Born in Berlin, fighting for Allies Nov 10, 2009
"They thought Hitler would get what he wanted and there would be no war and things would get back to normal. The Holocaust was unimaginable at the time.". Despite their escape, Tugend said his father was never the same. (CNN)
Challenges for a Republican renaissance Nov 10, 2009
Christian conservatives, on the other hand, with legitimate concerns about the moral framework of the nation -- concerns about the integrity of the American family and about the ongoing abortion holocaust -- have given shorter shrift to the importance of constitutionally limited government and free markets ... This view, in its extreme application, led to the holocaust of the Jews in recent history. (Townhall.com)
Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life Nov 10, 2009
For the activists who imagine that they re fighting a modern day Holocaust, hearing abortion labeled with a pallid bogus might not really qualify as red meat. But apparently, Palin can still deliver the goods. (Salon)
Read the 'News Watch' transcript Nov 10, 2009
"In a diatribe that rightly never would have passed muster with the editors had it so criticized an Islamic, Jewish or African-American religious issue, Dowd digs deep into the nativist handbook to use every anti-Catholic caricature possible, from the Inquisition to the Holocaust, condoms, obsession with sex, pedophile priests and oppression of women, all the while slashing Pope Benedict XVI for his shoes.". All right, S.E., what do you make of it. (Fox News)
From the Editor: Swastikas, flags and talk radio Nov 10, 2009
Not long after I arrived here I attended a Holocaust Memorial service at Beth Shalom Temple Center in Green Valley. Reading the history of Nazi Germany is awful enough; being in the same room with people who lived it was overwhelming. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
"Precious" in the age of Obama Nov 10, 2009
How many harrowing Holocaust or violent mob stories has America embraced with fresh enthusiasm for each telling. (It's worth remembering that few Oprah fans supported the ambitious "Beloved," probably because slavery itself was unending sexual degradation that nobody wanted to stomach -- not even for one movie, even one with Oprah in it). (Salon)
Islamic leader condemns Fort Hood violence Nov 10, 2009
A security guard at the Holocaust Museum is murdered, the FBI calls it terrorism. Yet here, the media and the government seem to be going out of their way to avoid using any phrasing that would even hint at using some variation of terror be it an ism or an ist. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The Righteous Nov 9, 2009
Johannna Neuman's journey from darkness to salvation is 70 years in the making, owing much of that to the Albanian family who saved her and her family during the Holocaust ... According to the International School for Holocaust Studies, Albania did not turn over a single Jew to the Nazis ... As seen in the upcoming documentary, "God's House," photographer Norman Gershman traveled to Albania to document surviving members of families that saved Jews during the Holocaust. (CBS News)
War-crimes author: World not safe from another Holocaust Nov 9, 2009
The well-orchestrated incident by Nazi leaders came to be known as Kristallnacht -- The Night of Broken Glass -- and is generally regarded as the beginning of the Holocaust. John Loftus, 59, is of Irish heritage, the Catholic son of a Boston firefighter. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
America’s game? Try poker Nov 8, 2009
And, ever since Holocaust survivor Henry Orenstein invented a table with glass panels through which cameras could reveal hole cards, it has exploded in popularity as a cable TV spectator sport, making celebrities out of Doyle Texas Dolly Brunson, Phil The Poker Brat Hellmuth, Chris Jesus Ferguson, and Phil Ivey, the game s Tiger Woods. Viewers favor tournament hold em, McManus points out, because it strikes a better balance between exposed and hidden cards than seven-card stud. (Boston Globe)
* US foreign policy is straight out of the mafia: Noam Chomsky Nov 8, 2009
He is certainly his own man, holds some idiosyncratic views (I was startled, for instance, to hear him say that Vietnam was a strategic victory for the US in Southeast Asia, despite its humiliating 1975 withdrawal) and has drawn flak for defending freedom of speech for Holocaust deniers. He describes himself as an anarchist or libertarian socialist, but often sounds more like a radical liberal X which is perhaps why he enrages more middle-of-the-road US liberals who dont appreciate their... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Doomsday sect's future is in doubt after death Nov 8, 2009
- Members of a Montana-based sect whose influence expanded as it prepared for a nuclear holocaust that never came, now search for new directions after the death of Elizabeth Clare Prophet - "Mother" to her thousands of followers. The Church Universal and Triumphant still keeps its 750-person underground shelters stocked with food - "insurance," its leaders say, against possible dark days ahead. (AZCentral -- News)
Psychiatric impact of torture could be amplified by head injury Nov 7, 2009
"This is the first study since the 1950s to demonstrate brain changes in survivors of extreme violence. That work looked at Holocaust survivors, and now we are the first to connect similar brain damage with mental health issues in survivors of political torture," says Richard Mollica, MD, director of the HPRT and leader of the study. "We believe, although it has not yet been proven, that these physical effects may help explain why survivors of both torture and traumatic head injury often don't... (EurekAlert!)
