HOLOCAUST popularity and HOLOCAUST trends

Während sich deutsche Jugendliche zumeist selbstverständlich mit dem Holocaust beschäftigen, sind gleichaltrige Deutschtürken eher desinteressiert. Rund die Hälfte von ihnen hält die intensive Beschäftigung mit dem Nationalsozialismus sogar für eine Schwäche der deutschen Kultur, auch antisemitische Ansichten sind verbreitet.

Interview: Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper tells Henry Winter how he will address the England squad.

Eine neue Generation von Historikern beleuchtet den Massenmord unter Hitler im Kontext mit den exorbitanten Verbrechen Stalins. Der Vorwurf an diese Wissenschaftler, sie ebneten den Holocaust ein, ist verfehlt. Vielmehr sorgen sie für ein besseres Verständnis der vielfach verflochtenen Geschichte der Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert.

Sein Anti-Euro-Buch enthält mehr als nur das böse Zitat der "Buße für Holocaust und Weltkrieg". Sarrazins Hauptziel sind die - nach seiner Auffassung - gefährlichen Verharmloser des Debakels: Merkel, Schäuble, Gabriel, Özdemir. Von FOCUS-Redakteur Uli DönchMehr zum ThemaZuckerbergs Aktien verlieren auch an gutem Börsentag - Milliarden-Schmelze bei FacebookZündstoff für informellen EU-Gipfel am ...

At the end of World War Two, German Army generals denied any knowledge of the Holocaust and the massive atrocities committed on the Eastern front. They were lying. American politicians and their enablers in the mainstream media are presently complicit in a cover-up of the greatest fraud in the history of the United States

Thilo Sarrazin hat es wieder geschafft: Er beherrscht die Debatte – dieses mal die über den Euro. Das gelingt ihm, indem er die Beziehung zum Holocaust herstellt. Der Skandal überlagert die überfällige Debatte. Leider.

Many of the climate change denialist sites have been up in arms by comparisons of climate change denial to holocaust denial. In particular Marc Morano at climate depot has had multiple articles attacking and expressing hysterical outrage at these comparisons. We know they don't like the comparison, but the question is, is it apt? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this pos...

Golden Dawn members were sworn into Greece’s Parliament, making it arguably the most far-right party since Nazi-era Germany.

-- Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany. Europe's financial crisis is changing the tone across the continent, with frustrated voters turning to extremists on both the right and left. None seem as extreme as Golden Dawn, whose leaders claim th...

This year’s Animation Festival, held in Arad, ranges from lampooning PM’s wives to addressing the Holocaust.

UN blunders created "ticking time bomb" that 'allowed Mladic to commit first genocide on European soil since Nazi Holocaust'.

No crime in the annals of history has been as well documented as Nazi Germany's Final Solution. Against this backdrop, how do we account for the growing phenomenon of Holocaust revisionism and denial?

Er überlebte den Holocaust und wurde als Kämpfer gegen das Vergessen der NS-Gräueltaten 88 Jahre alt: Weggefährten trauern um Arno Lustiger.

Andrew Yara, now 19, filed the suit in Texas alleging he was injured when he was forced to play the part of a Jew in a world history class.

Er hat den Holocaust überlebt, und als Zeitzeuge schrieb er viel beachtete Bücher über seine Erfahrungen. Nach Kriegsende baute Arno Lustiger die Jüdische Gemeinde in Frankfurt mit auf. Im Alter von 88 Jahren verstarb der Publizist und Historiker.

Der Historiker und Publizist Arno Lustiger ist im Alter von 88 Jahren gestorben. Lustiger hatte den Holocaust überlebt und galt als wichtige akademische Instanz für die Geschichte der Juden in dieser Zeit.

Filmmaker Dan Cohen is the guy behind "An Article of Hope," a feature film project seven years in the making. The documentary is done, but Dan's got a Kickstarter to raise funds to get it on television and into schools. Below, some words from Dan for Boing Boing readers about the film: What could space [...]

A Jewish group in Greece has condemned the leader of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party over comments he made about the Holocaust in a TV interview.

"There were no ovens, this is a lie ... there were no gas chambers either," says leader of Golden Dawn party, prompting outcry from Greek Jews.

Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld becomes the oldest recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize at 80.

John Irving’s 13th novel, “In One Person,” appears at an interesting time. On Tuesday, North Carolina voted to ban same-sex marriages and civil unions. On Wednesday, President Obama stated that he was in favor of same-sex marriage. The timing of Irving's release is as remarkable as the subject matter of his novel. “In One Person"  concerns the life of Billy, the bisexual narrator who tells the ...

