Nazism

Austerity Measures Are Worse at Easter

Seth Engel | Posted 05.02.2012

Seth Engel

In the face of the U.S.'s two greatest crises of the century, Americans have turned to FDR and George W. Bush for solace. The Germans had once chosen Hitler for theirs. Which path will the Greeks venture down on May 6? Who can lead a country that has hit rock bottom?

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

Richard Brodsky | Posted 05.13.2012

Richard Brodsky

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.

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...

San Francisco Should Vote Against Arrogance, Not Circumcision

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.08.2011

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

I've been with the Simon Wiesenthal Center since the day our human rights organization began back in 1977. An important part of my work is combating ...

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...

A German Law Rectifies Racism, Legitimizes Sexism

Bess Rothenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Bess Rothenberg

Recently I learned about Article 116(2) of the 1949 German Grundgesetz -- Basic Law -- that restores citizenship to former Jewish Germans who had their citizenship revoked under National Socialism. But through a loophole, it does not include women.

Prosecuting Nazis in the 21st Century

Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Katie Engelhart

We need to decide how much decades-old justice can be served in the courtroom. Not just because of the Nazis; they'll all be dead soon. But because the way we deal with crimes of war depends on it.

The Tea Party Republicans' Malek Problem

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

Chip Berlet

Fred V. Malek, is a key political strategist for the American Action Network which just spent some $7 million to unseat Congressional Democrats with v...

The Nazi Virus

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Koehler

Even as we were prosecuting Nazis at Nuremberg for their barbaric behavior, including their notorious medical experiments on death camp inmates, we were, it turns out, conducting our own medical experiments on a vulnerable and unsuspecting population.

Nazi Book Reveals British Invasion Plans

Telegraph | Richard Savill | Posted 05.25.2011

It reveals that postcards identifying unmistakable landmarks including Brighton Pier, and Lands End, were given to Nazi troops to identify their targe...

Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in ...

Wiesenthal Worked For Israeli Spy Agency, Book Alleges

New York Times | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 05.25.2011

"This requires us to adjust in some small way our view of history," said Tom Segev, the author of the new book "Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends...

Mongolian Neo-Nazis On The Rise

The Guardian | Tania Branigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Their right hands rise to black-clad chests and flash out in salute to their nation: "Sieg heil!" They praise Hitler's devotion to ethnic purity. But ...

Mickey Mouse With Nazi Symbol Causes Anger In Poland

Posted 05.25.2011

(AP) WARSAW, Poland — A huge outdoor art poster that blends Mickey Mouse's image with that of a swastika and a nude woman's body is causing a s...

Weekly News Roundup: Muslims, Gays, Nazis and More!

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Katie Halper

After obsessing over Muslim background of suspected Times Square bomber, media becomes enlightened and religiously tolerant, and overlooks fact that the man who helped foil bomb plot was Muslim.

Torsten Krol's The Dolphin People: A Great Utopian Parable for Our Savage Times

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Anis Shivani

Torsten Krol's Callisto was the single best fictional expose of homeland paranoia in America in the age of terrorism. The Dolphin People -- has even larger fish to fry.

This Isn't About Wallis vs. Beck -- It's About Biblical Social Justice

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Wallis

While I have agreed that the cause of social justice has sometimes been politicized for ideological purposes by both Left and Right, I continue to defend the term itself as biblical.

Glenn Beck Promotes Vicious Anti-Semite on Radio Show

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011

Menachem Rosensaft

Just when we thought that we had heard all the offensive, Nazi-related comments that could possibly be uttered, we are proven wrong with a vengeance.

Rev. Jim Wallis: Glenn Beck Is Wrong, Social Justice Is At The Heart Of Gospel

Posted 05.25.2011

Christian author and social justice advocate Rev. Jim Wallis appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" Friday evening to talk about Glenn Beck's re...

In Search of Men of Principle

Louise Mirrer | Posted 05.25.2011

Louise Mirrer

Had Eugene and Stanley of Brighton Beach Memoirs been living in New York during the Civil War years, they might not have thought so highly of Abraham Lincoln's principles.

An Architectural Wonder Inspires a Work of Fiction

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Carol Hoenig

The Glass Room is a story that will stay with me for a long, long time. Perhaps it's because I have a soft spot for houses that mean more than "just is."

Google Books And Kindles: A Concentration Camp Of Ideas

Alan Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Alan Kaufman

The hi-tech campaign to relocate books to Google and replace books with Kindles is, in its essence, a deportation of the literary culture to a kind of easily monitored concentration camp of ideas.

Poland Marks 70th Anniversary Of Second World War

AP | RYAN LUCAS and DAVID RISING | Posted 05.25.2011

GDANSK, Poland — On a wind-swept peninsula where shells lobbed from a German battleship ignited World War II 70 years ago, European leaders vowe...

No Rest for a Black Man, Even on Martha's Vineyard

Orlando Lima | Posted 05.25.2011

Orlando Lima

When President Obama has the kind of leeway to screw up that we afforded the imbecile before him, then we can say we've made some major progress toward a raceless society.

Hate Speech

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Lichtman

Apparently, executives at Fox do not know the difference between opinion and hate speech.