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Breaking News 89-Year-Old Philadelphia Man Faces German Trial as Nazi Camp Guard
Germany is seeking extradition of an 89-year-old Pennsylvania man in connection with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women and children at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps, a U.S. judge said on Wednesday. Johann Breyer was arrested by U.S. authorities on Tuesday at his home in Philadelphia on allegations that…
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Breaking News Germany and Israel Will Cooperate on Nazi Looted Art
Germany and Israel agreed to cooperate on finding the heirs to art that was stolen or looted from Jews during the Nazi era. German Minister of Culture Monika Grutters and her Israeli counterpart, Limor Livnat, signed an agreement on Sunday in Jerusalem on the terms of their cooperation aimed at correcting decades of injustice, the…
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Breaking News Argentina Neo-Nazi Alejandro Biondini Plans Presidential Run
An Argentinian neo-Nazi group has received government approval to become a registered political party. Argentinian neo-Nazi Alejandro Biondini registered a new organization, called Bandera Vecinal, or Local flag, and received approval to become a registered political party and to participate in 2015 presidential elections. After it signed up the required 4,000 members, the nationalist organization…
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Breaking News German President Gets OK To Call Neo-Nazis ‘Nut Cases’
Germany’s president did not breach the constitution when he described a far-right party as “nutcases”, the country’s top court ruled on Tuesday. President Joachim Gauck used the term last year to refer to the National Democratic Party (NPD), widely seen as made up of neo-Nazis inspired by Adolf Hitler and which last month won enough…
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Breaking News Were Las Vegas Suicide Pact Couple Neo-Nazis?
Law enforcement officials are looking into whether a man and woman who killed two Las Vegas police officers and a third person before killing themselves Sunday had links to the white supremacy movement, according to a report on Monday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, citing city law enforcement sources, said investigators discovered paraphernalia associated with white…
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Breaking News Will Calif. Museum Return 500-Year-Old Adam and Eve Artwork Looted by Nazis?
A federal appeals court has revived a New York City woman’s lawsuit to force a California museum to return two life-size panels by German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder that were looted by the Nazis during World War II. By a 2-1 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday said Marei…
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News Canada Judge Blocks Dead Man’s Will for Neo-Nazis
A Canadian judge has invalidated the will of a man who bequeathed his estate to a U.S. neo-Nazi group. A court in New Brunswick ruled June 5 that the National Alliance, an American hate group, may not inherit the estate of Robert McCorkill because such a bequest would run counter to Canadian public policy. Even…
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The Schmooze 2 Jewish Lawyers and Hitler’s ‘Butcher’ Share Stage
(Reuters) — The improbable tale of three music-loving lawyers linked to Ukraine – two of them Jews and one a Hitler aide known as the “Butcher of Poland” – has made it to the stage in a work premiered at the Hay Festival. “The Great Crimes” tells how the lives of Hersch Lauterpecht, who formulated…
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