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Breaking News World’s Largest Ship, Named After Dutch SS Officer, Makes Waves Among Jews
European Jewish groups are protesting the name of the world’s largest ship, which was named after a Dutch officer in the Nazi Waffen-SS military force. The Pieter Schelte, which docked in Rotterdam in early January, is named after an SS officer convicted of war crimes in World War II, according to the Guardian. Schelte conscripted…
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Breaking News Romania Honors ‘Hero’ Who Praises Hitler Allies
A Romanian anti-Semitism watchdog condemned Romanian President Klaus Iohannis’ honoring of a man who praised fascists who murdered Jews during the Holocaust. The Center for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism, or MCA Romania, was responding to the admission last month of the anti-Communist political activist Octav Bjoza into the Order of the Star of Romania for…
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Breaking News Nazi Code Breaker’s Notebook May Fetch $1M
A notebook about mathematics and computer science written by Nazi-code breaker Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the Oscar-nominated film “The Imitation Game,” will be sold at auction, Bonhams auction house said on Wednesday. The 56-page manuscript is expected to fetch at least seven figures, with a portion of the proceeds going to…
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Culture How To Leave the Neo-Nazis in Two Easy Lessons — and One Hard One
Four years ago, when he was the leader of a neo-Nazi group in Thuringia, a federal state in central Germany, Steven Hartung organized demonstrations and other political actions that promoted extreme right-wing ideology. He believed that ethno-pluralism — a view supporting ethnic or racial separation and opposing cultural diversity — was the only way to…
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Breaking News Poland University Restores 262 PhD’s Stripped by Nazis
A Polish university will symbolically reinstate 262 doctorates, most of Jewish academics, annulled by the Nazis almost eight decades ago. The University of Wroclaw, in the Polish city of the same name, announced Monday that it will restore the degrees at a ceremony on Jan. 22. The announcement is somewhat complicated by the fact that…
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Culture Undermining Nazi Ideal of Racial Purity — in Black and White
(Haaretz) — Rainer Hoess, the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, the Kommandant of Auschwitz, stands at the barbed-wire fence of Buchenwald concentration camp. The tattooed numbers belong to Auschwitz survivors who have become friends over the years. Aminata Belli, a German woman who looks more African than Aryan, poses outside the 1939 monument glorifying German colonialism in…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Signs ‘No Social Security for Nazis’ Act
President Obama signed into law a bill that ends Social Security payments to former Nazis. The “No Social Security for Nazis Act” Obama signed Thursday was passed unanimously by both chambers in Congress earlier this month. The measure closes a loophole that had allowed ex-Nazis who lied about their past when immigrating to the United…
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News The Year Hitler Broke the Internet
Remember the public outcry in June, when a teenager from Alabama took a selfie in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and posted it on Twitter? Or the swastika ring for sale by a third-party vendor at Sears but that was removed after multiple complaints? This year has seen its share of seemingly ridiculous headlines that might…
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