October 2010
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[The New York Times] Hitler Exhibition Explores a... →
COPYRIGHT THE NEW YORK TIMES BERLIN — As artifacts go, they are mere trinkets — an old purse, playing cards, a lantern. Even the display that caused the crowds to stop and stare is a simple embroidered tapestry, stitched by village women. But the exhibits that opened Friday at the German Historical Museum are intentionally prosaic: they emphasize the everyday way that ordinary Germans once...
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[LA Times] Rob Reiner likens 'tea party' movement... →
COPYRIGHT LOS ANGELES TIMES October 25, 2010 | 10:38 am The actor formerly known as Meathead blasted the “tea party” movement Friday night on HBO, comparing its followers to the Nazis. “My fear is that the tea party gets a charismatic leader,” actor/director Rob Reiner said to applause in front of a live audience on Bill Maher’s “Real Time.” “Because...
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[Bloomberg] Wilders's Remarks About Islam Were... →
COPYRIGHT BLOOMBERG By Jurjen van de Pol - Oct 21, 2010 7:48 AM ET Freedom Party Leader Geert Wilders, seen here, is on trial for calling the Koran “fascist” and comparing it to Adolf Hitler ’s book Mein Kampf in a 2007 Dutch newspaper editorial. Photographer: Peter Dejong, POOL/AP Images Freedom Party Leader Geert Wilders criticism of Islam in newspapers and a film weren’t intended to defame...
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[Toronto Star] McCallion foe under fire for Hitler... →
COPYRIGHT THE TORONTO STAR Published On Fri Oct 15 2010 Mississauga Councillor Sue McFadden shocked a group of Catholic high school students by mentioning Mayor Hazel McCallion in the same sentence as Adolf Hitler. McFadden and several other wards 9 and 10 candidates attended a discussion with politics and civics students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School Friday afternoon. Grade 12...
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[AP via Google News] Israeli orchestra to play... →
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By IAN DEITCH (AP) – Oct 12, 2010
JERUSALEM — An Israeli orchestra will perform works by Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germany next year, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The Israel Chamber Orchestra will play works by Wagner at the Bayreuth festival in Germany in July, spokeswoman Meirav Magen Lelie said. It...
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[NPR] National Archives Puts Nazi Papers On Public... →
COPYRIGHT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON October 6, 2010, 05:19 pm ET The laws signed by Adolf Hitler taking away the citizenship of German Jews before the Holocaust were placed on rare public display Wednesday at the National Archives. The Nuremberg Laws were turned over to the archives in August by The Huntington, a museum complex near Los Angeles where they were quietly deposited by Gen....
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[Winchester Star] Holocaust survivor’s message:... →
COPYRIGHT Winchester Star Posted Oct 28, 2010 @ 04:15 PM Winchester, MA — One of the worst moments of Eliezer Ayalon’s life came when the German guard, with one swift swoop, smacked away his one worldly possession — a small, porcelain cup. It happened at his first of five concentration camps, Blyzin, in the spring of 1943. “The first thing that happens when you come to a new camp: there’s a roll...
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[Reuters] Historic German Jewish children's book... →
COPYRIGHT REUTERS By Michelle Martin BERLIN | Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:14pm EDT BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Six and a half decades after the Holocaust, the first Jewish publisher of children’s books in Germany will issue its inaugural title on Monday. Filmmaker and author Myriam Halberstam, a German-American Jew, said she set up “Ariella Books” in May 2010 because there was a lack...
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MFA is owner of contested painting →
COPYRIGHT THE BOSTON GLOBE The federal Appeals Court in Boston has found that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston owns a valuable 1913 painting by expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, ruling that the statute of limitations had run out on an Austrian woman’s assertion that she was the rightful owner. Claudia Seger-Thomschitz sought the return of “Two Nudes (Lovers),’’ arguing that Jewish art collector Oskar...
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[The Washington Independent] Anti-Illegal... →
COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT By Elise Foley 10/19/10 3:36 PM It may be a bad time to be endorsed by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC. The group is once again being accused of ties to white supremacist groups and Nazism, this time by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The DCCC released a statement Monday alleging that Jesse Kelly, a Republican candidate for...
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[Telegraph UK] Councillor made Nazi salute in... →
COPYRIGHT TELEGRAPH (UK) Mike Gardner, a council leader from Harrogate, has been photographed at a party dressed up as Adolf Hitler and performing the Nazi salute. Published: 9:39AM BST 22 Oct 2010 Harrogate councillor Mike Gardner who dressed as hitler at a fancy dress birthday party the conroversial picture was posted on facebook: Councillor made Nazi salute in Hitler outfit Tory councillor Mr...
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[Belfast Telegraph] Book of the Week: Simon... →
COPYRIGHT BELFAST TELEGRAPH Trail of a mighty hunter Reviewed by Carole Angier Friday, 29 October 2010 Mapping the coordinates of atrocity: Simon Wiesenthal As one of Israel’s “New Historians”, Tom Segev is used to disinformation and conflict. That is just as well, for a biographer of the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, whose story is packed with both. This is a historian’s...
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[The New York Times] Robert Katz, Who Wrote About... →
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By BRUCE WEBER Published: October 22, 2010 The cause was complications following cancer surgery, said his wife, Beverly Gerstel Katz. Mr. Katz lived in Pieve a Presciano, Italy. Mr. Katz, an American who lived in Italy for much of the last 50 years, wrote nonfiction books, novels and screenplays, many set against the backdrop of 20th-century Italian history. He was...
