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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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Opinion How France’s Le Pen Family Feud Is Manna From Far Right Wing Heaven
When I arrived in Paris last week for a research trip, little had changed from my many previous trips. Though spring, the weather was drizzly and cold; despite the economic crisis, charming stores displayed tempting breads and books; and notwithstanding the “défense de fumer” signs, café terraces were dense with cigarette smoke. And while Marine…
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Fast Forward Jewish Heirs Get Slice of $18M From Looted Monet ‘Haystacks’
The heirs of a French Jewish art dealer killed in a Nazi concentration camp will get a piece of the upcoming sale at Christie’s of a Monet painting looted by the Nazis and acquired after the war by a Swiss collector. The painting, “Haystacks at Giverny,” was painted by Claude Monet in 1885 and is…
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Fast Forward Older Le Pen Rejects Call To Quit Over ‘Gas Chamber’ Family Feud
(Reuters) — French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen rejected on Friday a call from his daughter, the party’s leader, to leave politics over comments he made that she fears will hurt her push to widen the right-wing party’s appeal. Marine Le Pen said on Thursday she would seek disciplinary action against her father after…
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