Posts Tagged: World War II
Kissinger: My Family Escaped the Horrors of the Holocaust by ‘Just a Few Months’
Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger told Charlie Rose on Wednesday that his family escaped the worst atrocities of the Holocaust by just “a few...
Rumsfeld Says Current Approach to Islamist Threat Brings to Mind US Inaction During Holocaust
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the current US course of action aimed at dealing with the threat of Islamic State terrorism...
75 Years Later, Reflections on World War II
Exactly 75 years ago on September 1, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, which valiantly sought to resist the onslaught, but was overwhelmed by the numerically and...
Art Looted During Holocaust Should be Returned, World Jewish Congress Leader Urges
JNS.org - World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder urged German officials in Berlin Thursday to work toward returning Nazi-looted art to its...
PLO Leader Admits Support for Nazis, Says They Saw Zionism as Common Enemy (VIDEO)
Farouk Qaddumi, former head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Political Bureau, said a shared hatred of Zionism bound the PLO leadership to Nazism, in an...
Archive of Jewish WWII Heroine Spy, Original ‘Bond Girl,’ Captures Renewed Interest at London Museum (VIDEO)
The archive, including never-before-seen photographs, of a Jewish heroine from World War II, and the likely model for Ian Fleming's female spy, Vesper Lynd, in the original James Bond...
Former SS Officer in German Court on Murder Charges
BBC - Former SS officer Siert Bruins, 92, has appeared in court in Germany accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter some 70...
Nazi War Criminals Ordered Deported Still in US
WSJ/AP - At least 10 suspected Nazi war criminals ordered deported by the United States never left the country, according to an Associated Press...
Report: Top Nazi Commander Has Been in U.S. Since 1949
CBS/AP - A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials...
Never-Before-Seen Painting of Nazi Goering to Go On Auction Block
A painting that Nazi leader Hermann Goering felt exposed a morphine addiction is going on the auction block next month, according to the UK's Daily...
You Cannot Adulate Hitler’s Forces and be Committed to Human Rights and Pluralism
The legacy of World War II has long inspired — and may it in perpetuity inspire — an uncomplicated core consensus between the mainstream parties...
One of World’s Most Decorated Olympic Gymnasts Lives In Israel, Still Does Her Splits
One of the world's most decorated Olympic medalists is currently living in the country whose capital is known as "the City of Gold." Agnes Keleti,...
On Distinguishing Between Good and Evil
Good deeds and the spurning of evil preoccupied us throughout the Days of Awe and the festival period, climaxing with the redemption of Gilad Schalit. We...
Ignoring Romania’s Holocaust Complicity: Not an Option
More than 70 years after the start of World War II, one would think that few secrets remain from what might be the...
