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  • September 2007

    • Israel Cracks Neo-Nazi Gang

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 9, 07 4:03 PM CDT

      Israel Cracks Neo-Nazi Gang

      (Newser) - Israelis are glued to the TV over news that police have busted a Neo-Nazi gang on Israeli soil, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Russian immigrant group allegedly filmed its attacks on gays and observant Jews and have vowed to "kill them all." A policeman said, "It is difficult to believe that Nazi ideology sympathizers can exist in Israel, but it is a fact." More »

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      Israel  • police  • Nazi  • immigrant  • Jews  • Adolf Hitler  • Soviet Union  • Neo-Nazi  • white supremacism

    • Pope Honors Holocaust Victims

      BBC  |  Sep 7, 07 5:05 PM CDT

      Pope Honors Holocaust Victims

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute today to the 65,000 Austrian victims of the Holocaust at the start of his three-day visit to Austria, BBC reports. Alongside Jewish leaders, the pontiff expressed “sadness, repentance, and friendship” at a monument honoring those killed by the Nazis. Benedict tomorrow leads a pilgrimage to an 850-year-old Catholic shrine outside Vienna, according to VOA. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Nazi  • Austria  • Holocaust  • Jews  • Vienna

    • Swiss Party Aims to Boot Immigrants

      Associated Press  |  Sep 1, 07 11:27 AM CDT

      Swiss Party Aims to Boot Immigrants

      (Newser) - Using the image of three white sheep kicking a black sheep out, Switzerland’s biggest political party has begun a campaign to institute mandatory deportation of criminal immigrants and their families. Though critics compare the proposal to Hitler and Stalin practices, the party is expected to prevail in October elections. "We haven't had any complaints," said the party president. More »

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      election  • racism  • Nazi  • immigrant  • Switzerland  • xenophobia

  • August 2007

    • Nazi 'Mascot' Tells His Story

      BBC  |  Aug 21, 07 11:33 AM CDT

      Nazi 'Mascot' Tells His Story

      (Newser) - A new book details the secret history of a Jewish boy who became a mascot for the Nazi SS. After fleeing a Belarus village on the day his family was massacred, the 5-year-old was rescued by a Nazi soldier who gave him a new name—Alex Kurzem— and identity as a Russian orphan, the BBC reports. He then became an entertainer for soldiers, and was advertised as “the Reich’s youngest Nazi.” More »

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      Nazi  • World War II  • Holocaust  • Jews  • Belarus  • mascot  • orphan

    • 11 Injured in Cruise Film Car Crash

      BBC  |  Aug 20, 07 2:52 PM CDT

      11 Injured in Cruise Film Car Crash

      (Newser) - Eleven extras were injured on the Berlin set of Tom Cruise's latest film, "Valkyrie," when the side of a truck—decked out to look like a Nazi military transport—blew open as it took a corner. One man was seriously injured in the crash. Local authorities reported "no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved," the BBC says. More »

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      movie  • Germany  • Nazi  • World War II  • Tom Cruise  • injury  • Berlin  • Adolf Hitler  • car crash  • Scientology  • Valkyrie  • Claus von Stauffenberg

    • Hitler's Bubbly Sparkles at UK Auction

      BBC  |  Aug 19, 07 3:16 PM CDT

      Hitler's Bubbly Sparkles at UK Auction

      (Newser) - A bottle of bubbly nabbed from Hitler’s wine cellar has drawn the equivalent of almost $3,000 at a British auction, the BBC reports. A Swedish television company bought the 1937 Moet and Chandon, which a soldier gave to a lawyer as thanks for legal work some 15 years ago. An allied serviceman probably purloined it amid looting in the Reich Chancellery when the Nazis were defeated in 1945.  More »

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      auction  • Nazi  • painting  • Berlin  • Adolf Hitler  • champagne

    • Records Reveal Hitler Fan of 'Sub Human' Musicians

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 8, 07 2:44 PM CDT

      Records Reveal Hitler Fan of 'Sub Human' Musicians

      (Newser) - Adolf Hitler’s recently discovered personal record collection reveals the fuhrer listened to music produced by Russians and Jews that he had publicly reviled as "sub-human," the Guardian reports.  The fascinating collection of 100 gramaphone records surfaced after the death of a former Soviet officer who had kept it hidden in his attic since finding it in Hitler’s chancellery in 1945. More »

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      music  • Nazi  • Jews  • Adolf Hitler  • Russians

  • July 2007

    • Prof Who Compared 9/11 Victims to Nazis Gets Ax

      Denver Post  |  Jul 25, 07 6:11 AM CDT

      Prof Who Compared 9/11 Victims to Nazis Gets Ax

      (Newser) - The controversial academic who challenged the innocence of 9/11 victims and called them "little Eichmanns" was fired yesterday by the University of Colorado board of regents. The regents voted 8-1 to dismiss Ward Churchill, citing academic misconduct, including plagiarism and fraud. Churchill, who taught ethnic studies, said his free-speech rights were violated and he will sue the university. More »

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      Nazi  • University of Colorado

    • AK-47 Turns 60

      Associated Press  |  Jul 7, 07 7:39 AM CDT

      AK-47 Turns 60

      (Newser) - In 1941, while hospitalized for wounds received fighting the Nazis, Russian soldier Mikhail Kalashnikov designed a rifle that combined the best of the American M1 and the German StG44.  The "Avtomat Kalashnikov," first produced in 1947, became known as the AK-47.   It is prized by warriors of many stripes for its reliability in all combat conditions. More »

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      Russia  • Nazi  • AK 47

  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007

    • Hitler Youth HQ to Become Posh Club

      Deutsche Welle (Germany)  |  Apr 24, 07 3:27 PM CDT

      Hitler Youth HQ to Become Posh Club

      (Newser) - An idling behemoth in Berlin that has housed both the Hitler Youth and the East German Communist Party will soon become a swanky media club, complete with a 42-seat theater, a swimming pool and upscale bars. A secretive British investor recently bought the Bauhaus landmark, and hopes to open a Soho House-style club next year. More »

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      Great Britain  • Nazi  • investors  • Berlin  • Jews  • club  • Hitler youth

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