Climate change is a contact sport, expert says Nov 7, 2009
Maybe because we consider the deniers of global warming to be on a par with denial of the Holocaust ... Maybe because we consider the deniers of global warming to be on a par with denial of the Holocaust. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Wiesel slams tea partiers Nov 7, 2009
People manage to use Nazi and Holocaust references in the most poorly considered of ways, as if they're unaware of the true horror that was the slaughter of millions of innocent people ... Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author, put out a statement through his foundation's It reads simply, "Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party's anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: 'This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting.'". (Salon)
Beyond the Multiplex Nov 7, 2009
As it happens, the Czech nation was at the center of Europe's 20th-century dramas, from '30s bohemianism to the Holocaust to the Iron Curtain, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, and all of that can be found in Sikl's film -- but mostly as backdrop. What's amazing about "Private Century" is how much he makes the domestic dramas of ordinary people, most of them long dead, come alive, so we are reminded of a fact history often elides: Life consists a lot less of great men making speeches... (Salon)
Congressman calls for second 'House Call' protest against House health bill Nov 7, 2009
Don't forget your Holocaust signs and your "Get your gubbmint out of my Medicare" chants. Fools. (TheHill.com)
Its ‘Mother' dead, doomsday sect's future is in doubt Nov 7, 2009
BOZEMAN Members of a Montana-based sect whose influence expanded as it prepared for a nuclear holocaust that never came, now search for new directions after the death of Elizabeth Clare Prophet "Mother" to her thousands of followers. The Church Universal and Triumphant still keeps its 750-person underground shelters stocked with food "insurance," its leaders say, against possible dark days ahead. (Montana Standard, MT)
Worlds collide in The Magician & the Geisha Nov 7, 2009
The novel revisits a tragedy called the Wrightsville Holocaust, that happened when Wright was a boy living in Little Rock, Ark. Wilderness Children is available at Amazon. (Fresno Bee)
The Fort Hood shooting suspect's religion is not the point Nov 7, 2009
" So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple. -- Ezekiel 9:6 . . . whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. -- Exodus 31:15. Do we take those verses literally? Because if we, we have a lot of killing to get to. And yet we read verses plucked from the Qur'an and think we know the literature. By Dave on More left-wing lunacy. Where were you when George Tiller was killed and when the Holocaust Museum was shot up earlier in the year? The... (FOX61, CT)
No 'white' ship fleeing disaster would be treated like this Nov 6, 2009
No shipload of whites fleeing disaster would be treated like this. The Australian silence has unique features. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
LETTER: Obama aggressive in dealing with dissenters Nov 6, 2009
thefunnyfarm wrote on Nov 5, 2009 10:40 PM:" It's amazing to me this great country has taken this long to see the truth about this president. He is a joke, he thinks he is the next superstar, he spend much of his time appearing on talk shows-late night to boot. He has very real issues to deal with and he is on Dave Letterman. Pleeease we have a war we can't end, many of our service men and women are getting killed every day and our president is on Letterman yukking it up. Hello, this is not a... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa Nov 6, 2009
" You may indeed, in that even after legions of bloody-minded imitations on both sides of the Pacific (most of them execrable), "Audition" still has the power to enter your dreams. Not a fantastically gory film, "Audition" is nonetheless a profoundly disturbing one, as much for its subtle portrait of the subterranean war of the sexes as for its infamous conclusion, when wounded widower Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) finally finds out what the 24-year-old, supernally gorgeous ballerina (model Eihi... (Salon)
A Fallen Wall for Fallen Man Nov 6, 2009
It is a coincidence not lost on political philosophers that the Wall fell on the same date as Kristallnacht in 1938, when the Nazi's -- with lots of help from "otherwise decent people" -- smashed windows and storefronts of Jewish homes and businesses, set fire to synagogues, and looted and plundered Jewish property, writing Adolf Hitler's preface for the Holocaust. On Nov. 9-10, more than 20,000 Jews were stuffed into trucks like cattle and transported to concentration camps such as Buchenwald... (Townhall.com)
Authors scrutiny of the powerful is proof positive Nov 6, 2009
Perhaps the most well-known challenge to his work came in response to his book IBM and the Holocaust, which documents the strategic relationship between the corporation and Hitler s Third Reich ... To his surprise, his biggest obstructer in finding documentation has been the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. His effort to find information about Sephardic survivors of the Shoah, whom Black believes have been largely ignored by Jewish media, are routinely blocked by museum... (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Inside a shuttered Cold War bunker Nov 6, 2009
