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Fast Forward Israeli Political Strategist Runs Afoul Of Anti-Nazi Laws In Austria
An Israeli political strategist might have broken Austria’s anti-Nazi laws in launching an attack campaign against the country’s People’s Party by labeling its leader an anti-Semite. Silberstein, who was charged with corruption in Israel over the summer, helped set up Facebook platforms that slammed Elisabeth Koestinger, head of the People’s Party, as an anti-Semite. He…
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Fast Forward Hitler Painting Damaged By Screwdriver-Wielding Italian Man
An Italian man wielding a screwdriver attacked a painting by Adolf Hitler in an Italian museum, the BBC reported. The painting, on loan from a private collector, part of an exhibition called the “Museum of Madness” at the Museo di Salo, near Brescia, Italy. “The show about madness would not have been complete if it…
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Fast Forward Four NY Jewish Businesses Targeted With Nazi Mail
Four Jewish businesses in New York City were targeted on Monday with anti-Semitic fliers received in the mail that included Nazi swastikas and other hateful symbols and rhetoric. “It is disturbing that at least four Jewish-owned businesses across New York City were apparently intentionally targeted with the same piece of racist and bigoted hate mail,”…
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Fast Forward Polish Historian Says Nazi Invasion ‘Not Very Bad’ For Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The Polish Institute of National Remembrance has distanced itself from one of its historians who wrote in an op-ed that the situation of the Jews “did not look very bad” after the Nazis entered Poland. The piece by Tomasz Panfil, the historian responsible for education at the Polish Institute of National…
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Fast Forward Oregon Man Finds Nazi Paperwork Signed By Hitler And Himmler
A man says he found documents from Nazi Germany containing the signatures of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joaquim von Ribbentrop and other prominent Nazis in a van he bought at an auction, the Register-Guard reported. The man, from Eugene, Oregon, bought the 1985 blue Ford Econoline at an auction in mid-September, and discovered the paperwork…
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Opinion Is Communism Worse Than Nazism?
In the new normal of 2017, in which far-right and far-left militants clash openly in America’s public square, a contentious 20th century debate is newly relevant: is the extreme left as dangerous and repugnant as the extreme right? Should the hammer and sickle be as offensive as the swastika? Was Communism as evil as Nazism…
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Fast Forward Deport Ex-Nazi Guard, Entire NY Congressional Delegation Urges Tillerson
(JTA) — The entire New York congressional delegation has sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging him to deport a former Nazi concentration camp guard. Jakiw Palij, 92, a resident of Queens, New York, was a guard at the Trawniki concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. The letter calling for his…
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Fast Forward German TV To Air Interviews With Nazi Death Squad Soldiers
BERLIN (JTA) — A German television channel is broadcasting interviews with two alleged members of World War II Nazi death squads located with help from an Israeli hunter of Nazis. Efraim Zuroff, Jerusalem-based Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, went public with the names after German state investigators appeared to be dragging their feet,…
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