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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From doctors to opera singers, teachers to truant schoolchildren, the extermination of European Jews was the work of roughly 200,000 ordinary Germans and their helpers. Years of research — not yet complete — reveal how sane members of a modern society committed murder for an evil regime. By Georg Bönisch and Klaus Wiegrefe more…

Landmines in [...]

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By Barry Rubin
Comparing contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is increasingly commonplace. –U.S. State Department report on antisemitism, 2007.
Let’s talk about the Nazis. There should have already been more than enough discussion about this in the more than half-century since Adolf Hitler’s bunker fell in 1945. There have been hundreds and thousands of [...]

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JERUSALEM — The number of anti-Semitism acts rose sharply across the world in 2006, with violent incidents in Britain reaching a 20-year peak, said a study published Monday.
“A sharp escalation in physical, verbal, and visual manifestations of anti-Semitism was recorded in 2006,” said the study conducted by the Stephen Roth Institute for the [...]

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