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Originally published 04/20/2018
Autism doctor Hans Asperger collaborated with the Nazis, new research shows
According to medical historian Herwig Czech, Asperger directly referred two disabled girls to the notorious Am Spiegelgrund children's clinic in Vienna, where some 800 children were murdered under the Nazi's euthanasia program.
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Originally published 04/10/2018
'I'm A Holocaust Survivor—Trump's America Feels Like Germany Before Nazis Took Over'
He worries about what’s happening right now in America, where he has lived and prospered since arriving a couple of years after Buchenwald’s liberation on April 11, 1945.
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Originally published 04/02/2018
The Nazi History Behind ‘Asperger’
Edith Sheffer
Dr. Hans Asperger is credited with shaping our ideas of autism and Asperger syndrome, diagnoses given to people believed to have limited social skills and narrow interests.
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Originally published 03/12/2018
‘Never Again’: Fighting Hate in a Changing Germany With Tours of Nazi Camps
Sawsan Chebli, a Berlin state legislator with Palestinian heritage, recently came up with an idea that is radical even by the standards of a country that has dissected the horrors of its past like no other: make visits to Nazi concentration camps mandatory — for everyone.
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Originally published 02/23/2018
Strike!!! Strike!!! Strike!!! On This Day in 1941 Dutch Workers Said No to the Nazi Persecution of Dutch Jews
Peter Cole
It was the first and largest mass protest against the Nazis during World War II.
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Originally published 02/16/2018
Literally drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews
Edward B Westermann
The role of alcohol in the Nazi genocide of European Jews deserves greater attention.
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Originally published 02/06/2018
Poland wants to outlaw blaming Poles for Nazi atrocities
But what about the Jedwabne massacre?
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Originally published 02/02/2018
Why Nazis are back — and attracted to the Northwest
It is 2018, and we’re talking about Nazis.
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Originally published 12/27/2017
The Austrian Scientist Time Forgot Because He Was a Jew
Paolieri Matteo
His name was Ferdinand Münz. His misfortune was to excel as a scientist when the Nazis came to power.
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Originally published 11/29/2017
Trump’s Demonization of Muslims Echoes a Dark Chapter in German History
Richard E. Frankel
His tweeting of anti-Muslim videos could very well have real-world consequences.
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Originally published 11/29/2017
What the New York Times’ Nazi Story Left Out
The history of America has been written by normal white racists living in normal towns.
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Originally published 11/15/2017
Historian: Why We're Still Learning About Nazi Dictator
Thomas Weber
Thomas Weber says many of the victims and perpetrators haven’t spoken out.
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Originally published 11/14/2017
“Lock Her Up”: So This Wasn’t Just a Rhetorical Flourish?
Richard E. Frankel
Why this historian of Modern German History is alarmed by Trump’s call on the Justice Department to investigate Hillary Clinton.
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Originally published 11/02/2017
Israel has proved the Nazis wrong, says historian Simon Schama
The acclaimed historian made his remarks at the Balfour Centenary Lecture.
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Originally published 11/01/2017
German Socialist Party was Hitler's first choice, says historian
Newly discovered documents show Hitler only joined Nazi party after being rejected by his first choice, the German Socialist Party.
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Originally published 10/25/2017
Poland honors historian who said Nazi invasion wasn’t so bad for Jews
Head of Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin receives government award, weeks after publishing article downplaying Jewish suffering in WW2.
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Originally published 10/25/2017
Serbian WWII PM ‘Absolutely Loyal to Nazis’: Historian
A historian who testified at a rehabilitation hearing for Serbia’s WWII Prime Minister, Milan Nedic, said the collaborationist leader’s loyalty to the German regime was “absolute until the very end.”
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Originally published 10/20/2017
Thomas Childers says we’ve got the Nazis wrong in 5 different ways
Thomas Childers
Childers is the author of "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany."
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Originally published 10/19/2017
Nazis in America: Richard Spencer's Visit to Florida Targets Jewish and Hispanic Students, Professors Say
“When I hear Spencer saying, ‘For us, it is to conquer or it is to die,’ I hear echoes of [Hitler].”
