Holocaust

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A U.S. State Department official was moonlighting as a white nationalist leader in Washington, D.C. As part of that role, he hosted prominent racists and Holocaust deniers at his home in Virgi…

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch makes a compelling case linking US Bureau of Energy Resources foreign affairs officer Matthew Q. Gebert with a series of violent white nationalist identities that have advocated acts of terror within in the USA and …

HOUSTON The circle of students sat quietly, scribbling down answers to the prompt theyd just been given: Write down three similarities between the Holocaust and abortion. After a minute or two, they launched into discussion. Innocent people were, and are, be…

The ADL surveyed 1,045 US adult gamers (oversampling Jewish, Muslim, African American and Hispanic/Latinx individuals) and asked them about their experiences in multiplayer games: on the one hand, they found that playing these social games brought many benefi…

The death of historian Marie Sophie Hingst, who was found lifeless in her apartment in mid-July, bothers me by day and keeps me awake at night. I find myself occupied by the same question that others are also asking in the wake of this dramatic event: Was it …

The two massacres in Texas and Ohio became the nation's latest mass shootings as defined by the Gun Violence Archive. Wochit, Wochit WASHINGTON  Former President Barack Obama responded Monday to back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weeken…

Daniel Lubetzky, the billionaire founder of KIND, joins me on The Forbes Interview podcast to share how he turned a nut-based snack bar into a $2.7 billion food empire with annual sales topping $800 million.His background is fascinating. The son of Holocaust …

(PHNOM PENH, Cambodia) — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal said. He was 93. Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2, the right…

For Bill Wilson, it's simple. He won't pay $1,000 for a smartphone. Period.  "I'll be hanging onto my iPhone 6 Plus until grim death," says the radio production manager from Gainesville, Georgia.  One grand "is just too much money for what you get." Wilson …

Records from the Holocaust and Nazi persecution have become more accessible, thanks to newly digitised archives. A joint initiative between Ancestry and the Arolsen Archives an international centre on Nazi persecution has resulted in the digitisation of milli…