@Montag Was dem Lande Kanaan geschah, kann doch jeder in den" Alten Schriften " nachlesen. Man betrachte diese Vorgänge als grausame Moritaten längst vergangener Zeiten.Leider haben zu Viele, Mose und David und viele ähnliche ,die zweifelsohne große "Könige ihres Landes " in damaliger Zeit gewesen sind, sich zum Vorbilde genommen.Ob Mose 1-5 von mehrere Personen, oder nur einer geschrieben w...

Today’s topics: immigration, Conrad Black, the Holocaust, the elephant in the corner … and more

LOS ANGELES (wo) Actress Mila Kunis carries a haunting family secret - she lost relatives in the Holocaust. The Black Swan star was born in the Ukraine and moved to the US with her parents when she was a child. Kunis, 28, has now revealed her family was torn apart by the genocide in Europe during World War II. And she grew up living in fear of persecution as she was forced to hide her Jewish .....

A CHANCE hallway conversation with a Holocaust survivor resulted in a book about wartime survival in Poland that is now a powerful film.

DESCENDANTS of two Jewish families have filed a new lawsuit against Switzerland's largest banks to recover millions of dollars they say relatives deposited before the Holocaust, their lawyers said.

Yet he is prepared to give the company the biggest tax break of them all FORTUNE -- I don't know what to say about Tom Coburn, the pro-gun, pro-death penalty, anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, Southern Baptist deacon and junior senator from Oklahoma. As a congressman he protested NBC's 1997 broadcast of Schindler's List because its depiction of the Holocaust included "full-frontal nudi...

Luba Kramrish, who lives in Toronto, is among 30 people accused of swindling money provided by Germany intended for Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution

The United States applauds today’s verdict of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the case of Charles Taylor.   The conviction of Mr. Taylor for war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone’s civil war in the 1990s sends a powerful message about accountability.   Through the apprehension and successful trial of Mr. Taylor, the international community has kept faith with a sign...

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As reported in The Nation on April 24, in his remarks at the United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, US President Barack Obama pledged to do whatever he can to prevent future holocausts, from speaking out against human rights abuses to stopping Iran from obtaining the means to make nuclear weapons. May I remind him that it was not Iran that committed the holocaust, but his Europea...

As reported in The Nation on April 24, in his remarks at the United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, US President Barack Obama pledged to do whatever he can to prevent future holocausts, from speaking out against human rights abuses to stopping Iran from obtaining the means to make nuclear weapons. May I remind him that it was not Iran that committed the holocaust, but his Europea...

The United Nations marked on Monday the 50th anniversary of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi officer who was one of the main organizers behind the systematic mass deportation and murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, with a series of events and discussions at its Headquarters in New York.

(AP Photo) Obama to award Medal of Freedom to Holocaust resistance figure (CNN || Alexander Mooney). Corzine, amid scandal, is one of Obama's top bundlers (Real Clear Politics || Alexis Simendinger). Crist firm donates to Obama super PAC (POLITICO || Alexander Burns). GSA waste goes deeper than the Las Vegas junket (Los Angeles Times || Ian Duncan). And Opinion contributor: The case of Obama's...

The Anti-Defamation League is calling on retailer Urban Outfitters for a shirt they claim bears a symbol strikingly similar to the one used to identify Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The sale of the shirt, which comes on the heels of National Holocaust Remembrance Day, is just the latest in a long line of offensive products from Urban Outfitters, the ADL tells FoxNews.com.

If you’re selling technology to Iran or Syria that’s used to commit human rights violations, you’ve got a new enemy: the White…

US president signs executive order targeting people and firms that help authoritarian regimes clamp down on dissidentsPresident Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and entities who use technology to help authoritarian regimes in Iran and Syria suppress their people."Technologies should be in place to empower citizens, not to oppress them," Obama said on Monday at a speec...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Surrounded by the haunting memories of the Holocaust, a solemn President Barack Obama on Monday announced a new crackdown on Iran and Syria and said the world must never again allow hatred to take root into the "madness" of mass atrocities....

President Obama outlined steps to prevent future genocides during today's speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Doctors are battling to stabilize the condition of the 82-year-old, while her daughter is said to be in moderate condition.

A survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp and one of his liberators were among more than 10,000 people who gathered to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with a march from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

Millions of Israelis stood silently and all road traffic stopped as sirens wailed for two minutes to remember the Jews killed during the Holocaust.

