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Fast Forward Grandson of Rudolf Hoess Attends Budapest Holocaust Commemoration
Hungarian Holocaust survivors had a difficult time handling the presence of Rainer Hoess, the grandson of Auschwitz death camp commander Rudolf Hoess, at an event in Budapest. Rainer Hoess was one of the guest speakers at the commemoration, which was one of the closing events of this year’s 70th anniversary of the start of the…
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Fast Forward Swiss Museum Decides To Take $1.2B ‘Nazi’ Art Trove
A Swiss museum formally agreed to accept the bequest of hundreds of art works from the late German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, which may include Nazi-looted art. In its announcement on Monday, Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern, which Gurlitt named his sole heir before his death in May, said it would work with German officials to ensure…
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Life Reinserting Women into the Holocaust Narrative
Jewish women in Budapest, October 1944. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons (Haaretz) – On October 7, 1944, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz blew up a crematorium in an attempted revolt that, while ultimately futile, has become a powerful rebuttal to the claim that Jews succumbed to the Nazis without a fight. Many know this story but few…
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Opinion Showdown Over Nazis at Museum of Jewish Heritage
Eric Lichtblau and his new book, “The Nazis Next Door.” It’s not often that a museum director gets booed on his own stage. Yet that’s what happened to David Marwell in the auditorium of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in downtown Manhattan, when an event on New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau’s new book, “The…
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Opinion How a German Town Duped the Neo-Nazis
Every year, residents of the small German town of Wunsiedel are forced to deal with thousands of neo-Nazi activists marching in their streets. Rudolf Hess, who was Hitler’s deputy, was buried in the Bavarian town in 1988. Since then, it has been a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. Wunsiedel residents tried it all. They protested and…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Painted at Babi Yar Memorial in Kiev
Swastikas were painted on the Holocaust memorial monument at Babi Yar in Kiev. It is the second time that the monument has been vandalized in two months. The graffiti was found Monday during a tour at the site for schoolchildren, The Jerusalem Post reported. A swastika was painted on the monument, located at the site…
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News Inside the FBI’s Shameful Battle To Shield Nazis
It was October of 1990, and the Nazi hunters at the United States Department of Justice were furious at the FBI. The Nazi hunters, led by an attorney named Neal Sher, were tasked with finding and deporting former Nazis and other World War II-era persecutors. They had just tracked down a former pro-Nazi propagandist named…
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Fast Forward German Envoy Plans Visit to Nazi Graves in Holland
Germany’s ambassador to the Netherlands is slated to attend a commemoration at a cemetery where many SS soldiers are buried. Amb. Franz Josef Kremp is supposed to attend the commemoration on Nov. 16 at the Ysselsteyn cemetery near Eindhoven in the eastern Netherlands, a cemetery for victims of World War II. He is, according to…
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