This from Ha’aretz today: A Holocaust memorial design created by two graduate students at Columbia University’s architecture school has beaten out an Israeli design to become the winner of a competition for a memorial that will go up on the Atlantic City boardwalk. “Fractured Landscapes,” which was chosen from between the two finalists last month, is a “fractured landscape and a river of light” that “stitch together disjointed surfaces, expressing our hopes for peace,” according to the text of the submission. This raises the question, why does Atlantic City need a Holocaust Memorial? Does every dumpy little American city need a Holocaust Memorial?  How about spending the money on Holocaust education? Or just education? Or something with some utility?

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Atlantic City: Hookers, Poverty, Desperation, Enrique Iglesias, and a Holocaust Memorial

An amusing story in the Times today : A Holocaust denier inadvertently sends an e-mail blast filled with the typical dumbass denial horseshit to his kid’s elementary school’s parent listserv. Outrage ensues, but that is not what is interesting to me: According to the Times , the idiot, whose name is Michael Santomauro, lives on the Upper West Side. Now why would he do that? Is he some sort of masochist? Is he keeping the perfidious Jews under close observation? Has he looked into real estate opportunities in northern Idaho?

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Why Would a Holocaust Denier Live on the Upper West Side?

In the past 75 years, the world has been witness to genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur and the Holocaust.

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Opinion: Act now to prevent genocide

Beijing – North Korea on Saturday called for dialogue and peace on the Korean Peninsula in a state-issued New Year’s Day editorial, warning that a breakout of war with the South “will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust.” While the statement also characterized South Korea’s government as a “minion of war” beholden to “pro-U.S. war hawks,” the document’s repeated calls for more cooperation suggest that the North might be moving, for now, away from a pattern of attacks against the South. read more

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N. Korea Calls for Peace, Warns of "Nuclear Holocaust"

The Fox News host called the financier a “puppet master” and invoked his childhood during the Holocaust.

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Glenn Beck’s Attacks on George Soros Draw Heat

Fake documents and a knowledge of Holocaust history were used to defraud a Holocaust fund of more than $42 million.

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U.S. Says Lies Were Used to Defraud Holocaust Fund

Seventeen people are charged in the US with stealing $42m of Holocaust compensation funds provided by the German government.

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Charges in ‘$42m Holocaust theft’

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged 17 people involved in a massive Holocaust reparations racket that led to the payment of $42.5 million in bogus claims to ineligible applicants. The money came from a fund created for Holocaust survivors and…

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Seventeen Charged With Holocaust Fraud

An Israeli diplomat in Germany criticized the city of Frankfurt on Sunday for inviting a Jewish intellectual who has been critical of Israel to speak at a ceremony marking the 62nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, the November 9, 1938 attacks on Jewish synagogues and businesses in Nazi Germany.

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The Lede: Kristallnacht Memorial Criticized

A mass grave containing the bodies of about 100 Jews killed during the Holocaust has been discovered in Romania, researchers say.

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Romanian ‘Holocaust grave’ found

Germany ordains its first female rabbi since the Holocaust

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A new database lets Holocaust survivors and relatives search details of more than 20,000 artworks stolen from Jews during World War II.

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Holocaust art database launched

This article titled “Nuremberg laws that General Patton stole given to US National Archives” was written by Chris McGreal in Washington, for The Guardian on Wednesday 25th August 2010 18.44 UTC

They are just four typewritten pages and one notorious signature. But the hastily written Nuremberg laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship, and laid the ground for the murder of millions of people within a decade.

Yet when the remaining Nazi leadership went on trial after the war, that original version of the Nuremberg laws was missing from the mass of documentary evidence of the persecution and extermination of Jews presented to the international court.

Forty-five years later it was revealed that the documents had been filched by General George Patton and then hidden away in the vault of a California library.

Today the four pages, signed by Hitler and stripping Jews of German citizenship, barring their marriage to those defined as Aryan and ultimately defining those consigned to the extermination camps, were reunited with other papers used at the war crimes trials now kept at the US National Archives in Washington.

Patton was notorious for defying orders as his army charged across Europe even while he was a stickler for discipline among his troops. In the waning days of the war a detachment of the US army’s counter-intelligence corps discovered the papers in Eichstätt, Bavaria. Patton appropriated them in breach of orders against looting and the collecting of souvenirs and for Nazi documents to be handed over to war crimes investigators.

Shortly before his death in 1945 Patton quietly gave the papers to the Huntington library in California, which holds a priceless Gutenberg Bible and early editions of Shakespeare and Chaucer. Patton grew up near the library and his father worked for its founder, Henry Huntington, a railway baron.

Apparently embarrassed at receiving the historic and chilling documents over which neither Patton nor the library could claim legal ownership, the Huntington stuck them in a reinforced vault.

“We were aware that General Patton, who had received the documents from his staff as a gift and deposited them at the Huntington, had not paid attention in his souvenir hunting to the orders of his commander in chief,” the library’s president, Steve Koblik, told the Associated Press. “Had General Patton not taken these documents, they would have been part of the collection the government was putting together in order to prepare for the Nuremberg trials.”

The laws, drafted at the Nazi party’s 1935 Nuremberg rally, were the first legal step to identifying and defining who was German and who was Jewish given the large number of secular and highly assimilated Jews in Germany. Germans were those who had four grandparents with “German or kindred blood”. Jews were defined as descended from three or four grandparents who were Jewish. Anyone in between was defined as Mischling or crossbreed.

Among other restrictions, the laws forbade Jews to fly the Nazi or German flags but did permit them “to display the Jewish colours”.

“The exercise of this right is protected by the state,” the laws said.

Although viewed today as the first legal step to broader persecution and eventually genocide, the Nuremberg laws were not entirely alien to older Germans. Until 1870 Jews in the evolving Prussian-led confederation that would become Germany were not recognised as citizens, and had their rights restricted no matter how many generations their families had lived there for.

• This article was amended on 27 August 2010. The original said that until 1870 Jews “in Germany” were not recognised as citizens. This has been corrected.

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