http://www.mail.com/subjects/2512-nazism.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/2512-nazism.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/1862254-russian-wwii-vet-recalls-battle-stalingrad.html MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 civilians in a single day. It was the height of the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest conflicts of World War II. "They were all hit in the back," said 90-year-old Alexei Stefanov. "But ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1862254-russian-wwii-vet-recalls-battle-stalingrad.html 2013-02-01T16:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858736-stalingrad-days-marking-battle.html MOSCOW (AP) — The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, at least on the days commemorating the victory, the regional legislature declared Thursday. The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961 as part of the Soviet Union's rejection of dictator Joseph Stal... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858736-stalingrad-days-marking-battle.html 2013-01-31T15:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1856026-germany-marks-80th-anniversary-hitlers-rise.html BERLIN (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to always fight for their principles and not fall into the complacency that enabled the Nazi dictator to seize control. Speaking Wednesday at the opening of a new exhibit at the Topography of Terror memorial documenting Hitler's election, Merkel n... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1856026-germany-marks-80th-anniversary-hitlers-rise.html 2013-01-30T12:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1856132-roma-artist-writer-nazi-atrocities-dies-79.html VIENNA (AP) — Ceija Stojka survived three Nazi death camps and then found her life's work: Raising awareness of the Nazis' persecution of Roma — also known as Gypsies — in her art and her writings. Stojka carried the horrors of those camps with her until she was in her 50s, speaking out in words and pictures only decades after she was liberated from the B... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1856132-roma-artist-writer-nazi-atrocities-dies-79.html 2013-01-30T12:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850996-dead-arent-excused-trial.html MOSCOW (AP) — Sergei Magnitsky died more than three years ago in a Russian jail but authorities are moving to put him on trial in a Russian court. The whistle-blowing lawyer died in 2009 after being arrested on charges of tax fraud — the same fraud in which he alleged that Interior Ministry officials had a hand. The Russian government has faced harsh inte... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850996-dead-arent-excused-trial.html 2013-01-28T15:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849398-holocaust-items-display-remembrance-day.html JERUSALEM (AP) — When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next six years, the stuffed animal never left her side as the family wandered through the Soviet Union, to Iran and finally the Holy Land. "He was like family. He was all I had. He knew all my se... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849398-holocaust-items-display-remembrance-day.html 2013-01-27T18:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849266-berlusconi-defends-mussolini-backing-hitler.html ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi praised Benito Mussolini for "having done good" despite the Fascist dictator's anti-Jewish laws, immediately sparking expressions of outrage as Europe on Sunday held Holocaust remembrances. Berlusconi also defended Mussolini for allying himself with Hitler, saying he likely reasoned that it would be bet... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849266-berlusconi-defends-mussolini-backing-hitler.html 2013-01-27T17:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849148-holocaust-victims-mourned-auschwitz.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again. Events took place at sites including Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former death camp where Hitler's Germany killed at least 1.1... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849148-holocaust-victims-mourned-auschwitz.html 2013-01-27T15:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1845914-opera-nazi-atrocity-austria.html VIENNA (AP) — Thousands of children were murdered by the Nazis because they fell short of the Aryan ideal. On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's Parliament to watch the world premiere of an opera depicting how the Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna hospital during World War II. The killings were pa... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1845914-opera-nazi-atrocity-austria.html 2013-01-25T21:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1841628-ex-polish-church-head-cardinal-glemp-dies-83.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — When he was appointed the new leader of Poland's influential Roman Catholic church in July 1981, many Poles were surprised, asking: Jozef who? Five months later the new primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, was making a dramatic appeal, asking Poles to "save lives and avoid bloodshed" under the martial law that had just been imposed by Comm... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1841628-ex-polish-church-head-cardinal-glemp-dies-83.html 2013-01-24T17:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1831944-march-protests-immigrants-slaying-greece.html ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Several thousand people marched through central Athens on Saturday to protest a spate of anti-immigrant attacks in Greece, including the fatal stabbing of a 27-year-old Pakistani immigrant by suspected right-wing extremists. Earlier in the day about 150 members of Greece's Pakistani community and a handful of Greeks gathered outside ... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1831944-march-protests-immigrants-slaying-greece.html 2013-01-19T19:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1827346-ap-interview-posters-seized-nazis-sold.html BERLIN (AP) — Seized by the Nazis in 1938 from a Jewish man on the orders of Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, then held behind the Iron Curtain in Communist East Berlin, thousands of rare posters are finally back in the hands of collector Hans Sachs' family. After a seven-year battle for their return from a German museum where they ended up a... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1827346-ap-interview-posters-seized-nazis-sold.html 2013-01-17T15:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1827352-qa-russian-crowned-thieves.html MOSCOW (AP) — The contract-style killing of Russian mobster Aslan Usoyan, also known as Grandpa Khasan, on Wednesday drew renewed attention to the extensive and elaborate culture of the country's underworld figures who call themselves "crowned thieves" and "thieves in law." Questions and answers about this shadowy world: WHO WAS USOYAN? The 75-year-old et... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1827352-qa-russian-crowned-thieves.html 2013-01-17T14:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1819034-boy-convicted-killing-white-supremacist-father.html RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A boy who was only 10 when he fatally shot his white supremacist father was convicted Monday of second-degree murder by a judge who said the child knew what he did was wrong. Riverside Superior Court Judge Jean Leonard weighed the severity of the crime versus whether the amount of abuse and neglect suffered by the boy, now 12, pla... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1819034-boy-convicted-killing-white-supremacist-father.html 2013-01-14T19:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1809452-trial-boy-charged-with-killing-father.html RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A slender blond boy with big eyeglasses appeared to listen intently Wednesday as lawyers argued over whether he knew the difference between right and wrong when he shot his sleeping neo-Nazi father to death at the age of 10. The defendant, now 12, is charged with murder, and if convicted could be jailed until he is 23. The boy is ... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1809452-trial-boy-charged-with-killing-father.html 2013-01-09T20:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1806228-poland-probes-artists-claim-used-holocaust-ash.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors are investigating a Swedish artist's claim that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims to make a painting, an act that could carry a prison term. The artist, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, wrote on the website of the Bryder Gallery in Lund, Sweden, last year that he made a painting using ashes that he took from crema... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1806228-poland-probes-artists-claim-used-holocaust-ash.html 2013-01-08T15:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1804682-etty-allen-mother-va-governor-dies.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Henriette "Etty" Allen, matriarch of a famed American football family and mother to former Virginia Gov. George F. Allen, has died. She was 90. According to a statement from the Allen family, she died Jan. 2 after a long illness. A private funeral is planned for Tuesday in California. The daughter of anti-Nazi res... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1804682-etty-allen-mother-va-governor-dies.html 2013-01-07T22:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1798794-womens-history-pioneer-gerda-lerner-dies-92.html MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison, sharing a cell with two gentile women arrested for political work who shared their food with the Jewish teenager because jailers restricted rations for Jews. Lerner would say years later that the women taught her during those six weeks how to survive and that the experience taught her... Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1798794-womens-history-pioneer-gerda-lerner-dies-92.html 2013-01-04T11:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1789940-praying-hitler-ex-warsaw-ghetto-sparks-emotion.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths by Hitler's regime, and it is provoking mixed reactions. The work, "HIM" by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, has drawn many visitors since it was installed last month. It is visibl... Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1789940-praying-hitler-ex-warsaw-ghetto-sparks-emotion.html 2012-12-28T15:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1789418-ap-exclusive-documents-raise-doubts-nazi-probe.html BERLIN (AP) — The case of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man accused by Germany of serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz has largely centered on whether he was stationed at the part of the death camp used as a killing machine for Jews. Johann "Hans" Breyer — while admitting he was an Auschwitz guard — insists he was never there. World-War II-era documents obta... Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1789418-ap-exclusive-documents-raise-doubts-nazi-probe.html 2012-12-28T06:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1786106-durning-king-character-actors-dies-nyc.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge. His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope t... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1786106-durning-king-character-actors-dies-nyc.html 2012-12-25T21:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1778400-renowned-opera-singer-vienna-going-strong-95.html VIENNA (AP) — It was 1947 in post-war Vienna, and Hilde Zadek remembers taking a deep breath behind the curtain. A rookie on her first opera gig, she was about to sing the prestigious role of Aida for an audience full of particularly harsh critics — whistle-packing Nazis she says were determined to show "that Jew from Palestine" she was not welcome at one of the world's grea... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1778400-renowned-opera-singer-vienna-going-strong-95.html 2012-12-20T12:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1777428-final-goodbye-roll-call-who-died-2012.html Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Sadly, for others an established image was shattered by a fall from grace. Whitney Houston ruled as a queen of pop music, but ... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1777428-final-goodbye-roll-call-who-died-2012.html 2012-12-19T20:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1760940-israeli-minister-world-would-sacrifice-israel.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's hawkish foreign minister lashed out at the international community on Wednesday, criticizing its policies toward the Palestinians and charging that many world leaders would readily sacrifice Israel to radical Islam just as Europe appeased the Nazis before World War II. Avigdor Lieberman hit back at European foreign ministers for ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1760940-israeli-minister-world-would-sacrifice-israel.html 2012-12-12T13:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1748846-nazi-guard-appeals-to-immigration-board.html FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A former Nazi concentration camp guard who has lived quietly in western Pennsylvania for more than 50 years took his fight against deportation to the nation's highest immigration court Thursday, arguing that he shouldn't be punished because he served in Hitler's army against his will. The Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Chur... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1748846-nazi-guard-appeals-to-immigration-board.html 2012-12-07T00:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1744102-germany-to-seek-ban-far-right-party.html BERLIN (AP) — German security officials are trying again to ban the country's only significant far-right party, after meticulously collecting new evidence in an effort to avoid a repeat of the debacle caused when they tried to ban it in 2003. The interior ministers of Germany's 16 states unanimously recommended Wednesday pursuing a new ban of the National... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1744102-germany-to-seek-ban-far-right-party.html 2012-12-05T17:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1745182-hungary-foreign-minister-slams-anti-jewish-remark.html VIENNA (AP) — Hungary's foreign minister said Wednesday that calls by an extreme-right politician to register the country's Jews as potential security risks were "completely unacceptable" and the worst yet in a series attributed to the legislator's party. Janos Martonyi also denied suggestions that his country was lenient with neo-Nazis and other right-wi... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1745182-hungary-foreign-minister-slams-anti-jewish-remark.html 2012-12-05T15:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1742006-israel-basketball-team-dumps-captain-nazi-slur.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's top basketball team has suspended its captain because he called a fellow Israeli player a Nazi. Guy Pnini told local media that he had lashed out at the rival player during a match earlier this week, after that player physically and verbally taunted him. In a videotaped statement, Pnini broke into tears, saying his slur had offen... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1742006-israel-basketball-team-dumps-captain-nazi-slur.html 2012-12-04T13:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1738270-thousands-attend-anti-nazi-rally-hungary.html BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Thousands attended an anti-Nazi rally Sunday in Hungary organized by Jewish and civic groups to protest a far-right lawmaker's call to screen Jews for national security risks. The rally was unusual because politicians from both the government and opposition parties shared a stage outside parliament. Marton Gyongyosi of the far-rig... Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1738270-thousands-attend-anti-nazi-rally-hungary.html 2012-12-02T17:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1729238-jewish-groups-struggle-holocaust-restitution.html PRAGUE (AP) — More than 67 years after the Holocaust, Jirina Novakova refuses to give up her battle to regain property confiscated from her family. Her hopes got a boost two years ago when 43 countries vowed at a Prague conference to back global guidelines for the restitution of property confiscated from Jews during World War II to their rightful owners o... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1729238-jewish-groups-struggle-holocaust-restitution.html 2012-11-28T21:06:00Z