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Fast Forward Family of ‘The Pianist’ Wins Suit Against Book Alleging Jewish Musician Had Nazi Ties
The family of the late Polish-Jewish man whose story inspired the Academy Award-winning 2002 film “The Pianist” has won on appeal a defamation suit over claims that he was a Nazi collaborator. According to Agence France Press, the widow and son of Wladyslaw Szpilman said Monday they have won their suit against the author and…
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News WATCH: Did Laura Ingraham Make a Nazi Salute at the RNC?
Social media users criticized conservative political commentator Laura Ingraham for appearing to make a Nazi-salute at the Republican National Convention. Ingraham concluded her Wednesday night speech, during which she praised Republican nominee Donald Trump, by waving to a cheering audience. In the beginning of the wave, her outstretched arm was reminiscent of the salute made…
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Fast Forward In Vilnius Forest, Jewish Prisoners Escaped Nazis Through Secret Tunnel
On the night of April 15, 1944, a group of 40 Jewish prisoners — who were being held in captivity in Lithuania, forced by Nazis to cover up the massacre of some 100,000 Jews in a forest near Vilnius — they had dug at night, using only spoons and their hands. Many of the escapees were shot…
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Fast Forward Tunnel Used by LIthuania Jews To Escape Nazi Ponary Massacre Is Uncovered
JERUSALEM — A tunnel in Lithuania used by Jews to escape the Nazis during World War II has been uncovered by an international research team. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery on Wednesday in a statement. The tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis was located using the new…
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Fast Forward Hungary Soccer Fans Probed for Nazi Salutes at Euro Tournament
Hungarian soccer fans are reportedly being investigated for performing Nazi salutes during a match at the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France. Black-shirted Hungary fans were captured making the salutes during their national team’s match with Iceland on Saturday in Marseille, the British Daily Mail newspaper reported.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3648911/Now-Ultra-fans-caught-doing-NAZI-salutes-Euro-2016-Hungarian-supporters-sick-gestures-match-saw-fans-battle-stewards-stands.html) “The pictures are clearly very shocking,” a police…
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Fast Forward Hermann Goering’s Underwear Goes on Auction Block With Nazi Mementos
— An auction of Nazi memorabilia in Munich includes underpants worn by Hermann Goering and socks worn by Adolf Hitler. The auction scheduled for this weekend at the Herman Historica International auction house also includes the case that held the cyanide capsule Goering used to take his life the night before he was scheduled to…
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Opinion I Was Almost Aborted Before the Holocaust
I am a 74-year old man, and I can look back at a life that someone sometime in the future will call a life well lived. But were it not for a mother who, against the urgings of her doctor, had refused an abortion, I might not have lived. By rights, I should be a…
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Culture What If the Nazis Won — or If They Lost?
In October 2015, The New York Times Magazine conducted a poll on Twitter, asking its readers, “Could you kill a baby Hitler?” The question unleashed a flood of think pieces parsing the ethics of such an act, and a response from then-Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who said without hesitation, “Hell, yeah, I would.” Ultimately,…
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