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Originally published 10/12/2017
"Do We Have To Fight Nazis Again?” asks historian Paul Ortiz
The University of Florida historian is upset that the administration is allowing Richard Spencer to speak on October 19.
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Originally published 10/06/2017
Congressman: Holocaust Survivor Is a Nazi Collaborator Who Organized Charlottesville Rallies
Rep. Paul Gosar is pushing conspiracy theories popularized by 9/11 Truther Alex Jones about the August white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville.
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Originally published 10/05/2017
Polish institute rebuffs historian who said Nazi invasion not that bad for Jews
Institute of National Remembrance distances itself from Tomasz Panfilm, says his op-ed is "in no way compatible with historical knowledge."
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Originally published 09/20/2017
The Nazi Plan to Kill the Disabled: What the U.S. Government Knew and When It Knew It
Suzy Evans
The terrible question that remains today amid widespread ethnic cleansing and genocide is why nothing was done.
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Originally published 09/15/2017
Steve Bannon has a Nazi Problem
“Bannon sees the Pepes as kind of like trolls, and not like the Nazis like Richard Spencer and David Duke,” said one person who spoke to Bannon. “Everybody’s kind of struggling with it.”
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Originally published 09/14/2017
Why Did the Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville Chant “Blood and Soil”?
Yoni Anijar
The history of the phrase is frightening.
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Originally published 09/11/2017
Antifa Says It’s Fighting Fascists. It Just Might Be Helping to Re-Elect Donald Trump.
Ronald Radosh
The German Reds had the slogan ‘After Hitler, Us,’ and used their energy and propaganda not against the Nazis, but against the mainstream socialists. It didn’t end well.
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Originally published 09/11/2017
Why Did Israel Let Mengele Go?
Ronen Bergman
It had other priorities for Mossad, the short-handed agency.
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Originally published 09/07/2017
Lessons from German History after Charlottesville
Jeffrey Herf
What we do – and do not – have to worry about.
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Originally published 08/22/2017
Survey: 9 percent call neo-Nazi views acceptable
A majority of Americans, 83 percent, said holding neo-Nazi views is unacceptable, the poll found.
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Originally published 08/02/2017
Legal Fight Over Nazi-Looted Painting Ends After 26 Years
Seized 80 years ago as a ‘degenerate art,’ the heirs of the Paul Klee masterpiece have finally reached a settlement with the city of Munich.
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Originally published 07/17/2017
Macron, Netanyahu mark 75 years since France's roundup of Jews
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday marked 75 years since the roundup of some 13,000 Jews to be sent to Nazi death camps, calling France's responsibility a "stark truth" at a ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Originally published 07/10/2017
Rolf Peter Sieferle: Germany’s Newest Intellectual Antihero
Christopher Caldwell
The German historian who took his own life last year has become a hero of the extreme right. But does he deserve their praise?
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Originally published 07/07/2017
How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement
John Broich
The story of how close Germany – and much of Europe – came to liberating its LGBTQ people before violently reversing that trend under new authoritarian regimes is an object lesson showing that the history of LGBTQ rights is not a record of constant progress.
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Originally published 06/26/2017
Six Nazi spies were executed in 1942. White supremacists gave them a memorial — on federal land
The National Park Service discovered the memorial in 2006, but it remained unknown until a journalist happened to learn of it.
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Originally published 06/21/2017
Hidden Trove of Suspected Nazi Artifacts Found in Argentina
Some 75 objects were found in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.
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Originally published 06/19/2017
Historian uncovers diaries from Nazi siege of Leningrad documenting cannibalism during famine
Newly discovered diaries reveal horror of siege.
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Originally published 05/24/2017
Trump calls Nazi Holocaust 'history's darkest hour'
President Donald Trump paid tribute at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, calling it an indescribable act of evil.
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Originally published 05/13/2017
Pro-Nazi Soldiers in German Army Raise Alarm
German military police searching through barracks turned up Nazi-era military memorabilia that revealed a much broader presence of far-right extremists in the German Army’s ranks, something commanders are now accused of having long ignored.
