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The Nazi crusade against modern art

The Third Reich sought to cleanse Germany of "decadent" art. Maybe it's just a history lesson with no relevance

Salon

Once the Deed Is Done by Rachel Seiffert review – mystery in the aftermath of the Third Reich

This fine novel investigates the fate of displaced people in the hazardous, dirty backwash of the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Scottish auction house U-turns hours after defending Nazi memorabilia sale

A SCOTTISH auction house has U-turned and said it will no longer include Nazi and SS artefacts in future auctions ...

The National (Scotland)

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Auction house pledges to no longer include Nazi items in future militaria sales

Some Third Reich items featured in a sale in Glasgow on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Glasgow auctioneers defend sale of Nazi memorabilia

Several items featured the swastika, while others were linked to a high-profile Nazi

The Independent UK

Auction house defends the inclusion of Nazi items in sale of militaria

The Third Reich artefacts went under the hammer at McTear’s in Glasgow on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

When in Doubt, Consult the Bible?

Writer Amity Shlaes had an interesting review of Ken Burns's The U.S. and the Holocaust in City Journal; I have no informed opinion on the review generally, but I was puzzled by one item: It is in the second episode that the filmmakers turn to Franklin Roosevelt, the only president…

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Oakland woman claims New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art secretly sold her grandma’s Nazi-stolen van Gogh

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An Oakland woman last week sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, claiming it bought then secretly sold a Vincent van Gogh painting the Nazis stole from her grandmother.

Tribune News Service

80 years ago, Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia – but North Africans' experiences of World War II often go unheard

Eighty years ago, in November 1942, the Nazis occupied Tunisia. For the next six months, Tunisian Jews and Muslims were subjected to the Third Reich’s reign of terror, as well as its antisemitic and racist legislation. Residents lived in fear – “under the Nazi boot,” as Tunisian Jewish lawyer Paul…

The Conversation

Mark Z. Barabak: A day of atonement — California congressman apologizes to Jewish congregants for Nazi remark

When it comes to defending former President Donald Trump, there's no end of awful and obnoxious things his supporters will say and do.

Los Angeles Times

‘Like being beaten with a bat’: Georg Baselitz on eye-opening art – and his true feelings about female painters

Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’

The Guardian - UK

Israeli President Gives Broad Speech to Germany’s Parliament

Israel’s president addressed Germany’s parliament on Tuesday about atrocities committed during the Third Reich, while at the same time praising the close and friendly relations that have emerged between the two countries since the end of the Holocaust. Six million European Jews were murdered by Germany’s Nazis and their henchmen…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli president gives broad speech to Germany's parliament

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has addressed Germany’s parliament about atrocities committed during the Third Reich

The Independent UK

Treasure hunters' quest to track down Adolf Hitler's £19bn gold hoards

By the end of the war Nazis had more than £19billion of gold, but it disappeared – buried, hidden or sent abroad – and gold hunters have been searching for it ever since

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Salon

"The View" gets push back from TPUSA

“My point was metaphorical,” Goldberg said when TPUSA counsel took issue with her comments on the summit

The Independent UK

The story of the Salzburg festival that inspired Edinburgh

The Salzburger Festspiele, founded after the First World War, was set up to reunite old enemies through their love of performing arts. William Cook tells its tale

The Conversation

Far-right extremists keep co-opting Norse symbolism – here's why

Payton Gendron, the suspect in the killing of ten people in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, is the latest far-right extremist to allegedly murder defenceless people in the name of white supremacy. His hate-filled manifesto is full of baffling contradictions, vile stereotypes, unhinged conspiracy theories and, predictably, Norse…

Reason

"Where Is the Third Rome, Where Is the Third Reich, and Where Is Pompeii?"

Maksim Pokrovsky, a prominent Russian musician who is now working in New York, has just released this song; it has been out for 15 hours on YouTube, and so far has been viewed 825K views. My sense is that Pokrovsky is fairly prominent, as the frontman of Nogu Svelo! (literally,…

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Financial Times

Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

The Guardian - UK

‘On the same level as the Nazis’: the film about Germany’s postwar persecution of gay men

The law used by the Third Reich to oppress gay men continued long after its downfall. Director Sebastian Meise on Great Freedom, his searing film about a man incarcerated almost all his life

Daily Mirror

Ukraine's UN envoy compares Putin to Hitler and warns 'we know what happened' in bunker

In a speech at the United Nations, Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said the Kremlin’s “spiritual mentors” were “from the Third Reich” as he repeatedly compared Putin to Hitler

Daily Mirror

Chilling dream saved mum from drowning with 9,000 others on German 'Titanic'

Anita Tollkuhn and her daughter Inge were among millions desperately trying to escape the far eastern German province of East Prussia as the Third Reich collapsed and Soviet troops massacred people

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