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Fast Forward Bulgarian Official Admits ‘Horsing Around’ On Buchenwald Trip
(JTA) — A leader of Bulgarian Jews condemned his country’s deputy prime minister, who said jokingly that he may have behaved inappropriately when visiting a former Nazi concentration camp. Valeri Simeonov, vice-president of the United Patriots and Bulgaria’s deputy prime minister, told the Sega newspaper on Tuesday he and some his friends may have taken…
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Fast Forward Long Island Group With Nazi Past Settles Discrimination Case
Ninety years ago, the small hamlet of Yaphank in Long Island was a Nazi enclave in New York state, with a nearby pro-Nazi summer camp and rules restricting home ownership to Germans. Shockingly, those home ownership rules remained officially in place until this week, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman reached a settlement…
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Yiddish World 120 Years Of The Forverts: How We Covered The Hindenburg Disaster
This article originally [appeared](http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/203879/-years-of-the-forverts-the-hindenburg-disaster/ “appeared”) in the Forverts. Saturday, May 6, marked 80 years since the Hindenburg exploded while attempting to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 passengers, crew members and one man on the ground. Widely seen newsreels, along with the now legendary radio broadcast featuring Herbert Morrison crying while reporting the tragedy…
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Fast Forward South African College Students Suspended Over Nazi Posters
Three South African students were suspended on Thursday on suspicion of putting up Nazi-inspired posters at an elite university, at a time of growing tension in race relations. Stellenbosch University said the images, which copied Nazi youth movement posters without their swastika flags, contained “highly offensive references to Nazi propaganda and Neo-Nazism” and were in…
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Culture How Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Anticipated The Holocaust
This Month Anne Reads: Metamorphosis: By Franz Kafka ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” The famous first line of this haunting tale is hard to forget and painful to remember. From the beginning the end is clear. Gregor Samsa will be…
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Fast Forward Jews Among 70,000 Slaughtered By Nazis In Channel Island Camps That Britain Covered Up
A shocking new report says up to 70,000 prisoners — including many Jews — may have been murdered by the Nazis in slave labor camps on the Channel Islands — a toll that British intelligence covered up. Britain’s official history says just 400 prisoners were killed in camps off the French coastline. But a new…
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Fast Forward German Army Searches Barracks After Nazi Propaganda Found
The head of Germany’s armed forces has called for an inspection of all army barracks after investigators discovered Nazi-era military memorabilia in a garrison, broadening a scandal about right-wing extremism among soldiers. The discovery at a barracks in Donaueschingen, in southwest Germany, was made in an investigation that began after similar Nazi-era items were found…
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Fast Forward Polish Honorary Consul Dismissed For Photoshopped Picture Of Donald Tusk As SS Officer
Earlier today the Polish Honorary Consul in Akron, Ohio (one of twenty such posts in the United States) was dismissed for allegedly posting a photoshopped image of European Council President Donald Tusk dressed as an SS officer. The honorary consul, Maria Szonert-Binienda, denies the charges, stating to the AP, “I did not make a photo…
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