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Fast Forward Mass Killer Breivik Makes Nazi Salute in Norway Court
SKIEN, Norway — Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute at the start of a court case on Tuesday in which he is accusing the Norwegian state of inhuman treatment by keeping him in isolation after he massacred 77 people in 2011. The far right militant appeared in public for the first time…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Will Visit Auschwitz in July
ROME — Pope Francis will visit Auschwitz during a trip to Poland in late July. According to a schedule released over the weekend, the pontiff will visit the former Nazi death camp on July 29 during a five-day visit to Poland to mark the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day. Main Youth Day events are to…
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Fast Forward Should Amsterdam Strip Name of ‘Nazi Collaborator’ From City Building?
In a rare move, a Dutch watchdog on anti-Semitism called on the City of Amsterdam to rename a municipal hall bearing the name of a former official who helped deport Jews to their deaths. The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, on Saturday urged the city government of the Dutch capital to…
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Fast Forward German Jews Laud Effort To Ban Neo-Nazi Party
Germany’s top Jewish organization has applauded a new attempt to ban the country’s main neo-Nazi party. Three days of hearings began Tuesday in Germany’s top court – the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe – to examine the constitutionality of outlawing the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). It would be the second attempt to…
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Fast Forward Human Bones Unearthed at Plaszow Concentration Camp in Poland
A construction crew unearthed bones at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, near Krakow. The workers were repairing a decades-old gas pipeline on the property last week adjacent to the former funeral home of a Jewish cemetery on which the camp was established during World War II. The Jewish community of…
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Fast Forward Former Auschwitz Medic On Duty During Anne Frank Arrival To Be Tried in Germany
(Reuters) – A 95-year-old former Nazi SS paramedic at the Auschwitz death camp, accused of being an accomplice to the murder of thousands, is to stand trial in Germany on Monday, one in a series of such recent cases. Hubert Zafke was serving as a medic in the SS at the biggest death camp in…
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Fast Forward Hungary Jews Will Rebury Remains of Nazi-Era Victims
Hungary’s Jewish community received government permission to bury human remains from the Holocaust that were found in the Danube River. The bones, which were discovered five years ago during construction work on the Margaret Bridge, belong to several people who were murdered either by being shot on the banks of the river and dumped into…
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Nationalists March Honoring Nazi Collaborators
Approximately 250 Lithuanians attended a march commemorating nationalists who are accused of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. The march Tuesday in Kaunas, a city 65 miles east of Vilnius, was organized on Lithuania’s independence day by the Union of Nationalist Youth of Lithuania under the banner “We Know Our Nation’s Heroes.”…
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