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Pope's Bro to Merkel: Chill Out

Ratzinger says German leader's call for pontiff to clarify Holocaust stance is 'irrational'

Feb 4, 09 1:13 PM CST
(Newser) - The pope’s brother today criticized Angela Merkel for demanding that Benedict XVI restate his views on the Holocaust amid the controversy over a reinstated priest, the Times of London reports. “I always saw her as a rational woman,” Georg Ratzinger—himself a Catholic priest—said of the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Angela Merkel • Holocaust • Vatican • racism • Nazi • Holy See • bishop • Richard Williamson • Georg Ratzinger

 Nazi Doc Linked to 
 Brazil Twin Record 

Historian believes Mengele continued quest to create master race

Jan 22, 09 5:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Nazi "Angel of Death" Dr. Josef Mengele may have continued his mission to create a master race after World War II in a small Brazilian town, the Daily Telegraph reports. A historian probing the sadistic Auschwitz doctor's post-war life in Latin America has linked him to the mysteriously high... More »

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twins • Brazil • doctor • Nazi • Auschwitz • eugenics

 Adolf Hitler, 3, 
 Removed From Home 

Social services take Adolf and sisters away from parents

Jan 14, 09 4:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Authorities have removed Adolf Hitler Campbell and his siblings from their parents' New Jersey home, the Express-Times reports. Adolf, 3, and his baby sisters— JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and  Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie—were taken by social services. It wasn't immediately clear why they were removed. There were no reports of neglect... More »

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New Jersey • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Neo-Nazi • child custody • Adolf Hitler Campbell

MOVIE REVIEW

 Cruise Makes 
 Valkyrie 
 Bumpy Ride 

Supporting cast shines, but film not exactly sharp on historical details

Dec 24, 08 2:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Valkyrie isn’t that good—and surely not Oscar-worthy, Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone. “And the sooner you accept it, the more fun you’ll have at this satisfying B movie.” The supporting cast is fantastic, and Tom Cruise’s presence just serves to make “you... More »

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film • Tom Cruise • Valkyrie • movie review • Nazi • movies • supporting cast

Stalin Planned
to Destroy Moscow Ahead of Nazis

Bombs, booby traps
set in 1,200 buildings

Dec 5, 08 4:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Stalin would have all but destroyed Moscow if the Nazis had taken the city, the Telegraph reports. Secret 1941 documents now on display detail the rigging of 1,200 buildings with explosives so that the Germans—only 19 miles from the city at the time—would conquer little more than... More »

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Russia • Moscow • explosives • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Josef Stalin

Cruise in an Eye Patch May Prove Hard Sell in Valkyrie

Shifting release date shows studio's concerns with film

Nov 23, 08 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - A fear that audiences won't take to Tom Cruise in an eye-patch has kept Valkyrie, about a failed plot by German officers to assassinate Hitler, in United Artists' vaults. Advertising Age reports that studio execs postponed the film’s release multiple times over worries it wouldn’t stand up in... More »

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film • Tom Cruise • Claus von Stauffenberg • Valkyrie • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • assassination attempt • political movies

Fight Over Holocaust Victims' Assets Rocks Israel

Mission to trace assets of murdered Jews facing resistance from Israeli government, businesses

Nov 12, 08 8:16 AM CST
(Newser) - The quest to return assets of Holocaust victims to their heirs, instigated by the Israeli parliament, is now focusing on Israel itself, the Wall Street Journal reports, and it's meeting as much resistance at home as it did in Europe. Many European Jews invested in what was then Palestine during... More »

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Israel • Holocaust • Jews • Knesset • Nazi • World War II • Nazis

Ohio Autoworker Faces
Nazi War Crimes Trial

Nazi hunter seeks extradition of 88-year-old accused of wartime atrocities

Nov 11, 08 3:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Germany's top Nazi hunter is seeking the extradition of a retired Ohio autoworker accused of war crimes, the Times of London reports. The investigator says he finally has conclusive evidence that Ukrainian-born former SS trooper John Demjanjuk, 88, was the man know as Ivan the Terrible, responsible for the deaths... More »

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Holocaust • war crimes • concentration camp • Nazi • extradition • John Demjanjuk

Investigators Track Nazis' Looted Books

A million plundered volumes are still on German library shelves

Oct 25, 08 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A handful of determined librarians are trying to reunite books stolen by the Nazis with their owners or their families, Der Spiegel reports. Experts believe at least a million such books are still on the shelves of libraries across Germany. Many carry a 'J' inscribed by Nazi-era librarians to indicate... More »

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Germany • Nazi • libraries • book • Nazis • library

Cocaine's Nazi Ties Moved Mirren to Quit

Actress 'loved' drug, but link to war criminal opened her eyes

Sep 1, 08 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Helen Mirren stopped using cocaine because of a Nazi war criminal. “I loved coke," says the Academy Award-winning actress. "I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties.” And she gave it up after learning that Klaus Barbie was living off cocaine proceeds while... More »

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cocaine • rape • Nazi • South America • Helen Mirren • Klaus Barbie

