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BIZARRE: Nazis - What They Never Told You

My father, the German refugee who fought the Nazis as a ‘secret listener’

As the far right fulminates about who ‘belongs’ in Britain, let’s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an ‘enemy alien’, he played a vital role in a top-secret military intelligence unit

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How one German artist's remembrance stones turn Berlin sidewalks into Holocaust memorials

German artist Gunter Demnig has installed small Holocaust memorial stones in Berlin for 30 years

The Independent UK

‘In every slurp of paint, you see the Holocaust’: the genius and torments of Georg Baselitz

The German artist lived through Nazism and communism – and his horrific, shaming works, including a masturbating Hitler, forced his country to face its past. Yet in later life, he beautifully captured human frailty, portraying himself and his wife nude

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A history of Australia’s Nazi hunters reveals a troubling tolerance for war criminals

Neo-Nazis marching through Australian streets, black-clad and masked, have become a common sight in recent years. Over a century since the rise of fascism – Nazism is the German school of fascist ideology – perhaps we have forgotten or become complacent about what this actually means.

The Conversation

Thousands of Poles forcibly conscripted by Nazis ended up fighting for the allies

Letters: Krzysztof Nowakowski and Dr Allan Dodds on the Poles who were forced to fight for Hitler in the second world war

The Guardian - UK

‘It was love at first sight, again’: Prague exhibition celebrates work of pair at heart of Europe’s avant garde

Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung battled with the Nazis and created some of the most riveting abstract art of the last century

The Guardian - UK

The Jewish dealer who bought art hated by the Nazis – and created one of the greatest collections ever seen

A new National Gallery of Australia show draws on Heinz Berggruen’s collection to celebrate the spread of modernism around the world, despite the Nazis’ best efforts

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Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning film-maker of The Sorrow and the Pity, dies aged 97

The German-French documentarian, who fled the Nazis twice as a child, spent his career exploring wartime atrocities and conflicts

The Guardian - AU

Ceremony commemorates 80th anniversary of Buchenwald camp liberation

Former German President Christian Wulff attended the commemoration event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday.

Euronews

Former German president warns of far right at 80th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation

Germany has marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp, with warnings against “radicalization and a worldwide shift to the right.”

The Independent UK

John Swinney pays tribute to Holocaust and genocide victims

SCOTLAND'S First Minister has honoured the millions of Jewish people that were murdered at the hands of the Nazis on Holocaust Memorial Day.

The National (Scotland)

An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski review – life under the Nazis

The unspoken tensions between banality and evil give this German autobiographical novel, first published in 1971, a powerfully unsettling impact

The Guardian - UK

A Canadian Art Gallery Refuses to Reckon with Former Director’s Nazi Ties

More evidence against Ferdinand Eckhardt is revealed since last month’s bombshell story in The Walrus

The Walrus

May Judges Consider Law Clerks' Political Speech in Hiring or Firing Decisions?

As Keith Whittington noted, some judges are refusing to hire students who they see as endorsing murder of civilians (or threatening to withdraw offers to such students): Judges are looking at student actions in the wake of October 7th and drawing a line in the sand for those who would…

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Kristallnacht, 85 years ago, marks the point Hitler moved from an emotional antisemitism to a systematic antisemitism of laws and government violence

Late in 1938, Nazis across Germany attacked Jews and their homes, businesses and places of worship and arrested about 30,000 Jewish men. The attacks became known as Kristallnacht – the “Night of Broken Glass” – for the streets littered with broken glass from the vandalism.

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Nazi Germany had admirers among American religious leaders – and white supremacy fueled their support

Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and banned “race-mixing” between Jews and other Germans.

The Independent UK

A 98-year-old German man is charged as an accessory to murder at a Nazi concentration camp

German prosecutors say a 98-year-old man has been charged with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945

Zenger

The Connection Between Nazism And The Palestinians

In 1921, Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner of Mandatory Palestine, appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini.

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Germany's biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust is set to open in Berlin, five years after the groundbreaking

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There's a reason Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler doesn't have tattoos, and it involves Nazis

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler reveals why an incident from his childhood means he's never been interested in getting a tattoo

Evening Standard

Sir Ben Helfgott: Tributes pour in for Holocaust survivor who represented Britain at Olympics

Sir Ben Helfgott, 93, survived Buchenwald concentration camp and came to the UK to rebuild his life

France 24

Warsaw Ghetto: Labyrinth of memories

In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising took place. It was a courageous act of resistance against the Nazis by several hundred Jewish fighters. Since 1941, the Jewish population of the Polish capital – approximately 400,000 people – had been confined by the Nazi occupiers to a small neighbourhood in the…

The Independent UK

Prominent figure in German far-right party charged over alleged Nazi slogan

Prosecutors say a prominent figure in the far-right Alternative for Germany party has been charged over his alleged use in a 2021 speech of a slogan used by the Nazis’ SA stormtroopers

Salon

Violence is the next Republican grift

Republicans know more death enhances their power

Reuters

German artist nearing 100,000 cobblestones to mark victims of Nazis

A German artist who is preparing to lay the 100,000th cobblestone commemorating a person who was deported and killed by the Nazis has no intention of giving up making the brass-capped blocks, saying demand is higher than ever.

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