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Breaking News Hermann Goering’s Underwear Goes on Auction Block With Nazi Mementos
— An auction of Nazi memorabilia in Munich includes underpants worn by Hermann Goering and socks worn by Adolf Hitler. The auction scheduled for this weekend at the Herman Historica International auction house also includes the case that held the cyanide capsule Goering used to take his life the night before he was scheduled to…
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Opinion I Was Almost Aborted Before the Holocaust
I am a 74-year old man, and I can look back at a life that someone sometime in the future will call a life well lived. But were it not for a mother who, against the urgings of her doctor, had refused an abortion, I might not have lived. By rights, I should be a…
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Culture What If the Nazis Won — or If They Lost?
In October 2015, The New York Times Magazine conducted a poll on Twitter, asking its readers, “Could you kill a baby Hitler?” The question unleashed a flood of think pieces parsing the ethics of such an act, and a response from then-Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who said without hesitation, “Hell, yeah, I would.” Ultimately,…
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Breaking News 94-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Apologizes to Victims in Court
— A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard currently on trial in Germany apologized to his victims in court. Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS officer on trial for being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, said Friday in court in the western German city of Detmold, that he is “ashamed that I knowingly let…
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News Israeli Artist’s Agreement To Honor Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw Ghetto Sparks Furor
An Israeli sculptor’s acceptance of a commission to design a Warsaw Ghetto memorial to non-Jewish Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust has reignited a furor over the project. Opponents had been trying to persuade Tel Aviv sculptor Danny Karavan to turn down the commission. But on April 12 Karavan wrote critics of the project,…
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Opinion How Poland Is Targeting Holocaust Scholar Jan T. Gross for the Sin of Remembering
The anti-Semitic bloodbath that consumed the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941 might have been forgotten to history were it not for the scholarship of the Polish-American historian Jan T. Gross. Now, it would seem, Poland’s new government wishes Gross himself could be forgotten. In his short study, “Neighbors,” published in 2001,…
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The Schmooze Is Sexy Nazi Role Playing OK — as Long as You’re a Proud Jew?
There’s nothing wrong with introducing Nazi role play in the bedroom, journalist Mark Oppenheimer wrote in an advice column — but he scolded the letter writer for being a self-hating Jew. Famous sex writer Dan Savage called on Oppenheimer, who is Jewish, to answer the unusual question on his blog “Savage Love.” The letter writer,…
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Breaking News German Town Strips Hitler’s Honorary Citizenship
(JTA) — The southern German town of Tegernsee has revoked the honorary citizenship granted 83 years ago to Adolf Hitler. The 16 members of the Tegernsee city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to strip Hitler of the honor bestowed upon him in 1933, when he was named chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg, the Tegernsee…
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