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Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because their advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death, a spokesman said Monday. The remains were found on February 24 at Wolf's Lair, which served as Hitler's chief headquarters from 1941-44 when the area was part of Germany. Hidden in deep woods, the compound of about 200 Nazi bunkers and military barracks was the site of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler by Colonel Claus Stauffenberg on ...
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An official from the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has begun his trial for using a banned Nazi slogan. AfD regional branch manager Björn Höcke has been accused of using a banned Nazi slogan twice in the run- up to a regional election in which he is running to become the state governor of the eastern state of Thuringia. He is accused of ending a speech in Merseburg in May 2021 with the words "Alles für Deutschland", or "Everything for Germany". The phrase is banned in Germany as it was once a motto of the Sturmabteilung, the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi party that play...
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False claims are circulating on social media that Ursula von der Leyen’s grandparents were Nazis and supporters of Adolf Hitler, but there’s no evidence whatsoever to back this up. This tweet, seen over 30,000 times as of the time of this fact check, claims the European Commission President's grandfather was an SS general called Karl Albrecht Oberg. The tweet says he first served in Poland and promoted the extermination of Jews and Slavs, as well as the purge of Poles, before moving to Paris where he led the fight against the French resistance and took charge of the so-called "Jewish Question"...
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Three paintings by the Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens have been permitted to remain at the Courtauld Gallery in London, after the UK’s Spoliation Advisory Panel rejected a claim from the Koenigs family. ‘St Gregory the Great with Ss Maurus and Papianus and St. Domitilla with Ss Nereus and Achilleus’, ‘The Conversion of St. Paul’ and ‘The Bounty of James 1 Triumphing Over Avarice’ were all painted by Rubens between 1606 and 1632, the period in which some of his most respected works were created. Barcelona exhibition examines the promises and illusions of US suburbs#WhereIsKate: How th...
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Swastika's and slogans have appeared on signs at the site of a former concentration camp near Weimar in Central Germany. The area is one where the AfD, Germany's far-right party, has 30% of the votes. Euronews talks to the Head of the Buchenwald Memorial Jens-Christian Wagner about the rise in attacks.
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Eighty years to the day after his execution by the Nazis at Mont-Valérien, Armenian resistance fighter Missak Manouchian will be inducted into the Panthéon on Wednesday. His burial signifies the first time a non-French body has been interred at the Pantheon, which holds the remains of many famous French citizens, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Èmile Zola, and Marie Curie. Manouchian's burial is a respectful nod to his position as leader of the "Red Poster" ("L'Affiche Rouge") group. The name derives from a propaganda poster distributed by Vichy France and German author...
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