Officials say Magic Mountain, set on the grounds of the Royal Air Force's Alconbury base in the flatlands of eastern England, was given the protected status because it reflects the "determination to continue operating even in the most extreme horrors of a possible nuclear holocaust.". But the grass-covered edifice isn't just being mothballed or turned into a hushed museum it's being made to work for living. (MSNBC -- International)
A lustgarten of delights Nov 5, 2009
Evidence of Berlin's tortured past is everywhere, from the vandalised headstones of the city's Jewish cemetery to the stark grey pillars of the Holocaust memorial and the weed-strewn car park that once held Hitler's bunker. But as the city prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of reunification on November 9, it should also stand proud as a symbol of human resilience and evolution. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
A 'literary miracle' crowned by Oprah Nov 5, 2009
One semester, he audited a seminar on Holocaust literature. The professor had no idea who Uwem was, so she couldn't help but be surprised when he asked, "Can you tell me, please, how is it that people can do such terrible things to one another?". (CNN)
Celibacy may be reviewed as new priests are few; Married priests of other faiths may convert to Catholicism Nov 5, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has been keen to reconcile with the group - even though one of their bishops denied the Holocaust - because of his greater aim of unifying the church and putting a highly conservative stamp on it. Just last week, he took a major step in that direction by making it easier for Anglican traditionalists to convert to Roman Catholicism. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Visiting Auschwitz and Birkenau Nov 5, 2009
Various sources will give you various figures, and biases towards Polish, Jewish or other views of the holocaust influence many of the facts presented. Should I Visit Auschwitz and Birkenau. (Suite101.com)
How Israel destroyed Syria's Al Kibar nuclear reactor Nov 4, 2009
How many survived the Holocaust. Damned big number isn't it. (Salon)
What Liberals Still Don't Get Nov 4, 2009
The Jewish people not only survived the Holocaust, but centuries of oppression and still they are one of the most powerful nations on earth. We need a genuine ally in the Middle East, and if Mr. Obama thinks he can strong-arm Israel because the muslims 'like' him, he's got another think coming. (CBS News)
MP sorry for Nazi analogy e-mail Nov 3, 2009
An MP has denied equating his treatment over expenses to the Holocaust - but apologised for any "upset" caused by a "clumsily" worded e-mail ... I did refer to the Holocaust ... I was not seeking to equate what is happening to MPs with the Holocaust. (BBC News -- UK)
Clinton: Israel "Needs to do Much More" Nov 3, 2009
Jerusalem as Jewish capital". by BryanW217 November 2, 2009 3:19 PM EST Loven, you're an idiot. You left out that every single Israel attack was in response to attacks by other countries and also Hamas, the PLO, Hezbollah, Fatah, and many others. 00004000 by lovenpeace1 November 2, 2009 3:06 PM EST UnAmericans are those that 1st protect and defend the State of Israel and then maybe USA if not Greed.America is winning the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with Low-Tech and No-Tech. All the Hi-Tech... (CBS News -- World)
Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland... Nov 3, 2009
now that he is in office, iran has stopped pursuing nukes, stopped threating another holocaust, north korea has not started back up its nuke stuff, afghanistan is more stable, as well as pakistan, and russia isnt intimidating other countries anymore, china hasnt put the pedal to the metal in its military growth. clearly this world is a safer place with barry in the oval office. (The Drudge Report)
Hollywood should stop exploiting the Holocaust Nov 2, 2009
Hollywood and the Holocaust ... In a 2005 guest appearance on the sitcom Extras Kate Winslet, playing herself as nun on a Holocaust film is asked You doing this, it's so commendable, using your profile to keep the message alive about the Holocaust ... We definitely don't need another film about the Holocaust, do we. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
In NYs 23rd, conservatives bag a GOP heretic in Scozzafava Nov 1, 2009
I m not saying that you would have supported their actions toward the years of 1942 when the Holocaust really began, but around the years of 1934 to 1940, I think you would have been a huge cheerleader. Don t be too insulted. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The meaning of patriotism Oct 31, 2009
In just the last seventy years zealots have carried out the holocaust in Germany and Poland, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and genocide in Rwanda and Sudan. All would argue that they loved their nation. (Boerne Star, TX)
MUMA | Education & Public Programs | Film Screening & Panel Discussion - Wednesday 4 November 2009 Oct 30, 2009
