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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 ...
Does This House Look Like Adolf Hitler?
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- An unassuming semi-detached house in Wales has become an unlikely Web star after Internet users decided that it looks a lot like Adolf Hitler's face. The Swansea home's tan-colored, four-window facade stared out from British tabloid newspapers Wednesday following heavy distribution on social networking sites. AP This house in Swansea, Wales, resembling the distinctive facial features of German World War II leader Adolf Hitler, has become an unlikely hit on the Internet. Its resemblance to the dictator's face is debatable. The lintel above its door vaguely echoes the ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
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 ...
Son of Hitler's Deputy Bormann Accused of Child Sex Abuse
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsMartin Bormann Jr., the eldest son of Adolf Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann, has spent decades attempting to atone for his father's sins. He has served as a priest and a Catholic missionary and has lectured in Germany, Austria and Israel on the horrors of the Holocaust. But Bormann Jr.'s almost saintly reputation is now threatened after he was accused of violently and sexually assaulting young pupils while serving as a teacher at an elite Austrian boarding school in the 1960s. Bormann Jr. has denied any knowledge of the events. The allegations -- the latest in a flurry of sex abuse charges ...
Liu Xiaobo Isn't the First Nobel Laureate Barred From Accepting His Prize
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- The Nobel Peace Prize committee announced today that it would likely not be able to present its award to Liu Xiaobo at next month's ceremony, because neither the Chinese dissident nor any of his family members will likely be able to attend. Liu, a dissident writer and activist, is in jail in China and his wife, Liu Xia, is under house arrest. Liu "is one of three people to have received the prize while incarcerated by their own governments. The others are the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, and the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935," The New York ...
95-Year-Old NYC Man Gets Medal for WWII Rescue
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NEW YORK (Oct. 17) - The U.S. government has recognized the World War II architect of a mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber fliers shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia - the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war. George Vujnovich, a 95-year-old New Yorker, is credited with leading the so-called Halyard Mission in what was then Yugoslavia. On Sunday, he was awarded the U.S. Bronze Star Medal, presented by Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., at Manhattan's St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral. Vujnovich received a standing ovation from a crowd of several hundred church ...
Infamous Nazi Documents Off to National Archives
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 25) -- The original copies of the infamous Nuremberg Laws, the 1935 statutes that paved the way for Nazi Germany's killing of 6 million Jews, are being transferred to the National Archives in Washington from a private library in California. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens / AP In this June 1945 photo, Gen. George S. Patton Jr., right, presents Huntington Library trustee Robert Millikan with an original 1935 typescript of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler. The terse, four-page manifesto revoked the citizenship of German Jews and forbade marriage ...
HBO's '12th and Delaware' — Where Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Intersect
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe title of the documentary, "12th and Delaware," now showing on HBO, seemed lackluster until I understood its significance. Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady [disclosure: Grady is the daughter of my Politics Daily colleagues Bonnie Goldstein and James Grady] the film tells the story of an abortion clinic that opened at 12th & Delaware in Fort Pierce, Fla. in 1991. Eight years later, a pro-life Pregnancy Care Center opened up directly across the street. Today, 12th and Delaware is where pro-life and pro-choice passions intersect. I have a love-hate relationship with documentaries. ...
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