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Originally published 05/01/2017
The Nazi Who Infiltrated National Geographic
Nina Strochlic
Douglas Chandler's 1937 feature on Berlin for National Geographic magazine painted a citizenry content under Nazi rule. He later collaborated with the Nazis, working as a radio propagandist.
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Originally published 05/01/2017
France's New Far-Right Leader Quits Over Alleged Holocaust Denial
Jean-François Jalkh has stepped down as the leader of France's far-right National Front party, after controversy over his remarks about Nazi Germany's use of Zyklon B gas to kill Jews during World War II.
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Originally published 04/21/2017
“WOW, Auschwitz Had a Pharmacist?!”
Patricia Posner
An interview with Patricia Posner, author of “The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story.”
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Originally published 04/19/2017
Only now are we learning that the UN was ready to indict Hitler for war crimes in 1945
Documents showing that Adolf Hitler had been indicted as a war criminal for actions by the Nazis during World War II before his death - contrary to longstanding assumptions.
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Originally published 04/07/2017
Marine Le Pen’s Treasurer Published Pro-Nazi Facebook Posts For Years
During the presidential campaign, several members of Le Pen’s close entourage have been suspected of sympathy for neo-Nazi groups and anti-Semitic propaganda.
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Originally published 03/31/2017
The Nazi Diary that Took 12 Years to Track Down and Be Published
Robert Wittman
It’s the diary of Alfred Rosenberg, one of Hitler’s closest and most loyal aides.
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Originally published 03/20/2017
Mennonite Sect Wrestles Publicly With Its Nazi Ties In Paraguay
Decades after officials worried they might be sheltering the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, members of the Mennonite sect in Paraguay are coming to terms with their historical ties with the Third Reich.
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Originally published 03/16/2017
Polish historian's book on killing of Jews exposes raw nerve
Barbara Engelking says that while the"responsibility for the extermination of Jews in Europe is borne by Nazi Germany" the "Polish peasants were volunteers in the sphere of murdering Jews."
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Originally published 03/15/2017
German Art Collectors Face a Painful Past: Do I Own Nazi Loot?
People with prominent collections and unsettled consciences have stepped forward to investigate what they own.
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Originally published 03/15/2017
Poland confirms 98-year-old Minnesota man was Nazi commander, seeks extradition
Prosecutors have asked a court in Lublin to issue an arrest warrant for Michael Karkoc.
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Originally published 03/09/2017
Did American Racism Inspire the Nazis?
Joshua Muravchik
A new book claims as much—and in so doing falls into the intellectual trap known as reductio ad Hitlerum.
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Originally published 03/07/2017
Ukrainian Historian Who Praised Nazi Collaborator Invited To Holocaust Conference
Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, last week condemned the planned attendance of Volodymyr Vyatrovych, director of Ukrainian National Memory Institute, at a conference planned for Paris this week under the title: “Holocaust in Ukraine – New Perspectives on the Evils of the 20th Century.”
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Originally published 03/03/2017
This 95-year-old Holocaust survivor has a roommate — she’s a 31-year-old granddaughter of Nazis
Welcoming Heitfeld, the kin of the very people who brutally forced him from his childhood home, to live as his roommate while she finishes her degree feels like “an act of justice,” Stern said in an interview.
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Originally published 02/13/2017
Third Reich historian Richard Evans worries the similarities between the 1930s and now are too close for comfort
"Of course history never repeats itself. Democracy dies in different ways at different times.”
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Originally published 01/27/2017
The Long History of "Nazi Punching"
Video of an assault on a white nationalist marks the return of an age-old conflict.
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Originally published 01/16/2017
Nazi Doctor 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.
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Originally published 01/13/2017
Anti-Defamation League Condemns Donald Trump’s ‘Nazi Germany’ Tweet
The comparison "coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust."
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Originally published 12/27/2016
High School Students in Taiwan Staged a Nazi-Themed Parade. It Wasn’t Received Well
The school has now pledged to strengthen Holocaust awareness by screening films like Schindler’s List.
