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Worley's Anti-Gay Rant and Comparisons to Hitler

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Christians, Communism, Nazis, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Pastor Charles Worley, Christianity, Charles Worley, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Barack Obama, Politics News

Pastor Charles Worley's ideas regarding gays and lesbians are not similar to Hitler's -- they are the same as Hitler's. The problem with constant comparisons is that when somebody actually proposes a Nazi-style final solution, we, as a society, no longer have the words to describe it.

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2012: The Year of Gustav Klimt?

Anne-Marie O'Connor | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Austria, Art Market, Gustav Klimt, Nazis, Hitler, World War II, Vienna, Arts News

As Austrian tourist officials invite the world to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birthday of this early modernist, some of his most spectacular portraits and landscapes are missing from the walls of Austrian museums.

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I Will Always Call Our Fighting Men and Women 'Heroes'

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Iraq War, US Military, Nazis, World Wars, Memorial Day, Heroes, War, Chris Hayes, Afghanistan War, Holocaust, Politics News

I categorically reject the opinions of those who say that creating such a class or league of "heroes" would play down the brutalizing effects of war, would justify, even glorify war and would desensitize us to the cruelties and atrocities of war.

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PHOTOS: Why I Reenacted 2,000 Years Of History

Charlie Schroeder | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Historical Reenacting, Renaissance Faire, William Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, Reenactment, Reenactors, Man of War, Acting, Vikings, Romans, Nazis, Slideexpand, Historical Reenactments, Books News

When I was a junior in college I fell in love with Shakespeare. I was determined to become the next Kenneth Branagh--in large part because I wanted to bed his then wife, Emma Thompson. Love of literature can be based on worse things.

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5 Nazi Conspiracies That Failed Miserably

Cracked.com | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Weird UK, Nazi Strategy, Nazi Pope Assassination, Nazis, Hitler, Hitler Invade Switzerland, Operation Tannenbaum, Nazi v-Weapons, Nazi Failures, Nazi Conspiracies, Weird News News

The Nazis weren't only about the Holocaust and tearing Europe down brick by brick. They actually had tons of other horrible and, quite frankly, stu...

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Remembering The Past, Building The Future

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Majdanek Concentration Camp, Holocaust, Prayer, Auschwitz, Nazis, Concentration Camp, Judaism, Rabbi, Genocide, Religion News

We wandered through this concentration camp in the blazing sun. It was uncharacteristically hot for this time of year. It somehow didn't seem right.

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Lawmaker Tossed Out After Nazi Reference

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: William O'Brien, Video, Hitler, New Hampshire Politics, New-Hampshire-Legislature, Jon Richardson, Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, Voter ID, Bob Kingsbury, Nazis, Voter Identification, Steve Vaillancourt, Voter ID Laws, New-Hampshire-Voter-Id, Politics News

A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire was physically removed from the state House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon after he made a Nazi salute...

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What 'The Sound of Music' Meant to This Single Mother

Bonnie St. John | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Stereotypes, Single Mothers, Nazis, Mother, Mother's Day, Motherhood, Mothers Day, The Sound of Music, Feminism, Mothers and Daughters, Women News

We seldom celebrate the kind of moral and personal courage that Maria von Trapp exhibited. But that's the kind of 'happily ever after' that resonated for the battle-weary single mom who raised me.

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Teacher: 'This Is What The Nazis Do To Jews'

AP | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Video, Disorderly Conduct, Middle School Teachers, Holocaust, Nazis, Columbia South Carolina, Bluffton Middle School, South Carolina Teachers, Patricia Mulholland, Teacher Behavior, South Carolina Middle Schools, Teachers, South Carolina Schools, World War II, Teacher Misconduct, Racial Slur, Education News

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A middle school teacher in South Carolina has been accused of dragging a student under a table during class, telling the boy "this i...

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On Yom HaShoah, Remember The Innocents

Lea Lane | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Nazis, Judaism, Genocide, Auschwitz, Yam Hashoah, Cecilie Klein, Gender and Religion, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Elie Weisel, Religion News

I met Cecilie Klein in the early 1980s. Fragile, intelligent, in her 50s, she was a Holocaust survivor finally ready to tell her experiences. I never forgot her remarkable story.

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Nazis Attempt Foray Into Washington

Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: John Bowles Lobbyist, American Nazi Party Lobbyist, Video, Nazi, Nazis, American Nazi Party John Bowles, Lobbyists, John Bowles, John Bowles Nazi Lobbyist, Nazi Party, Nazi Party Lobbyist, American Nazi Party, Nazi Lobbyist, Politics News

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...

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Crimes Against Humanity--And Fashion: World's Worst-Dressed Dictators

TruTV.com | Posted 04.02.2012

Crushing entire nations can leave little time for wardrobe decisions. From Adolf Hitler to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dictators past and present have on...

