February 15, 2014
5:26 am

Gestapo head Heinrich Muller, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of German criminal police Arthur Nebe and chief of state police and Gestapo in Vienna, Franz Joseph Huber, meet in Munich, Germany, in November 1939. (photo credit: German Federal Archives/Wikimedia Commons)

Nazis researched using mosquitoes to spread malaria

Institute set up by Himmler at Dachau worked on bug-based biological program to spread havoc behind enemy lines

By Yifa Yaakov

February 12, 2014
5:52 am

A detail from the painting 'Sitzende Frau' ('Sitting Woman' or 'Femme Assise'), by Henri Matisse, also part of Gurlitt's collection. (photo credit: AP/Staatsanwaltschaft Augsburg)

Germany to start debating law on Nazi-looted art

If passed, bill would eliminate the statute of limitations applied to stolen property; some believe the measure is ‘for show’

By AFP

February 6, 2014
5:55 am

Aidan Burley in a 2010 campaign photo (public domain via wikipedia)

UK Nazi bachelor party MP to quit

From the web Guardian: Aidan Burley announces he will not run for reelection after Tory party inquiry finds his acts ‘stupid and offensive’

February 6, 2014
4:06 am

From left: Dimitri Leonidas, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bob Balaban and Matt Damon in the film, "The Monuments Men." (photo credit: AP/Columbia Pictures/Claudette Barius)

A look at the real men portrayed in ‘Monuments Men’

Architects, artists, curators and museum directors were part of an allied mission to save Europe’s art during WWII

By Jamie Stengle

February 6, 2014
2:53 am

This 1945 handout photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows the rescuing of Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child in Altaussee, Austria. (photo credit: AP/Smithsonian Institution)

Real ‘Monuments Men’ records go on display in DC

Photographs, maps and lists of art amassed by Hitler and other Nazi leaders are now available to the public for first time

By Brett Zongker

February 6, 2014
2:26 am

This photo provided by The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art of Dallas, shows Monuments Man James Rorimer, with notepad, as he supervises American GI's hand-carrying paintings down the steps of the castle in Neuschwanstein, Germany in May of 1945. (photo credit: AP/National Archives and Records Administration)

‘Monuments Men’ characters inspired by real people

George Clooney’s new film chronicles those who worked to save cultural treasures across Europe during World War II

By AP

February 5, 2014
11:18 pm

Railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Croatia probes former US citizen over WWII war crimes

Jacob Dencinger, 90, a German believed to have been an SS guard at Auschwitz, lived for decades in the US after the war

By JTA

February 1, 2014
6:05 am

A man dressed in WWII-era Soviet Army uniform holds a replica of Soviet Victory Flag on a roof of TV Rain headquarters late Monday during a protest picket in Moscow. Several Russian cable and satellite providers have removed a top independent television channel from their packages after it ran a poll asking the audience if the Soviets should have surrendered Leningrad to the Nazis to avoid more than a million deaths during the WWII siege. (AP Photo/Mikhail Dukhovich)

Russian TV station probed for asking if Soviets should’ve surrendered to Nazis

Putin spokesman says independent channel crossed moral ‘red line’ by suggesting Leningrad should’ve been ceded to save lives

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

January 30, 2014
3:21 am

Hermann Goering on the witness stand at the Nuremberg trials (photo credit: US Government/public domain)

US collector buys Nuremberg documents at auction

500-page trove, which surfaced last year at a Tel Aviv flea market, sold for $10,000 in Jerusalem

January 27, 2014
11:55 am

Prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau during liberation, in January 1945 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

To murder 6 million people, the Nazis showed us, you don’t even need fanatics

Buried at Auschwitz is our certainty in a shared humanity. We now know that any limits to human cruelty, if they exist at all, lie beyond the most rabid viciousness ever conceived