‘Those who dismiss the Iranian threat as a whim or an exaggeration haven't learned a thing from the Holocaust,’ Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says

Daily life under a death sentence in a Holocaust ghetto

Bodo Thiesen war wegen Äußerungen zum Überfall Nazideutschlands auf Polen und zum Holocaust in die Kritik geraten; ein Parteiauschlussverfahren scheiterte. Nicht nur der Zentralrat der Juden äußert sich besorgt wegen rechtsradikaler EInstellungen.

Das Piratenpartei-Mitglied Thiesen kann trotz umstrittener Äußerungen zum Holocaust und Zweiten Weltkrieg in seiner Partei bleiben. Er werde nicht ausgeschlossen, entschied das Bundesschiedsgericht der Partei. Das Gremium wies damit einen Antrag des Parteivorstands zurück.

Almost seven decades after World War II, only 198,000 Holocaust survivors are alive in Israel, a group helping them said Monday.

Israel hat den Besitz von Atomwaffen nie zugegeben, schreckt aber damit seine Feinde ab. Auch an der Raketenabwehr wird intensiv gearbeitet.

Stephen Goodson has been on the South African Reserve Bank's board from 2003. He holds extremist views on Hitler's Germany and Gaddafi's Libya.

Tributes have been piling up for Jack Tramiel, a Holocaust survivor and founder of the pioneering home computing firm Commodore, who died this week.

SCREENWRITER says Mel Gibson denied the Holocaust and continually called Jewish people "oven-dodgers".

24 Monate Haft, davon sechs Monate unbedingt - mit diesem Urteil ist am Dienstag am Landesgericht Salzburg der Prozess gegen einen Mitläufer der rechtsextremen Szene zu Ende gegangen. Der nunmehr 21-Jährige hatte im Sommer 2011 als freiwilliger Mitarbeiter einer Spendenaktion in Salzburg vor vier Passanten die Existenz von Konzentrationslagern und den Holocaust abgestritten.

FORMER Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, convicted last year in one of the last trials linked to the Holocaust, has died aged 91 at a care home in southern Germany, police said.

Are Elvis, Marilyn, Hitler, Anne Frank and 600,000 Holocaust victims trapped in a “Spooky Mormon Heaven Dream”?

BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities have started reinforcing hundreds of concrete blocks at Berlin's Holocaust memorial with steel collars after a study revealed they were at risk of crumbling.

ISRAELI PRIME minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered an uncompromising message about his country’s attitude towards Iran’s nuclear programme when he spoke to the US’s main pro-Israel lobby in Washington late on Monday.

The LDS church issued a mandate to its members: Do not submit names of Jewish Holocaust victims or celebrities for proxy baptism.

The Mormon practice of baptizing dead relatives offends some Jews, especially when the subjects are Holocaust victims, even though that is against church policy.

JERUSALEM – Addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress back in 1996, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then in his first term in office, launched into what would become a familiar refrain. Read full article >>

Discussion of military action against Iran is again taking center stage. It takes me back to a late September 2002 meeting, when I brought a former senior Israeli official to see the late Congressman Tom Lantos, then the ranking minority member of the House International Relations Committee. Our meeting focused on Iraq, with Lantos arguing passionately for pre-emptive U.S. military action agai...

An American hockey player from Minneapolis, whose Jewish family was decimated in Germany during the Holocaust, has returned to play in his ancestral homeland.

Agnieszka Holland is no stranger to Holocaust films, but she was reluctant to do this one

The Mormon Church last night apologised that its members had performed posthumous baptisms into Mormonism of the long-dead Jewish parents of famed Nazi hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three decades ago, an Israeli prime minister faced his cabinet and invoked the Holocaust in an emotional appeal to approve an air strike against an Arab atomic reactor.

The United States successfully test-fires its first Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile. The threat of global nuclear holocaust moves from the plausible to the likely.

Als Kind entkam Krystyna Chiger dem Holocaust, versteckte sich 14 Monate vor den Nazis im Kanalsystem. Jetzt kommt ihre Geschichte ins deutsche Kino. Foto: CinetextMehr zum ThemaKein Entkommen - Ein Stier schlägt zurück!Manfred Krug - Ferkel-Reim veröffentlicht„Goldene Kamera“ - Hier knutscht die Fischer ihren Flori„DSDS“-Casting 2012 - Wie gut sind die neuen Superstars?Gigantisch! - Die New Y...

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, has a family connection to Anne Frank, the Holocaust victim, discloses his brother.

