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Culture Netflix’s Holocaust revenge drama changes the facts – is nationalism to blame, or just an actor’s mistake?
As villains go, you can’t do much better than the one at the center of Netflix’s latest, a man called “Doctor Death.” In “Jaguar,” a crew of Spanish Holocaust survivors in 1960s Madrid hunt down Aribert Heim, a real-life Nazi physician who escaped justice for nearly half a century. “He was a doctor at Mauthausen,”…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors, Austrian Far-Right Party Clash Over Memorial Service
VIENNA (Reuters) – A group that represents survivors of a Nazi-era concentration camp said on Monday the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), junior party in Austria’s coalition government, had not been invited to a memorial service, prompting an angry response from the FPO. The Austrian Mauthausen Committee holds a ceremony every May to mark the liberation…
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Breaking News Far Right Magazine Gets OK To Call Mauthausen Victims ‘Criminals’
The head of Austria’s Jewish community accused prosecutors of reaffirming Nazi logic by not indicting authors of a newspaper article that called Holocaust survivors murderers and criminals. The statement Monday by the president of the Jewish Community of Vienna, Oskar Deutsch, concerned the recent decision by prosecutors in the city of Graz to close a…
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Culture The Holocaust Survivor Who Became an Unlikely Korean War Hero
Single Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin” Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient By Daniel M. Cohen Penguin/Berkley Books, 448 Pages, $27.95 On May 5, 1945, when General George Patton’s 11th Armored Division liberates the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria, the American soldiers find the bodies of…
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Breaking News Swastikas, ‘Hitler,’ Graffitied on Former Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Four swastikas and “Hitler” were found on the former Mauthausen concentration camp. The graffiti was written with a felt pen and carved onto walls at the former camp, the Upper Austria State Police said Monday in a statement, according to Austrian news reports. An investigation was launched into the incident at Mauthausen, which is now…
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Culture Nazi Hunter Meets Nazi Architect
Dani Gal is of the generation of Israeli artists who, instead of creating their national myths, grew up with them, lived under their spell, and watched as the myths grew into monoliths meant to define a people’s sense of themselves. His work is infused with a discomfort over the causal inevitability between the Holocaust and…
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Culture Chasing Dr. Aribert Heim, the ‘Butcher of Mauthausen’
● The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim By Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet Doubleday, 250 pages, $27.95 In “The Eternal Nazi,” journalists Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet tell the gripping story of the decades-long pursuit of Nazi doctor Aribert Heim and, in the process, offer a…
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