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Holocaust stories: 113 news summaries

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 Hitler's Last Aide Dies 

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

Oct 30, 09 6:46 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Holocaust • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • memoir • Nazi Germany

OPINION

Demjanjuk Farce Is
a Funny Kind of Justice

Prosecution seems to be more about German guilt than alleged war criminal's

Oct 18, 09 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's eyes will be on alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk when he stands trial in Germany next month, but this dying old man is a strange candidate to be the last Nazi to be tried, writes Scott Raab. Demjanjuk—regardless of whether he is guilty of serving at... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • war crimes • Ukraine • John Demjanjuk • Sobibor • death camp

 Auschwitz Joins Facebook 

Museum hopes profile will educate young people

Oct 14, 09 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Auschwitz death camp—now a museum about the horrors that transpired there—has joined Facebook. Officials hope to educate young people about the Holocaust but say they are sensitive to concerns about trivializing the site's history. "We want it to be a place of discourse, but of course... More »

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social networking • genocide • Holocaust • Facebook • Auschwitz • death camp

Polanski Rape Happened at Nicholson's Pad

And other things you didn't know about the fugitive director

Oct 2, 09 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Think you know everything about Roman Polanski? You’re probably wrong. AskMen.com compiles a list of surprising tidbits about the headline-grabbing statutory rapist:
  • It happened at Jack Nicholson’s house: Somehow lost in the hubbub was the fact that the crime took place at Nicholson’s
... More »

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Poland • Holocaust • Miss Universe • Auschwitz • Jack Nicholson • Roman Polanski • Samantha Geimer • statutory rape • Krakow

WATCH IT

 Only Footage 
 of Anne Frank 
 Hits YouTube 

Film of neighbor's wedding in 1941 was given to Holocaust victim's family in the 50s

Oct 2, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian. The film, of an... More »

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YouTube • Holocaust • museum • Netherlands • Amsterdam • World War II • Holland • Anne Frank • diary • footage • Otto Frank

Netanyahu Blasts UN for Ahmadinejad Speech

'Have you no shame?' cries Israeli PM

Sep 24, 09 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t hold back today when he took the stage at the United Nations. The Israeli PM went on a tirade, berating the UN for allowing Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak. “Have you no shame? Have you no decency?” he demanded, after recounting the horrors of... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Holocaust • Benjamin Netanyahu • speech • Holocaust denier

Holocaust a Lie, Pretext to Create Israel: Ahmadinejad

It was a pretext used to create a Jewish state, he says

Sep 18, 09 7:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's president repeated his assertion that the Holocaust is a myth today, calling it a "pretext" used to create Israel, the New York Times reports. "It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told attendees at an anti-Israel rally in Tehran. "... More »

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Iran • Israel • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Holocaust • Mohammad Khatami • Zionism • Mir Hossein Mousavi

 Harvard Crimson Runs 
 Holocaust-Denier Ad 

Ad run in error due to 'miscommunication," says newspaper prez

Sep 9, 09 3:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - First, Yale censors Muhammad cartoons in a new book, then the Harvard Crimson runs an ad from a Holocaust denier, notes Gawker. "Can you provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz?" asks the ad from the "Committee for Open Debate... More »

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Ivy League • Holocaust • Harvard • Harvard Crimson • Yale • National Holocaust Museum • Holocaust denier • Bradley Smith

Pope Recalls Holocaust Horrors, Forgets Jews

Benedict XVI has testy relationship with Jewish community

Sep 6, 09 5:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI recognized the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II today by paying tribute to Poles and the “tragedy of the Holocaust,” but did not mention its Jewish victims, the New York Times reports. The omission may further strain relations between Jewish leaders and... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Poland • Holocaust • Hitler youth • Jews • World War II

(Newser) - Comparing your nemesis to a Nazi has been a "staple of American T-shirt and bumper-sticker political culture," writes Michael Gerson in the Washington Post, and such Nazi-talk has becoming a recurring element of the health care protests. "Anyone with a black felt pen and the ability to... More »