Franz Hörmann positionierte sich uneindeutig zum Holocaust - "Die Äußerungen zum Nationalsozialismus sind für die WU untragbar"

Wien (OTS) - Ao. Univ. Prof. Franz Hörmann wurde heute seitens WU nach umfassenden Ermittlungen mit sofortiger Wirkung vorläufig vom Dienst suspendiert. Aufgrund der vergangene Woche von Franz Hörmann öffentlich getätigten zweifelhaften Aussagen über den Holocaust hat die WU diesen ...

RITE AND REASON:The recent opening of the Holocaust in Europe exhibition in Dublin brought to mind the little-known story of a remarkable Irishwoman who risked her life to save Jewish prisoners from the gas chambers, writesPADDY BUTLER

Jerusalem (ots/PRNewswire) - ~ - Das umfassende Archiv von die Vermögenswete des jüdischen Holocaust Opfern enthalt mehr als 2 Millione Unterlagen ~ 6. Sh'vat 5772 -- Heute meldete Projekt HEART an, dass ihre durchsuchbare Datenbank von ...

MAUREEN DOWD:THE HOLOCAUST is “a huge stain on European history and shows the true evil that can emerge from hatred, prejudice and intolerance”, President Michael D Higgins has said.

Jane Macdougall: Do you want to know the best part about writing a column? People volunteer their own stories in response to the ones you tell

Protesters in Austria marking Holocaust Remembrance Day condemn organisers of a ball, which was expected to be attended by far-right leaders.

An epic French documentary about the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime has appeared on Turkish television to mark international Holocaust Remembrance Day – the first time the film has been aired on public television in a majority-Muslim country.

Der Holocaust hat Deutschland und Israel auf einzigartige Weise miteinander verbunden. Das zeigen die vielen Deutschen, die in Israel ein freiwilliges soziales Jahr absolvieren - und das zeigt auch das "Junge Philharmonische Orchester Jerusalem-Weimar". In Berlin leben inzwischen 15.000 Israelis.

Der deutsche Bundestag gedenkt der Opfer des Holocaust

British Holocaust survivor's story inspires weightlifter Zoe Smith.

HOLOCAUST Remembrance Day reminds us tragedies of the past must never be repeated.

Mit der Wannsee-Konferenz begann der Holocaust bürokratisch protokolliert. Das Gedenken daran lehrt uns, dass das Böse nicht banal, sondern real ist, meint P. v. Becker.

Ikhwanonline.com regularly features Holocaust denial, condemnations of Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.

Draft legislation in Israel would make it a crime in the country to use the word "Nazi" or symbols of the Holocaust for purposes other than teaching.

A short list of subjects addressed in this six-hundred-page novel would include the Holocaust, the civil-rights movement, Upton Sinclair, the American justice system, and the debilitating quest for academic tenure. That a major character is a history professor does not excuse the occasionally hectoring tone. The strands . . . (Subscription required.)

A demonstration in Jerusalem included young boys wearing yellow stars and striped prison camp uniforms.

Some of the most powerful Jews in the U.S have concocted a massive conspiracy to discredit a Nazi hunter who claims he uncovered some explosive new information about the Holocaust ... this according to a lawsuit obtained by TMZ. The Nazi hunter… TMZNazi Hunter Sues Wiesenthal Center -- You're PROTECTING a War Criminal

Many Holocaust stories begin in Europe’s great train stations — the hubs from which Nazis sent millions of Jews to their deaths. But not all such trips ended at the gates of a concentration camp. Sometimes, there were way stations on the path to extermination

Riga, Lettland (ots/PRNewswire) - Dieses Jahr erinnern sich in Riga, Jerusalem und New York Familien, Nachkommen und einige Augenzeugen zum 70. Jahrestag an eine grausame Massenhinrichtung im Rahmen des Holocaust. Am 30. November und 8. Dezember 1941 ermordeten Einsatzgruppen der SS mit ...

Agnieszka Holland’s film “In Darkness” will rise or fall on how convincing Robert Wieckiewicz is as a somewhat anti-Semitic sewer worker who helped save Jews from the Nazis.

Beginning in the early 1980s, many people in New York City - the epicenter of the U.S. AIDS epidemic - found their families and friendship groups progressively wiped out in a mysterious, virulent and merciless holocaust.

Thanksgiving is a time of special reunions, and nothing could exemplify this more than the reunion taking place between a Holocaust survivor ...

The writer's first novel makes the Holocaust victim a survivor, a comic foil and a pain.