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Is Germany Ready for Mein Kampf ?
Is Germany Ready for
Mein Kampf?
Aug 17, 2008 10:30 AM CDT

Is Germany Ready for Mein Kampf?

Access to banned book would sap its power, some Germans argue

(Newser) - Adolf Hitler's banned hate-filled manifesto Mein Kampf should be returned to the nation's bookstores, some Germans argue. A critical edition—annotated to put the tome "into context"—would demystify it and shed light on the author's mad ramblings, they say. The push comes as the book's copyright nears...

Nazi Hunters Track 'Dr. Death' to Patagonia

Sadistic concentration camp physician is most wanted surviving Nazi

(Newser) - Investigators hunting Nazi war criminals believe they have discovered where their most-wanted war fugitive has been hiding, reports the BBC. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent experts to southern Chile to track down Aribert Heim, dubbed "Dr. Death" for his barbaric experiments on Jews in the Mauthausen concentration camp...

Euro Cup Arena Covers Vienna's Dark Past

More than 1,000 Jewish prisoners died after being held there

(Newser) - The Vienna stadium that will host tomorrow's Euro Cup final hides a brutal past beneath the stands, where more than the 1,000 Jewish prisoners were held in 1939. Nazis took medical samples and made plaster casts of the prisoners, who were allowed outside daily but could not step on...

Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama
 Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama 
May 28, 2008 7:00 AM CDT

Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama

Candidate mixes up his camps when talking about great-uncle

(Newser) - Barack Obama has admitted he got his concentration camps mixed up when speaking to a Memorial Day audience, Reuters reports. The candidate spoke of how his great-uncle helped liberate Auschwitz when, as Republicans were quick to point out, that couldn't have happened unless his relative was in the Soviet Red...

McCain Severs Ties to Pastor Over Holocaust Blast

And Hagee withdraws his endorsement right back

(Newser) - John McCain and John Hagee dissolved their union in tit-for-tat fashion today—one day after an offensive sermon about Hitler came to light. Hagee claimed God sent Hitler to perpetrate the Holocaust, because it was a “top priority for the Jewish people … to get them to come back...

Group Makes Last Hunt for Top Nazis

Death camp doctor who decapitated Jewish teen heads the list

(Newser) - A doctor at barbaric Mauthausen concentration camp heads the list of the 10 most-wanted Nazis sought by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, AP reports. Aribert Heim, 93, is believed to be living in South America, and has a $485,000 reward on his head. One witness recalled how the physician-butcher decapitated...

Mysteries of Holocaust Hero Endure
Mysteries of Holocaust Hero Endure
Apr 28, 2008 11:10 AM CDT

Mysteries of Holocaust Hero Endure

Wallenberg's fate, long a mystery, begins to come to light

(Newser) - Clues are emerging about the mysteries surrounding Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from death in the Holocaust. Documents related to a super-secret US intelligence agency known as "the Pond"—which Wallenberg may have worked with—will be released later this year....

Schindler's Autograph on Sale for $154K

WWII hero signed photo for one of 1,400 Jews he saved

(Newser) - The only known autographed photo of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved 1,400 Jews from death during WWII, is on sale for $154,000, the New York Post reports. The dealer plans to contact Liam Neeson, who played the legend in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List to see if...

Merkel Addresses Knesset
Merkel Addresses Knesset
Mar 18, 2008 4:40 PM CDT

Merkel Addresses Knesset

German chancellor speaks to lawmakers of Holocaust 'shame'

(Newser) - Angela Merkel addressed the Knesset today, speaking to Israel's parliament about Germany's shame over the Holocaust. "I bow to the victims. I bow to all those who helped the survivors," said the chancellor. Five MPs boycotted to protest the speaking of German in the legislative chamber, but Merkel...

Merkel Holds Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem

German celebrates Israeli statehood with 3-day trip

(Newser) - When Angela Merkel holds her weekly cabinet meeting today, it will meet not in Berlin but in Jerusalem—a special gesture to mark the 60th anniversary of Israeli statehood. Only a few decades ago Israelis marched in protest when the country welcomed its first German ambassador, but now the chancellor...

