Nazis

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/17/2021
  

  How a Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief

  Historian Jonathan Petropoulous forged a relationship with Bruno Lohse, the art agent of Hermann Göring. That relationship proved ethically dubious when the professor did paid contract work for heirs of a German Jewish family to trace a stolen painting and the trail led to a foundation owned by Lohse.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  12/12/2020
  

  Hitler’s Pet Alligator to be Stuffed, Put on Display in Russia

  The 84 year-old reptile will be stuffed and displayed in Moscow after traveling from Mississippi to Berlin and being gifted to Russia by British troops after the capture of Berlin in 1945. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/13/2020
  

  Thieves Grab Nazi Memorabilia in Museum Heists, Puzzling Police

  Since March, four museums in the Netherlands and Denmark have been broken into, and memorabilia, including Nazi uniforms, has been stolen. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Conventional Culture in the Third Reich

  by Moritz Föllmer

  Although Nazi aesthetics are generally associated with the monumental architecture of Albert Speer and the propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl, Germans generally encountered conventionality in art, music and cinema. This helped to normalize the acts of the Third Reich and to allow ordinary Germans to dissociate themselves from Nazism after 1945.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/23/2020
  

  In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy Is Essential Part of Police Training

  In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform everywhere.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/16/2020
  

  After World War II, Most ‘Ordinary Nazis’ Returned to Lives of Obscurity. The World Must Recover Their Stories Before It’s Too Late

  by Daniel Lee

  The act of recovering perpetrators’ voices sheds light on consent and conformity under the swastika, enabling us to ask new questions about responsibility, blame and manipulation.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/3/2020
  

  How Crowdsourcing Aided a Push to Preserve the Histories of Nazi Victims

  With people around the globe sheltering at home amid the pandemic, the Arolsen Archives asked for help indexing them. Thousands joined the effort.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/2/2020
  

  The Search for the Truth About the Nazi Plot to Assassinate FDR

  by Howard Blum

  The events surrounding Operation Long Jump, as the Nazi assassination mission that targeted the Tehran Conference was known, remained a deeply buried official secret.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/31/2020
  

  Nazi or Hero? Historian Looks at the Stories a German Consultant Told of His Father

  A study from historian Michael Wolffsohn finds some truth and some falsehoods in a prominent businessman’s portrayal of his father as a Nazi resister.

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• SOURCE: Upworthy
  4/28/2020
  

  75 Years Ago, the U.S. Blew Up a Giant Swastika in Nazi Germany and it's Still so Satisfying to Watch

  Local authorities in Nurnberg recently voted to conserve (not rebuild or renovate) the site of some of Hitler's most notorious speeches.

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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.