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Holocaust • Nazi • Third Reich • Nazism • health care reform • rhetoric • Michael Gerson • Jim DeMint

(Newser) - Disney has bought the rights to film a new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, Variety reports. The diary of a young girl who hid from the Nazis was first filmed 50 years ago. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet will be writing and directing the movie, and Andrew Braunsberg,... More »

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Holocaust • Disney • Anne Frank • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • movie rights • David Mamet

 Roseanne 
 Poses as 
 Hitler: Cue 
 Controversy 

Publisher defends magazine's choice

Jul 31, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(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... More »

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entertainment • Holocaust • Roseanne Barr • Adolf Hitler • magazine • celebrity • Nazi • Jewish • controversy

(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... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • Nazi • World War II • Simon Wiesenthal Center • John Demjanjuk • murder charges • Sobibor

Demjanjuk Fit
to Stand Trial, Germany Rules

Accused Nazi death-camp guard, 89, is officially stateless

Jul 3, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Demjanjuk is physically able to stand trial for his alleged role as an accessory to murder in a Nazi death camp, German officials ruled today. The family of the retired Ohio autoworker, 89, had said ill health made him unfit, but the only condition doctors imposed was a limit... More »

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genocide • Germany • Holocaust • murder • Ohio • concentration camp • John Demjanjuk • Nazis • Sobibor • death camp

(Newser) - Police discovered child pornography on a computer during a search of the home of suspected Holocaust Museum gunman James von Brunn, the Washington Post reports. FBI agents would not detail the amount or type of material discovered in the 88-year-old's Annapolis apartment. They also found a rifle, a handwritten... More »

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FBI • Holocaust • white supremacism • child pornography • computer • shooting • evidence • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

OPINION

All Jewish
Spaces Need
Armed Guards

'Queasiness' aside, only guns can stop would-be killers

Jun 11, 09 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday’s Holocaust Museum shooting should stifle the queasiness American Jews feel around weapons, Jeffrey Goldberg writes for the Atlantic. “One of the lessons of the Holocaust to me is that it is more difficult to kill an armed Jew than an unarmed Jew,” he says. Had the... More »

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Holocaust • Jews • shooting • guns • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn • Jeffrey Goldberg

(Newser) - President Obama blasted Holocaust deniers today on a tour of a Nazi concentration camp, Reuters reports. At Buchenwald, Germany, the president called Holocaust denial “baseless, ignorant and hateful.” Obama did not mention Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by name, but after Iran's president called the Holocaust a "great deception" ... More »

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Angela Merkel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Germany • Holocaust • President Obama • Elie Wiesel • denial • Buchenwald

 Obama Visits Buchenwald 

Great-uncle helped free Buchenwald

Jun 5, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama toured the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald today, the BBC reports. “These sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time,” said Obama, accompanied on his visit by German chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Obama noted that his great-uncle, part of the... More »

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Angela Merkel • Holocaust • concentration camp • Nazi • President Obama • Elie Wiesel • Buchenwald

 Nazis Ran a Staggering 
 20K Concentration Camps 

Decade-long study could change scholars' 'mental universe'

Jun 4, 09 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A year's work on a new Holocaust encyclopedia pointed researchers to some 15,000 concentration camps they hadn’t known about, a finding that could shift the public's perception of the Holocaust, the Washington Post reports. “Instead of thinking of main death camps, people are going to understand that... More »

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Holocaust • research • Holocaust Museum • concentration camp • history • encyclopedia • Nazis

(Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today again denied the Holocaust and excoriated the concept of liberal democracy, AFP reports. “Liberal democracy has been exposed to the world by its protection of the most criminal regime in the history of humanity, the Zionist regime,” he said in a campaign speech,... More »

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Iran • Israel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Holocaust • Islamic law • election • liberal democracy

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