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Nazi stories: 102 news summaries

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 Ex-Nazi, 90, Charged 
 With 58 Murders 

University student found him while researching paper

Nov 17, 09 12:40 PM CST
(Newser) - A 90-year-old former SS officer has been charged with 58 counts of murder for allegedly taking part in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers in Austria, German officials announced today. The man, identified in German media reports as Adolf Storms, had been living unnoticed in Duisburg until an Austrian university... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • war crimes • Nazi • Nazi Germany

 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

 Nazi Hitman Goes on Trial 

88-year-old who killed Dutch civilians faces German court

Oct 28, 09 2:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Dutch Nazi collaborator who killed his countrymen in reprisals for anti-German actions has gone on trial in Germany. Heinrich Boere, 88, has admitted gunning down three civilians as part of a Waffen SS death squad. He fled to Germany after the war and dodged extradition attempts for years. Prosecutors... More »

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Iraq • Germany • war crimes • Netherlands • Nazi • World War II • Nazi collaborators

 Nazi Gnomes 
 Invade German Town 

Artist pokes fun at fascism with troll exhibit

Oct 15, 09 3:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 1,250 controversial German gnomes giving the heil Hitler salute will greet visitors to the center of the German town of Straubing beginning today. The artist behind the gnome blitzkrieg says the installation, Dance With the Devil, is designed "to get people to think, to react," and... More »

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Germany • Nazi • artist • gnome

 Manga Mein Kampf  
 Sweeps Japan 

Comic adaptation brings Hitler's manifesto to Japanese audience

Oct 1, 09 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A cartoon version of Hitler's Nazi manifesto and early autobiography has been a hit in Japan since its launch late last year. The manga-style Mein Kampf is the biggest seller in the publisher's "learn with manga" series of adaptations of historical classics and political tracts. It has sold 45,... More »

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Japan • Adolf Hitler • publishing • Nazi • Mein Kampf • comic books • manga

 Pawlenty Rips Obama's 
 Pre-9/11-Style 'Appeasement' 

Blasts talks with Iran, N. Korea, says similar moves didn't stop Nazis, Soviets, terrorists

Sep 18, 09 10:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible Republican presidential contender in 2012, tonight compared President Obama’s diplomatic moves on Iran, North Korea and the missile shield to pre-World War II and pre-9/11 “appeasement,” Politico reports. “The lessons of history are clear,” he told Christian conservatives. “... More »

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Iran • Mitt Romney • North Korea • missile shield • Nazi • Minnesota • Tim Pawlenty • foreign policy • appeasement • 9/11 attacks • Election 2012 • President Obama • Values Voters Summit

 Jewish Engineer Designed 
 Beetle: Historian 

Hitler ordered Porsche to replicated Josef Ganz's prototype

Sep 14, 09 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Adolf Hitler took the original design for the Volkswagen Beetle from the brainchild of a Jewish engineer, the Jerusalem Post reports. Historian Paul Schilperoord claims in his forthcoming book The True History of the Beetle that a prototype Josef Ganz designed in the late '20s had many of the Beetle’... More »

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Germany • Jews • Switzerland • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Volkswagen • beetle • Josef Ganz • Ferdinand Porsche

 Poland Marks 
 70th Anniversary 
 of WWII's Start 

Leaders gather at Polish fort where Nazis launched blitzkreig

Sep 1, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Polish leaders gathered at dawn today at the fort the Nazis attacked to begin World War II exactly 70 years ago, the BBC reports. A German battleship attacked Westerplatte on September 1, 1939, as German troops launched a blitzkreig attack on three fronts. The invasion triggered declarations of war from... More »

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Germany • Poland • Nazi • World War II • invasion

(Newser) - Town hall crazies, you have met your match. Rep. Barney Frank had no time for a woman who asked why he supported Barack Obama's "Nazi" policies, calling it "vile, contemptible nonsense" and asking, "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" When the questioner... More »

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Barack Obama • Nazi • Barney Frank • health care reform • town hall meeting • right wingers • right-wing extremism • deathers

(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) - A former commander in Adolf  Hitler's army has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a massacre in Italy he ordered 65 years ago, the BBC reports. In what is expected to be one of the very last Nazi trials, a Munich court found Joseph Scheungraber guilty of murder in the... More »

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Germany • war crimes • massacre • Nazi • World War II • murder trial • imprisonment

(Newser) - Hitler's autobiography-manifesto Mein Kampf has been strictly banned in Germany since the end of World War II, but a proposal to reprint it has the endorsement of the country's leading Jewish organization, among other groups, reports the Independent. "A historically critical edition needs to be prepared today to prevent... More »

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Germany • Jews • Germans • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Third Reich • ban • Mein Kampf

 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

(Newser) - German prosecutors have decided a Seig-Heiling garden gnome doesn't violate the country's tough laws against Nazi imagery, the BBC reports. Artist Ottmar Hörl's creation, on display in a Nuremberg gallery, is intended to mock the Nazis rather than glorify them, officials decided. Prosecutors warned, however, that the stiuation has... More »

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Germany • Nazi • artist • gnome

Romanians Seek to Oust Mayor Who Donned Nazi Uniform

'I like the look of it,'
he explains

Jul 22, 09 4:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Romanian mayor is facing calls to resign after he and his 15-year-old son appeared at a fashion show wearing Nazi uniforms and goose-stepping down the catwalk. Jewish organizations have demanded a criminal investigation, CNN reports. But the mayor had no apologies. "The swastika was very small and I... More »

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uniforms • mayor • Nazi • Nazism • Romania

(Newser) - The German artist who intended to mock his nation's Nazi past with a golden garden gnome saluting "Sieg Heil" is in man-size trouble, reports the BBC. Nuremburg police are investigating whether the bearded gnome—on display in a local gallery—violates Germany's strict ban on Nazi propaganda and symbols.... More »

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Nazi • Nuremberg trials

(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

 Formula 1 
 Execs Floored 
 by Chief's 
 Hitler Praise 

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

Jul 8, 09 4:24 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Jews • Adolf Hitler • CVC • racing • Formula One • Nazi • Nazism • banking • anti-Semitism • Bernie Ecclestone • World Jewish Congress

 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

 Aide Admits 
 Pope's Hitler 
 Youth Past—  
 With Explanation 

Played 'no role in his life,' says spokesman

May 13, 09 1:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict's chief spokesman baffled many yesterday by insisting that the pontiff had never been in the Hitler Youth group, despite the Pope's own biography saying he was a member, the Los Angeles Times reports. "The Pope was never in the Hitler Youth, never, never, never,'' Father Federico... More »

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Israel • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Holocaust • Hitler youth • Vatican • Nazi

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