Nazis

In this February 2006 file photo, an Uruguayan worker directs the salvage the eagle of World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez, File)

June 20, 2023, 6:06 am

Uruguay still stuck with Nazi eagle after president pulls peace dove plan

Vexed by 800-pound relic recovered from sunken ship, Luis Lacalle Pou suggested melting it into a peace dove, a plan decried as akin to turning Auschwitz into a nudist colony

By Juan Melamed

File: Bjoern Hoecke of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gives a TV interview during a congress for the party in Dresden, eastern Germany. - German prosecutors charged Hoecke on June 5, 2023 with using a banned Nazi slogan in an election campaign. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)

June 6, 2023, 3:55 am

German prosecutors charge far-right politician over Nazi slogan

Bjoern Hoecke, an Alternative for Germany (AfD) regional leader, allegedly used motto of Nazi’s Stormtroopers SA paramilitary wing ‘Everything for Germany’ at 2021 event

By AFP

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with their dogs at the Berghof vacation house.
(Bundesarchiv Bild/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA)

April 25, 2023, 12:54 pm

Fake Hitler diaries from 1980s scam to be displayed at German national archives

Forgery sparked fury when published as authentic by Stern Magazine, UK’s Sunday Times, before truth came out; publishing house commissions new probe into how fiasco came about

By Michael Horovitz

Uskudar American Academy is one of Istanbul's most prestigious private schools. (Wikipedia via JTA)

March 16, 2023, 7:38 pm

Students at Istanbul school perform Nazi salute in soccer game against Jewish school

Students from Üsküdar American Academy, considered one of city’s most elite, deliver the gesture at game as a taunt following goals by Ulus team; Turkish authorities taking action

By David I. Klein

In this combination of photos, Pope Francis, left, arrives for an audience with members of Roman Universities and Pontifical Institutions at the Vatican on February 25, 2023, and BBC sportscaster Gary Lineker attends the GQ Men of The Year Awards, at the Tate Modern, in London, on September 1, 2021. (AP Photo)

March 15, 2023, 12:56 pm

BBC sportscaster’s tweet revives debate over making ‘Nazi’ references

Holocaust and anti-Nazi scholars and organizations say that while sentiment is sometimes understandable, comparisons to Hitler are concerning and often inaccurate

By Hillel Italie

FILE - In this file photo from January 22, 2014, the Yellow Star badge of Heinz-Joachim Aris (Dresden 1941) reading 'Jew' is displayed in a showcase during a press preview in the new special exhibition 'Shoes of the Dead - Dresden and the Shoah' at the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

March 14, 2023, 4:57 pm

Nazi yellow star badges part of long history of forcing Jews to identify themselves

Patches issued during Holocaust followed centuries in which communities throughout Europe forced Jews to have identifying markers, setting them up to be targeted

By Flora Cassen

A teenage boy arrested for trying to attack a school in Brazil while wearing a Nazi armband on February 13, 2023 (Monte Mor city)

February 14, 2023, 10:14 am

Brazil police arrest teen in Nazi armband after thwarted school bomb attack

Youth tried to use explosives to blow up school near Sao Paolo, authorities find an airsoft gun and Nazi propaganda at his home

By AP

Franklin D. Roosevelt, flanked by Winston Churchill, right, and Joseph Stalin, sit on chairs outside the Russian embassy during their conference between November 28 and December 1, 1943, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)

February 4, 2023, 10:59 am

The (probable) Nazi plot to kill Churchill, FDR and Stalin all at once in Tehran

In their new book ‘The Nazi Conspiracy,’ political thriller writing duo Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch dig into a mysterious assassination attempt that some scholars deny to this day

By Rich Tenorio

This 'Statuette of Maria Lactans' was returned to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner, Jakob Goldschmidt. (National Museums in Berlin, Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art/Marion Böhl Public Domain Mark 1.0)

January 31, 2023, 4:39 am

Germany returns 16th-century statuette sold off by Nazis to Jewish banker’s heirs

Sculpture of Mary and infant Jesus had belonged to Jakob Goldschmidt, a prominent businessman persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany in 1933

By Toby Axelrod

This file photo taken on April 25, 2012, shows the "Vieux-Port" (Old Harbour) shows the buidings designed by French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986) and built between 1953 and 1960, in the southern city of Marseille. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP)

January 26, 2023, 7:50 pm

Marseille determined to remember ‘forgotten’ WWII roundups of Jews

In 1943 Velodrome d’Hiver raids, more than 12,000 people, including 4,000 children, were rounded up in the French capital in less than two days

By Sandra Laffont and Coline DACLIN

An AI-generated Joseph Goebbels responds in the Historical Figures Chat app. (Twitter photo screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 19, 2023, 7:14 pm

Chatbot denounced for generating remorseful responses from top Nazi figures

History professor says app makes excuses for Joseph Goebbels, who in chat claims to have ‘vehemently opposed’ violence against Jews, ‘publicly denounced’ their mistreatment

By Michael Horovitz

The icon for TikTok phone app, taken in New York, February 25, 2020. (AP Photo)

January 6, 2023, 8:19 am

Jan. 6 commission: Average TikToker sees Nazi content after 75 minutes

Experiment by committee finds it takes just over an hour for new users to be directed to right-wing extremist content without actively searching for it

By Ron Kampeas

View of the Bank Hapoalim offices in the center of Tel Aviv, August 04, 2015 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

January 2, 2023, 4:13 am

Bank suspends worker who allegedly tweeted hate against ‘leftists,’ praised Hitler

Netanyahu fan called left-wingers ‘traitors,’ ‘spawn of the devil,’ lauded Nazi leader for ‘preventing 6 million more,’ branded Bennett a ‘terrorist’ and wished death to his family

By ToI Staff

Anton Krymskiy as Mitke in 'Nakam' (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Leonard Caspari)

December 20, 2022, 4:25 am

Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan

Made as a film school thesis project, ‘NAKAM’ is inspired by Motele Schlein, who was killed in a Nazi ambush, but whose violin survived as symbol of resistance and is still played

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Austrian-German entrepreneur and car designer Ferdinand Porsche Jr., right, stands with his father Ferdinand beside a Porsche sports car in this June 10, 1950 picture. (AP Photo)

December 15, 2022, 10:36 pm

Austrian city to rename Porsche street over founder’s ‘problematic’ Nazi past

Report commissioned by Linz says the German carmaker ‘played a central role’ in war economy, ‘actively promoted the forced labor of prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates’

By AFP