Nazis 
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11/8/19
The Forgotten Mass Destruction of Jewish Homes During 'Kristallnacht'
Attacks on Jewish homes have often been a neglected aspect of "the Night of Broken Glass", until now.
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SOURCE: NY Times
11/5/19
Teenage Rescuer, Now 92, Meets Family She Saved From Nazis
Melpomeni Dina was reunited with the two surviving members and 40 descendants of the Jewish family she and her sisters helped escape occupied Greece during World War II.
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SOURCE: Israel National News
10/9/19
We put a Nazi general on a pedestal and wonder why we have neo-Nazis
by Robert Scott Kellner
The US military made a hero of Field Marshal Rommel, Hitler's favorite general. Is it any wonder there are German and American neo-Nazis?
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SOURCE: NY Times
9/24/19
A Slain Jewish Girl’s Diary of Life Under the Soviets and the Nazis
At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon, the publication of the book, “Renia’s Diary,” offers a reminder of the power of bearing witness.
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SOURCE: New York Times
September 21, 2019
An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.
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7/28/19
White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to Today
by Adrian Gilbert
Recently there has been a trend to rehabilitate Waffen-SS veterans from Eastern European countries and to reconsider them as patriots rather than agents of Nazi tyranny.
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6/23/19
The Moon Landings Have a Nazi Problem
by Fraser MacDonald
As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, the Nazi provenance of some technology and personnel is too often kept at bay.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
5/21/19
Nuremberg Decides to Conserve Nazi Rally Grounds
Some argued that the site should be left to decay into ruins, but officials have decided to maintain it as a testament to the city’s dark history.
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SOURCE: NY Times
4/15/19
‘We Are Amplifying the Work’: France Starts Task Force on Art Looted Under Nazis
Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
4/22/19
The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust
For a while during his captivity, jazz kept Eric Vogel, a Jewish Czech trumpeter, useful to the Nazis—and therefore alive.
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SOURCE: NY Times
4/15/19
Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis?
by Paul Hockenos
The country’s culture of remembrance is crumbling.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/10/19
Hitler’s girlfriend filmed Nazis relaxing and the fuhrer dancing. Now the footage is going digital.
The National Archives is restoring the color home movies made by Hitler’s girlfriend Eva Braun.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/21/19
Nazis Have Always Been Trolls
by Adam Serwer
Historically, they rely on murderous insincerity and the unwillingness of liberal societies to see them for what they are.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-20-2018
Couple Who Named Their Child After Hitler Are Sentenced for Neo-Nazi Membership
In one image released by the West Midlands Police, the couple were photographed holding their baby alongside a flag emblazoned with a swastika.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
11-16-18
They Fled the Nazis as Children. Now They Want Their Adopted Homeland to Welcome Other Refugees Too.
Many at the 80th anniversary commemoration of the “Kindertransport” in London drew comparisons between the welcome extended to Kindertransport children back in 1938, and the general hostility toward migrants now, no matter how deserving they might be.
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SOURCE: The Telegraph
2-21-18 (accessed)
How a team of sophisticated forgers at an Essex country house fooled the Nazis
The British operation to create documents for its agents and allies in occupied Europe was a highly sophisticated affair, run along the lines of a modern same day delivery service.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
2-2-18
What Happened at Stalingrad?
Vladimir Putin marks Russia's bloodiest battle with the Nazis.
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2/11/18
We All Remember FDR’s Speech Explaining Why We Went to War Against Japan …
by Gerard N. Magliocca
But why did we go to war with Nazi Germany? Few recall FDR’s explanation. We should.
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SOURCE: Politico
9-24-17
The Jewish Immigrants Who Helped the U.S. Take on Nazis
by Arthur Allen
They became Americans to fight for freedom and democracy—which meant taking down Hitler and interrogating German POWs.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9-24-17
Jelani Cobb unloads on Trump’s double standard of patriotism in the New Yorker
by Jelani Cobb
Trump’s selective patriotism "drives him to curse at black football players but leaves him struggling to create false equivalence between Nazis and anti-Fascists in Charlottesville."
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