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 24, 2014
2:01 pm

This picture taken Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 shows a marble tombstone which is adorned by a swastika and the inscription 'He died in the struggle for a Great Germany' at the central cemetery in Graz, Austria. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)

Swastikas on Austrian tombstones defy official ban

Emblems reflecting the country’s darkest chapter endure in graveyards, and officials appear either unable or unwilling to act

By George Jahn

December 19, 2013
4:57 am

Cologne museum to return Nazi-looted artwork

Drawings belonged to Jewish art collector, whose Dusseldorf gallery was taken over in 1933

By JTA

December 17, 2013
2:28 pm

Visitors walk the grounds of Majdanek, where more than 75,000 prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

‘Polish death camp’ designation sparks protest by Poles

Museum directors at Nazi death camps in Poland object to the use of ‘Polish’ in describing them

By JTA

December 12, 2013
2:16 am

Holocaust survivors Joe Chaba, 85, and his wife, Helen, 89, sit together on the rooftop of the Selfhelp Home retirement community, in Chicago (photo credit: AP/M. Spencer Green/File)

Biden announces effort to help Holocaust survivors

US administration plans to help non-profits provide needed services, and to use diplomacy to resolve Nazi-era property claims

By AP

December 11, 2013
4:26 pm

J.R.R. Tolkien's band of displaced dwarves come to life in 'The Hobbit' film trilogy (photo credit: courtesy Warner Bros.)

Are Tolkien’s dwarves an allegory for the Jews?

Ahead of the premiere of the second installment of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy, a look at its possible Jewish connections

By Matt Lebovic

Topic: Nazis

Nazis researched using mosquitoes to spread malaria

Institute set up by Himmler at Dachau worked on bug-based biological program to spread havoc behind enemy lines

Germany to start debating law on Nazi-looted art

If passed, bill would eliminate the statute of limitations applied to stolen property; some believe the measure is ‘for show’

UK Nazi bachelor party MP to quit

From the web Guardian: Aidan Burley announces he will not run for reelection after Tory party inquiry finds his acts ‘stupid and offensive’

A look at the real men portrayed in ‘Monuments Men’

Architects, artists, curators and museum directors were part of an allied mission to save Europe’s art during WWII

Real ‘Monuments Men’ records go on display in DC

Photographs, maps and lists of art amassed by Hitler and other Nazi leaders are now available to the public for first time

‘Monuments Men’ characters inspired by real people

George Clooney’s new film chronicles those who worked to save cultural treasures across Europe during World War II

Croatia probes former US citizen over WWII war crimes

Jacob Dencinger, 90, a German believed to have been an SS guard at Auschwitz, lived for decades in the US after the war

Russian TV station probed for asking if Soviets should’ve surrendered to Nazis

Putin spokesman says independent channel crossed moral ‘red line’ by suggesting Leningrad should’ve been ceded to save lives

US collector buys Nuremberg documents at auction

500-page trove, which surfaced last year at a Tel Aviv flea market, sold for $10,000 in Jerusalem

To murder 6 million people, the Nazis showed us, you don’t even need fanatics

Buried at Auschwitz is our certainty in a shared humanity. We now know that any limits to human cruelty, if they exist at all, lie beyond the most rabid viciousness ever conceived

Swastikas on Austrian tombstones defy official ban

Emblems reflecting the country’s darkest chapter endure in graveyards, and officials appear either unable or unwilling to act

Cologne museum to return Nazi-looted artwork

Drawings belonged to Jewish art collector, whose Dusseldorf gallery was taken over in 1933

‘Polish death camp’ designation sparks protest by Poles

Museum directors at Nazi death camps in Poland object to the use of ‘Polish’ in describing them

Biden announces effort to help Holocaust survivors

US administration plans to help non-profits provide needed services, and to use diplomacy to resolve Nazi-era property claims

Are Tolkien’s dwarves an allegory for the Jews?

Ahead of the premiere of the second installment of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy, a look at its possible Jewish connections

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