Anti-Semitism on the Rise: Report
Anti-Semitism on the Rise: Report
Mar 14, 2008 3:15 AM CDT

Anti-Semitism on the Rise: Report

Criticism of Israel helps fuel hatred worldwide, warns State Department

(Newser) - Over 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, warns a State Department report. US embassies across the globe have noted that attacks on Jewish people, their property and institutions have risen in the last ten years. In 2006 more than 100 synagogues were vandalized, hundreds of...

Holocaust Memoir Mostly Fiction: Author

Best-seller on Jewish girl saved by wolves a fantasy, Belgian admits

(Newser) - A best-selling Holocaust memoir, which follows a 7-year-old Jewish girl who lived with wolves after losing her parents to the Nazis, is mostly fictional, its author confesses—in particular, the parts about the wolves and her being Jewish, Reuters reports. Misha Defonseca says she "always felt Jewish," but,...

Anne Frank's Lost Love Revealed
Anne Frank's Lost Love Revealed
Feb 27, 2008 4:08 PM CST

Anne Frank's Lost Love Revealed

Childhood friend of diarist's darling 'Petel' donates photo

(Newser) - Anne Frank's sweetheart now has a face to go along with his pet name. A photo of 12-year-old Lutz Peter Schiff, or Petel, as she sometimes called him, has been donated to the Anne Frank House by a childhood friend, reports ABC News. Frank wrote that she loved so strongly...

Arts Nazis Stole Goes on Exhibit
Arts Nazis Stole Goes on Exhibit
Feb 20, 2008 1:07 PM CST

Arts Nazis Stole Goes on Exhibit

French/Israeli exhibit looks for owners of plundered paintings

(Newser) - Authorities in France and Israel are attempting to return paintings seized by Nazis during World War II to families to whom they belong, and have organized an exhibit of 50 “orphaned” works in Israel to solicit rightful claims. The tranquil themes of many of the works in the exhibit,...

Police: War Hero Preys on Neighbor

Elderly Holocaust survivor swindled, abandoned in Poland

(Newser) - A Holocaust hero who with his brothers saved 1,200 Jews in one of the largest  armed rescues during World War II is accused of bilking a survivor of about $250,000, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Aron Bell dumped a 93-year-old Catholic survivor at a nursing home in Poland...

Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

Prez wants each 5th grader to study a victim

(Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a new controversy: The maverick leader is  now defending his plan to have every fifth grader study a French youth killed in the Holocaust. Critics, including Jewish analysts, warn the move could traumatize students. But one historian applauded Sarkozy's "courage" and said what...

Hungarian Right-Wingers Evoke Nazi-Era Militia

Black-booted Hungarian Guard stirs fears

(Newser) - A far-right group reminiscent of Nazi-era fascist militias is causing alarm in Hungary and echoing nationalist movements across Eastern Europe, the Los Angeles Times reports. Members of the Hungarian Guard march wearing black uniforms that resemble those of the Arrow Cross, a militia that helped Nazis kill thousands of Hungarian...

Congressman Lantos Dead at 80
Congressman Lantos Dead at 80
Feb 11, 2008 11:17 AM CST

Congressman Lantos Dead at 80

Californian was the only Holocaust survivor in Congress

(Newser) - Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died at 80. The California Democrat disclosed his cancer last month and announced that he wouldn't seek reelection. His widow said in a statement that his life was "defined by courage, optimism, and unwavering dedication to his principles...

Germans Confront Nazi Legacy
Germans Confront Nazi Legacy
Jan 29, 2008 10:35 AM CST

Germans Confront Nazi Legacy

75th anniversary of Hitler's rise prompts new memorials

(Newser) - As Germany marks the 75th year since Hitler seized power, the effort to come to terms with Nazi horrors is anything but over, the New York Times reports. The minister of culture yesterday green-lighted construction on two new Berlin-based Holocaust memorials, one to murdered Gypsies and one to gay and...

Bush Honors Holocaust Victims
Bush Honors Holocaust Victims
Jan 11, 2008 9:06 AM CST

Bush Honors Holocaust Victims

President visits Yad Vashem before leaving Israel for Kuwait

(Newser) - A yarmulke-wearing George Bush early today visited Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, which he called "a sobering reminder that evil exists." Bush, accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres, rekindled the eternal flame and laid a wreath next to the names of victims of...

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