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He survived the Holocaust, only to be struck and killed by a car in Oregon
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/12/us/holocaust-survivor-alter-wiener-killed-trnd/index.html?no-st=1544716196

A Holocaust survivor who was trying to make sure the world never forgot what happened fell short of finishing his life's work.

Alter Wiener, a 92-year-old from outside Portland, Oregon, was struck and killed by a car on Tuesday evening, Hillsboro Police said.

Wiener had been walking just before 5 p.m. when a driver hit him, Hillsboro Police Sergeant Eric Bunday said Wednesday.
He was walking outside the crosswalk and wearing dark clothing on the rainy night and the driver didn't see him. The driver will not be charged or cited, Bunday said.

"I'm just very sorry. He was an incredible man with one impressive legacy," Bunday said.

A life of struggle turned into a legacy
Wiener had been the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.

His father was killed when he was 13, according to his autobiography. He spent three years in concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz camp. When he was liberated in 1945, he weighed only 80 pounds.

Wiener detailed his experiences in a 2007 memoir, titled "From A Name to A Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography."

Wiener was one of the last remaining survivors in the Portland area, where he had lived since 2000. He shared his life story with nearly 1,000 groups at schools, churches, synagogues and more.

He was working to persuade Oregon state legislators to create and pass a bill that would mandate educators teach students about the Holocaust and genocide. It was dubbed the Genocide Curriculum bill.

Wiener recently shared his desire to educate, inspire and spread love throughout America with the Oregon State Senate Education Committee.

"Be better, rather than bitter," Wiener told the committee in September.

A community in mourning
Cynthia Peterson, an outreach librarian in Hillsboro, said she had the pleasure of knowing Wiener for the past decade. She brought books to him at his home.

"I'm devastated. It's hard when we lose any of our patrons, but Alter was an author and he has a huge story to tell and he wanted it told," Peterson said. "It meant the world to him to educate all of Oregon. We all adored him, and this is a huge loss."

"To me he's immortal because he has left these pieces for us and we must use them to educate the next generation," she added.

The Hillsboro Public Library also shared a tribute to Wiener, who spoke at the library many times, most recently in May 2016.

"His story is at once moving, heartbreaking, and hopeful, and should be watched and shared by everyone. Rest in peace, Alter," the library wrote on Facebook.

The Jewish Family & Child Service of Portland said Wiener was a beloved member of its Holocaust survivor community.

"His passing is a great loss to the Jewish community. Alter was one of only a small number of lasting Holocaust survivors in the greater Portland area," the group wrote on Facebook.

"At 92 and with so many ailments we did not expect dad to be immortal but are still reeling from the shock of the way that he did leave this earth," his son wrote. "His reputation in the community preceded him; the officers who called me from the Hillsboro PD were very compassionate and one even commented 'it's hard to believe he survived the concentration camps only to die in this way.'"

A memorial service for Wiener has been set for Friday at Congregation Neveh Shalom in Portland.

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Oh, boy, this is a good one!  All you need is the title "The Girl Who Lived" and the first paragraph.  Children are told "don't run with the scissors," but yet, our most wonderful brave little "heroine" in this holohoax hogwash defied death by going on the run from the Nazis, and she LIVED!   Yes, she ran with scissors, and she LIVED!   Ain't that amazing?!  Ain't that little jewish girl wonderful?!
 

There were the scissors that my grandmother somehow remembered to bring with her as she fled. She could hear the rumble of destruction in the distance. She could see the cloud of smoke that was the Nazi murder of her family and neighbors. Without forethought, she made the decision to run ahead, carrying with her the scissors and, despite the blossoms of spring, a winter coat.

The Girl Who Lived
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/escaping-nazis-story-girl-who-lived/579139/ 

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Six unidentified Holocaust victims to be given unprecedented Jewish funeral in UK
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/10/uk/holocaust-victims-burial-gbr-scli-intl/index.html

London (CNN)The remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims are to be given a formal Jewish burial after being stored at London's Imperial War Museum (IWM) for decades.

The victims will be laid to rest in a Jewish cemetery in Hertfordshire on January 20, just one week before Holocaust Memorial Day. It is believed to be the first time that victims of the Holocaust will be buried in the UK.

Melvyn Hartog, Head of United Synagogue Burial -- the burial society overseeing the ceremony -- told CNN that burying the remains of the victims is a "unique and holy responsibility."
He said that following the funeral service the remains will be taken to their final resting place, and Holocaust survivors will be invited to fill the graves with earth.

The ash and bone fragments, believed to be from five adults and a child, have been stored at the IWM since January 1997, when a private donor bequeathed a number of Holocaust-related items to the museum.

The museum, which has a license to hold human tissue, will soon hand over the remains to the Office of the Chief Rabbi and the United Synagogue -- a union of British Orthodox Jewish synagogues -- having consulted the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis and the Auschwitz museum in Poland.