 Berlin Opens Hitler's
 'Future City' Tunnels 

Network provides glimpse of megalomaniac's plans for world capital

Aug 27, 08 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Berlin has opened three vast tunnels under the city built as part of Adolf Hitler's vision of a grandiose Nazi capital, Reuters reports. The tunnels were to house a transit system beneath planned boulevards, squares, and huge buildings, including a Great Hall with room for 180,000 people. The Albert... More »

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architecture • Germany • Berlin • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Third Reich • Albert Speer

Nazi Hunters Track 'Dr. Death' to Patagonia

Sadistic concentration camp physician is most wanted surviving Nazi

Jul 9, 08 3:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investigators hunting Nazi war criminals believe they have discovered where their most-wanted war fugitive has been hiding, reports the BBC. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent experts to southern Chile to track down Aribert Heim, dubbed "Dr. Death" for his barbaric experiments on Jews in the Mauthausen concentration camp... More »

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Holocaust • war crimes • Chile • Patagonia • concentration camp • Nazi • World War II • Simon Wiesenthal Center • Aribert Heim

Mosley Bares 45-Year S&M Obsession

Racing boss admits fetish but denies orgy had Nazi overtones

Jul 8, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Max Mosley admitted in court yesterday that he's been into sadomasochism for 45 years, the Guardian reports, but firmly denied taking part in a Nazi-themed orgy. The British auto-racing boss is suing a tabloid for invading his privacy by secretly filming him being spanked and humiliated in role-playing with five... More »

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Nazi • News of the World • sado-masochism • Max Mosley • Oswald Mosley • orgy • FIA

OPINION

Low-Profile US-Iraq Pact Sparks Big Worries

Proposed agreement 'eerily resembles' disastrous 1930 Britain-Baghdad deal

Jun 17, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is pressuring Iraq to sign off on a long-term security agreement that looks unfortunately similar to a disastrous 1930 pact between Iraq and Britain, and the new pact "could haunt Washington’s relations with Baghdad for years to come," historian and journalist Karl E. Meyer writes... More »

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Iraq • Nazi • nationalism • Britain • UN sanctions

Skinheads Dupe German Mail, Make Stamp
of Nazi Hero

They use image of Hitler deputy Hess

May 21, 08 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Neo-Nazis in Germany pulled a fast one on the national postal service by tricking the agency into making stamps featuring one of Hitler’s senior deputies, der Spiegel reports. The skinheads used a Deutsche Post service that allows people to upload images for custom stamps online to create about 20... More »

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Germany • Adolf Hitler • mail • Nazi • Neo-Nazi • stamps • Deutsche Post

OPINION

How the Left Wing Brought Me Down

Ex-election watchdog nominee details 'poisonous tactics'

May 20, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Controversial civil-rights lawyer Hans von Spakovsky, who last week withdrew from consideration for appointment to the Federal Election Commission, pens a post-mortem of his own candidacy in the Wall Street Journal. Asserting that “character assassination … has become the norm” for conservatives in confirmation battles, von Spakovsky says calling... More »

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ACLU • Ku Klux Klan • partisanship • Nazi • FEC • Hans von Spakovsky

Opinion

 Politicians, Give Hitler a Rest 

No good can come when statesmen of any stripe invoke the Third Reich

May 20, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Politicians just can’t stop invoking Hitler to make their points, complains Anne Applebaum on Slate. President Bush did it last week, saying negotiating with “terrorists and radicals” was tantamount to 1930s Nazi appeasement. It was a ridiculous statement, “giving tactical choices a phony moral grounding.” But... More »

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Adolf Hitler • Nazi • George W. Bush • appeasement

 Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh 

Work said to be 'liberated' from Nazis billed as third portrait of Dr. Gachet

May 19, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A painting under examination in Greece is being billed as the last work of Vincent van Gogh, the Guardian reports. Seized by the Nazis from French Jews, then "liberated" by Greek resistance fighters in 1944, the work appears to be a third portrait of van Gogh’s physician, Dr.... More »

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art • Greece • Nazi • World War II • Vincent Van Gogh • Athens • Fine art market • portrait

MI5 Implicated
in F1 Chief's Nazi Orgy

Spy canned after wife is revealed as one
of Mosley's hookers

May 18, 08 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - A British spy is out of a job following his admission that his wife was one of the five prostitutes who participated in Max Mosley's Nazi-themed orgy, reports the Times of London. Worse yet, the wife was purportedly behind the camera, though MI5 yesterday denied Mosley's accusation that it set... More »

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prostitution • Formula One • Nazi • Britain • MI5 • prostitute • Max Mosley • Oswald Mosley

 Russia Parades Its Might,
With Soviet Echoes

Red Square display, marking defeat of Nazis, puts revived military on display

May 9, 08 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russia marked the 63rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany today with a parade of Soviet-era of tanks, missile launchers, and columns of foot soldiers, the New York Times reports. President-turned-prime-minister Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, looked on, surrounded by the contrast of communist ritual with symbols... More »

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Russia • military • Vladimir Putin • Soviet Union • Soviet • Nazi • World War II • Dmitry Medvedev

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