October 18, 2013
1:21 am

A van allegedly carrying the coffin of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke is protected by policemen in riot gear as it leaves the Society of St. Pius X headquarters, a schismatic Catholic group, where his funeral was scheduled to take place in Albano Laziale, on the outskirts of Rome on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca)

Body of dead Nazi Priebke goes missing

Lawyer says he lost track of former SS man’s casket amid turmoil over funeral in Rome

By AP

October 14, 2013
5:13 am

Entrance to former death camp at Sobibor in eastern Poland (photo: public domain)

70 years after revolt, Sobibor secrets are yet to be unearthed

This season’s scheduled excavations are the most important to date. So why is the Polish government delaying authorization?

By Matt Lebovic

October 12, 2013
6:13 am

A 1996 file photo, showing former Nazi officer, Erich Priebke, attending an hearing of his trial at the tribunal in Rome. Erich Priebke, an ex SS captain sentenced to life for the 1944's Ardeatine caves massacre in Italy, died at 100, Italian LaPresse news agency said Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (Photo credit: AP /Giulio Broglio, File)

Argentina refuses to accept late Nazi’s remains

Erich Priebke, a former SS captain, died aged 100 Friday, was to be buried near his wife in country where he fled after WWII

By Times of Israel staff and AP

October 12, 2013
4:21 am

Pope Francis attends a vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Saturday, September 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope warns of anti-Semitism as Rome commemorates Holocaust

On 70th anniversary of deportation of city’s Jews to Auschwitz, Francis I calls for vigilance against intolerance

By JTA

October 11, 2013
10:27 pm

Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the platform at Auschwitz camp in Birkenau, Poland, in 1944 (photo credit: AP/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

Documentary focuses on Nazis’ Jewish skeleton collection

Norwegian film crew gain access to room in the Reich University of Strasbourg where specimens were displayed as teaching aid for race theories

By JTA

October 11, 2013
3:15 pm

Dignitaries attending the cornerstone laying ceremony for Kiryat Gat's industrial area in 1955. (photo credit: public domain, Yehuda Polkovich, Wikimedia commons)

How a Nazi planner shaped early Israel

A plan used in the 1950s to build a system of towns and villages in the northern Negev was based on a theory developed in the Third Reich, to be used for populating an Eastern Europe cleansed of Jews. Did Zionist planners not know, or not care?

By Joshua Davidovich

October 9, 2013
11:43 am

Brig. Stefan Baluk, 99, right, the last living WW II airborne fighter shakes hands with a Polish scout during the unveiling ceremony of a monument dedicated to 316 resistance soldiers who parachuted into Nazi occupied Poland, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poland honors WWII resistance fighters

The ‘Dark and Silent’ were trained in the West and parachuted into Poland in night flights from Britain and Italy

By AP

October 9, 2013
10:51 am

German and Italian brass in Rome, 1940. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Bundesarchiv, Bild 121-2051, Wikimedia Common)

Italian Jewish leaders honor Nazi-deported Carabinieri force

Deportation took place days before the Nazis sent more than 1,000 Roman Jews to Auschwitz

By JTA

October 7, 2013
12:07 pm

French President Francois Hollande (photo credit: AP/Bob Edme)

France honors WWII fighters who freed Corsica

6,600 Moroccans were the bulk of the fighting force that liberated the first part of French territory from the Nazis

By AP

October 7, 2013
10:47 am

Copies of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper are offered for sale at a newsagent in London, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Jewish Daily Mail editor defends paper against Miliband

Alex Brummer says he has a very ‘sensitive antennae’ to anti-Semitism, and this wasn’t it; paper still at epicenter of political storm

By JTA and AP

October 3, 2013
11:52 am

Amon Goeth's 1945 mag shot (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

‘My Nazi grandfather, Amon Goeth, would have shot me’

From the web BBC: Ethnically mixed granddaughter of Plaszow concentration camp commandant writes about being ‘genetically linked’ to infamous Nazi

