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Auction house says it sold Josef Mengele journals
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut auction house says it has sold the journals written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele. The sale is drawing criticism from a leader of Holocaust survivors who says the business was profiting off the sale of one of the worst mass murderers in history.
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Dear Sir/Madam
I love the Iranian cartoons and have started pasting them elsewhere.
But it took a little while to realise the first set are thumbnails (perhaps a note to remind people?) and there’s no “forwards/backwards” buttons at the bottom of the page.
Antisemitism and Jewish Survival
Is the Holocaust best understood through fiction? That was the theme of a recent revue of Ruth Franklin’s novel, Higher Truth appearing on the Jewish internet journal Tablet. The revue provided a setting for an unlikely week-long exchange between Holocaust denier Michael Santomauro and me. I contacted Michael before submitting this article and he agreed to allow his name to appear but asked, “please reference me as a Holocaust Revisionist -and an amateur one at that.” A degree of humility that likely allowed for our extended discussion.
Continue readingKissinger regrets gas chambers remark
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger apologized Friday for a recently revealed remark from 1973, where he said it was no concern of the US if Soviet Jews were gassed.
Continue readingElie Wiesel: Holocaust winner?
Author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was mistakenly declared a “Holocaust winner” by the Fox News network during an interview last week.
Continue readingLeading priest blames Jews for Greece’s problems
ATHENS, Greece — A high-level priest on the morning show of the largest television station in Greece blamed world Jewry for Greece’s financial problems on Tuesday.
Continue readingHolocaust project identifies four million victims
A list of confirmed names of Jews killed by the Nazis in the Second World War has reached the four million mark, Israel’s Holocaust museum announced, saying the identity of all six million dead may never be known.
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Jewish surgeon refuses to operate on patient with Nazi tattoo
- A Jewish surgeon at a German hospital walked out of the operating theatre and refused to operate on a patient after spotting he had a swastika tattoo on his arm.
The doctor, who has not been named, refused to perform thyroid surgery on the 36-year-old lorry driver when he saw the tattoo of an imperial eagle perched on top of a swastika, surrounded by laurel wreathes.
Swedish royal family hit by fresh Nazi allegations
Sweden’s royal family has been rocked by a new scandal which has exposed the hidden Nazi past of the Queen’s father, only weeks after its reputation was shattered by lurid disclosures about the king’s secret sex life.
The latest revelations concern Walther Sommerlath, the late father of Sweden’s German-born Queen Silvia. He has been unmasked by an investigative television documentary as a Nazi party member who grew rich during the Second World War running an armaments factory that had been stolen from its Jewish owners.