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Originally published 12/22/2016
Obama Signs HEAR Act into Law, a Victory for Those Seeking Nazi-Looted Art
The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act erodes some of the legal technicalities that art museums have used to hold on to Nazi-looted art when faced with claims.
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Originally published 12/20/2016
What Those Who Studied Nazis Can Teach Us About The Strange Reaction To Donald Trump
Shawn Hamilton
While it’s important to watch the president-elect closely, we also must be mindful of our own response to him.
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Originally published 12/19/2016
Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration
James Q Whitman
The answer is that in the early 20th century, the US, with its vigorous and creative legal culture, led the world in racist lawmaking.
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Originally published 12/15/2016
Ruling Paves Way for Transfer of Art Trove Including Nazi-Looted Works
The German owner of the 1,500 artworks was of sound mind when he bequeathed them to a museum in Switzerland, a court in Munich ruled.
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Originally published 12/08/2016
Before Elie Wiesel Was a Hero to Germans, He Was Regarded as a Nuisance – or Worse
Jacob S. Eder
Germany’s coming to terms with the Nazi past was a difficult, contradictory, and long-winded process, illustrated by its evolving attitude toward Wiesel.
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Originally published 11/28/2016
Nazis Today: Germany Probes Nazism’s Influence In Post-World War II Government
Germany announced Saturday it is launching a probe into Nazi influence on its post-war central government at the cost of 4 million euros ($4.2 million). The investigation will run till 2020.
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Originally published 11/07/2016
Photo could rewrite history of Nazi 'Broken Glass' pogrom
Seventy-eight years ago, the Nazis used the murder of a diplomat by a Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, to launch anti-Semitic attacks. A newly uncovered photo suggests that he may have surprisingly survived the Holocaust.
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Originally published 11/02/2016
More information is coming out about Volkswagen's firing of the historian who chronicled its Nazi past
75 prominent German academics accused Volkswagen of a vindictive punishment.
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Originally published 10/24/2016
VW fires corporate historian who drew attention to wartime ties to Nazis
The historian was critical of a report about the activities of Auto Union during Germany‘s Nazi era. Auto Union is the company that became Audi, now a key subsidiary of Volkswagen Group.
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Originally published 10/24/2016
How a public park in the suburbs of Virginia helped beat the Nazis
Karen Duffin
A story about Nazis who were sent to America to be interrogated. Many of the interrogators were Jewish.
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Originally published 10/17/2016
How Nazi terminology is creeping back into politics
Long-banished German words and phrases linked to the country's Nazi past have been revived by far-right politicians railing against the migrant influx, sparking comparisons to the 1930s.
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Originally published 10/13/2016
The Shocking Cynicism Behind the Voyage of the “St. Louis” and Its Ship Full of Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
Richard Rashke
The story is more appalling than was understood at the time.
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Originally published 09/24/2016
Karl Dietrich Bracher, German Historian of Nazi Era, Dies at 94
A World War IIveteran of the German army who argued as a historian that the German people had to take responsibility for the rise of Nazism because of their embrace of Hitler and his racist agenda, he died on Monday in Bonn.
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Originally published 09/21/2016
Documents Belonging to “Scotland’s Schindler” Discovered
Jane Haining was a missionary with the Church of Scotland when she gave her life protecting Jewish schoolgirls.
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Originally published 09/19/2016
Ken Burns says new Nazi documentary evokes refugees’ plight
The documentary, “Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War,” tells the story of a Wellesley, Massachusetts, couple who rescued refugees and dissidents in Europe before and after the start of World War II.
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Originally published 09/19/2016
Will Victims of Nazi Art Thieves Finally Get Justice?
Some courts say too much time has passed for descendants to get back the masterpieces the Nazis stole. Families say no—and Congress is stepping in.
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Originally published 08/15/2016
Assassinate an SS German Leader? Sure. But There Were Consequences.
James Stejskal
The moral question at the heart of a new movie about the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich.
