“Never again will half a million Jewish children be turned into soap and ash.”
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Anti-Semitic blogger, 56, who believes ‘Hitler was right’ is jailed for 18 weeks
An anti-Semitic blogger who believes ‘Hitler was right’ has been jailed after saying Jewish people use the Holocaust as an ‘eternal cash cow.’
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When civil rights activist Ken Lawrence heard Ku Klux Klan members in the ‘70s denying the existence of the Holocaust, he thought the best way to fight them would be to show, not tell.
Continue readingResearchers find memory can be manipulated by photos
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 warns students
- Youth learn blunt lesson: It happened; it could happen again
Human-skin lampshades and human soap
Ken Kipperman and The Table of Horrors
- Some of the worst things imaginable are gathering dust, forgotten, in Washington archives. What’s behind one man’s crusade to bring them to light?
Bizarre burial prods Holocaust angst
Before sunrise on a cold March morning in 1970, a rabbi and an architect slipped over the fence to Greenwood Cemetery in Atlanta to scout out a burial site for four bars of soap.
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“Senior editors at … publishing houses still welcome me warmly as a friend, invite me to lunch in expensive New York restaurants and then lament that if they were to sign a contract with me on a new book, there would always be somebody in their publishing house who would object.” Thus the English historian David Irving, famous for his histories of Nazi Germany. He made these remarks last week in the opening statement to the lawsuit that he has brought against Penguin Books and Prof. Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University.
Misleading, Inaccurate, Distorted, and Uninformed Reporting
Kim Murphy’s article “Danger in Denying the Holocaust” could be dismissed as amateurish at best were it not the Jan. 7 Column One story of the Los Angeles Times. Because of where it appeared, some of the issues it raised must be addressed. She doesn’t present the stakes in the Irving vs. Lipstadt libel case and she falls into the traps set by the deniers, hook, line and sinker.
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50 Years Later, a Visit With Buchenwald’s Ghosts
WEIMAR, Germany, April 9 — With a solemn and highly emotional gathering at the site of the former Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany today began a month of ceremonies to remember the victims of the Nazi horror.
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