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UK Spies Plotted to Feed Hitler Estrogen

They hoped an Adolf 'herr' to 'her' transformation might curb violence

(Newser) - In one of the British forces' wackier schemes to rid the world of Adolph Hitler's violence, secret agents plotted to slip estrogen in the fuhrer's food in a bid to tame his aggression, according to a new book. The estrogen would be tasteless and the transformation gradual as...

Bachmann Film Links Fed Ed Standards to Auschwitz

Video offers new insight into candidate's Orwellian views

(Newser) - Being forced to follow national education standards would be so heinous it could bring about another Holocaust, proclaims a video made years ago by Michele Bachmann and an activist colleague. A scene in the 2002 film, Guinea Pigs II, shows an Auschwitz image superimposed with the words "Work Makes...

Mietek Pemper, 'Schindler’s List' Typist, Dead at 91
 'Schindler’s List' 
 Typist Dead at 91 
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Jun 19, 2011 5:29 AM CDT

'Schindler’s List' Typist Dead at 91

Mietek Pemper convinced Schindler to make munitions to save prisoners' lives

(Newser) - Mietek Pemper, the Jewish prisoner who created "Schindler's List"—a list of concentration camp workers "essential" to the Nazi war effort, which saved hundreds from extermination—has died at age 91, reports the New York Times . Pemper was secretary for the commandant of the Plaszow concentration...

Early Hitler Letter Shows Anti-Semitic Beginnings

1919 writing calls for "uncompromising removal of Jews"

(Newser) - The founder of a Jewish human rights organization said today the group has acquired a document by Adolf Hitler believed to contain his first written comments calling Jews a threat that should be removed. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said the center paid $150,000 to a...

Auschwitz's 'Work Makes You Free' Sign Is Whole Again

Metal sign was mutilated by thieves

(Newser) - Auschwitz's notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign is back in one piece again after undergoing a painstaking restoration, reports the AP . Thieves cut the sign into pieces, and twisted and crushed parts of it during a 2009 theft, according to a reparations leader. Officials at...

Rabbis Rebury 60 Jews Killed in WWII Romania

Remains were discovered last year in mass grave in the forest

(Newser) - The remains of some 60 Jews killed in 1941 by Romanian troops and discovered last year were buried yesterday in a Jewish cemetery in the country’s east. The bodies, including those of women and children, were found in November in a Romanian forest. The mass grave was added evidence...

French Train Firm Apologizes for Role in Holocaust

But survivors are underwhelmed

(Newser) - France's state railway company has apologized for its role in deporting Jews to be slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II—but the move seems only to have caused more outrage. "In the name of the SNCF, I bow down before the victims, the survivors, the children of...

Rabbis Urge Murdoch to Rein In Beck, Fox News

Coalition slams constant use of Holocaust, Nazi imagery

(Newser) - A coalition of 400 rabbis have had enough of Glenn Beck's use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and attacks on George Soros . The group is urging Rupert Murdoch to sanction Beck and Fox News chief Roger Ailes. It has bought a full-page ad in one of Murdoch's own papers, the ...

Germany Knew Where Eichmann Was for Years

Nazi was living in Argentina in 1952

(Newser) - Israeli agents nabbed Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960—and a newly released document suggests that the infamous Nazi enjoyed as much as eight extra years of freedom. A German newspaper got its hands on a secret service document that shows that the country's foreign intelligence service, BND, knew...

Austria Investigates Hospital's Nazi-Era Graves

Some may be disabled victims of Hitler's regime

(Newser) - Mass exhumations at an Austrian psychiatric hospital are expected to shed light on a lesser-known aspect of the Nazi's murderous agenda: the killing of thousands of disabled people who, regardless of race, didn't fit the Third Reich's vision of an ideal society. The "euthanasia" programs are thought to have...

WikiLeaks: Vatican Pulled Out of Holocaust Task Force

Group sought release of Pius XII records

(Newser) - The Vatican backtracked on an agreement to join an organization dedicated to remembering the Holocaust because of mounting controversy over the wartime role of Pope Pius XII according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Plans for the Vatican to join the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance,...

Henry Kissinger Is a 'Vile Creature': Christopher Hitchens
Nixon Tapes: Kissinger
Is a 'Vile Creature'
Christopher HItchens
Dec 13, 2010 5:41 PM CST

Nixon Tapes: Kissinger Is a 'Vile Creature'

When will people stop paying to listen to him speak?

(Newser) - Ever since Watergate, Henry Kissinger has deserved to be “shamed, ostracized, and excluded”—yet, for some reason, people still pay him to speak and have “dinners in his honor,” complains Christopher Hitchens on Slate . Well, the new Nixon tapes should finally change that: quotes reveal that...

Third Most-Wanted Nazi Dies a Free Man

Justice seekers frustrated after Samuel Kunz dies before trial

(Newser) - German prosecutors have evidence linking Samuel Kunz to the murder of 430,000 Jews at a death camp in Poland. What they don't have anymore is a living suspect. Kunz has died peacefully at his home in Germany, where he was due to stand trial next year, the Independent reports....

ADL Rips Beck for 'Horrific' Assault on George Soros

Jewish liberal helped send Jews to camps, he said

(Newser) - The Anti-Defamation League is blasting Glenn Beck for accusing liberal philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, of helping Nazis send Jews to their death. Soros at the age of 14 "used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then...

Looting of Jews Funded 30% of Nazi War Effort

New research details role of nation's Finance Ministry

(Newser) - At least 30% of the Nazi war machine—more than previously thought—was funded by the looting of Jews and other enemies of state, says new research from German historians. The money got routed through Hitler's Finance Ministry, which had long been portrayed as "politically neutral" and unassociated with...

Fraudsters Steal $42M From Holocaust Victims' Fund

17 charged in scheme to cheat German government

(Newser) - Seventeen people were charged today in Manhattan with defrauding a fund for Holocaust victims out of $42 million, AOL News reports. Employees of a not-for-profit group called the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany approved 5,500 false applications for reparations from the German government to supposed victims of...

Holocaust-Era Mass Grave Found in Romania

Bodies of 100 Jews, including women and children, are discovered

(Newser) - The bodies of roughly 100 Jews killed by Romanian troops during World War II have been found near the town of Popricani, the AP reports. The find, some 220 miles from Bucharest, offers further proof that Romanian authorities actively participated in the Holocaust—despite official attempts over the years to...

Tea Party Must Drop the Hitler Comparisons

Germans not amused by 'ignorant' name-dropping

(Newser) - The Tea Party and its supporters should keep their hands off German history, argues Charles Hawley for Der Spiegel . It seems many of them can't stop themselves from comparing Barack Obama to Hitler , or talking about death panels , or, in one case, dressing up like a Nazi , he writes. And...

Nazi Records Help Victims Get Stolen Art Back

New database contains details on some 20K pieces

(Newser) - Some 20,000 works of art looted by the Nazis are one step closer to being returned to their rightful owners. Today marks the launch of an online database of art taken in Germany-occupied France and Belgium between 1940 and 1944, allowing survivors, their relatives, art collectors and museums to...

Ahmadinejad Threatens 'War Without Boundaries'

Iranian president promises retaliation for attacks on nuclear sites

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened a war with "no boundaries" if Western powers attack potential Iranian nuclear sites, ABC News reports. While in New York for a meeting of the UN General Assembly, the Iranian president again said his country would soon become a nuclear power, adding that the US and...

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