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Originally published 07/08/2016
Why this man is the most hated Jew in Lithuania
He’s forcing the country to face its Nazi past.
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Originally published 06/29/2016
Nazi Detector App Brands Right-Wing Extremists — and Donald Trump
An internet tool singles out extreme right-wingers online — and Donald Trump — by putting swastikas around their names, mirroring an earlier application that neo-Nazis used to identify Jews online.
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Originally published 06/23/2016
The Echoes of Nazism in Orlando
Jim Downs
Gay people have had to live with the memory of Nazi persecution. Orlando revives the memory.
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Originally published 06/22/2016
Buyer spends more than €600,000 at Nazi memorabilia auction
Man tells reporter at controversial sale in Germany that he came from Argentina and bought the relics for a museum.
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Originally published 06/10/2016
Bartlomiej Plebanczyk, an unassuming historian and museum director in northeastern Poland, believes he has found the long-lost Amber Room
The location? A former German bunker in Mamerki, Poland.
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Originally published 06/06/2016
A Look Back at the Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the 1930s
Bruce Chadwick
A review of a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society.
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Originally published 05/10/2016
The Last Nazi Trials
More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions about how to assign blame for the Holocaust.
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Originally published 05/05/2016
The Nazi Underground
Is treasure buried beneath the mountains of Poland?
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Originally published 05/03/2016
Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionism
Jeffrey Herf
During the Cold War the Soviet Union, its Warsaw Pact Allies and the Western far-left spread a variety of lies about the history of Zionism, the most famous of these falsehoods being the assertion that Hitler and the Nazi regime were supporters of Zionism.
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Originally published 04/22/2016
Hitler's 3-mile-long abandoned Nazi resort is transforming into a luxury getaway
In 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of a massive 3-mile-long row of buildings, destined to be an enormous beach resort for Nazi Germany. It was abandoned three years later, when World War II broke out.
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Originally published 03/30/2016
Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis
German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime.
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Originally published 03/28/2016
Judaica For Sale at the Dachau Gift Shop
You can even buy a birthday card. Seriously.
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Originally published 03/14/2016
Laval University to change campaign poster that looks like Nazi-era symbol
Laval University will review its choice in imagery for a fundraising campaign after facing criticism that one of its illustrations looks like a pavilion designed by a Nazi architect.
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Originally published 02/11/2016
One of the last remaining Nazis goes on trial in Germany
The suspect is a 94-year-old former Nazi SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp.
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Originally published 01/29/2016
Israel releases Nazi Eichmann's execution plea papers
Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, protested his innocence in a final plea against his death sentence, newly released papers show.
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Originally published 01/21/2016
How the Last Surviving Nazis Could Be Brought to Justice
The legal standard that allows such cases is less than a decade old.
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Originally published 01/12/2016
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says
The book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II.
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Originally published 10/20/2015
Nazi Past of Long Island Hamlet Persists in a Rule for Home Buyers
A couple in Yaphank, N.Y., is suing a community organization, saying the housing practices are discriminatory and violate the Fair Housing Act.
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Originally published 09/30/2015
Possible Nazi Tunnels Fuel Treasure Seekers in Poland
Two recent claims by explorers have set off a frenzy over a legendary “gold train” and other possible valuables left behind in World War II.
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Originally published 09/08/2015
Nazi Criminals Were Given Rorschach Tests at Nuremberg
The effort to study these Nazis “constituted a heroic effort on the part of researchers to try to understand the psychopathology of mass killers.”
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Originally published 09/01/2015
Holocaust-denying historian David Irving organizes 'disgusting' £2,000-a-head holiday tours of former concentration camps and Hitler's HQ so people can 'make up their own mind about the truth'
Irving, 77, is notorious for his attempts to play down the extent of the Holocaust, and his insistence that Hitler was unaware of the plan to exterminate the Jews.
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Originally published 08/03/2015
A salute lost to history
Hannah Schwarz explores a 1934 photo that appears to show Jewish children in Pittsburgh giving the Nazi salute
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Originally published 07/27/2015
Lithuania wants to erase its ugly history of Nazi collaboration
How? By accusing Jewish partisans who fought the Germans of war crimes.
