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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in the United Kingdom
In Bradford, a plaque celebrates the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, the brainchild of war criminal Alfred Rosenberg
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Russia
In Yelanskaya, a memorial complex employs a common whitewashing tactic: lumping both problematic and non-problematic figures into a single pantheon of “heroes"
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News EXCLUSIVE: Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. warns that Jews should never take their safety for granted
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S. warned of rising antisemitism and the costs of widespread ignorance about the Holocaust. ‘When we say ‘never again,’ it is not only that we don’t want such a horrendous phenomenon to recur. But it is the acknowledgment that something similar to that may recur,”…
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Fast Forward In Germany, Knesset speaker gifts German-American Holocaust survivor her family tree
Israel’s Knesset speaker honored a German-American Holocaust survivor in Berlin Wednesday with an unusual present during commemorations for International Holocaust Remembrance Day: her paternal family tree, dating back to 1660. Inge Auerbacher, 87, who was deported with her parents when she was seven from Germany to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, met with Speaker…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Moldova
Octavian Goga, who enacted laws stripping a third of Romania's Jews of citizenship, has a bust in Chisinau
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Italy
Rudolfo Graziani, known as the Butcher of Fezzan and the Butcher of Ethiopia, has a children's park named after him
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in India
While Subhas Chandra Bose is seen by some as a freedom fighter, his alliance with Hitler and the Waffen-SS cannot be ignored
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Austria
Multiple honors for Ferdinand Porsche and his son, Ferry
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