How these Jewish genealogists are repairing Nazi ‘dirty deeds’
Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...
Sunday conversation: Karen Franklin on the sacred task of returning Nazi-looted books
"This is for us a sacred task," says a world-renowned expert on German Jewish genealogy from the Looted Books Project.
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Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
But while most readers might agree that a book labeled “nonfiction” should strive to get its facts right, what if the ...
Yes, Columbia University expelled student for leading anti-Nazi demonstration in 1936
Burke led protests in May 1936, including an anti-Nazi picket and a mock book burning. The protests were a response to the ...
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From 'Saving Private Ryan' to 'Das Boot': The greatest war movies
An army major, played by a superbly commanding Lee Marvin, is forced to lead soldiers convicted of various crimes on a ...
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Two friends defied the Nazis. Then one woman ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other
In 'Paris Undercover,' author Matthew Goodman digs up the truth behind a successful 'memoir' that played fast and loose with facts as one of its subjects sat in Nazi prison ...
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Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
This shocking sculpture invokes both Nazi delirium and Jewish theology
Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...
‘The Fifteen’ delves into forgotten history of Nazi POWs on U.S. soil
Author William Geroux finds a compelling true-crime angle in a series of camp murders, as well as international intrigue in a ...
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It wasn’t just terror: The Nazis won the cultural battle in a year
For the National Socialists, everything was political. All forms of culture — from theater and cinema to painting and ...
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Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
She wrote about the complicity of the French and other European governments in keeping what the Nazis stole in her book, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe." Campbell says ...
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Peter Beinart Has Gone Full Antisemite
The holiday loomed so large in Nazi consciousness that just before Hitler ... Here he is in a column in the Guardian, based on his recent book, explaining Purim in the same terms as the Nazis ...