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Originally published 07/27/2015
Historian Shelly Cline researches female Nazi guards
“Exploring issues of human nature brought me back to the Holocaust.”
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Originally published 07/24/2015
How far did the UK aristocracy’s love of the Nazis really go?
Bernard Wasserstein
Footage of the Queen giving a fascist salute has revived theories that Britain’s blue bloods were in thrall to Hitler. An eminent historian untangles the myth from the reality.
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Originally published 07/15/2015
Auschwitz Guard Convicted Of 300,000 Counts Of Accessory To Murder
Groening has testified that he guarded prisoners' baggage after they arrived at Auschwitz and collected money stolen from them.
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Originally published 06/30/2015
Catching One Nazi Became His Life
When McKay Smith went looking for his grandfather, he found demons. Some of them his own.
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Originally published 06/10/2015
Two steps forward, one step back: how World War II changed how we do human research
James Bradley
It’s easy, in retrospect, to portray World War II as a major turning point in the history of medical ethics. But it’s a portrayal we should resist because it blinds us to the troubles that persist to this day in matters of informed consent.
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Originally published 06/02/2015
Ethics of a Nazi judge
Konrad Morgen prosecuted his fellow Nazis for corruption, not murder. How should history judge him?
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Originally published 06/02/2015
U.S. Paid Residents Linked to Nazi Crimes $20 Million in Benefits, Report Says
The millions of dollars paid out indicate the ease with which thousands of former Nazis managed to settle into new lives in the United States with little scrutiny after the end of World War II.
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Originally published 05/22/2015
Unfinished film about the Holocaust made in 1945 to finally be seen by audiences
In this review NYT columnist Roger Cohen urges the film be widely distributed to combat Holocaust Denial.
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Originally published 05/19/2015
Lithuanians discover that a utility station is built from Jewish gravestones
Only recently did someone happen to notice this remnant from the country’s anti-Semitic past.
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Originally published 05/12/2015
Jewish Soldiers Battled Nazi Germany
Alan Singer
Another Way to Teach about the European Holocaust
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Originally published 05/12/2015
Why Aren’t American Museums Doing more to Return Nazi-Looted Art?
Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt
17 years after the US hosted the Washington conference on Nazi-confiscated art and pledged to facilitate “just and fair” solutions, a lack of transparency in American museums remains.
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Originally published 05/06/2015
Returning the Spoils of World War II, Taken by Americans
Paintings that an American G.I. won in a poker game are among the treasures plundered during World War II that are returning to Germany.
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Originally published 05/06/2015
Nazi-confiscated painting returned to heir of Jewish art historian
After the Germans occupied Paris, the Nazis raided August Liebmann Mayer's home there and took his art collection before deporting him to Auschwitz.
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Originally published 05/05/2015
How Spanish Nazi victim Enric Marco was exposed as impostor
Enric Marco was exposed shortly before he was due to share a platform at the camp with then Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
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Originally published 04/21/2015
Former Auschwitz Guard on Trial Says He Shares ‘Moral Guilt’
93-year-old Oskar Groening acknowledged working at Auschwitz
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Originally published 04/09/2015
Two new histories show how the Nazi concentration camps worked.
Adam Kirsch
Over the several phases of their existence, prisoners were treated simultaneously as inmates to be corrected, enemies to be combatted, and workers to be exploited.
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Originally published 03/24/2015
Mass Exodus of Germans From Eastern Europe: The Last Nazi War Crime
Eva Hahnova
Czech historian Eva Hahnova has challenged attempts to rewrite the history of the Second World War, including the story of the mass exodus of Germans from Eastern Europe at the end of the war, which she calls the last massive crime committed by the Nazi regime.
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Originally published 03/23/2015
Secret Nazi hideout believed found in remote Argentine jungle
"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, in a site which at that time was totally inaccessible."
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Originally published 02/10/2015
Why are we obsessed with the Nazis?
Richard J Evans
How has thinking about the Third Reich changed over the decades? And does it exert such a grip because it represents racism in its most extreme form?
