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Blinken announces program to return Nazi-looted art to descendants

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke via video on Tuesday for the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated art and best practices event, announcing a new effort by the U.S. State Department to...

Apple+ drama on fashion guru Coco Chanel glosses over Nazi collaboration

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“The New Look,” a new TV program on the streaming service Apple+, explores World War II decisions made by founders of clothing lines that are worth billions today. The show dramatizes the lives of Christian...
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A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day

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It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organizations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. It’s long been clear that much...
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews fleeing the Nazis, as recognized by the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act, Jan. 23, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Cardin honors diplomats who helped Jews fleeing Nazis during World War II

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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event on Tuesday honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews...
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‘Occupied City’ reveals Amsterdam sites during Nazi German control

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The British filmmaker Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, his wife and creative partner, described their views on history and European antisemitism in a recent interview discussing their new documentary, “Occupied City.” Disputing the idea that antisemitism has...
Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring on balcony of the Chancellery in Berlin on March 16, 1938. Credit: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons.

Russell Crowe to play Nazi Party henchman Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg’ film

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A new drama will feature two acclaimed actors in a film exploring whether madness or malice drove the Third Reich’s reign of terror. In “Nuremberg,” Oscar-award winner Russell Crowe will play Nazi propagandist Hermann Göring, opposite Oscar-winner...
Adolf Hitler and Porsche company founder Ferdinand Porsche (left) ogle a model of the original Volkswagen Beetle. Credit: JNS File Photo.

Porsche ‘researching, coming to terms’ with history during Holocaust

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The German car company Porsche, which is reportedly worth about $73 billion, celebrated its 75th birthday over the summer with “a frenzy of sports cars whizzing around its Stuttgart headquarters in front of an...
The words “Neuremburg 2.0” (sic), next to a hangman noose, and “Covid is Jew” were spray-painted on an underpass in Melbourne, Australia. Source: Screenshot.

Australia criminalizes public ‘Sieg Heil’ salutes, displays of Nazi symbols

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The parliament of Australia has passed a new law making it illegal to promote iconography associated with the Third Reich. The bill, called the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment, received unanimous support on Wednesday. Mark Alfred Dreyfus, the attorney general...
Yocheved Lifshitz (left) and Nurit Cooper, both from Kibbutz Nir Oz near the border with the Gaza Strip, were released from Hamas captivity on Oct. 23, 2023. Source: X/Screenshot

Hamas employs Nazi propaganda tactics, senior Israeli official says

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Don't buy the propaganda of Hamas, a murderous terrorist organization that has adopted Nazi-like tactics, said a senior Israeli political official in response to the release of two hostages by the organization. Hamas released Yocheved Lifshitz, 85,...
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Canada apologizes for lauding another soldier who fought for Nazi unit

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A week after Anthony Rota, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, resigned over its parliament honoring a Ukrainian man who fought in a voluntary Nazi unit, another highly decorated member in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division has come...