Nazis

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• 6/23/19
  

  The Moon Landings Have a Nazi Problem

  by Fraser MacDonald

  As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, the Nazi provenance of some technology and personnel is too often kept at bay. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/21/19
  

  Nuremberg Decides to Conserve Nazi Rally Grounds

  Some argued that the site should be left to decay into ruins, but officials have decided to maintain it as a testament to the city’s dark history.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  ‘We Are Amplifying the Work’: France Starts Task Force on Art Looted Under Nazis

  Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/22/19
  

  The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust

  For a while during his captivity, jazz kept Eric Vogel, a Jewish Czech trumpeter, useful to the Nazis—and therefore alive.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis?

  by Paul Hockenos

  The country’s culture of remembrance is crumbling.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/10/19
  

  Hitler’s girlfriend filmed Nazis relaxing and the fuhrer dancing. Now the footage is going digital.

  The National Archives is restoring the color home movies made by Hitler’s girlfriend Eva Braun.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/21/19
  

  Nazis Have Always Been Trolls

  by Adam Serwer

  Historically, they rely on murderous insincerity and the unwillingness of liberal societies to see them for what they are.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-20-2018
  

  Couple Who Named Their Child After Hitler Are Sentenced for Neo-Nazi Membership

  In one image released by the West Midlands Police, the couple were photographed holding their baby alongside a flag emblazoned with a swastika.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-16-18
  

  They Fled the Nazis as Children. Now They Want Their Adopted Homeland to Welcome Other Refugees Too.

  Many at the 80th anniversary commemoration of the “Kindertransport” in London drew comparisons between the welcome extended to Kindertransport children back in 1938, and the general hostility toward migrants now, no matter how deserving they might be.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  2-21-18 (accessed)
  

  How a team of sophisticated forgers at an Essex country house fooled the Nazis

  The British operation to create documents for its agents and allies in occupied Europe was a highly sophisticated affair, run along the lines of a modern same day delivery service.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  2-2-18
  

  What Happened at Stalingrad?

  Vladimir Putin marks Russia's bloodiest battle with the Nazis.

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• 2/11/18
  

  We All Remember FDR’s Speech Explaining Why We Went to War Against Japan …

  by Gerard N. Magliocca

  But why did we go to war with Nazi Germany? Few recall FDR’s explanation. We should.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  9-24-17
  

  The Jewish Immigrants Who Helped the U.S. Take on Nazis

  by Arthur Allen

  They became Americans to fight for freedom and democracy—which meant taking down Hitler and interrogating German POWs.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-24-17
  

  Jelani Cobb unloads on Trump’s double standard of patriotism in the New Yorker

  by Jelani Cobb

  Trump’s selective patriotism "drives him to curse at black football players but leaves him struggling to create false equivalence between Nazis and anti-Fascists in Charlottesville."

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-14-17
  

  How the Nazi Flags in Charlottesville Look to a German

  Soon after the end of World War II, the Germans banned swastikas and other Nazi emblems, and the German people, not to mention the police, do not tend to react well when the symbols of that era are put on display.

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• 8-16-17
  

  What Does it Mean to Carry the Swastika Flag?

  by Richard E. Frankel

  Those who marched under the Nazi banner and those who opposed them are not equal.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  3-10-16
  

  When Nazis walked the streets of Seattle

  by Knute Berger

  “There is no organized mistreatment of Jews in Germany.” — Seattle Times editorial, March 28, 1933

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-17-16
  

  The Nazis and Hungary took everything from my mother’s family. What good would reparations do?

  by Margaret McMullan

  That’s the thinking of Margaret McMullan, author of "Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return."

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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
  1-5-16
  

  Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Nazis and the Holocaust

  by Jeffrey Herf

  Setting the record straight about his views and influence.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12-22-15
  

  How the Nazis co-opted Christmas

  by Joe Perry

  While some Germans did resist the heavy-handed, politicized appropriation of Germany’s favorite holiday, many actually embraced a Nazified holiday that evoked the family’s place in the “racial state,” free of Jews and other outsiders.