October 1, 2013
9:15 pm

Israel Guttman at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Israel National Photo Collection)

Israeli Holocaust historian Israel Gutman dies

A survivor himself, Gutman served in several posts at Yad Vashem and headed the memorial museum’s international research institute

By Ian Deitch

September 30, 2013
11:43 pm

Jerusalem's Kikar Denya (Denmark Square), a memorial to the Jews rescued in the Danish operation 70 years ago. (photo credit: public domain via Wikipedia)

Ceremony marks WWII escape of Denmark’s Jews

More than 7,000 Jews were sent by boat to Sweden in 1943 operation

By JTA

September 28, 2013
12:48 am

A reconstructed view of the fabled Amber Room (photo credit: jeanyfan, public domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Outcry as Nazi treasure hunters search concentration camp cemetery

From the web The Daily Mail: ‘This is a place of rest for 42 victims of the Nazis,’ town mayor says of hunt for £150 million Amber Room of the tsars

September 27, 2013
10:53 am

Nazis offered to leave western Europe in exchange for free hand to attack USSR

From the web New book claims Hitler offered the British peace in 1941 on condition Germany was not hindered in invading Soviet Union, The Telegraph reports

Topic: Nazis

Body of dead Nazi Priebke goes missing

Lawyer says he lost track of former SS man’s casket amid turmoil over funeral in Rome

70 years after revolt, Sobibor secrets are yet to be unearthed

This season’s scheduled excavations are the most important to date. So why is the Polish government delaying authorization?

Argentina refuses to accept late Nazi’s remains

Erich Priebke, a former SS captain, died aged 100 Friday, was to be buried near his wife in country where he fled after WWII

Pope warns of anti-Semitism as Rome commemorates Holocaust

On 70th anniversary of deportation of city’s Jews to Auschwitz, Francis I calls for vigilance against intolerance

Documentary focuses on Nazis’ Jewish skeleton collection

Norwegian film crew gain access to room in the Reich University of Strasbourg where specimens were displayed as teaching aid for race theories

How a Nazi planner shaped early Israel

A plan used in the 1950s to build a system of towns and villages in the northern Negev was based on a theory developed in the Third Reich, to be used for populating an Eastern Europe cleansed of Jews. Did Zionist planners not know, or not care?

Poland honors WWII resistance fighters

The ‘Dark and Silent’ were trained in the West and parachuted into Poland in night flights from Britain and Italy

Italian Jewish leaders honor Nazi-deported Carabinieri force

Deportation took place days before the Nazis sent more than 1,000 Roman Jews to Auschwitz

France honors WWII fighters who freed Corsica

6,600 Moroccans were the bulk of the fighting force that liberated the first part of French territory from the Nazis

Jewish Daily Mail editor defends paper against Miliband

Alex Brummer says he has a very ‘sensitive antennae’ to anti-Semitism, and this wasn’t it; paper still at epicenter of political storm

‘My Nazi grandfather, Amon Goeth, would have shot me’

From the web BBC: Ethnically mixed granddaughter of Plaszow concentration camp commandant writes about being ‘genetically linked’ to infamous Nazi

Israeli Holocaust historian Israel Gutman dies

A survivor himself, Gutman served in several posts at Yad Vashem and headed the memorial museum’s international research institute

Ceremony marks WWII escape of Denmark’s Jews

More than 7,000 Jews were sent by boat to Sweden in 1943 operation

Outcry as Nazi treasure hunters search concentration camp cemetery

From the web The Daily Mail: ‘This is a place of rest for 42 victims of the Nazis,’ town mayor says of hunt for £150 million Amber Room of the tsars

Nazis offered to leave western Europe in exchange for free hand to attack USSR

From the web New book claims Hitler offered the British peace in 1941 on condition Germany was not hindered in invading Soviet Union, The Telegraph reports

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