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Marine Corps Snipers Posed With Nazi Logo

Scout sharpshooters stood with flag whose logo resembles that of SS

(Newser) - In what commanders say was the result of an ignorance of history, not racism, Marine Corps scout snipers in Afghanistan apparently adopted the logo of the Nazi SS. The military launched an investigation after a photo surfaced in November of snipers posing with what looks like the logo of the... More »

Death Camp Sketches Published

Auschwitz Memorial Museum prints Birkenau inmate drawings

(Newser) - The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has published a collection of death camp sketches by a mystery inmate of Birkenau that was found stuffed in a bottle. The chilling pencil sketches of the camp, by a prisoner who signed them "MM," show children being torn from the arms of their... More »

Cops Raid Homes of 6 Ex-SS Soldiers

Germany probing 1944 massacre in occupied France

(Newser) - German police have raided the homes of six former SS soldiers suspected of having taken part in the worst massacre of civilians in Nazi-occupied France. A German war crimes prosecutor says the John Demjanjuk trial inspired him to reopen the investigation into the massacre of 642 men, women, and children... More »

Hugo Boss 'Sorry' for Founder's Nazi Past

Book on company's wartime history released

(Newser) - After the end of World War II, Hugo Boss said he had supported the Nazis to keep the company he founded afloat. But the fashion firm has admitted that there was another reason: He was a big fan of the Nazis. Boss—who was Hitler's favorite tailor and supplied... More »

Man Sent to Nazi Camp for Being Gay Dead at 98

Rudolf Brazda was last known survivor of persecution over homosexuality

(AP) - Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last surviving person who was sent to a Nazi concentration camp because of his homosexuality, died yesterday at age 98. Brazda was sent to Buchenwald in 1942 and held there until its liberation by US forces in 1945. Nazi Germany declared homosexuality an aberration... More »

Were the Smurfs Nazis?

New book claims the little blue creatures were living in a Nazi utopia

(Newser) - Things might have been a little smurfed up in Smurf Village. The friendly blue creatures were socialists and "the embodiment of a totalitarian utopia, steeped in Stalinism and Nazism," says one French sociologist in the new book, Le Petit Livre Bleu, or The Little Blue Book. The author... More »

Pope Talks About Life Under Nazis

Benedict XVI calls it a 'dark time'

(Newser) - German-born Pope Benedict XVI rarely talks about when he was conscripted into the Hitler Youth as a teen. But yesterday, in an audience with a German Catholic group, Benedict made a rare mention of life under the Nazis, calling it a "dark time," reports the AP . "It... More »

Hitler Asked for Time Off to Start Third Reich

Auction house obtains 1932 vacation request

(Newser) - A British auction house has obtained what must be the most ill-fated time-off request in history. In the March 1932 letter, Adolf Hitler requests leave from his government job in order to run for president, the New York Daily News reports. The Nazi-led government of the state of Brunswick had... More »

FBI: Demjanjuk's Nazi ID Likely a Soviet Fake

25-year-old report up-ends war crimes trial

(Newser) - In the midst of closing arguments in John Demjanjuk's Nazi war crimes trial in Munich, a shocking revelation: AP yesterday reported on the existence of a newly declassified FBI report that claims Demjanjuk's Nazi ID card was "quite likely fabricated" by the Soviet Union. Throughout three decades of hearings... More »

Biathlon Guests Offered Nazi Newspapers

Embarrassed Siberians blame language differences

(Newser) - Organizers of the 2011 World Biathlon Championships in Siberia had the charming idea of placing a selection of old newspapers among the hors d'oeuvres at a media reception. One small problem: the selection included Nazi-era German newspapers. "Reich Chancellor Hitler," read one headline from the Joseph Goebbels-founded propaganda... More »

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... More »

Hitler's Bodyguard Gives Up on Fan Mail

93-year-old Rochus Misch says he can't keep up any more

(Newser) - Hitler's last surviving bodyguard says he's just too old to keep up with all the fan mail he receives. Rochus Misch, who is 93, says boxes of mail from admirers are piling up at his Berlin home—he's no longer able to do what he once did: send his fans... More »

Nazis Obsessed Over Hitler-Mocking Dog

It raised its paw in Nazi salute, enraging German authorities

(Newser) - Newly discovered documents reveal a bizarre footnote in the annals of Nazi history, detailing how German authorities became enraged by a dog in Finland who mocked the führer. Pharmaceutical wholesaler Tor Borg's mutt had the odd habit of raising its paw with a striking likeness to the Nazi salute... More »

Japanese Retailer Agrees to Pull Nazi Costume

'Heil Hitler' dress up not funny to Jewish group

(Newser) - A Japanese costume store has agreed to remove a faux Nazi uniform after complaints from a major Jewish group, the AP reports. At Don Quijote, which has outlets in several Japanese cities, $60 could get you black jacket with swastika armband, sold in a package that said "Heil Hitler"... More »

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... More »

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... More »

Schindler's List on Sale for $2.2M

801-name record 'arguably most important WWII document'

(Newser) - One of only 5 surviving copies of Oskar Schindler's list of Jews the industrialist hoped to save from concentration camps is up for sale for $2.2 million. The 13-page document, offered by an anonymous seller, is dated April 18, 1945, and lists the names and occupations of 801 men,... More »

Painting by Hitler May Have Hung in Freud's Office

Future fuhrer peddled watercolors in Vienna

(Newser) - Back in 1910, when Sigmund Freud was decorating the walls of his Vienna offices, he may have bought a painting from a struggling young artist who was then peddling his work in Vienna: Adolf Hitler. The discovery of a tiny Hitler watercolor marked on the back with the name of... More »

Death Camp Survivor Confronts Demjanjuk

Ukranian guards 'worse than Germans,' Thomas Blatt tells court

(Newser) - One of the very few survivors of Sobibor yesterday recounted death camp horrors at the Munich trial of alleged SS guard John Demjanjuk. Thomas Blatt, 82, told jurors how he saw his parents and 10-year-old brother sent to the gas chambers at the Polish camp, the Independent reports. Ukrainians like... More »

Dead Hitler, Eva Slumped on Sofa: Recording

SS officer, valet describe finding Nazi leader's corpse

(Newser) - German researchers have unearthed recorded testimony from the first people to find Adolf Hitler's body after he committed suicide. "When I entered to my left I saw Hitler on the sofa," said valet Heinz Linge. "Hitler had his head bent forward somewhat and I could see a... More »

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