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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

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The photomontaged pictures of Helena Citron and Frank Wunsch, an Auschwitz prisoner and her SS officer who pursued a romance in the concentration camp, now the subject of an award-winning documentary, 'Love It Was Not" (Courtesy Love It Was Not)
November 16, 2021, 4:17 am
Israeli film on SS officer’s romance with Jewish prisoner heads to Apple, Amazon
‘Love It Was Not’ utilizes creative photomontage, interviews and archival testimony to describe a wildly improbable Auschwitz love affair
By Jessica Steinberg
Cafe Escobar's in Ukraine's new logo resembles the Nazi SS insignia. (Cafe Escobar via JTA)
August 26, 2021, 3:45 am
Owners of Ukraine cafe in former synagogue say Nazi SS logo a ‘font’ mistake
Coffee shop apologizes after new logo appears to resemble twin lightning symbol of German elite squads, says it was just advertising reenergizing qualities of the coffee
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A view of Imst, Austria. (Video screenshot)
August 13, 2021, 4:16 pm
Authorities in Austrian town plan to remove SS memorial
Imst officials plan further research into history of Nazi activity and victims in the region
By AP
The statue "Latvian Beehive" in Zedelgem, Belgium. (Okupacijas Muzejs via JTA)
August 12, 2021, 6:09 am
Belgian town square to remove references to Nazi collaborators after uproar
Following allegations that Briviba Square honored Latvian soldiers part of Nazi SS forces, site will get new name; plaque about ‘Latvian Beehive’ will be taken down
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Old train tracks leading past a former canteen building of SS guards at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 9, 2021 (BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP)
April 10, 2021, 4:55 pm
To highlight banality of evil, group seeks to restore SS canteen at Auschwitz
After long days of killing, Nazi officers would head to the dining room near the camp to grab a bite or have a drink
By Stanislaw Waszak
(L-R) Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller, planning the investigation of the bomb assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Munich, 1939. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R98680/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA 3.0)
From the WebApril 6, 2021, 9:33 pm
New records reveal Hitler’s Austrian SS chief escaped punishment with US backing
New York Times reports on how Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, went on to work for West German intelligence, drew a pension until his death
A security guard stands at attention after lowering the Swedish flag to half-staff on the roof of the Swedish parliament the Riksdag, in Stockholm, Sweden, January 1 2005. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild, Jack Mikrut)
November 9, 2020, 11:33 am
Sweden grapples with ‘guilty conscience’ over ignored Holocaust tip-off
On a train in 1942, an SS officer told a Swedish diplomat of the industrialized murder of Jews at the Belzec extermination camp. But the horrifying revelation was kept under wraps
By Johannes LEDEL
Horst Wachter, with Charlotte, Otto von Wachter, and daughter Traute and the Zell-am-See station in 1944. (Courtesy Horst Wächter)
August 25, 2020, 4:11 am
Nazi’s son plays devil’s advocate to defend murderer father to Jewish lawyer
In ‘The Ratline,’ Philippe Sands befriends son of Otto von Wachter, SS officer involved in killing his ancestors. Despite wealth of evidence, son says father was ‘a great man’
By Robert Philpot
Robert Griesinger (right) in Wehrmacht uniform with one of the horses from the 25th Infantry Division c. 1939 (Courtesy of Jutta Mangold)
June 26, 2020, 4:44 pm
Nazi documents stashed in armchair take author on trail of ‘ordinary’ SS officer
In ‘The SS Officer’s Armchair,’ British-Jewish historian Daniel Lee retraces history of obscure lower-level Third Reich functionary, showing role he played in destroying lives
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A Marine scout sniper battalion posing with US and Nazi flags, September 2010 (AP Photo/ knightarmco.com)
June 11, 2020, 3:26 pm
Synagogue slams Walla Walla police department for officer’s Nazi-style tattoo
Nathan Small’s ink resembles the double lightning bolts of the SS, but he says it is a relic from the sniper scout unit with which he served in Afghanistan
By Ron Kampeas
Former Nazi SS soldier Karl Muenter, convicted of killing 86 civilians in France during World War II, is interviewed by the German broadcaster ARD. (YouTube screenshot)
July 24, 2019, 12:41 pm
German prosecutors charge ex-SS soldier over incitement and Holocaust denial
Karl Muenter, who has a previous conviction in France for killing 86 during World War II, blames victims for their own death, denies 6 million Jews killed
By AFP
Illustrative: Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, speaking at the Westend synagogue, in Frankfurt, Germany, September 26, 2016. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images via JTA)
March 27, 2019, 4:32 pm
German Jewish leader urges cancellation of pension payments to former SS members
Josef Schuster says funds to former Nazi employees wounded in service and living abroad are ‘intolerable’
By Toby Axelrod
Johann Rehbogen, a 94-year-old former SS guard holds his walking stick at the beginning of a trial in Muenster, Germany, November 6, 2018. (Guido Kirchner/dpa via AP)
November 15, 2018, 7:40 pm
Ex-Nazi guard testifies he thought deaths were from disease, not gas chambers
At trial, Johann Rehbogen claims he believed 60,000 prisoners at Stutthof death camp were victims of ‘diseases and epidemics,’ says he was afraid to leave SS
By Agencies
Johann Rehbogen, a 94-year-old former SS enlisted man, who is accused of hundreds of counts of accessory to murder for alleged crimes committed while he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp, waits for the beginning of the third day of his trial at the regional court in Muenster, Germany, November 13, 2018. (Guido Kirchner/pool photo via AP)
November 13, 2018, 1:38 pm
Ex-SS guard, 94, to testify at trial in Germany in rare move
Holocaust survivors to hear directly from Johann Rehbogen, charged with his role in mass killing of Jews at Stutthof concentration camp in the 1940s
By David Courbet
The main gate leading into the former Nazi German Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Poland, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 21, 2018, 10:09 pm
Former SS guard, now 94, to go trial in Germany in November
Suspect charged with complicity in the mass murders of Pole and Jews at Stutthof concentration camp
By AFP
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