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Nazi site troubles German leader

Friday, January 20th, 2012

The German president speaks of his country’s “shame” on a visit to the villa where 70 years ago top Nazis planned the mass murder of Jews.

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Israel Faces Crisis Over Role of Ultra-Orthodox in Society

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

A series of episodes involving the ultra-Orthodox community, including segregation of women and protests comparing officials to Nazis, has set off a debate about its position.

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Irish soldiers who hid their medals

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

The men punished for fighting the Nazis

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Stephen King’s “11/22/63”

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

First, the (possibly) bad news: If you’re expecting Stephen King to provide an alternative history of what America would have been like had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated in Dallas, put those expectations aside. Not until 800 pages have gone by in “ 11/22/63 ” does King offer up an account of the world as it might have been, and even then it has a cursory, I’m-doing-this-because-I have-to feel to it. This does not belong on the What If? shelf that has given us the Nazis-win works of Robert Harris (“ Fatherland ”) and Philip K. Dick (“ The Man in the High Castle ”), or the Charles Lindbergh presidency of Philip Roth (“ The Plot Against America ”). Read full article > >

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MI5′s Nazi doubts over PG Wodehouse revealed

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Author PG Wodehouse was worried about how much the Nazis would pay him for his radio broadcasts from wartime Germany, newly-released MI5 files show.

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Old flame

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Did the Nazis invent the Olympic torch relay?

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Old flame

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Did the Nazis invent the Olympic torch relay?

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Holocaust Video Game Canceled

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Sonderkommando Revolt, an upcoming video game that cast the player in the role of an Auschwitz prisoner rebelling against the Nazis, has been canceled. The game was made by an Israeli programmer, who said the negative reaction to the project-including…

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Secret Papers Detail U.S. Aid for Ex-Nazis

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

A secret history of the government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that intelligence officials created a “safe haven” for Nazis and collaborators.

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Nazis Sheltered by U.S. Post-WW II

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

A new report from the U.S. Justice Department reveals that the U.S. government, specifically the Central Intelligence Agency, knowingly sheltered and aided Nazis after the end of World War II. “America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the…

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Berlin Town Hall Discoveries Go On Display

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

The ten “modernist” sculptures that were discovered during an excavation of Berlin’s town hall between January and last month are now on display. Nearly 80 years ago, they had fallen victim to the Nazis’ purges of so-called “degenerate” art, when they…

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Art banned by Nazis to be shown

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

A sculpture collection, which Hitler’s Nazis once dubbed “degenerate art” are set to go on display later at Berlin’s New Museum.

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Pope praises Britain for resisting Nazis

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI praised Britain for resisting Nazis, a remark that could rekindle controversy over his past.

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Army of girls

Monday, August 30th, 2010

How 750,000 children helped Britain beat the Nazis

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High wind in Amsterdam topples Anne Frank tree

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

The horse chestnut that comforted Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis has fallen in high winds and heavy rain.

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