Word: nazis
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Is there Nazi gold in the Vatican basement? A recently declassified 50-year-old Treasury Department memo says the Vatican held onto 200 million Swiss francs passed it by a Nazi puppet government. Quoting a "reliable source in Italy," Treasury agent Emerson Bigelow wrote his superior in 1946 that after the fall of Nazi Germany, members of the Nazi puppet Ustasha government of Croatia sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs to the Vatican "for safekeeping." En route, some 150 million were apparently seized by British authorities at the Austrian-Swiss border. The balance was held in the Vatican...
ROME: Fifty-four years after a massacre in an Italian cave, two former Nazi S.S. officers have finally been found guilty. Former SS captain Erich Priebke, nearly 84, checked off the names of the 335 men and boys as they were led to slaughter. On Tuesday, a Roman court ordered him to serve five years of a 15-year term. His co-defendant, former S.S. Maj. Karl Hass, 84, who shot at least two of the victims, was given a suspended 10-year, eight-month sentence and allowed to go free. The two were convicted despite Italy's 30-year...
...make the apologizer feel good while doing nothing for the victim. It's why the U.S. government not only apologized but paid $20,000 apiece to Japanese Americans who were sent to concentration camps during World War II. And why Germany not only apologized to the Jews for the Nazi Holocaust but sent more than $60 billion in restitution. Mr. President, if slavery was as big a historical crime as you suggest--and it undoubtedly was--those precedents ought to apply. But you've made it clear that you oppose reparations. If you're serious about being sorry, you should...
Since the summer of 1995, Oppenheimer has been infiltrating neo-Nazi organizations in London, the Northeast United States and the Pacific Northwest...
Oppenheimer, whose work is motivated by his family's flight from Nazi Germany, says he has never helped any of the groups and that he pulls away whenever he senses that he is being given too much responsibility...