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Nir Hod, the Artist Behind the Genius Children, Unveils Mother

Annie Fabricant | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Paul Kasmin Gallery, Jews, Genius, Art, Boy From Warsaw, Holocaust, Nazis, Israel, New York Arts, Nir Hod, Shadow Paintings, Warhol, New York, Slidepollajax, Bezalel Academy of Art, Arts News

This Wednesday 28th at Paul Kasmin the 41 year old Israeli-born artist will present his new body of work, entitled Mother. A series of ten large paintings, they reference the famously heart-wrenching Holocaust photograph of Nazi soldiers clearing out the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.

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A History of Weaponized Language

Justin Strawhand | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Sterilization, Weaponized Language, Language, Nazis, Indus Civilization, Iq Tests, Eugenics, Culture News

What of legacy? Did the violent effects of eugenically-charged language die with the discrediting of the eugenics movement, or do they continue, protected by the shroud of historical forgetfulness? There are hints.

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Hitler On Ice: Did Nazis Have A Secret Antarctic Fortress?

MentalFloss.com | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Nazis Antarctic Base, Nazi Conspiracy Theories, Secret Nazi Base, Nazis, Nazis Antarctica, Nazis Antarctica Aliens, Nazis Alien Technology, Secret Nazi Base Antarctica, Aliens in Antarctica, Nazi Conspiracies, Weird News News

What do Nazis, Antarctica, and aliens have to do with one another? Conspiracy theorists hold that Nazis may not only have had a secret base in Antarct...

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Convicted Nazi Criminal Dies

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 05.17.2012

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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...

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Nazi-Seized Art Collection Returns Home

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 05.16.2012

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BERLIN — A Berlin museum must return thousands of rare posters to an American man, part of his Jewish father's unique collection that had been s...

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The Nazi Resurgence in Europe: The Waffen-SS Marches Again

Richard Brodsky | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Nazism, Latvia, Nazis, Eastern Europe, Ss-Waffen, March 16, World News

Numerous political parties and social movements have sprung up that support former and current Nazis and Nazi causes. This March 16 will see the emergence of the worst of this onto the world stage.

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Crisis Pushes One Greek Town To Become 'Industrial Graveyard'

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Video, Unemployment, Jobless Rate, Nazis, Germany, Greece Debt Crisis, Reuters, European Union, George Petridis, Adidas, World War II, George Nikolaidis, Komotini, Recession, Business News

By Renee Maltezou and Deepa Babington KOMOTINI, Greece, March 4 (Reuters) - Decades ago, Antonis Seitanidis' family fl...

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GOP Candidate Calls Holocaust 'Blackest Lie In History'

Oak Lawn Patch | Lorraine Swanson | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Holocaust, Neo-Nazi, Holocaust Denial, Republican Congressional Candidates, Art Jones, Illinois Politics, Chicago Neo-Nazi, Chicago Politics, Art Jones Holocaust, Nazis, 2012 Election, Holocaust Deniers, Neo-Nazis, The Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, Election 2012, Politics News

A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says the "Holocaust never happened." Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, ...

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Afghanistan Base Named 'Aryan' Raises Objections From Soldiers

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Video, Army, Nazis, Afghanistan, Ss Flag, US Marines, US Army Afghanistan, US Army, Aryan, Afghanistan War, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Following last week's embarrassing controversy involving Marines displaying a flag with what appeared to be a Nazi insignia, American an...

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Casablanca at 70: A Film That Is More Relevant Than Ever

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Fascism, Bosnia, Casablanca, Nazis, Arab Spring, The English Patient, Darfur, World War Two, 9/11, Sudan, Nigeria, Gay Marriage, Rwanda, Syria, Impact News

Where are today's Casablanca-style heroes? They are in the streets of North Africa (and Syria), facing down well-armed, brutal, corrupt regimes, most of which were propped up by the West.

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Putin, Lenin and The Tsar: Moscow's Second Conference of "World Against Nazism"

Richard Brodsky | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Latvia, Lithuania, Nazis, Occupy Wall Street, Moscow, Arab Spring, Richard Brodsky, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics News

The conference is attracting major figures such as Elie Weisel partially because of its focus on the Holocaust, but the running conversation about the re-emergence of political activity that mimics Nazi ideology is an important one.

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Stunning Hidden WWII Diaries Reveal Average Germans Knew Much More About War Crimes Than They Claimed

Lev Raphael | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Holocaust, Nazi Germany, World War II, Holocaust Diaries, Nazis, War Crimes, Kellner Project, My Opposition, All Minds Are Clouded and Darkened, Friedrich Kellner, Books News

A remarkable diary just published should make waves in the U.S. when it's translated from German. The work makes it very clear that ordinary Germans during the War knew a great deal about what was being perpetrated in their name.

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Hitler's Legacy: How Germany's Past Weighs Down Europe's Future

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: German Central Bank, European Debt Crisis, Video, Nazi Germany, Mario Draghi, Nazis, European History, European Union, Adolf Hitler, Bundesbank, World War II, Europe, ECB President Mario Draghi, European Central Bank, German History, Business News

In the wake of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve took drastic measures to shore up the U.S. financial system. Now as Europe enters its worst e...

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