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third reich
The welcome enemy: Nazis in the U.S.
One of the bitter facts of history is that the United States’ immigration quota for Germany and Austria went unfilled during the 1930s when hundreds of thousands of Jews were clamoring to escape the Third Reich.
Keene, Kaliningrad and Riga: Confronting the memory of Kristallnacht
I travel for my work; I travel often — my wife and children might say too often. Just before Chanukah, I was in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Canada, New Hampshire, Washington, D.C., and then back home. A hectic schedule is of little interest, but what I experienced might be.
Nazi role-playing at Santa Monica High School causes stir
Generally, expert advisers counsel against teaching about the Holocaust by having students do exercises that re-create the experience. Role-play activities can reinforce negative views, stereotype group behavior and are pedagogically unsound, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Vienna Philharmonic acknowledges honoring Nazi war criminal
The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler\’s rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a Nazi war criminal two decades after the end of World War Two.
Rise of Golden Dawn: A presage of doom
The undisguised extremism promoted by Golden Dawn is a chilling watershed in Greece\’s post-war democracy. Fascist gangs are turning Athens into a city of shifting front lines, seizing on crimes and local protests to promote their own movement, by claiming to be the defenders of recession-ravaged Greece.
Oxford club members resign over anti-Semitism
Four members of the Oxford University Conservative Association have resigned over anti-Semitism and snobbery.
Hitler’s carmaker: How General Motors helped jump-start the Third Reich’s military machine
Just the day before, May 1, 1934, under a brilliant, cloudless sky, James D.Mooney, president of the General Motors Overseas Corp., climbed into his automobile and drove toward Tempelhof Field at the outskirts of Berlin to attend yet another hypnotic Nazi extravaganza. This one was the annual May Day festival.
Reviews of “The Envoy” and “Hitler’s Head”
\”You can\’t confront evil on its own ground without becoming part of it,\” muses diplomat Heinrich Zwygart in \”The Envoy,\” and his self-recognition clearly applies to Switzerland, the country he represented faithfully in Berlin during the six years of World War II.