Holocaust

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Hugo Rifkind in The Timeson pointing the finger at villainsOur weird politics can’t all be blamed on Russia“If feels like a damp squib, the main reason will be because the…

After the events of World War II, many Nazi war criminals took refuge in Argentina under the rule of Juan Perón. SUPREME COURT judges deliberate in the courthouse at Jerusalem’s Beit Ha’am before delivering their verdict at the appeal of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961 (photo credit: GPO)…

A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard apologised to Holocaust victims at a Hamburg court on Monday, ahead of the verdict in a high-profile trial over his complicity in World War II atrocities."Today I would like to apologise to those who went through the hell of this madness, as well…

Ervin Staub has always known the difference a bystander could make. He was born in 1938, and by the time he was six, the Nazis were deporting 440,000 of his fellow Hungarian Jews to death camps.“There were important bystanders in my life who showed me that people don’t have to…

Petr Kotlár in The Painted Bird (IFC Films) Even in a Holocaust-adjacent movie, what’s the point of ramming home the same point in a hundred sickening ways? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here is so much grim knowledge about the Holocaust available to us, that sticking close to the factual record…

Anti-neo-Nazi activists carry signs showing swastikas. The man was 19 at the time of his alleged crimes, and will therefore be tried in a juvenile court.He was charged with war crimes during the Holocaust.This is the latest in the series of prosecutions by Germany for these crimes.A 95-year-old former Nazi…

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas county Republican Party chairman who owns a weekly newspaper apologized Sunday for a cartoon posted on the paper’s Facebook page that equated the Democratic governor’s coronavirus-inspired order for people to wear masks in public with the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas county Republican Party chairman who owns a weekly newspaper apologized Sunday for a cartoon posted on the paper’s Facebook page that equated the Democratic governor’s coronavirus-inspired order for people to wear masks in public with the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A weekly Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican Party chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening the Democratic governor’s order requiring people to wear masks in public to the roundup and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.The cartoon on the…

The web series “Dispatches From Quarantine” — which has been chronicling the coronavirus quarantines of famous entertainers as they stay at home — featured what turned out to be Carl Reiner’s final interview. In it, the 98-year-old Reiner, who died Monday, talks about his love of comedy, meeting his wife…