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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Nazi collaborators

Philippe Pétain sits at his trial in July 1945 in Paris. (Photo by PIGISTE / AFP)
January 1, 2024, 8:04 am
History has confirmed guilt of Vichy leader Petain – so why do some question it?
Regime helped deport 75,000 Jews to Nazi death camps, but as ‘France on Trial’ – a best book of the year by UK media – details, this got barely a mention when its leader went on trial
By Robert Philpot
'Fatherland,' by Burkhard Bilger (Courtesy); and Karl Gonner's undated prisoner of war photo. (Dépôt central des archives de la justice militaire)
October 4, 2023, 4:24 am
The ‘reasonable Nazi’ defended by the French villagers he oversaw
In his new book ‘Fatherland,’ Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France – but that’s not the whole story
By Robert Philpot
Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 9, 2023, 10:53 am
Polish official says don’t compare WWII suffering of Poles, Jews: ‘All were victims’
Poland’s deputy FM Pawel Jablonski, visiting Israel as the two countries look to mend ties, says his compatriots are wrongly painted as perpetrators
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: Nazi troops in front of Amsterdam's Bijenkorf square in 1941. (Public domain)
April 29, 2023, 3:09 am
Dutch archives on 300,000 accused Nazi collaborators to open to the public in 2025
In a country notoriously slow to accept responsibility for mistakes and distance itself from its occupiers, a discussion on collaboration might soon take place in the open
By Jackie Hajdenberg
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland on April 19, 2023. (Courtesy of the office of the President of the State of Israel)
April 19, 2023, 7:31 pm
Herzog to Polish president: Story of Holocaust must recall evil of Nazis, accomplices
Israeli president appears to reference dispute over WWII narrative in speech as he joins German, Polish counterparts in Warsaw for 80th Ghetto Uprising memorial
By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor
Framed extracts of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine's (portrait) correspondence displayed at the Gallimard gallery during the exhibition titled 'Celine, recovered manuscripts' in Paris, May 3, 2022. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)
May 4, 2022, 11:37 am
Manuscript by famed pro-Nazi French author resurfaces after 78 years
Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s ‘Guerre’ to hit bookstores decades following his abandonment of personal papers as the Allies approached Paris during WWII
By Hugues HONORE
People walk through a street in Mitrovica, Kosovo, Oct. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
February 10, 2022, 9:22 am
After criticism, Kosovo stops renovation of house linked to Nazi collaborator
Culture minister rejects Holocaust denial accusation; Jewish activist says project should go ahead but include exhibit on local Jews killed by the Nazis
By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI
An activist places a sticker honoring Hannah Senesh over a street sign named for Hans Kloepfer, a prominent doctor and writer who welcomed Hitler's annexation of Austria and joined the Nazi party, on November 8, 2021, in Vienna. (Courtesy)
November 9, 2021, 11:39 pm
On eve of Kristallnacht, activists ‘rename’ Vienna streets honoring antisemites
Protest, publicized by the Austrian Union of Jewish Students, sees street signs named for Nazis and SS members pasted over with a temporary homage to resistance leaders
By Yaakov Schwartz
Members of the South African pro-German group the Ossewabrandwag perform their salute in this undated photo from circa WWII. (Courtesy OB Archive, North-West University, South Africa)
October 22, 2021, 4:27 am
How Nazi sympathizers in WWII Cape Town spied on the Allies and evaded justice
In ‘Hitler’s South African Spies,’ Evert Kleynhans uncovers ‘suppressed’ evidence that members of an ultimately ineffective effort to harm Allied ships escaped prosecution
By Rich Tenorio
Members of the Jewish Order Service pictured in an undated photo detail from the cover of 'Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation,' by historian Katarzyna Person. (Courtesy Cornell University Press)
August 11, 2021, 6:06 am
New book dredges up Warsaw Ghetto ‘police’ who sent fellow Jews to their deaths
Polish historian Katarzyna Person quotes firsthand accounts to reveal the bleak reality that set the stage for the creation of the infamous Jewish Order Service
By Rich Tenorio
Adolf Hitler and Crown Prince Wilhelm von Preussen at the Day of Potsdam in March 1933. (Bundesarchiv bild/ via Wikimedia Commons)
June 8, 2021, 1:30 am
German royal family lawsuit could backfire and reveal nobles’ support for Nazis
While the aristocracy is often lauded for the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler, evidence in a compensation claim sought by the Hohenzollern house may expose a closet full of skeletons
By Robert Philpot
SS veterans and their supporters march in Riga, Latvia on March 16, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
February 4, 2021, 9:42 am
Germany names Dutch SS veterans still receiving pensions for serving Hitler
Reports in 2014 revealed hundreds of thousands of former Nazi soldiers or widows across Europe continue to get monthly war stipends
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Pierre Sidos speaks in 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
September 5, 2020, 7:13 pm
French anti-Semitic far-right leader Pierre Sidos dies
The 93-year-old headed the Oeuvre Francaise movement, which openly despised Jews and later merged with the anti-immigration National Front
By AFP
A detail from the cover of Aron Flam's book that uses the image from a World War II Swedish propaganda poster (Aronflam.com)
July 17, 2020, 11:04 pm
Sweden seizes book by Jewish comedian criticizing war-time collaboration
State claims cover of book violates a copyright, but Aron Flam says it’s satire and authorities are using it as an excuse to suppress free speech
By AFP
Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schonborn (C), Archbishop of The Catholic Church in Bosnia Vinko Puljic (L) and Vatican's Apostolic Nuncio in Bosnia and Herzegovina Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto (R), lead the service at The Cathedral of "The Heart of Jesus" in Sarajevo, on March 4, 2018. (ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP via Getty Images and JTA)
May 14, 2020, 2:33 pm
Bosnian Catholic cardinal to honor Nazi collaborators in memorial service
Jewish groups and Israeli embassy protest event in memory of Ustasha forces, responsible for gory anti-Semitic killings during World War II
By Agencies
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