This is the Forward’s coverage of the Nazi regime, which came to power in Germany and orchestrated the Holocaust during World War II.
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The Schmooze Taylor Swift is No ‘Nazi Barbie,’ Jewish Group Tells Camille Paglia
An Australian Jewish group has criticized author Camille Paglia for referring to Taylor Swift as an “obnoxious Nazi Barbie.” The chairman of the Australian B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission called Paglia’s comments, which she published in an article for the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, “obscene.” “While Paglia is entitled to her views about Taylor Swift’s music…
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Fast Forward Fieldston School Under Fire Over Middle School Swastika Incident
The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an elite New York private school in the Bronx, has come under fire for failing to adequately discuss the anti-Semitic connotations of the swastika after students in a middle-school class drew the symbol. Administrators barely touched the Nazi connotations of the notorious symbol and did not mention the Holocaust during…
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Fast Forward Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Featured in 2016 Calendar
The portraits of 12 Krakow Holocaust survivors are featured on a calendar put out by the JCC Krakow in cooperation with the Child Survivors of the Holocaust Association. The 2016 calendar contains the survivors’ stories and lists their achievements after the war. Jewish community center representatives said at a news conference Wednesday that it was…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Whose Identical Twin Was Raised as Nazi Dies
A Jewish man who as an adult reunited with a long-lost identical twin raised as a Nazi died at age 82. Jack Yufe, who with his twin Oskar Stohr was featured in the 1997 German documentary “Oskar and Jack,” died of stomach cancer Monday in a San Diego hospital, the Los Angeles Times reported. Born…
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Fast Forward Treasure Hunters Raid Sobibor Graves
The graves of Holocaust victims at the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland have been dug up by treasure hunters. The mass graves were discovered to have been disturbed during an archeological dig, the Daily Mail online reported on Monday. “There has been a big archaeological project going on, but when we started excavating we…
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News Why Does Ben Carson Keep Talking About the Nazis?
Ben Carson, the flavor du jour in Republican politics, may be challenging Donald Trump’s status as front-runner in the GOP’s primary race. But the pediatric neurosurgeon-turned-would-be-president is far from the kind of candidate that many mainstream Republicans, including many Jews, have come to know. Alongside his classic conservatism on social and family issues, Carson has…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Blames Muslims for Nazi Extermination of Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In a speech to the Zionist Congress late on Tuesday, Netanyahu referred to a series of Muslim attacks on Jews…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi’ Long Island Suburb Accused of Race Bias
A New York suburb that was established by Nazi sympathizers in the years leading up to World War Two still uses discriminatory housing practices to ensure its residents remain white, according to a lawsuit filed this week. A couple who lived in Yaphank, a hamlet of 6,000 about 65 miles (105 km) east of New…
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