Another collector, Dan, is Jewish and lost many family members to the Holocaust. He collects what he calls banality of evil snapshots: average, everyday photographs of Nazis. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Anti-Defamation League calls Jim Rizoli Holocaust denier Oct 30, 2009
In a statement on its Web site, the Anti-Defamation League says the host of a local cable TV show is an anti-Semite who promoted denial of the Holocaust in his program last week ... The league said Rizoli defended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from accusations that he denies the Holocaust, saying he "has some issues with the way the whole thing went down. Just like I do." ... Rizoli also referred viewers to two Web sites, "both of which advance Holocaust denial arguments," the league... (Framingham TAB, MA)
The Willing Misinterpreter Oct 30, 2009
In his first book, Hitler s Willing Executioners, he stated baldly that explaining why the Holocaust occurred required a radical revision of what has until now been written and that his book was that revision. His next effort, A Moral Reckoning, claimed to expose the malign role of the Catholic Church not only during the Holocaust but pretty much from its inception, since, according to Goldhagen, the Church had been the central locus of Western anti-Semitism almost from its founding ... Having,... (The American Conservative)
Kan. NAACP demands apology for 'RedNeck Rap' Oct 30, 2009
Mengele was a Nazi doctor who conducted cruel experiments at the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. TOPEKA, Kan. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Budish 1st Jewish speaker as Dems take Ohio House (3) Oct 29, 2009
Implying that an Obama victory could bring another Holocaust ; I have never had so many angry people come to me. They were horrified. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Man stabbed at talk by Holocaust denier Oct 28, 2009
-- Controversy has followed discredited British historian and accused Holocaust denier David Irving for decades ... The Anti-Defamation League, which has tracked Irving for decades and considers him a Holocaust denier, said such incidents are to be expected ... "It's a certain ugliness that he brings with him. This is not history, this is not true, this is anti-Semitism. You can't deny the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a historical fact just like slavery was a historical fact.". (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Chicago to give bounties to turn in tax-cheating neighbors... Oct 28, 2009
Does this remind anyone else of the holocaust ... Does this remind anyone else of the holocaust. (The Drudge Report)
Feds: Men Planned to Attack Danish Paper Oct 28, 2009
CHICAGO, Oct. 27, 2009. Chicago Men Who Were Schoolmates in Pakistan Targeted Paper that Ran Cartoons Depicting Muhammad. (CBS News)
Israel does not need friends like these Oct 28, 2009
How is it possible for these men to be both far-rightists, with a history of outright Holocaust denial (Griffin) and of controversial comments about the massacre of Jews (Kaminski), and Israel supporters ... cos we let the holocaust happen, it was considered not important to bomb the train lines. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Rumble during Nazi talk Oct 28, 2009
Outsiders protesters who call author Dave Irving a Nazi sympathizer, Adolf Hitler apologist and Holocaust denier is what Irving mostly worries about on his current coast-to-coast book tour ... You never try to stop Faracoon from speaking and he makes the same exact anti-holocaust and anti-semetic claims as Irving ... I got to read what this Holocaust denier has to say. (The Palm Beach Post)
George Gilder's Crusade Oct 27, 2009
It is now often acknowledged if not widely regretted that Palestinians have had to pay the price for Nazism and the Holocaust. It is they, after all, not the Germans, who are now stateless. (The American Conservative)
Family travel five: Presidential libraries open the pages of history Oct 27, 2009
Later on, he became quite ill with pneumonia and scarlet fever, and, on the morning of his bar mitzvah, the boy learned his Polish grandfather had died in the Holocaust. Childhood fears, frustrations, insecurities and sorrows stayed with Sendak throughout his life, and he wove those emotions into the picture books he wrote for children. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Vatican seeks to bring traditionalists back into fold Oct 27, 2009
The outcry was immediate, with both Jews and members of the Catholic hierarchy criticizing the pope's rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denier. While condemning Williamson's remarks, the Vatican defended its decision, only saying later that it hadn't known about his very public views about the Holocaust ... The Vatican has set out particular conditions for Williamson to be fully brought back in, saying he must "absolutely and unequivocally" distance himself from his Holocaust remarks, if he ever... (USA Today -- News)
