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Swedish Minister Quits After Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany

STOCKHOLM (AFP) –  A Swedish cabinet minister of Turkish origin who compared Israel to Nazi Germany and was photographed with Turkish ultranationalists resigned on Monday, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced. “Mehmet Kaplan has submitted his resignation and I have accepted

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Poland Opens First Museum Honouring Poles Who Saved WWII Jews

Poland on Thursday opened its first museum in tribute to Poles who lost their lives helping Jews during World War II, on the exact spot where Nazis executed a young family for providing shelter. President Andrzej Duda honoured descendants of

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Watch: When Bugs Bunny Beat Hitler

Ynetnews reports: About 9,300 kilometers separate Los Angeles and Berlin, and in the 1930s – long before the age of the internet, the cell phone and jet planes – the distance seemed even greater. Nonetheless, there were those in California who

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Israel Honors GI Who Told The Nazis: ‘We Are All Jews’

The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate. But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds (pictured) would have none of that.

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New Book Reveals Vatican Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Although many people have come to swallow the caricature of Pope Pius XII as “Hitler’s Pope,” after the malicious smear campaign by John Cornwell, the facts now seem overwhelmingly to reveal the opposite: not only was Pius adamantly opposed to the Führer’s policies; he actively sought to have him assassinated.

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D-Day: Ronald Reagan at Pointe Du Hoc

On June 6, 1984, the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan stood on what he called a “lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France” to deliver an oration that would become known as his “Boys of Pointe du Hoc” speech. He made this speech in front of 62 survivors of the 2nd Ranger Battalion who courageously scaled the 100 ft. high cliffs on that fateful day.

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70 Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Remains More Prevalent Than Ever

Tuesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The Nazis who ran the execution site were responsible for the slaughter of over one million people within a five-year timespan, with the vast majority of them being Jews. In Auschwitz alone, from 1940-1945, the Nazis killed roughly six-hundred people per day, twenty-five per hour, one every 144 seconds.

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Nazi’s Secret Nuclear Laboratory Found in Austria

An underground Nazi weapons factory which is believed to have been a secret development laboratory for nuclear weapons has been discovered in Austria. The subterranean facility was uncovered last week by an Austrian documentary maker Andreas Sulzer and his team

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