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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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Fast Forward Far Right Magazine Gets OK To Call Mauthausen Victims ‘Criminals’
The head of Austria’s Jewish community accused prosecutors of reaffirming Nazi logic by not indicting authors of a newspaper article that called Holocaust survivors murderers and criminals. The statement Monday by the president of the Jewish Community of Vienna, Oskar Deutsch, concerned the recent decision by prosecutors in the city of Graz to close a…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Plans To Publish Names of 1,000 Nazi Collaborators
Following the publication in Lithuania of a groundbreaking book on local complicity during the Holocaust, a state museum on genocide said it would publish a list of 1,000 suspected perpetrators. Terese Birute Burauskaite, who heads the Vilnius-based Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, said her institution would “this year try to publish a book”…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Architect Adolf Eichmann Begged Not to Hang, Letter Reveals
JERUSALEM – Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war crimes trial. In his letter to then-President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eichmann said he was a “mere instrument” of leaders responsible for the killing of 6…
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Fast Forward New Sickening Details on Nazi Medical Experiments Revealed
Newly discovered testimony provides brutal new details about Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners, including reportedly locking one man inside a glass cage with thousands of mosquitoes in order to infect him with malaria. An archivist recently stumbled upon an undated, three-page deposition submitted by a Jewish survivor of several concentration camps while cataloging…
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Fast Forward Walter Reed, Wrote of Childhood Rescue From Nazi, Dies at 91
Walter W. Reed, who last year published a book about his experience hiding from the Nazis with about 100 other Jewish children, has died at 91. Reed, a regular speaker at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, died Jan. 13 in his Chicago-area home, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday. Reed’s “The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi…
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Fast Forward Jewish Rage as German Task Force Says Only 5 Works From Gurlitt Looted by Nazis
BERLIN – A task force set up by the German government to determine the ownership history of more than 1,500 art works discovered in 2012 has found that only five were wrongfully taken from Jews, drawing criticism from Jewish groups. German tax inspectors discovered the art collection, which included works by Matisse and Picasso, during…
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Fast Forward Nazi Gestures Get Southampton Soccer Fans Banned
Two fans of the Southampton soccer club have been banned from attending English Premier League games for three years for making “fascist salutes” and “racist gestures” at Jewish fans during a recent match. Thomas Flynn, 22, and Michael Haydon, 23, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive and insulting behavior in a religiously-aggravated public order offense,…
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