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Originally published 02/09/2015
Surviving the Nazis, Only to Be Jailed by America
Eric Lichtblau
Largely lost to history is the cruel reality of what “liberation” actually meant for hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors discovered barely alive in the Nazi camps.
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Originally published 02/03/2015
The twins of Auschwitz
Andy Walker
When the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp 70 years ago many of the prisoners had been killed or marched away by the retreating Nazis. But among those left were some twin children - the subject of disturbing experiments by Dr Josef Mengele.
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Originally published 02/02/2015
Why the Nazis Were Desperate for Gold
George M. Taber
It was the greatest robbery in world history. During World War II, the German Nazi government robbed more than 600 tons of European gold.
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Originally published 01/29/2015
Recalling a Film From the Liberation of the Camps
‘Night Will Fall’ Examines the Making of a 1945 Holocaust Documentary
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Originally published 01/27/2015
The voices of Auschwitz
The 70th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp could mark the last major commemoration for many Holocaust survivors
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Originally published 01/27/2015
Why doesn’t Russia make a big deal about its role in liberating Nazi Holocaust death camps?
Jeremy Hicks
The problem is that it’s quite easy to whitewash this particular history, because Russia doesn’t actually seem to be that concerned with remembering its role.
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Originally published 01/26/2015
How Auschwitz Is Misunderstood
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
That misunderstanding distorts what we think about the Holocaust, and about the Nazis themselves.
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Originally published 01/09/2015
The aggressive Nazi-bred cows that caused havoc on a modern farm
Reintroducing aurochs "into the German landscape was part of a larger project of constructing a national identity based on mythic foundations." Aurochs?
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Originally published 12/31/2014
Filmmaker Finds Nazi Atomic Bomb Research Bunker
Located in the hills surrounding the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, the vast site covers an area of up to 75 acres.
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Originally published 12/01/2014
A Long-Sought Fugitive Nazi Is Said to Have Died Four Years Ago in Syria
Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s “right-hand man” and responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews to death camps, died at least four years ago, Efraim Zuroff said.
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Originally published 11/30/2014
Holocaust survivor reunited with childhood friend who saved her from Nazis
It was the first time the women has seen each other since Weglowski’s family hid Wexler on their farm to escape German soldiers in 1942.
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Originally published 11/20/2014
Swiss Museum to Announce Decision on Nazi-Looted Art Next Week
The chance discovery of more than 1,400 modernist works in a 2012 raid by tax authorities at Gurlitt’s apartment in Munich unearthed paintings, sketches and prints long given up as lost or destroyed under Adolf Hitler’s rule.
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Originally published 11/18/2014
UVA history professor explores origins of Nazi animus toward Jews
Societies tell their stories to give meaning to their world, as a way of shaping their present. The Nazis devised a narrative to justify evil.
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Originally published 11/11/2014
Survivor Who Hated the Spotlight
Mary Berg wrote a diary about her life in the Warsaw Ghetto that was published in English long before Anne Frank’s diary. Then she disappeared.
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Originally published 11/03/2014
Gate at Dachau Concentration Camp With Nazi Slogan Is Stolen
A heavy metal gate bearing the Nazis’ infamous concentration camp slogan, “Arbeit Macht Frei,” (Work Sets You Free), was stolen under cover of darkness on the weekend from the memorial site at the old Nazi camp of Dachau.
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Originally published 10/15/2014
Nazi death squad leader: The musical
If you are constantly battling to try and disprove Russian claims that your state is essentially neo-Nazi, it doesn’t help if an evening of musical entertainment then pops up giving Nazi death squads the razzle-dazzle of a Broadway musical.
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Originally published 10/07/2014
Heidegger was one of the most influential thinkers of the modern era. He was also a convinced Nazi.
Peter E. Gordon
How, then, can one study his philosophy without taking some cognizance of his ignominious past?
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Originally published 09/22/2014
Review of Nechama Tec's "Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror"
Patrick Henry
Her latest study breaks new ground even as it reiterates the major themes of her illustrious life’s work.
