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Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike In a New York Times essay titled “Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike,” Donald G. McNeil Jr. looks at how, throughout history, some group always seems to get blamed for the spread of a pandemic disease. Dr. Liise-anne Pirofski, chief of infectious diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, explained that “ ‘when disease strikes and humans suffer . . . the need to understand why is very powerful. |
Facing Today | September 29, 2009 |
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For Anne Frank’s Tree, 11 New Places to Bloom Anne Frank was a German Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding with her family during the Holocaust. Anne kept a diary for the 25 months she was in hiding, and though she died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp after the family’s hiding place was discovered, her diary was saved and later published. Anne wrote in her diary about a horse chestnut tree—one of the few things she could see from the annex of rooms where her family hid. |
Facing Today | October 30, 2009 |
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Free Speech for Nazis Limited in Germany Every year, thousands of neo-Nazis come together to march in the town of Wunsiedel in honor of Rudolf Hess, a convicted war criminal and deputy to Adolf Hitler. Der Spiegel reports that after “an amendment that strengthened the legal article dealing with incitement to hatred” was passed in 2005, it was much easier for local officials to ban such commemorative marches. Hamburg-based lawyer and neo-Nazi Jürgen Rieger, determined to keep marching, brought his case to court. |
Facing Today | November 20, 2009 |
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Hamas Denounces Holocaust Education to Palestinians As reported by the Washington Post, Hamas spiritual leader Yunis al-Astal said recently that teaching Palestinian children about the Holocaust would be a “war crime.” According to al-Astal, teaching children about the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis during WWII would be “marketing a lie and spreading it.” Al-Astal’s statements come in response to learning tha |
Facing Today | September 15, 2009 |
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Hate Crime Shooting at the Holocaust Museum
On June 10, a white supremacist walked into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and opened fire, wounding at least two people before being shot by a security guard.
Below are several news accounts of the shooting. |
Facing Today | June 10, 2009 |
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Hitler's Helpers
Der Spiegel magazine, Germany's chief weekly, published
an article exploring "Hitler's European Helpers." Challenging conventional
understanding, the article quotes German Historian Götz Aly who asks "was the
so-called Final Solution in fact a ‘European project"? The article explores the
stories of thousands of non-Germans many scholars believe assisted the Nazi's
as willing accomplices to mass murder. |
Facing Today | May 27, 2009 |
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How Democracy Produced a Monster (New York Times, February 3, 2008) The article, "How Democracy Produced a Monster," analyzes how Hitler came to power in a democracy, and reminds us that even today democratic institutions can be used to create authoritarian rule. |
Facing Today | March 11, 2008 |
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In Hungary, Roma Get Art Show, Not a Hug (New York Times, February 6, 2006) The article "In Hungary, Roma Get Art Show, Not a Hug," explores the question of what it means to belong to a national community by examining how Roma struggle for respect and recognition in Hungary. |
Facing Today | March 11, 2008 |
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New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid (Der Spiegel, January 30, 2008) The article, "New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid," describes how words used by Nazis have become taboo in the German language.
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Facing Today | March 13, 2008 |
