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'Nostalgic' classics, or edgy contemporary texts? What books are kids reading in Australian schools – and does it matter?

Debates about what books students should be reading in high school reach a crescendo at the start of each school year.

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‘We suffered quietly’: Haunted by ghosts of the Holocaust, survivors return to homes they were forced to flee over 80 years earlier

Survivors of Nazi concentration camps revisit the homes they had to flee, as well as the sites of so many horrors, Annabel Grossman reports

The Independent UK

Auschwitz victim’s story to be taught in schools across Scotland

Jane Haining, a Christian matron at a school in occupied Hungary, was betrayed after helping Jewish children and died in the concentration camp.

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Holocaust remembrance: we must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking as events pass out of living memory

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or “the age”, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the youngest. Recognising this profound idea, some have worried that the memory of the Holocaust will fade as the generation of those who survived it…

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White supremacist with Nazi dagger belonged to banned group seeking race war

Luca Benincasa, 20, was also found in possession of an SS officer's uniform and a Swastika armband when counter-terrorism officers raided his home in Cardiff

Wales Online

Lost photos from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising reveal horror of Jews’ last stand

Images found in attic taken by Polish firefighter who risked life to record how Jewish Poles fought the Nazis despite impossible odds

The Guardian - UK

The Circus Train by Amita Parikh review – magic and brutality in the shadow of war

The Canadian author’s debut novel, about a circus troupe travelling by steam train across war-torn Europe, is a vivid, uplifting page-turner

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SS officer's diary said to reveal location of Nazi loot is a forgery, say experts

The SS officer's diary that was said to have had the exact location of Adolf Hitler 's hidden gold stolen artefacts and priceless works of art has now been revealed to be a forgery

Daily Mirror

Winning bidders of ‘despicable’ Nazi memorabilia urged to donate items to Sydney Jewish Museum

SS paraphernalia and an album of 500 photos from concentration camps which sold for $25,000 among items at Queensland auction

The Guardian - AU

'Secretary of evil' Nazi camp worker, 97, appeals conviction over 10,505 murders

Irmgard Furchner, 97 - dubbed the 'secretary of evil' - was sentenced at the final hearing of the 14-month-long trial at the Itzehoe Regional Court on Tuesday, 20 December

Daily Mirror

Floridian, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, to receive Congressional Gold Medal

Congress has signed off on the Congressional Gold Medal for the chief prosecutor in what was regarded as “the biggest murder trial in history.”

Tribune News Service

Nazi death camp worker, 97, gets suspended sentence for her part in 11,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, 97, was dubbed the 'secretary of evil' during her role at a Nazi SS death camp in the 1940s. Today she received a two-year long jail sentence for her part in the death of over 11,000 victims

Daily Mirror

A German court has convicted a 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp

A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder as a secretary to the commander of a World War II concentration camp. She was given a 2-year suspended sentence.

WEKU

German court to deliver verdict on ex-secretary at Nazi camp

A German court is expected to deliver its verdict on a 97-year-old woman charged with being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II

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Former crown prosecutor loses appeal over Nazi salute to German charity worker

Former crown prosecutor Tony Jacobs loses an appeal against an order for him to pay a man of German origin $500 for giving him the Nazi salute and saying "heil Hitler" during a row over the use of a lift.

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Latvia switches off the liberal Russian TV channel it took in

Rain TV loses broadcasting licence following a scandal between the liberal Russian opposition and their host country.

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Claus von Stauffenberg took a briefcase of explosives into a meeting with Hitler. Then everything went wrong

A group of high-ranking rebels wanted to assassinate the Nazi dictator to reclaim their country and demonstrate their resistance to the world. It didn't go to plan.

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Revelry Has Its First Successes With The "Fastest Royal Enfield"

Revelry Racing shares its recent victories in the NSW Drag Racing Championship Series where its Royal Enfield twins won 2nd and 3rd in their classes.

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This Jewish woman's story of surviving the Holocaust by passing as Catholic and sheltering with Nazis is (rightly) hard to read

Hiding in Plain Sight tells the Holocaust story (and post-Holocaust life) of Mala Rywka Kizel – or Marilka Shlafer, as she became known later in life. But these are only two of the names by which she has been known.

The Independent UK

German prosecutors call for 97-year-old former secretary to SS commander be convicted

Proceedings are of ‘outstanding historical significance’

Daily Mirror

German army uniforms mistakenly issued with 'SS' labels printed on them

While German law bans the display of Nazi iconography, the distribution of over 300,000 pieces of combat equipment with the combination of the letters 'SS' fell through the net

The Independent UK

Police criticized for role at nationalist march in Warsaw

Opposition politicians in Poland have criticized police for detaining anti-fascist activists but not reacting to the appearance of a Nazi-era symbol during a nationalist march

The Guardian - UK

Nazis in space: how Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers brilliantly skewered fascism

A Hollywood studio is rumoured to be remaking the Dutch director’s 1997 space epic. But will it, like so many others, miss the irony behind the film’s pseudo-fascist bombast?

Daily Mirror

Nazi gold hunters believe SS officer's letter could uncover ANOTHER lost treasure

Experts have transcribed a letter from an SS officer which may uncover the mystery behind WW2's stolen artefacts and priceless pieces of art

Daily Mirror

New photos emerge of shipwreck of vessel that 'helped Hitler flee to Argentina'

Some experts believe the wreck discovered near Quequén, a port in central Argentina, was the vessel that could have taken Hitler to a new life in South America

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