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Originally published 09/04/2014
New book reveals how a Jewish doctor duped the Nazis
HNN Staff
"For 16 months, working under the noses of his clueless Nazi overseers ... a Jewish doctor managed to send fake typhus vaccine to the Nazi soldiers at the front, even as he provided the real thing to inoculate his fellow condemned Jews in a concentration camp."
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Originally published 08/23/2014
Resisting Nazis, He Saw Need for Israel.
Christopher F. Schuetze and Anne Barnard
Now He Is Its Critic.
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Originally published 08/02/2014
The Myth of Jewish Passivity
Richard Middleton-Kaplan
The myth that Jews went passively like sheep to slaughter in the Holocaust remains maddeningly persistent. In actuality, voluminous historical documentation attests to the fact that Jews resisted whenever, wherever, and however it was possible.
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Originally published 07/30/2014
East Germany's Blood Art: No Justice for Victims of Regime's Treasure Hunt
"They didn't even leave me a chair to sit on."
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Originally published 07/03/2014
Jewish Nazi Baby. What?
Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish.
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Originally published 05/06/2014
Chasing Death Camp Guards With New Tools
Not since the end of World War II have so many cases been initiated at once.
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Originally published 04/03/2014
The Walter Benjamin Brigade
Walter Laqueur
How an obscure and maddeningly opaque German Jewish intellectual became a thriving academic industry.
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Originally published 04/02/2014
National Geographic Channel Pulls ‘Nazi War Diggers’ Series
National Geographic Channel said Monday that it would “indefinitely” pull a planned television series on unearthing Nazi war graves after days of blistering criticism from archeologists and others who said the show handled the dead with macabre disrespect.
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Originally published 10/29/2013
Review of William G. Hyland Jr.'s "Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson"
Kathryn Moore
A biography fit for the author of the seminal six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson.
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Originally published 09/20/2013
'History Makers' to Visit 2 IPS High Schools
History Makers, the United Sates' largest African American video oral history collection, sends community leaders to visit schools in cities like Indianapolis in order to make history both inspiring and more approachable for high school students.
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Originally published 02/13/2013
Only surviving synagogue near Auschwitz on verge of collapse
A synagogue near the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz is on the verge of collapse, officials warned on Wednesday.The head of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, which maintains the historic building in the southern Polish city of Oswiecim, said in a phone interview that the synagogue is on unstable ground and if it is not reinforced soon, it may crumble."There are already small cracks visible," Tomasz Kuncewicz said. "A thorough examination found that the ground is unstable and with heavy rain or something similar, anything can happen."...
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Originally published 02/13/2013
Only surviving synagogue near Auschwitz on verge of collapse
A synagogue near the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz is on the verge of collapse, officials warned on Wednesday.The head of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, which maintains the historic building in the southern Polish city of Oswiecim, said in a phone interview that the synagogue is on unstable ground and if it is not reinforced soon, it may crumble."There are already small cracks visible," Tomasz Kuncewicz said. "A thorough examination found that the ground is unstable and with heavy rain or something similar, anything can happen."...
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Originally published 07/04/2016
Inside the Nazi Camp on Long Island
Gil Troy
Next door to a Germans-only colony featuring streets named Hitler and Goebbels was a youth camp with swastikas on bunks and Hitler Youth short shorts.
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Originally published 05/09/2014
The War Against the Nazis: A Source of Cold War Antagonism and Current Superpower Conflict
CHooper's Post-Soviet Futures Blog
For the U.S. and Russia, the two superpowers who have taken such an “interest” in Ukraine’s political turmoil, the Second World War could be upheld as a past example of successful diplomacy and as a model for future collaboration in resolving today’s crisis. After all, it stands for a moment when East and West worked together – as part of the “Big Three” coalition of the U.S., Great Britain, and the USSR – to bring down Adolf Hitler. Yet even the initial V-E Day in May of 1945 was an imperfect joint triumph, one marred by troubling indications of just how quickly a U.S.-Russian alliance could dissolve and one global cataclysm spill into another.
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