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For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia. Now it’s drawing outrage.
is dedicated to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Schutzstaffel — the Nazi military branch often referred to simply as “the SS.” The slab was erected by veterans groups about 30 ...
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Germany’s Anti-Palestinian Stance Is Rooted in Anti-Communism
Palestinian witch hunt is rooted in a political culture that stigmatizes left-wing radicalism while indulging the far right. ...
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The Cosmopolitan Modernism of the Harlem Renaissance
Instead, “Harlem on My Mind” represented Harlem via floor-to-ceiling photomurals, archival ephemera, and street soundscapes ...
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Die Waffen-SS
"Our honor means loyalty" - with this slogan the soldiers of the Waffen-SS go to war in 1939. They think of themselves as more than just soldiers. They are warriors, self-proclaimed elite ...
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Inside the SS
Stefan Ashton Frank (Narrator)Oskar Gröning (Waffen SS Accountant Auschwitz - Birkenau)Hans Friedrich (Waffen SS 1st SS Infantry Brigade)Kurt Barkhausen (Member SS Death Head Division)Ekkehard ...
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The little-known history of the Galizia Division
It includes senior officers from the Waffen SS, including General Maximilian von Herff, a key figure in the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. Apart from the simply historically inquisitive, it ...
The Nation on MSN6d
Lauren Oyler and the Critic in the Internet Age
In No Judgment, the novelist and critic explores the perilous activity of literary criticism in the era of social media.
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Canadian imperialism and the Gaza genocide: The contrived, right-wing furor over a cartoon depicting Netanyahu as a vampire
intended to convey anti-Semitic remarks,” that “the drawing was intended as a criticism ... in the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS, known as the Galicia Division, which consisted ...
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‘They discriminated against us, cursed at us, just because we were refugees … I was nine—the war wasn’t my fault.’
Six years later her father was an officer in the Waffen-SS, the Nazi Party’s elite military division. By the time he went off to fight in the invasion of France, the family had two cars ...
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The German Space Program That Never Was
The Silver Bird’s lifting body design was decades ahead of its time, and despite some promising work on the propulsion system, the vehicle never got off the drawing board. However, the ideas ...
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The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy
Drawing on deep research and even deeper feeling ... American soldiers and the people of Graignes while further demolishing the myth of a blameless Waffen SS.' Steven P. Remy - author of The Malmedy ...
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UN condemns open expression of support for Nazis following Waffen SS march in Latvia
He added however that he had not seen these reports. Read also Russia calls for proper assessment of Waffen-SS commemorations in Latvia Russia’s State Duma lower parliament house on Friday ...