Vatican pursues talks with breakaways Oct 27, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has been keen to reconcile with the group even though one of their bishops denied the Holocaust because of his greater aim of unifying the church and putting a highly conservative stamp on it ... Denying the HolocaustBenedict has worked for two decades to bring the group back into the Vatican's fold ... The outcry was immediate, with both Jews and members of the Catholic hierarchy criticizing the pope's rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denier. (MSNBC -- International)
The BNP's constituency can't be dismissed Oct 26, 2009
To be sure, the evening was not an unalloyed success for the BNP. Griffin looked particularly absurd when he said that he couldn't explain why he had changed his mind on the Holocaust, and he failed to land any blows on his fellow panellists or deliver any memorable one-liners ... The reason that Nick Griffin cannot explain his views on the Holocaust is, of course, because it is illegal (in Europe) ... "Griffin looked absurd when he couldnt explain why he had changed his mind on the Holocaust". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Natick Nipmucs remember their ancestors Oct 25, 2009
"She told me to honor them, that it was a holocaust. They were brought here when they had committed no crime.". Many American Indians ended up in Bermuda, where they were sold into slavery, Hendricks said. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Former Tyco chiefs jailed for $150m corporate theft Oct 25, 2009
More details emerge of the murder at the Holocaust museum in Washington DC. . (Yahoo News -- Tyco)
In Waziristan, A Long History Of Resistance Oct 25, 2009
First, he accused Republicans of wanting sick patients to "die quickly." Next, he likened health insurance problems to a "holocaust in America." Now, he's unveiling a new Web site, NamesOfTheDead. com, in memory of the. (Investors Business Daily)
Letters to the editor Oct 24, 2009
Re "Kids' opera, born amid Holocaust, bringing voices of hope to capital" (Page A1, Oct. 21): Who were those Nazis. Your front-page article about the kids' opera is a great reminder of a very dark chapter in the history of the human race, but it propagates a very serious error. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Griffin complaint over BBC 'mob' Oct 24, 2009
" The BBC has defended Question Time, which was watched by four times its normal audience but also attracted a large number of complaints, saying it had a duty to be impartial and that audience members had selected the questions which set the programme's agenda. 'Not a Nazi'More than 240 complainants felt the show was biased against the BNP, while more than 100 of the complaints were about Mr Griffin being allowed to appear on Question Time. In addition, more than 50 people contacted the BBC to... (BBC News -- UK)
BNP support in poll sparks anger Oct 24, 2009
Mr Griffin, who was one of two BNP candidates to be elected to the European Parliament earlier this year, faced robust questioning about his views on race, immigration and the Holocaust from a largely hostile audience. He criticised Islam, defended a past head of the Ku Klux Klan but insisted that he was "not a Nazi". (BBC News -- UK)
In praise of scepticism Oct 24, 2009
It's a nasty word to be called, denialist, because it calls up the spectacle of a fanatic denying the Holocaust. In my homeland, Australia, there are some prominent intellectuals who are quite ready to say that any sceptic about man-made global warming is doing even worse than denying the Holocaust, because this time the whole of the human race stands to be obliterated ... The Holocaust actually happened. (BBC News -- UK)
Taliban Dig In as Pakistani Army Advances Oct 23, 2009
Leader of Far-Right British National Party Berated by Panel, Audience for Holocaust Denial, Islam Bashing. 1st Time Buyers' Tax Incentive Expected to Deliver Numbers in 2 Years, But It's About to End Or Is It. (CBS News)
Group: N.C. Army Barracks "Not Suitable" Oct 23, 2009
FORT BRAGG, N.C., Oct. 22, 2009. Housing Conditions at Ft. Bragg a Longstanding Gripe for Many; Maintenance Funding Inconsistent. (CBS News -- US)
Profile: Nick Griffin Oct 23, 2009
But he has a controversial past, which includes a 1998 conviction for incitement to racial hatred relating to material denying the Holocaust ... Asked, however, by presenter David Dimbleby if he had ever denied the Holocaust, he did not answer directly replying: "I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial.". (BBC News -- UK)
U.S. Discussed Nabbing Polanski in Austria Oct 23, 2009
There was no reference to Polanski's history as a Jewish Holocaust survivor whose mother died in Auschwitz, or the sensitivities about having him pursued in the land of Adolf Hitler's birth ... Leader of Far-Right British National Party Berated by Panel, Audience for Holocaust Denial, Islam Bashing. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Given TV Time, U.K. Pol Denies He's a Nazi Oct 23, 2009
Leader of Far-Right British National Party Berated by Panel, Audience for Holocaust Denial, Islam Bashing ... The program showed Griffin defending himself against accusations that he sympathized with the ideals of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party - but also showed him ducking the question of whether he ever denied the Holocaust ... "I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial," he said, smiling faintly as the studio audience snickered. (CBS News)