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[Colorado Independent] Personhood backers disavow... →
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By Joseph Boven 10/27/10 8:59 AM Personhood Colorado Director Gualberto Garcia Jones Tuesday told the Colorado Independent that his organization did not agree with a Facebook page portraying No on 62 campaign members as Nazis. However, he said the dehumanizing thought process that allowed the planned extermination of 5.9 million Jews during the Nazi regime...
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[Deutsche Welle] Chilean president apologizes for... →
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has apologized after writing a phrase associated with Nazism in the guest book of German President Christian Wulff. Pinera said he was unaware of the link to the Third Reich. The president of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, apologized on Monday for writing a message linked to Nazism in the guest book of German President Christian Wulff. Pinera...
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[Brooklyn Paper] Is this graffiti anti-Semitic or... →
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By Stephen Brown The Brooklyn Paper Some sicko wrote, “Geese first, Jews next,” on an emergency call box in Park Slope over the weekend — but it’s unclear whether the vandalism is an anti-Semitic call for violence or a sincere attempt to link this summer’s federal goose extermination to one of history’s greatest atrocities. The vandalism, which appeared at Prospect Park...
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[RT] Neo-Nazi gets life sentence for hate killings →
Published 28 October, 2010, 20:16 Edited 29 October, 2010, 09:33 The Moscow City Court has sentenced a 22-year-old neo-Nazi to life in prison for killing 15 people. Vasily Krivets, who was also handed a fine of 13.5 million rubles ($450,000), has not confessed to the crimes. The court also sentenced Dmitry Ufimtsev, 23, who confessed to committing five murders, to 22 years in prison. After their...
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[BBC News] US political ad mistakenly shows German... →
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A North Carolina state legislator says he supports the military, but a flyer prepared by his campaign could lead some to question which country’s. Democrat Tim Spear’s campaign has apologised after inadvertently sending voters a leaflet showing actors in World War II-era German uniforms. The firm that produced the advert touting his support for the military has...
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[Bloomberg] Hitler Planned to Hold Out in Austrian... →
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By Chris Spillane - Oct 28, 2010 7:01 PM ET Adolf Hitler Planned to Hold Out in Alps Allied military intelligence indicated Adolf Hitler had built an underground Alpine fortress to house “the elite of Nazi Germany” in a desperate, final stand in World War II, according to documents released today. Intelligence reports from 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the war,...
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[National Post] Avi Benlolo: Hitler and imagery,... →
COPYRIGHT NATIONAL POST I am standing in front of one of the newest exhibits at the German Historical Museum, trying to understand why I feel so deeply troubled. Titled “Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime,” it is the first official exhibition in Berlin to focus on Hitler’s fascist ideology and his effect on the German people. The exhibit is an outstanding presentation of rarely seen imagery,...
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[Philadelphia Inquirer] Pennsylvania Board of... →
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Posted on Thu, Oct. 28, 2010 Pennsylvania Board of Education chairman urges Lincoln to reconsider Siddique tenure By Jeremy Roebuck Inquirer Staff Writer The head of the Pennsylvania Board of Education this week joined a growing list of protesters urging Lincoln University to reconsider the tenure of a professor who has questioned the Holocaust and urged the...
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[LA Times] Architecture review: Los Angeles Museum... →
The Hagy Belzberg-designed museum in Pan Pacific Park seems conflicted. Its elegant, rippling shapes don’t seem tough enough to hold the horrors within. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic October 28, 2010 Architectural symbols are rarely more layered, complex or self-aware than in a Holocaust museum, where the architect’s...
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[Chicago Tribune] Wis. Democrats blast Republican... →
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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Writer 6:40 p.m. CDT, October 25, 2010 MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Democrats blasted a Republican state Senate candidate Monday for calling Adolf Hitler a strong leader in a tweet. Dane Deutsch of Rice Lake posted a message on his campaign Twitter account on March 21 that said, “Hitler and Lincoln were both strong leaders....
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[Bloomberg] Nazi Victims Ask EU to Probe Vatican... →
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Holocaust survivors from the former Yugoslavia accused the Vatican of helping Nazi allies launder their stolen valuables and have asked the European Commission to investigate their claims. “We are requesting the commission open an inquiry into allegations of money laundering of Holocaust victim assets by financial organs associated with or which are agencies of the Vatican...
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[The Washington Post] Court rejects bid to bar... →
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By ANDREA M. JARACH The Associated Press Wednesday, October 27, 2010; 12:31 PM MUNICH — German judges heard a deceased Sobibor guard’s statements made to Soviet authorities that he remembers John Demjanjuk from the Nazi death camp Wednesday despite defense objections. The Demjanjuk, 90, a retired Ohio autoworker, is standing trial on 28,060 counts of...
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[The Economist] Germany's Nazi diplomats: The... →
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IN 1941 Franz Rademacher, who handled Jewish matters for Germany’s foreign ministry, took a business trip to Belgrade. His expense claim disclosed the purpose of his visit: “liquidation of Jews”. This chilling detail appears in “Das Amt und die Vergangenheit” (“The Ministry and the Past”), an 880-page history of the ministry during and after the Nazi era, commissioned...
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[CBS News] John Boehner Slammed for Rallying With... →
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Senate Minority Leader John Boehner is being roundly criticized for his decision to campaign for Ohio congressional candidate Rich Iott, a candidate condemned even by another member of the Republican leadership, Eric Cantor, for Iott’s past participation in Nazi reenactments Iott recently announced on his website that Boehner will appear with him in a rally at the Lucas...