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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Nazis

Prof. Jonathan Petropoulos (left) and Bruno Lohse. (© Living Memory Productions)
February 19, 2025, 6:23 pm
Unrepentant Nazi art thief who stole Jews’ art from ‘still warm walls’ focus of new film
Airing Feb. 19 on PBS, ‘Plunderer’ chronicles the life of Bruno Lohse, who amassed a collection worth millions while looting the homes of Jews for his boss Hermann Goering during WWII
By Rich Tenorio
The leader of the far-right Freedom party (FPOe) Herbert Kickl leaves after talks with Austria's President on January 6, 2025 at the presidential Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. (Joe Klamar / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 11:09 pm
For the first time since WWII, Austria’s far right gets mandate to lead government
Anti-immigration, pro-Russia, eurosceptic Freedom Party, led by populist Herbert Kickl, gets chance to form government; was founded by former Nazi officer in 1950s
By Philipp Jenne and Geir Moulson
Supporters cheer for Hitler in Germany on October 10, 1931. (AP Photo)
December 31, 2024, 10:20 am
In ‘Hitler’s People,’ a UK historian reveals rare bios of Nazis ‘disturbingly like us’
While humanizing the perpetrators of the Holocaust has long been considered taboo, the 20 portraits in Richard Evans’s new book are a stark reminder of humanity’s capacity for evil
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) in Oranienburg, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
December 3, 2024, 6:57 pm
In reversal, German court says 100-year-old Nazi guard may go on trial
Gregor Formanek initially found unfit to face charges of aiding and abetting 3,322 murders at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but judge rules decision based on flawed expertise
By AFP
Picture taken on November 13, 2024 shows presidential candidate Calin Georgescu at the Romanian tv station "Digi 24" in Bucharest, Romania, on November 13, 2024. (Octav Ganea / DIGI24/INQUAM PHOTOS / AFP)
November 26, 2024, 6:20 am
Far-right politician who praised Nazi collaborators shocks with top finish in Romanian presidential election
Calin Georgescu will face liberal reformer Elena Lasconi in next week’s runoff; will be country’s first vote in decades in which centrist party not an option
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Screen capture from video of far-right speaker of Austria's lower house of parliament FPO's Walther Rosenkranz faces Jewish protesters who stopped him from laying a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Vienna, November 8, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 10, 2024, 8:04 am
Jewish students prevent Austrian far-right speaker from laying Kristallnacht wreath
Forming cordon, Vienna protesters tell FPO party’s Rosenkranz ‘we do not want you to spit in our ancestors’ faces’; he eventually leaves, saying he’ll yield to their ‘violence’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is seen at the garden of her home in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in May 1, 1945. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
August 29, 2024, 1:23 pm
Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s set directions may have led to killing of Polish Jews
New documentary shows propagandist’s lifelong commitment to Nazi cause, casting doubt on her denial of knowledge of atrocities which enabled her rehabilitation in postwar Germany
By ToI Staff
The decorated floor of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, discovered in an archaeological dig in Lithuania, in a photo released on July 25, 2024. (Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 25, 2024, 2:52 pm
Uncovered floor of Vilnius’s Great Synagogue bears witness to Nazi, Soviet devastation
Researchers find one of synagogue’s columns collapsed on its side; 17th-century prayer house, at center of Jewish metropolis, was looted by Germans, razed by Russians
By ToI Staff
The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan reading "Works brings you freedom", on Friday, April 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Christof Stache, File)
June 15, 2024, 10:25 pm
Soccer fans in Germany for Euros visit Dachau, lay wreaths in memory of Nazi victims
Fans from Scotland, Ukraine, Germany, Israel tour concentration camp as part of German ‘Football and Remembrance’ program, learn about persecution of Jewish players, coaches there
By Alexandra Hudson and Ayhan Uyanik
Germany's Maximilian Krah, of the German far-right Alternative for Germany party, grimaces during a session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/ Jean-Francois Badias, File)
May 22, 2024, 8:45 pm
Germany’s AfD bars candidate from EU campaigning after he defends some SS members
Unclear if far-right party’s top contender for European Parliament, Maximilian Krah, is still running, after he said not all members of the notorious Nazi unit were war criminals
By Kirsten Grieshaber
A Nazi medical device used to measure head size is seen at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
April 4, 2024, 6:41 am
Leading US medical journal examines its past endorsement of Nazi race science
Article in New England Journal of Medicine finds publication ‘enthusiastically praised German forced sterilization’ in the 1930s, was slow to acknowledge Nazi crimes against Jews
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Hofbrauhaus in Munich, Germany, November 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Luciano)
March 5, 2024, 7:59 pm
Italian soccer fan held for Nazi salute at beer hall where Hitler founded Nazi party
Munich police arrest and fine Lazio team supporter as large group of fans, in the city for a European competition, sing the praises of Italy’s fascists
By AP
Adolf Hitler made a speech to 48,000 boys and 5,000 girls at the Nazi party congress in Nuremberg, Germany on September 11, 1937 during a parade attended by foreign diplomats. From left to right in front row: Antonio Marquis De Magaz, Spain's envoy to Germany, Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador, unknown, Signor Attolico, Italian Ambassador, Andre Francois-Poncet, French Ambassador, Vicco Von Buelow Schwante, chief of protocol in the German Foreign Office. (AP)
February 7, 2024, 4:25 am
Newly declassified docs reveal why Canada didn’t strip Nazis of citizenship
Report by Jewish historian found then-justice minister Pierre Trudeau argued that deporting Nazi war criminal to USSR would set negative precedent for Canadians
By Jackie Hajdenberg
This illustration photo shows the Substack logo, the biggest newsletter platform around, on a laptop screen in Los Angeles, April 23, 2021. (Chris Delmas/AFP)
January 13, 2024, 4:20 pm
Amid Nazi content controversy, Substack subscription network loses writers
Tech publication Platformer is latest to announce its departure over a failure to remove hateful ideology
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a Religious Zionism party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 28, 2023, 3:17 pm
‘There are 2 million Nazis’ in West Bank, says far-right Finance Minister Smotrich
Remark made in reference to polls showing most West Bank Palestinians back Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught; Netanyahu said lobbying Likud MKs, saying only he can foil Palestinian state
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Jacob Magid
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