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Opinion Mango Shirt Slammed as Attempt at ‘Nazi Chic’
Mango’s new shirt After Sears’s swastika ring and Zara’s concentration camp shirt comes another piece of fashion that has incensed the internet: The lightning-like black symbols on the women’s shirt ‘Rayo’ by Spanish fashion company Mango look suspiciously like the runic insignia of the Nazi SS units and the youth organization Jungvolk. “Why does Mango…
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Fast Forward ‘British Schindler’ Who Aided Kindertransport Wins Czech Highest Honor
A British man known as the British Oskar Schindler will receive the Czech Republic’s highest civilian honor. Sir Nicholas Winton, 105, saved 669 Czechoslovak children from the Nazis while serving as a British diplomat. The mission was known as the Czech Kindertransport. The saved children have more than 5,000 descendants. Winton is scheduled to receive…
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Fast Forward Rome Mayor Denounces ‘Vulgar’ Tribute to Nazi War Criminal Erich Priebke
The mayor of Rome condemned a public commemoration in the city for the late Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke. Ignazio Marino called Saturday’s event downtown a “vulgar provocation” that “wounds the entire civic community and represents a real slap in the face to the city of Rome, which played a fundamental role in the Italian…
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Fast Forward Swiss Museum Will Take ‘Nazi’ Art Hoard
The Swiss art gallery named as the sole heir of reclusive German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt is to accept his bequest of masterpieces which include works looted by the Nazis from Jews, a Swiss paper reported on Sunday. Gurlitt, who died in May aged 81, had secretly stored hundreds of works by the likes of…
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Fast Forward Vienna Philharmonic Will Digitize Archives Revealing Nazi Past
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which acknowledged decades after the fact that many of its players had been Nazi party members, will use a $1 million grant to digitalise and find a new home for its archives, it was announced on Wednesday. The announcement by the orchestra’s management was made in Stockholm where the orchestra was…
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Fast Forward New American Ambassador to Czech Republic Recalls Family Ties
Andrew Schapiro highlighted his family’s ties to the Czech Republic as he took over as the U.S. ambassador there. Schapiro, 51, a Chicago lawyer, handed his credentials to the Czech president on Tuesday. His late mother, Raya, was born in Prague in 1934 and fled to the United States in 1939 after the country then…
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Fast Forward Nazi-Hunters Finger 80 Death Squad Members
Video: Nate Lavey The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent the German government a list of 80 people it believes murdered Jews while serving in Nazi death squads in World War Two and who may be still alive, the head of the Israel office of the organization said. The push for an investigation into members of…
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Fast Forward Spanish Diplomat Honored as ‘Righteous’
Sebastian de Romero Radigales, a Spanish diplomat whose efforts saved hundreds of Jews in the Holocaust, was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. His granddaughter Elena Colitto Castelli accepted the posthumous honor at a ceremony Tuesday at the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem. Among those on hand were Spain’s ambassador to Israel,…
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