Early Hitler Letter Shows Anti-Semitic Beginnings

The Holocaust is not a joke

(NEWSER) - Holocaust references have become ridiculously common in America’s political discourse, and it’s got to stop, writes Jewish activist Marvin Hier in the LA Times . In the past month alone we’ve seen Nazis invoked to decry everything from Barack Obama’s handling of the BP crisis to Meg Whitman’s campaign spending. It’s gotten so bad that Elie Wiesel won’t use the word “Holocaust” anymore. “Whatever mishap occurs now, they call it a ‘holocaust,’” he complains. More»

Fritz Darges still thought Fuhrer 'greatest man who ever lived'

(NEWSER) - The last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle died this week, at 96, and historians hope his soon-to-be released memoirs will silence once and for all claims from revisionists that Hitler wasn't aware of the Holocaust. Fritz Darges was present at most of Hitler's conferences until 1944, when he was ordered to fight on the eastern front after enraging the Fuhrer by joking that the Luftwaffe, not him, should swat a fly pestering the leader. More»

Publisher defends magazine's choice

(NEWSER) - Roseanne Barr, always good for a controversy, recently dressed up as a “Nazi domestic goddess” for Jewish magazine Heeb, causing quite a flap. “Yes, the story of this infamous satirist/Jewish grandmother pulling a tray of burnt ‘Jew cookies’ out of an oven has been making its way around the Internet,” writes publisher Joshua Neuman, but detractors are “ignoring the very particular context in which the image was created.” More»

(AP) - German prosecutors formally charged John Demjanjuk today with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II, reports the AP. The 89-year-old retired auto worker, who was deported from the US in May, faces 15 years for every count. Prosecutors accuse Demjanjuk of serving as a guard at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943, but he insists he spent the war in prison. More»

Calls for boycott after Bernie Ecclestone hails Hitler for 'getting things done'

(NEWSER) - Executives from the firm that owns Formula One are scrambling to do damage control after their racing boss praised Adolf Hitler as a man who could "get things done." When told the World Jewish Congress was calling for his resignation, billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, 78, also said it was a "pity they didn't sort the banks out," reports the Daily Mail. Ecclestone later apologized for his comments, but not soon enough to head off calls for a boycott of the race. More»