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German Town Wages Quirky War Against Neo-Nazis

Sausages, samba and saws disrupt rallies

Oct 31, 07 6:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inhabitants of the small German town of Gräfenberg have taken up ideological arms against far-right demonstrators from the National Democratic Party, Der Spiegel reports, running loud saws, blaring samba music, and projecting images of concentration-camp victims to disrupt their rallies. The conflict started when the town's mayor declared a... More »

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concentration camp • Nazi • National Democratic Party • Gräfenberg • Neo-Nazi

Art Vandals Post Video of Raid
on YouTube

Camera-wielding neo-Nazis trash Serrano exhibit in Sweden

Oct 9, 07 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andres Serrano, no stranger to controversy, has seen his current photography exhibition in a Swedish university town vandalized with crowbars and axes. But the latest incident of destruction had a new twist: The vandals who ran through Serrano's exhibition "The History of Sex" last week filmed their act of... More »

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YouTube • art • Nazi • Sweden • Andres Serrano • Neo-Nazi • culture wars

WWII Vets Slam US 'Torture' Techniques

Vet says chess, ping-pong were
old grilling tricks

Oct 6, 07 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silent for 60 years, a handful of WWII vets are admitting their old interrogation tricks — and slamming alleged torture techniques used by the US today. Almost two dozen ex-fighters met for a ceremony by the Potomac yesterday, the Washington Post reports, but one refused the award, protesting the... More »

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CIA • veterans • torture • Nazi • World War II • interrogation techniques • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Germany's FBI Faces Up to
Nazi Roots

Security service's founders were behind thousands of deaths

Oct 2, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - The German equivalent of the FBI has acknowledged what everyone already knew: It was founded by Nazis. The agency is inviting historians to explore those dark roots, making it the first German security organization to do so, Der Spiegel reports. Owning up to the past is the only way to... More »

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Germany • Nazi • Third Reich • West Germany • German BKV

Photos Show Auschwitz, on the Weekend

Album reveals death camp guards relaxing after 'a hard day's work'

Sep 29, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A photo album of co-workers decorating Christmas trees, playing with dogs, eating blueberries—fond memories, but for the swastikas on the merrymakers' uniforms. The US Holocaust Museum has posted online 116 photos showing how Auschwitz guards "unwound after 'a hard day's work,' " archivist Rebecca Erbelding tells the... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • photography • Holocaust Museum • Nazi • Auschwitz • World War II • SS

Dodd Fights to Redeem Dad

Father's letters illuminate Nuremberg prosecutor turned disgraced US senator

Sep 24, 07 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chris Dodd is not only running for president, he's on a mission to fix his father's reputation. Dodd's late father, Thomas, also a US senator, was censured in 1967 for making personal use of campaign funds. Years earlier, he made his name at the Nuremberg trials, and his son's new... More »

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Senate • Nazi • Chris Dodd • civil liberties • Thomas Dodd • Nuremberg trials • censure • reputation

Zara Bags
Swastika
Purses

Line yanked after shocked customer complains

Sep 23, 07 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spanish fashion company Zara has withdrawn an entire line of  handbags from stores after a British customer complained that swastikas were stitched into the corners. Zara officials said the original design did not include the offending symbols and they were unaware that they had become part of the handbag. The... More »

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Jewish Hate Grows in
Jewish State

Neo-Nazi arrests point to frustrations of Israeli non-Jews

Sep 16, 07 8:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel may seem an odd place for anti-Semitism, but as more immigrants claim Jewish heritage to gain citizenship through the loose "law of return," though they aren't technically Jewish, neo-Nazism is on the rise. Poverty, unemployment and social exclusion mark the lives of many non-Jews in Israel, reports... More »

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immigration • Israel • racism • Nazi • Nazism • Israeli Arabs • Neo-Nazi • anti-Semitism

German Cardinal Uses Nazi Term to Describe Art

Says "degenerate" remark unintentional, but critics disagree

Sep 15, 07 4:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Germans are in an uproar after an archbishop labeled some modern art “degenerate,” the same word Nazis used to persecute artists. A spokesman for Cardinal Joachim Meisner said the archbishop didn’t intend to acknowledge “old ideologies,” but the BBC says the term was precisely scripted... More »

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Catholic Church • Germany • art • modern art • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • degenerate • Expressionism • Joachim Meisner

Israel Cracks Neo-Nazi Gang

Police find videotapes of gang attacking observant Jews, others

Sep 9, 07 4:03 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Pope Honors Holocaust Victims

Pontiff expresses "sadness, repentance, and friendship" at lives lost to Nazis

Sep 7, 07 5:05 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Swiss Party
Aims to Boot Immigrants  

Campaign ad draws Nazi comparisons; expected to help in election

Sep 1, 07 11:27 AM CDT
(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.... More »

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xenophobia • Switzerland • racism • Nazi • immigrant • election

Nazi 'Mascot' Tells His Story

Jewish boy became
SS plaything, kept
secret until 1997

Aug 21, 07 11:33 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

11 Injured
in Cruise Film
Car Crash

Berlin police investigate a totaled truck for defects on the set of "Valkyrie"

Aug 20, 07 2:52 PM CDT
(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 "... More »

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

Hitler's Bubbly Sparkles at
UK Auction

Bottle fetches almost $3,000 but is 'poisoned' or simply undrinkable

Aug 19, 07 3:16 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Berlin • Adolf Hitler • auction • painting • Nazi • Charterhouse • Reich Chancellery • champagne

Records Reveal Hitler Fan of 'Sub Human' Musicians

Jewish, Russian works in Fuhrer's collection

Aug 8, 07 2:44 PM CDT
(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... More »

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music • Jews • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Tchaikovsky • Rachmaninov • Russians • Bronislaw Huberman

Prof Who Compared 9/11 Victims to Nazis Gets Ax

Academic vows to sue University of Colo.

Jul 25, 07 6:11 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Nazi • University of Colorado • Ward Churchill

AK-47 Turns 60

Jul 7, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Russia • Kalashnikov • AK 47 • Nazi

Cruise Can Film in Germany Despite 'Cult' Status

Berlin does an about-face on anti-Hitler movie

Jun 29, 07 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tom Cruise will be allowed to shoot his new movie, about a German military officer who tried to assassinate Hitler, on German soil. Earlier reports said the megastar would be banned because of his ties to Scientology, which Germany regards as a threat to democracy and keeps under "official... More »

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Hollywood • film • Scientology • Tom Cruise • Germany • Berlin • Claus von Stauffenberg • Valkyrie • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Neo-Nazi • actor • movies

Ex-UN Head Waldheim
Dead at 88

Military service under Nazis shadowed Austrian president

Jun 15, 07 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Haunted by his World War II German army service to the end, former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim died yesterday at 88. Reports that he served in a German army unit that committed atrocities during the war emerged in 1985, during his successful campaign for the Austrian presidency; at his death,... More »

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United Nations • Germany • war crimes • obituary • Austria • Kurt Waldheim • Nazi

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