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May 2009
- 'Funny Fuhrer' Finally Hits Berlin
  
  New York Times | May 19, 09 7:26 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Producers has goose-stepped its way onto a German stage 76 years after the springtime when Hitler took power, the New York Times reports. There were plenty of laughs—if sometimes uneasy ones—on opening night Sunday, but the Nazi-mocking musical and its swastika-laden ads prompted a fresh round of soul-searching in the press over Germany's past. More »
- Demjanjuk Removed by Ambulance
  
  Associated Press | May 11, 09 3:52 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - Suspected Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his home by ambulance today as US immigration agents prepared to deport him to Germany. It was not clear where the ambulance was taking the 89-year-old Demjanjuk, who is wanted on a Munich arrest warrant that accuses him of 29,000 counts of accessory to murder as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. More »
- Demjanjuk Won't Contest High Court Decision
  
  Cleveland Plain Dealer | May 8, 09 12:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, 89, will not seek another review of his case by the Supreme Court after the first was dismissed without comment, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The concession paves the way for the Ohio man’s deportation to Germany, where he is charged as an accessory to 29,000 World War II murders. An appeal “wouldn’t get us anywhere,” Demjanjuk’s lawyer said today. “We have done everything we could.” More »
- Demjanjuk Can Be Deported: Appeals Court
  
  Cleveland Plain Dealer | May 1, 09 12:34 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A federal appeals court today ruled that alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk can be deported to Germany to stand trial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Demjanjuk’s family had argued that the 89-year-old’s poor health would make the flight tantamount to torture, resulting in a stay last month. An appeal to the US Supreme Court is expected. The Ohio resident is charged with playing a role in 29,000 death-camp murders. More »
April 2009
- Hitler's Nazi Super-Cows Head to Britain
  
  Independent (UK) | Apr 22, 09 1:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A British farm specializing in rare breeds has purchased descendants from a Nazi project aimed at breeding an ubër-ox, the Independent reports. The Heck cattle stock were developed from efforts to recreate the auroch—a huge proto-cow that once roamed Europe—through selective breeding to remove the genes of "racially degenerate" wildlife. More »
- Let's Help Vets Avoid Extremist Urge
  
  New York Times | Apr 18, 09 1:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The recent Homeland Security report detailing right-wing extremist recruitment of veterans is “true, true, true,” Charles M. Blow writes in the New York Times . But “conservatives reacted by throwing a knee-jerk hissy fit,” suggesting that vets “were being vilified by a partisan document.” Instead of playing politics, writes Blow, we should be figuring out how to save our soldiers. More »
- US Seizes Demjanjuk; Court Halts Deportation
  
  Cleveland Plain Dealer | Apr 14, 09 4:34 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk will stay in the US for at least a while longer after a federal appeals court granted him a last-minute stay of deportation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Six US immigration agents removed Demjanjuk from his home in suburban Cleveland today and drove him away before receiving news of the court order. It's unclear whether the 89-year-old will return home in the interim. More »
- Accused Nazi May Be Deported to Germany
  
  Associated Press | Apr 6, 09 11:49 AM CDT
  
  (AP) - An immigration judge today revoked John Demjanjuk's stay of deportation to Germany, clearing the way for the retired autoworker to be sent to Germany to face charges of being a Nazi death camp guard. The 89-year-old suburban Cleveland man, who came to America after World War II, is accused in a German arrest warrant of 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder at a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. More »
March 2009
- Nazi Prosecutor Loved Zinging 'Fat Boy' Goering
  
  BBC | Mar 20, 09 7:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Newly released letters offer a glimpse behind the scenes of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, reports the BBC. The letters that British prosecutor David Maxwell-Fyfe sent his wife reveal a playful side—he refers to Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering as "the fat boy" and "slap-happy Hermann"—as well as an uneasy alliance with his American colleague Robert Jackson. More »
January 2009
- Nazi Doc Linked to Brazil Twin Record
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | 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 birth rate of blond, blue-eyed twins in a settlement just over the border from Mengele's former Paraguay hideout. More »
- Adolf Hitler, 3, Removed From Home
  
  Express-Times | 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 or abuse, police said. A hearing will be held tomorrow. The family first made headlines when a supermarket refused to write Adolf's name on a birthday cake. More »
- Economy Stimulates Hate Groups
  
  Washington Post | Jan 11, 09 8:08 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The economic crush will spur more activity by the burgeoning number of hate groups in the US, experts warn. Law enforcement investigators are advocating for increased attention to the problem as the economy creates widespread discontent and more recruits for white supremacists, reports the Washington Post . "The internet, immigration and the economic crisis—that is the molten mixture for these guys," said an official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco. "That's the furnace of hate." More »
December 2008
- US to Honor Nazis' Secret Soldier Slaves
  
  CNN | Dec 29, 08 4:30 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - After 64 years, the US Army will finally honor 350 American soldiers who were tortured and enslaved during the Holocaust's final months, CNN reports. The Nazis beat, starved and forced the war prisoners to work in a section of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Some 100 of them died, and survivors were ordered by American officials to sign US government secrecy documents pledging never to discuss their captivity. Their story emerged only recently, prompting Congress to demand their recognition. More »
- Cruise Makes Valkyrie Bumpy Ride
  
  Rotten Tomatoes | 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 wonder why the SS man we’re rooting for is an American, while most of the other Germans are British,” writes Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune . More »
- Just in Time for Xmas: Lego Terrorists, Nazis
  
  Sun (UK) | Dec 4, 08 12:47 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Ripping off a toy classic and tossing in al-Qaeda and Nazi themes just in time for Christmas might not seem like the best marketing strategy, reports the Sun, and sure enough, Jews and Muslims alike aren't happy. BrickArms has outfitted Lego figurines as al-Qaeda terrorists and Nazi soldiers, brandishing assault rifles, grenades, and rocket launchers. A Jewish leader complains the “distasteful” products add to tensions, while a Muslim leader calls them “absolutely disgusting.” More »
November 2008
- Ohio Autoworker Faces Nazi War Crimes Trial
  
  Times (UK) | 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 of more than 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. More »
October 2008
- ATF Foils Skinhead Plot to Kill Obama
  
  Associated Press | Oct 27, 08 5:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 88 black people, the AP reports. ATF agents said the pair planned to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee, with Obama as its final target. More »
- Investigators Track Nazis' Looted Books
  
  Der Spiegel | 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 they were seized from the collections of Jews sent to extermination camps. More »
August 2008
- France Launches Probe of Anti-Semitic T-Shirts
  
  BBC | Aug 13, 08 4:19 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - French authorities are investigating the sale of T-shirts bearing anti-Semitic slogans that date to 1940, the BBC reports. The shirts carry the slogan "Jews not allowed in this park" in German and Polish, reproduced from signs posted in Lodz, Poland, during World War II. Almost all of Lodz's Jews perished in the Holocaust. More »
June 2008
- Cruise's Lawyer Rips Dr. Drew
  
  Radar | Jun 13, 08 11:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinksy's armchair diagnosis of Tom Cruise in Playboy has riled up Cruise’s lawyer, who compares the doc to a Nazi, Radar reports. The host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew said Cruise’s attraction to the “cultish kind of environment” of Scientology is “a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood—maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect." More »