Nazis

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• SOURCE: Jewish News
  3/22/2020
  

  Czech Museum Director Fired

  Director of the Lidice memorial, Martina Lehmannová, was let go amid accusations that the government is trying to whitewash inconvenient facts to suit its preferred narrative.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/17/2020
  

  She Tracked Nazi-Looted Art. She Quit When No One Returned It.

  A researcher stopped working for a German museum after she says she lost faith in its commitment to return works with tainted provenances.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  "Faster" Author Neal Bascomb on the Jewish Auto Racer who Defied Hitler

  by Neal Bascomb

  Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/7/2020
  

  The Mission to Hunt Nazis Has Become a Race Against Time

  The latest target was a 94-year-old man in Tennessee said to have been a guard at a concentration camp in Germany. “These people are old, and they’re dying,” a prosecutor said of the cases’ urgency.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/27/20
  

  Germany Is Often Praised for Facing Up to Its Nazi Past. But Even There, the Memory of the Holocaust Is Still Up for Debate

  by Jacob S. Eder

  While central questions about how to confront that legacy have been settled in the country’s history textbooks, they are still subject to controversy in villages and towns.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/7/20
  

  How Methamphetamine Became a Key Part of Nazi Military Strategy

  by Peter Andreas

  As Norman Ohler shows in Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, while other drugs were banned or discouraged, methamphetamine was touted as a miracle product when it appeared on the market in the late 1930s.

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• SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
  12/14/19
  

  Due to Nazi past, Krispy Kreme owners give millions to Holocaust survivors

  "As survivors age their needs are growing ever greater," said Claims Conference executive vice-president Greg Schneider.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/17/19
  

  ‘Vile and disturbing’: Army unit marks Battle of the Bulge with picture of Nazi war criminal who massacred Americans

  The Army unit posted a glamorous, colorized photo of Peiper alongside an intimate narrative depicting the Nazi writing in his diary.

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• 12/15/19
  

  The 1936 Olympics Teach Us Why Trump's Lies Are So Dangerous

  by Andrew Maraniss

  In the face of a mounting threat to humanity, a campaign of lies, inaction, and disinterest in the truth were all equally dangerous. 

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• 12/15/19
  

  Reviews of The Man in the High Castle and the Misunderstanding of History

  by Elizabeth Stice

  Some of the venom directed at the show and its politics reflects a tragic misunderstanding of the actual relevant history.

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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.