This is the Forward’s coverage of the Nazi regime, which came to power in Germany and orchestrated the Holocaust during World War II.
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Opinion Taking the Banality Out of Evil
The idea that evil could be “banal” still shocks us. It’s much scarier to consider that genocide could be carried out unthinkingly by the most vacuous of bureaucrats and not by intrinsically bad people acting with bad intent. This new moral category was Hannah Arendt’s now infamous reaction to witnessing the 1961 trial of Adolf…
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Fast Forward Greek Island Police Chief Photographed in Nazi Salute on Trip to Germany
The police chief of the popular Greek tourist island of Hydra was photographed giving the Nazi salute while on a trip to Germany. The Ethnos Sunday newspaper published the picture of Lt. Yiorgos Kagkalos, which it reported was taken in 2011 during a visit to the Nuremberg Transport Museum. The publication follows persistent reports suggesting…
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Fast Forward Monet Painting Found in German Art Hoarder’s Hospital Suitcase
A Monet painting was found in the suitcase that German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt took to the hospital before he died. The executor of Gurlitt’s estate last week discovered the French Impressionist artwork in a suitcase handed over to him by the hospital, according to reports. Gurlitt, whose uncovered trove of Nazi-looted artworks was discovered…
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Opinion ProSwastika Alliance Gets 501c3 Nonprofit Status
A Swedish punk rocker with a swastika tattoo. / Getty Images It’s been a big month for swastikas. They were recently featured by Spiritual Punx on their donut swazi tee, and now they’re officially on their way to rehabilitation. At least that’s what Thomas Kaenzig, Raelian Guide and President of the ProSwastika Alliance, wants us…
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Opinion Founder of Canadian Nazi Party Runs for Office
John Beattie / Youtube Will voters in a small Canadian town overlook the hate-filled past of a town-council candidate? John Beattie is betting on it. Beattie, the 73-year-old founder of the Canadian Nazi Party, has thrown his hat in the ring for elected office in Minden, an Ontario hamlet of 5,600 better known for tidy…
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Fast Forward Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Victims Commemorated With New Berlin Memorial
Some 300,000 people with physical or mental disabilities who were killed under Nazi Germany’s “euthanasia” program because their lives were deemed unworthy were commemorated on Tuesday with the opening of a memorial in Berlin. Relatives of the victims joined Mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of the public to lay wreaths and white roses in front…
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Fast Forward Canadian Nazi Party Founder Running For Ontario Town Council Post
The founder of the Canadian Nazi Party, John Beattie, is running for deputy head of the town council in an Ontario community. Beattie, who led violent Nazi rallies in Toronto 50 years ago and painted swastikas on the lawns of its prominent Jewish residents, is a candidate in the Township of Minden Hills, which has…
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Opinion Don’t Return Your ‘Righteous Gentile’ Medal
Henk Zanoli is second from right in this 1942 family photo / Yad Vashem It was at the insistence of Rivka Ben-Pazi that Henk Zanoli was deemed a “righteous gentile” by Yad Vashem, Israel’s state Holocaust museum. Ben-Pazi wrote a book about the Jewish boy that Zanoli saved, Elchanan Hameiri, and eventually got the museum…
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