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Fast Forward Israel Mocks Europe Labels for Settlement Products as ‘Yellow Star’
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman suggested stamping settlement goods with yellow stars to condemn demands for special labeling in Europe. Liberman sarcastically suggested the move in an interview Friday with Israel Radio about a letter sent out earlier this week by foreign ministers of 16 of the European Union’s 28 member states, in which they…
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Opinion How Novel About Armenian Genocide Became Bestseller in Warsaw Ghetto
By any measure, the Warsaw Ghetto was hell on earth. An urban prison zone in the middle of German-occupied Warsaw, after November 1940 the ghetto was enclosed by a ten-foot high wall that was topped with barbed wire and tightly guarded. German authorities packed over 400,000 Jews of all ages into an area of just…
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Fast Forward Blacksmith Rebuilds Infamous Dachau ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ Gate
(Reuters) — A German blacksmith who painstakingly rebuilt an iron gate at the Dachau concentration camp bearing the notorious “Arbeit macht frei” (work sets you free) slogan said on Thursday he hoped no one would notice his work was a replica. Michael Poitner said he was honored to win the contract to reconstruct the 1.87…
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Fast Forward 42% of Germans Want To Hear Less of Nazi Past
(Reuters) — Seventy years after the end of World War Two, some 42 percent of Germans want to draw a line under the Nazi past, a poll showed on Wednesday, as the nation’s complex legacy continues to shape its international role and domestic politics. On the day that survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp gather…
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Fast Forward Defiant Jean-Marie Le Pen Vows To Stay in Politics
(Reuters) — National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen vowed in a Reuters interview to stay in politics until he dies, reiterating comments that show he is not backing away from a family feud that is complicating the far-right’s quest for power in France. Following comments he made last week over Nazi gas chambers and French…
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Fast Forward Gunter Grass, Controversial German Nobel Laureate, Dies at 87
German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum,” an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer’s duty was to…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jews Object To Honor for Nazi Soldier
Dutch Jews protested the commemoration of a soldier who fought for Adolf Hitler on a monument bearing names of Holocaust victims. The Federative Jewish Netherlands, or FJN, called the inclusion of the soldier’s name to the monument in the town of Geffen, located 60 miles southeast of Amsterdam, “both shocking and cowardly,” the Eindhovens Dagblad…
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Fast Forward ‘Disappointed’ Dad Retreats in Le Pen Right Wing Family Feud
(Reuters) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front, said on Monday he would not seek its ticket to stand in regional polls, taking some of the sting out of a damaging public row with his daughter Marine, the party’s current leader. But the 86-year-old former paratrooper told Le Figaro in an interview that…
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