Admissions against interest – Clippings and Commentary (original) (raw)
A top school district official in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers if they keep a book about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they should also provide one with an “opposing” view, an apparent caricature of the state’s recently-passed bill aimed at countering critical race theory in public school curricula.
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[…] Holocaust fatigue may be setting in. […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to Nazi occupiers, but captured by chance.
MULTYFARNHAM, Ireland — The setting could hardly have been more incongruous. Outside the window, lush pastures spread in the perfection of a late winter morning. Inside, a small man with a yellow star pinned to his sweater captivated an audience with the horrors of his boyhood in the concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen.
Victorian for sale at 206 Carlton St. in Cabbagetown was home to holocaust denier Ernst Zundel from 1975 to early 2000s. Continue reading →
In a symbolic admission of guilt, Russia’s parliament has declared that Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, in one of the greatest mass murders of the 20th century.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he would never allow any of the Israel’s leaders or soldiers to be put on trial for war crimes. Netanyahu opened his fiery speech at the inauguration of the Knesset’s winter session by blasting the Goldstone Commission’s report sponsored by the United Nations, that accused Israel of committing war crimes during its war against militants in the Gaza Strip last year. Israel has the right to defend itself, Netanyahu declared, and would not acquiesce to a situation where wartime leaders or troops who participated in the operation stand trial.
LONDON, England (CNN) — Israeli military action in Gaza is comparable to that of German soldiers during the Holocaust, a Jewish UK lawmaker whose family suffered at the hands of the Nazis has claimed.
- Holocaust historian believes original plans for construction of Nazi extermination camp found in Berlin include no new information, but says extensive reports on global media help maintain memory of Shoah in newspaper headlines
The toddler wouldn’t stop crying.