Nazism

Robert Sesselmann, center, visits a butcher shop in Sonneberg, Germany on April 27, 2023. (Robert Sesselmann)

German far-right party wins its first county leadership post, rising in polls

Victory of AfD’s candidate in rural Sonneberg area reflects rising popularity of anti-immigration party; Jewish group says party’s surge is something we ‘cannot simply accept’

June 25, 2023, 11:46 pm

German far-right party wins its first county leadership post, rising in polls

Victory of AfD’s candidate in rural Sonneberg area reflects rising popularity of anti-immigration party; Jewish group says party’s surge is something we ‘cannot simply accept’

By AP and ToI Staff

In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, is greeted by Prince Badr Bin Sultan, deputy governor of Mecca, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023, to attend the Arab summit. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

May 22, 2023, 10:37 am

Russia says Zelensky heads ‘Nazi regime’ with ‘blood ties to Israel’

Moscow’s embassy in Egypt posts tweet in response to Ukrainian president’s visit to Arab League summit, later deletes and reposts it without Israel reference

By Michael Horovitz

Nazis are villains in the "Hellsing" series and many other anime shows. (Screenshot/ YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

May 4, 2023, 2:57 am

Does anime have a Nazi problem? Some Jewish fans think so

Japanese animation medium hit with criticism for alleged glorification of antisemitism, fascism; some experts say Nazi references more to do with Japan’s history, culture

By Jordyn Haime

Louis Hofmann (as Cioma Schönhaus) and Luna Wedler (as Gerda) in 'The Forger.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)

March 15, 2023, 6:02 am

How a young Jewish man with a talent for forgery hid in plain sight in WWII Berlin

Now playing in the US, the German-language feature film ‘The Forger’ recounts true-life story of the spirited Cioma Schönhaus, who created documents that saved hundreds of lives

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Founder and operator of The Daily Stormer website, Andrew Anglin. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

November 11, 2022, 12:46 am

US judge orders arrest of neo-Nazi website head for inciting antisemitic harassment

District court says Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin yet to pay any of $14 million fine handed down in 2019 for orchestrating online campaign against Jewish Montana family

By AP

Supporters of outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro giving what appears to be a Nazi salute at a rally along a highway in the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, November 2, 2022. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

November 4, 2022, 12:20 am

Bolsonaro backers in Brazil allegedly give Nazi salute, triggering uproar

Prosecutors probing incident as Israeli embassy and others urge action, though initial investigation suggests demonstrators didn’t intend gesture

By AFP

Illustrative: A young woman internee at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany shouts 'Shoot them, kill them as they killed our families,' as Allied troops, left, supervise German POWs to clean up the camp, April 27, 1945. (AP Photo)

October 3, 2022, 9:04 pm

Simplistic version of a complex history: Why US politicians trivialize the Holocaust

The contemporary narrative highlights the American role in defeating the Nazis, but overlooks the country’s refusal to do more to save the victims

By Adam R. Seipp

Sigmund Freud in his study at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, 1934. (Freud Museum London)

September 26, 2022, 11:01 am

How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust

In his new book ‘Saving Freud,’ award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski explores the history surrounding the father of modern psychology’s harrowing escape to safety in London

By JP O’ Malley

A woman injured when her house was damaged by the Russian shelling sits shocked in the yard of her house in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 26, 2022.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

July 4, 2022, 2:47 pm

Spike seen in Russian media reports hammering false claim of Ukrainian Nazism

New York Times says analysis of reporting since invasion of Ukraine shows increase in references to Nazism; move seen as way to make war more palatable to Russian public

By ToI Staff

Jozef Walaszczyk, who died aged 102-years-old on June 20, 2022 and saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, January 28, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

June 22, 2022, 2:09 am

Polish man who rescued dozens of Jews during Holocaust dies at age 102

Józef Walaszczyk, member of Polish resistance, fell in love with Jewish woman, saved her and others by paying bribes, employing Jews in flour factory

By Agencies

Framed extracts of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine's (portrait) correspondence displayed at the Gallimard gallery during the exhibition titled 'Celine, recovered manuscripts' in Paris, May 3, 2022. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)

May 4, 2022, 11:37 am

Manuscript by famed pro-Nazi French author resurfaces after 78 years

Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s ‘Guerre’ to hit bookstores decades following his abandonment of personal papers as the Allies approached Paris during WWII

By Hugues HONORE

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures as he speaks during a ceremony in which the salaries of teachers of elementary education were increased, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on February 4, 2022. (Evaristo Sa/AFP)

February 10, 2022, 7:44 pm

Bolsonaro condemns Nazism after popular podcaster says Brazil should have it

Brazilian president says totalitarian ideology should be ‘unconditionally and permanently repudiated’ after popular talk show host calls for a Nazi party

By AFP

UN Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu speaks in Majuro, Marshall Islands, March 30, 2012. (Giff Johnson/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

February 4, 2022, 9:46 am

Romanian politician praises 1930s antisemitic fascist leader on primetime TV

Calin Georgescu says Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, head of an extremist nationalist group, ‘fought for the morality of the human being’

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Charles E. Coughlin attacking the Roosevelt administration in a speech before the Townsend National Convention, July 17, 1936. (AP Photo)

January 28, 2022, 5:27 am

FBI files shine light on homegrown Nazi plot to overthrow US government during WWII

In ‘Nazis of Copley Square,’ historian Charles R. Gallagher argues that the widely overlooked Christian Front posed a true threat – and he’s got newly released intel to prove it

By JP O’ Malley

Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

January 1, 2022, 10:34 pm

Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists march in honor of Nazi collaborator

Stepan Bandera led Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII, killing thousands of Jews and Poles

By Agencies