A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the “unbearable stench” of burning bodies.
The London Sun on Sunday reports: Father Stephen Crossan, 37, sniffed a large line of the Class A drug through a £10 note while chatting to a pal in a room containing Nazi memorabilia. He places a cigarette in an ashtray
The Independent reports: He was gay, Jewish, and a high-profile German state prosecutor in 1960s West Germany. But it was his dogged determination to bring Hitler’s henchmen to justice that meant Fritz Bauer was ostracised by politicians, feared denunciation as
WARSAW – Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase “Polish death camps” when referring to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Saturday. Poland has long sought to eliminate
The New York Times reports: JERUSALEM — After he was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel for his role in the annihilation of millions of Jews by Nazi Germany, Adolf Eichmann pleaded for his own life. “There is a need
An academic and a French MP have announced plans to publish online Friday the famous diary of Anne Frank, with the organisation holding publication rights threatening legal action. University of Nantes lecturer Olivier Ertzscheid told AFP Wednesday that the planned
BERLIN (AFP) – The copyright of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” expires Friday, with plans by several publishers for annotated reprints sparking fierce debate over how one of the world’s most controversial books should be treated seven decades after the defeat of the Nazis.
Jewish leaders have welcomed the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s decision not to support a statue honouring a fascist who helped facilitate the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said a
WARSAW (EJP) – A memorial plaque on the Warsaw Ghetto Monument was vandalized, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported. A swastiska was sprayed on the stone tablet that marks the boundaries of the largest Jewish ghetto established by the Nazis in Europe
TEL AVIV – A renowned Saudi journalist said that extremist Islam is like Nazism and the only way to eliminate it is to combat its ideology, MEMRI reported. According to the journalist, imams, media personalities, and educators are more dangerous
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), compared the Jewish people to Nazis in a press conference on official PA Television Sunday.
Rampant speculation on whether Pope Francis would employ the “G-word” in describing the Turkish massacre of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago has been definitively answered as the Pope called the slaughter “the first genocide of the twentieth century” Sunday
Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul says ISIS represents the closest thing the world has seen to a “Fourth Reich” and urges world leaders to expand the military campaign against them to ensure their “annihilation.”
Mein Kampf, Adolph Hitler’s demonically anti-Semitic book, will be reprinted in Germany and sold in German bookstores all over Europe — thanks to the expiration of the German copyright held by the state of Bavaria.
Better late than never.
