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Neo-Nazis hold rally honoring anti-Semitic WWII Bulgarian general

Siegphyl

Around 300 right-wing extremists stormed Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, in a march made in honor of a pro-Nazi Bulgarian general who was known to have helped…

Paul Kruger School: A Safe Haven For Children

There is a Dutch school that survived the Nazi occupation during the Second World War. The school has halted their plan to create a memorial…

Guarding the Truth- testimony of a guard at a Nazi concentration camp

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Margarete Barthel, at her house near Duesseldorf, Germany in 2006 (2) A pile of corpses of Jews &…

Sometimes ‘Nazi’ Is the Right Word

Ian Harvey

The decision came last week, as the government in Israel insisted that the use of the word ‘Nazi’ is nothing else but a weapon of…

Heinrich Himmler’s Love Letters to Wife Bared after 7 Decades

SS commander Heinrich Himmler’s love letters addressed to his wife were revealed by Germany’s Die Welt newspaper for the first time Sunday. The collection let…

Hungary: Jewish Leaders Charge Government of Belittling the Holocaust

Hungarian Jewish leaders demanded the resignation of one of Hungarian government’s key appointees last January 19; this certain person had compared the arrest and deportation of…

Alfred Hitchcock’s Off-track Holocaust Documentary on TV Next Year

Imperial War Museum has restored Alfred Hitchcock’s off-track Holocaust documentary, The Memory of the Camps, and will put it in show on TV by next year. Behind The…

“Hitler’s Furies” Reveals Nazi Women Who Were as Evil as the Men

Gentleness, kindheartedness and love embody women and mothers. But this might not be the case for the Nazi women who were as cold-hearted and bloodthirsty…

New Film Portrays Otto Weidt, The Blind “Unknown Schindler”

Otto Weidt was so much like Oskar Schindler – he was a German factory owner who used his business to save Jews. But unlike Schindler,…

WWII Movies Highlighting Nonviolent Resistance Against the Nazis

Can nonviolence really make a strong lasting statement amidst gunfire and war violence? These WWII movies say “YES!” Hardly does a year go by without showing a Hollywood…

Holocaust Survivor Recalls The Bitterest Months Of Nazi Persecution

Ian Harvey

He was arrested together with his parents and eight siblings and he lied about his age, hopping he would be sent to a labour camp…

Holocaust Survivors Reunite With Their ‘Manna’: The Woman Who Cared For Them After The War

Ian Harvey

Soon after the end of the Second World War, Martha found herself at a manse in Lingfield, England, surrounded by children who were under her…