Posted by Matt in May 22nd, 2008 |
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A new film about Nazi-Soviet links
BEING burnt in effigy on the streets of Moscow by nationalist hoodlums must count as a kind of Oscar if you are a Latvian filmmaker whose aim is to expose modern Russia’s blindness to the criminal history of the Soviet Union. The ire of Young Russia’s protest outside the Latvian [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 28th, 2008 |
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An exhibition in Paris of color photographs of life under the German occupation has caused such a furore that it was nearly cancelled. The photographs, which were taken by an employee of a Nazi propaganda magazine, are now to be shown with new captions explaining their historical context. more…
Uproar over WWII Exhibition: Occupied Paris Shown [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 27th, 2008 |
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Raoul Wallenberg was a minor official of a neutral country, with an unimposing appearance and gentle manner. Recruited and financed by the U.S., he was sent into Hungary to save Jews. He bullied, bluffed and bribed powerful Nazis to prevent the deportation of 20,000 Hungarian Jews to concentration camps, and averted the massacre of 70,000 [...]
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Posted by Matt in October 14th, 2007 |
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Secret MI6 files reveal, for 1st time, leader’s agonizing deception of Nazis
LONDON – With Nazi “flying bombs” raining down on the nation’s capital and largest population center, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a fateful and agonizing decision to use a double agent to redirect the missiles toward the Jewish sector of the city, secret [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 1st, 2007 |
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“If today’s Arab anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish propaganda strongly resembles that of the Third Reich, there is a good reason.” So writes Joel Fishman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in “The Big Lie and the Media war against Israel,” an insightful piece of historical research.
Fishman begins by noting the topsy-turvy situation whereby Israel is [...]
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