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Elise Foley

GOP Senate Candidate Makes ANOTHER Nazi Reference

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.02.2012

WASHINGTON -- West Virginia Republican Senate candidate John Raese, who previously compared smoking bans to forcing Jews to wear the Star of David und...

Nazis Attempt Foray Into Washington

Posted 04.13.2012

The American Nazi Party attempted to make a foray into Washington's halls of power this week, registering their first lobbyist as a liaison to U.S. la...

Convicted Nazi Criminal Dies

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 05.17.2012

BERLIN — John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear...

Art Restitution, By Force

AP | By GARY FINEOUT | Posted 01.07.2012

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- U.S. authorities on Friday seized a nearly 500-year-old Italian painting that has been on display at a Florida museum, saying it ...

Boehner Receives Questionable Donation From Nazi Impersonator, Former House Candidate

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.01.2012

Rich Iott, a 2010 Ohio candidate for the U.S. House who drew national attention for participating in Nazi reenactments where he dressed as a member of...

White Supremacists in San Francisco: Conviction Uncovers Underground Network of Hate Groups

Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.14.2011

The conviction of two men in the brutal assault of two Mexican nationals has shed light on an underground network of white supremacist groups operatin...

Why Did A 10-Year-Old Calif. Boy Murder His Neo-Nazi Dad?

Posted 11.26.2011

When neo-Nazi leader Jeff Hall was shot and killed by his 10-year-old son, attention immediately turned to the California father's extremist views. ...

How To Prevent Economic Crises

Bloomberg | Sylvia Nasar | Posted 11.13.2011

Unlike the movies, life rarely permits second takes. But the Second World War gave John Maynard Keynes, the patron saint of government activism, and F...

Brother Of Murder Suspect Claims Nazi Books And Iron Cross Were His

AP | Posted 10.10.2011

LOS ANGELES — A police detective insists a California teenager charged in the shooting death of his gay classmate was influenced by a local stre...

Orchestra Breaks Wagner Taboo In Germany

AP | JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 09.25.2011

BERLIN — An Israeli orchestra on Tuesday broke a taboo as it played the music of Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in Germany. ...

Israeli Orchestra To Break Wagner Taboo In Germany

AP | JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 09.24.2011

BERLIN — An Israeli orchestra is set to perform a work by Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germa...

What Motivates Extremists? The True Believer, Eric Hoffer's 168-Page Classic, Has Some Answers

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 09.24.2011

Jesse Kornbluth

Hoeffer's condemnation is a bitch slap to all those who believe so strongly in a cause that they want everybody else to believe in it. That single-mindedness is the core question of Hoffer's book: what kind of people become fanatics?

Hitler's Austrian Hometown Withdraws Honor

AP | Posted 09.07.2011

BRAUNAU, Austria -- Adolf Hitler is now formally persona non grata in the town of his birth. The town council in the Austrian village of Braunau has ...

Put the Story in History

William Dietrich | Posted 08.29.2011

William Dietrich

Why not use more historical fiction to hook kids on history? Make our astonishing past a life habit, not a skills exam forgotten hours after it's taken.

Boris Lurie's Perverse Pin-ups And The NO!art Movement

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 08.28.2011

Lisa Paul Streitfeld

"Suitcase" 1964, Boris Lurie, Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Foundation Only if it had arrived in a suitcase could the entrance of renegade Boris Luri...

Secret Nazi Codes Show Support In Germany

Newser | Posted 08.28.2011

Swastikas may be outlawed in Germany, but that doesn't mean that neo-Nazi signs have disappeared....

New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today

Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.16.2011

Greg Mitchell

Robert Jay Lifton has been a witness, in the broadest, most profound meaning of that word to many of the most traumatic events or movements of the past century. And now he's finally writing about that experience.

Coming Of Age Under The Third Reich: Films On The Loss Of Innocence

George Heymont | Posted 08.14.2011

George Heymont

Every hour of every day someone, somewhere, suffers a life-changing loss of innocence. Whether it occurs while watching the news or at gunpoint, wheth...

96-Year-Old Woman Confesses To 1946 Murder Of Mistaken Nazi

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 08.08.2011

AMSTERDAM — A murder mystery has been solved – 65 years later – with the confession of a 96-year-old woman. The 1946 killing of Fel...

Early Hitler Document On Jews Unveiled In NYC

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 08.07.2011

NEW YORK — The signature under the typewritten words on yellowing sheets of nearly century-old paper is unmistakable: Adolf Hitler, with the las...

Lee Speigel

Area 51 Conspiracy Theories Getting Too Wild For UFO Believers

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 12.08.2011

A bestselling book on Area 51 is so controversial that it has shocked even its sources with an outrageous claim that the infamous Roswell, N.M., UFO c...

WATCH: Pop Culture And Iconic Cartoons

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 07.31.2011

Constantin Bjerke

"Death of the author," artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz stresses, "does not mean death of responsibility," a point ...

Austrian Politician Resigns Over Nazi Tattoo

AP | Posted 07.31.2011

VIENNA -- A member of an Austrian municipal council has resigned amid an uproar over his Nazi tattoo. Gerry Leitmann made headlines recently after it...

Who's Left? The World's Most Wanted Criminals

Posted 07.26.2011

The arrest of Ratko Mladic, allegedly one of the world's most prominent war criminals, is being hailed as a turning point for his native Serbia. One o...

Swedish Queen To Probe Father's Nazi Allegations

AP | Posted 07.16.2011

STOCKHOLM -- Sweden's Queen Silvia is investigating her late father's activities in Germany and Brazil during World War II to clarify reports about po...