I did my own search to verify – it’s real): Here’s what’s happening in the photo: if you type in the words “Nazis are” into Google, the site will automatically suggest the four following searches:…
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Fast Forward Bill To Recover Nazi-Looted Art Passes Senate
— A bill to facilitate the return of Nazi-looted artworks to their original owners or heirs passed the U.S. Senate. The Senate unanimously passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act, on Friday. The House passed the same bill on Dec. 7. It must still be signed into law by President Barack Obama. The bill would extend the statute of…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazis Revel in Richard Spencer Texas A&M Event
The Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin is bragging online after he and other neo-Nazis showed up at Richard Spencer’s Tuesday night speech at Texas A&M. “We were there for Richard Spencer’s event, or, to be more precise, we were there to confront the hordes of Jews, anti-Whites, and mud people who presume to tell us what…
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Fast Forward Adolf Burger, Last of ‘Hitler’s Counterfeiters,’ Dies at 99
PRAGUE (JTA) — Adolf Burger, a Holocaust survivor who was forced by the Nazis to counterfeit British banknotes during World War II, has died in Prague at the age of 99, his family said. Burger, a native of Slovakia, was a typographer by profession. He was arrested in 1942 for producing false baptism records for…
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Fast Forward Bill To Recover Nazi-looted Art Passes House of Representatives
— A bill to facilitate the return of Nazi-looted artworks to their original owners or heirs passed the U.S. House of Representatives. The House passed the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act, or HEAR Act on Wednesday. It must still pass the Senate. The bill would extend the statute of limitations for the stolen artwork to six years from the date that the art…
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