Nearly 100 foreign enemy combatants to be tried at Guantanamo Bay will have more rights than Nazi war criminals who faced the Nuremberg tribunal, a Senate panel was told yesterday.
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Unrepentant Nazi, 84, calls Auschwitz a ‘ten star hotel’ and tells Dachau victim ‘you survived well’
An unrepentant old Nazi officer who served in some of the worst concentration camps gives the Hitler salute in Spain where he has hidden from justice for over 60 years.
Continue readingCremator dumps half-burned bodies to save fuel
HONG KONG (Reuters) — China’s worst fuel crunch in years has led a crematorium to dump half-burnt corpses to try saving on diesel costs, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Friday.
Villagers in Hengyang county, in the southern province of Hunan, discovered the practice when an “unbearable stench” started coming from the site, and tried to block a road on Wednesday to stop funeral vehicles from delivering more bodies.
The village sent people to investigate the smell and the South China Morning Post said they saw “crematorium workers putting half-burnt human remains and organs in plastic bags and throwing them into a nearby ditch.”
“As the price of diesel rose, we saw more and more bags thrown out from the crematorium,” the paper quoted Xiao Gaoyi, a village representative and one of the witnesses, as saying.
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Fuel in many parts of the country was rationed and there were long queues at petrol stations.
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Source: Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0751680720071207, Fri Dec 7, 2007 12:45pm EST
Webmaster note: It seems that it’s not so easy to burn corpses, especially when fuel is rationed, as it was in Germany during the Second World War. How could the Nazis have burned millions of bodies without leaving a trace?
Holocaust denier gets prison in Austria
VIENNA, Austria — A right-wing Austrian writer who fled to Spain after being convicted of Holocaust denial charges 15 years ago must serve his 18-month sentence, Vienna’s highest court said Monday.
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The camera may not lie, but doctored photos do according to new research into digitally altered photos and how they influence our memories and attitudes toward public events.
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Holocaust survivor brings message of attitude to students
OSHAWA — Eleven years ago, questions from her young grandson prompted Eva Olsson to start talking about surviving the Holocaust.
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U.S. says UNESCO Holocaust resolution rejects ‘any form of Holocaust denial’
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Interior view of a gas chamber at Majdanek (post-liberation). [Photograph #28512]
Continue readingHolocaust museum opens at Belsen
Germany has inaugurated a museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp where diarist Anne Frank died.
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