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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Nuremberg Laws

A portrait of Hans Globke, the under-secretary of state and chief of staff of the West German Chancellery, from 1953 to 1963. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)
March 15, 2021, 11:02 pm
Report: Official at heart of Nazis’ racial laws worked to help Israel go nuclear
Hans Globke, who wrote notorious guidebook on anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, later helped prepare secret $5.5b loan for development of Dimona reactor, Times of London reveals
By ToI Staff
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers his speech during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, southern Germany on November 20, 2020 (Daniel Karmann / POOL / AFP)
November 21, 2020, 2:47 pm
German president urges honoring ‘legacy’ of Nuremberg trials on 75th anniversary
Steinmeier says legal proceedings against Nazis laid the foundation for a global criminal justice system to bring people to account for war crimes and crimes against humanity
By Femke COLBORNE
Benjamin Heidelberger's store in Bad Mergentheim, southern Germany, in an undated photo (Courtesy)
November 14, 2020, 8:50 pm
German whose grandfather bought Jew’s shop in 1938 calls descendant to apologize
Benjamin Heidelberger was forced to sell to Wilhelm Edelmann due to Nuremberg laws; Edelmann’s grandson found Heidelberger’s 83-year-old Israeli granddaughter to make amends
By ToI Staff
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 14, 2019, 1:11 pm
Supreme Court president invokes Nazi era in implicit swipe at Netanyahu
Esther Hayut says judicial institutions can’t ‘withstand every attack’; PM said to be seeking legislation that would shatter judicial oversight
By Michael Bachner
Michael Ben Ari (right) and Itamar Ben Gvir of the Otzma Yehudit party outside the Central Elections Committee office in the Knesset on February 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 24, 2019, 12:17 pm
Extremist Otzma Yehudit threatens to sue prominent rabbi over Nazi comparison
Ben Gvir demands apology and compensation from Benny Lau, who said vote for party was akin to backing Nuremberg Laws
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Benny Lau. (Courtesy)
February 23, 2019, 11:54 pm
Prominent rabbi likens vote for Otzma Yehudit to backing Nuremberg Laws
Benny Lau, whose uncle was Holocaust survivor and ex-chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, says he’ll fight to ensure ‘the doctrine of Kahane doesn’t enter the Knesset’
By ToI Staff
A photograph of Adolf Hitler together with Rosa Bernile Nienau, a Jewish girl, taken at Hitler's home, the Berghof, in the Bavarian Alps, April 20, 1932. (Alexander Historical Auctions)
November 11, 2018, 11:36 am
Up for auction: Photo of Hitler embracing young girl he knew was Jewish
Rosa Bernile Nienau became known as the Fuhrer’s ‘sweetheart’; Nazi leader maintained contact with her until 1938
By Stuart Winer
Jack Schwartz
September 6, 2017, 12:40 pm
Jack Schwartz
Rescinding DACA and Jewish history
The Dreamers’ fate will indicate how dark America’s immediate discriminatory path
During the 1930s in Yaphank, New York, members of the Nazi party march through the Long Island town, where they also organized a pro-Hitler summer camp (Public domain)
August 13, 2017, 11:29 am
American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners
With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country’s awkward history of ties to Nazism
By Matt Lebovic
Author and lawyer Philippe Sands. (John Reynolds)
April 22, 2017, 9:50 am
All roads lead to Lviv: Family history, genocide, and the trials that changed the world
In an award-winning book, legal scholar Philippe Sands explores the city that was an intersection between the Final Solution and the legal minds of the Nuremberg Trials
By JP O’ Malley
A portrait of Hans Globke, the under-secretary of state and chief of staff of the West German Chancellery, from 1953 to 1963. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)
November 27, 2016, 2:15 am
Berlin to probe Nazi ties to post-war government
Investigators will seek to uncover recruitment policies and ‘the mentality of the political culture’ of West Germany after 1945
By AFP
Conservative author Ann Coulter addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
November 8, 2016, 7:41 pm
Ann Coulter proposes racial purity for voters in pro-Trump tweet
Far-right pundit accused of invoking Nazi-era laws by suggesting GOP would win if children, grandchildren of migrants couldn’t vote
By ToI Staff
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation' (Public domain)
October 27, 2016, 12:02 pm
The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments
Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’
By Matt Lebovic
Chief prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz presents documents as evidence at the Einsatzgruppen Trial. Ferencz is flanked by German defense lawyers, Dr. Friedrich Bergold (right, counsel for Ernst Biberstein) and Dr. Rudolf Aschenauer (left, counsel for Otto Ohlendorf), who are protesting the introduction of the evidence. (USHMM/ Ben Ferencz)
September 10, 2016, 5:53 am
After seven decades fighting genocide, this 96-year-old prosecutor is still hard at work
A chief US prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, Benjamin Ferencz has campaigned for justice since — now in the form of a $1m. gift to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jewish Olympians murdered during the Holocaust included, from left, Lilli Henoch, Attila Petschauer, Victor Perez and Eddy Hamel. (Public domain)
August 21, 2016, 12:39 pm
The Jewish Olympians among Hitler’s victims
Largely forgotten, at least 30 Jewish Olympians were murdered in the Holocaust, often displaying uncommon heroism in the face of death
By Matt Lebovic
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