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News ‘Angel of Death’ Dr. Josef Mengele Now Himself Object of Medical Study
The remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi leader who was known as the “Angel of Death” for his torturous experiments on prisoners, are now being used to teach medical students at a Brazilian university. Mengele died in Brazil decades after fleeing Auschwitz. For 30 years his cranium and his bones had been left untouched…
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Opinion Why Won’t More Jewish Groups Condemn Trump’s Shameful Nazi Comparisons?
Twice in one day, President-elect Donald Trump compared himself to the victims of Nazi persecution. The first instance was in one of his infamous tweets, responding to two very different media reports, by CNN and BuzzFeed, about intelligence briefings given to Trump last week regarding his relationship with Russia. . “One last shot at me,”…
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News The Secret Life of the Gay Jewish Immigrant Whose Company Sells Your Medical Information
We may think that what happens in our doctor’s office is confidential, but, in reality, our medical secrets fuel a multi-billion-dollar trade in patient information. The leading firm in this opaque data trade is QuintilesIMS, a company founded as IMS in 1954 by an enigmatic German immigrant named Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich. Today, the company that…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Slams Trump for ‘Nazi’ Jibe at American Intelligence
Vice President Joe Biden criticized President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday for comparing the U.S. intelligence establishment to Nazi Germany and said it was damaging to the United States’ standing in the world to denigrate agencies that protect the nation. Trump said leaks from intelligence agencies about claims that he was caught in a compromising position…
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Opinion Paul Ryan Should Know Better Than To Make This Nazi Flub
Designers on social media enjoy going apoplectic when a famous or infamous logo is borrowed or stolen. Flagging these misuses has become a veritable pastime, like trainspotting. The designer of the recent “Paul Ryan Speaker” logo was either blind to or ignorant of the logo’s similarity to the Grosse Deutschland symbol — the national emblem…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Doubles Down on Comparing American Intelligence to Nazis
In a heated exchange during a Trump Tower press conference today, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his Tweet comparing the U.S. intelligence services to the Nazis. “I think it was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out,” Trump said, referring to the mysterious dossier posted…
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Fast Forward Adolf Eichmann’s Right-Hand Man Actually Died in Syria in 2001
Alois Brunner, an Austrian SS officer found responsible for the World War Two deportation of 125,500 European Jews to Nazi death camps, died in a Syrian jail cell in 2001, according to a report by two journalists published in France. Until now, Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man, was reported to have died around 2010 in…
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Fast Forward Enraged Donald Trump Compares United States to Nazi Germany
Incensed at news reports that the Russian government holds compromising information about Donald Trump, the president-elect vented his anger on Twitter on Wednesday morning, including a comparison of the United States to Nazi Germany, the fascist state led by Adolf Hitler that killed about 15 million civilians, including 6 million Jews. Intelligence agencies should never…
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