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Nazi Cake a Recipe for Trouble for Austrian Pastry Shop
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsAn Austrian baker is pleading the same defense that many Nazis used at Nuremberg -- "I was just following orders" -- after baking a cake festooned with swastikas and a baby raising its right hand in a "Heil Hitler" salute. Bakery owner Manfred Klaschka says he made the cake -- at a cost of $128 -- at the request of a customer. "If it's requested, it's made," said Klaschka, according to MSNBC. "I don't want to be pulled into this because I'm a confectioner, and there's nothing more to it." Alamy A Nazi party suit pin depicting a black swastika on a red flag. An Austrian baker has ...
Woman Who Won Return of Nazi-Looted Gustav Klimts Dies
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsMaria Altmann, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who won a landmark battle with Austria for the return of five Gustav Klimt paintings that the Nazis looted from her family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died Monday at her home in Los Angeles after a long illness. "She was a wonderful, elegant lady, and I was lucky to have been a part of her life," E. Randol Schoenberg, the lawyer and friend who worked with her to regain the artworks, told Agence France-Presse. Reed Saxon, AP Maria Altmann stands next to a print of a Gustav Klimt painting of her aunt, "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," at ...
Glenn Beck and His Tower of Babble
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On Holocaust Memorial Day, Hitler and Nazi Metaphors as Prevalent as Ever
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date in 1945 Soviet troops liberated survivors at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and in 2005 the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as a day to commemorate victims of the Nazi era. To mark the anniversary, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., plans to hold a candle-lighting ceremony in its Hall of Remembrance. Holocaust memorial events were scheduled for the U.N. building in New York but have been postponed because of the snowstorm. Although many people take this somber occasion to honor the memory of lost ancestors ...
Hitler-Mocking Dog Enraged Nazis, Documents Reveal
By not in system - AOL NewsBERLIN -- Germany's Nazi government was so angry about a dog trained to imitate Hitler that it started an obsessive campaign against its Finnish owner, according to newly discovered documents. In the middle of World War II, the Foreign Office in Berlin commanded its diplomats in the Nazi-friendly Nordic country to gather evidence on the dog, and even came up with plans to destroy the pharmaceutical wholesale company of the dog's owner. Tamro Group Image Bank / AP Tor Borg, whose dog Jackie was trained to raise its paw for the Nazi salute, was investigated by the Nazis, who were ...
Nazi-Era Graves Found Near Austrian Psych Ward
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA mass grave believed to hold the remains of 220 victims of Nazi euthanasia has been uncovered outside a psychiatric hospital in western Austria. The grisly discovery was made by construction workers digging the foundation for an extension to the Hall Hospital, in Tyrol province. Work has been halted while investigators study the remains. Matthias Schrader, AP The old hospital cemetery is pictured in Hall near Innsbruck, western Austria, on Tuesday. Officials say the cemetery could contain the remains of up to 220 people killed by the Nazis and buried between 1942 and 1945. DNA ...
Exhibit Highlights Curious George's Escape From the Nazis
By not in system - AOL NewsWATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. -- Long before he pedaled himself into all sorts of mischief in "Curious George Rides a Bike," the famous monkey took a much more harrowing ride when his creators escaped the Nazi invasion of France. The manuscript that would later launch their beloved series of children's books was among the few belongings that Margret and H.A. Rey took with them when they fled Paris in June 1940, just days before German troops marched into the city. Both German Jews, the husband-and-wife team cobbled together two bikes out of spare parts and peddled south to Orleans. Trains carried ...
Feds Seize 2 Paintings Stolen From Poland by Nazis
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- Federal authorities have seized two Julian Falat paintings stolen by the Nazis during World War II from New York auction houses, with the hope of returning the national treasures to the Polish government. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced today that it had filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Wednesday to seize the two paintings -- "Off to the Hunt" and "The Hunt" -- which were stolen by the Nazis from the National Museum in Warsaw. U.S. authorities said the U.S. District Court in Manhattan had authorized the seizure of the paintings pending the outcome of the ...
US Created 'Safe Haven' for Nazis, Report Says
By Lisa Holewa - AOL News
(Nov. 14) -- The United States created a safe haven for some Nazis after World Ward II, granting them entry even though government officials knew of their pasts, according to a U.S. Justice Department report detailed in today's New York Times. "America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became -- in some small measure -- a safe haven for persecutors as well," the report says, describing what it calls "the government's collaboration with persecutors." The Justice Department cited "numerous factual errors and omissions" in the report, according to the Times, but ...
Study: German Envoys Deeply Implicated in Holocaust
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- World War II-era officials in Germany's Foreign Ministry were more deeply involved in carrying out the Holocaust than previously thought, according to a new report the German government is considering making mandatory reading for all of its diplomats. Four historians pored over millions of old ministry records for four years to compile the 900-page report, which debunks a previously widespread myth that many of Germany's wartime foreign envoys were opponents of the Nazis, and that some didn't even know about the Holocaust until after World War II. Among the damning evidence is ...
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