The IWM told CNN the museum decided to relinquish the remains after conducting a review of all the items in its archives relating to the Holocaust, ahead of the construction of new World War II and Holocaust Galleries at the museum, which are due to open in 2021.

The museum said that while they had originally expressed interest in acquiring a selection of items from the donor, they had explicitly expressed that they did not wish to acquire the human remains.
They were nevertheless sent to the museum, it said. Testing carried out at the English Heritage Centre for Archaeology confirmed that the remains were likely to be from five adults and one child.

IWM consequently contacted the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland -- which confirmed that the remains did indeed originate from their site -- but both organizations concluded that "it was not appropriate" for the remains to be returned there.

The museum was instead advised on burial as the most appropriate way forward by the Office of the Chief Rabbi, and the remains will be laid to rest at Bushey New Cemetery in Hertfordshire.

"It is hoped that the burial, which will be attended by members of Jewish and non-Jewish communities, will afford these individuals the respect and dignity they were denied in both life and death," Diane Lees, director-general of IWM, said in a statement.

Michael Goldstein, United Synagogue president, described the upcoming ceremony as the "final act of kindness" and an opportunity to provide the victims with a "dignified and appropriate Jewish burial."

Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust -- a charity which supports Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK -- said the burial is a "deeply moving, rare moment."

"Although the symbolic significance of the funeral is clear, particularly for so many survivors of the Holocaust who were not able to hold funerals for their own relatives, we must not forget that these remains are of six individuals, who lived distinct and unique lives," she said.

And Karen Pollock MBE, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust -- a UK charity which aims to educate people on the history of the Holocaust -- said: "Today, our hearts go out to everyone who had to endure the pain of losing loved ones during the Holocaust, the unique and unprecedented genocide of the Jewish people, and we pledge to continue our effort that the memories of those who were murdered live on."

Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect that the remains of the Holocaust victims are still being stored by the Imperial War Museum. A previous version of the story misstated the location of the remains.

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How a Holocaust survivor narrowly escaped the Nazis — twice
https://nypost.com/2019/01/12/how-a-holocaust-survivor-narrowly-escaped-the-nazis-twice/

At 5-foot-11, Dave Hersch weighed just 77 pounds. The 19-year-old from Dej, Hungary, had been whipped, starved and forced to move 50-pound rocks for a dozen hours per day, all at the hands of the Nazis.

"The concentration camp he was in, Mauthausen, was designed to work you to death," said his son Jack J. Hersch, a 60-year-old businessman living on the Upper East Side. And yet, Dave still summoned the strength and willpower to escape the Holocaust — twice.

As chronicled in Jack's book, "Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust" (Frontline Books), out Saturday, it was April 1945 when Dave was sent on his first death march. It was a 34-mile trek from the Mauthausen camp in Austria to one called Gunskirchen. The hike was so strenuous that a good number of the 750 prisoners were ­expected to perish.

"Knowing the war was ending, Nazis wanted the Jews dead," said Jack. "But killing 20,000 people in gas chambers is not trivial. It was easier to put them on the road and have them die while marching."

At an intersection, the prisoners were pushed straight through. But Dave, who was lagging behind, turned right instead. He picked up a raincoat left on the ground and used it to blend in with the crowd.

"He must have done a calculus where there was a lower risk to go right than to go straight," said Jack.

But freedom proved fleeting after the very woman who seemed poised to save Dave's life — he knocked on her door and she fed him before letting him lie on the grass behind her home — turned him in to SS troops.

Dave was returned to Mauthausen, where he miraculously eluded punishment. Around 10 days later, he was sent on a second march to Gunskirchen. About a mile past the same intersection, he felt too weak to go farther. Dave ventured to the side of the road, all too aware that it could be the death of him. An SS trooper saw him and put a pistol to the back of his neck.

But the shock of cold, wet steel jolted him into standing. Perhaps impressed by this resilience, the trooper showed mercy and walked away. Dave then saw a small path that served as a shortcut to the town's train station.

Reinvigorated by his near-death experience, "My father bolted down the path. Nobody saw him," said Jack. "He spotted a dead man in civilian clothes and took his clothing. Then he slept under the cover of bushes."

The next morning, Dave encountered an Austrian couple who hid him in their house. Three weeks later, "they told my father, 'the war is over. You're free to go,' " Jack said. Dave walked to town, where he found American medics.

He soon left Europe, making it to America in 1958 after a decade in Israel. Having lost his mother and four of his siblings in the Holocaust, he married wife Rachel in 1955 and they raised two sons on Long Island. Dave, who died in 2001 at age 76, owned assisted-living homes there.

In the course of researching his book, Jack visited what had once been the Mauthausen camp's administrative office and is now, bizarrely, a family home. ("That people enjoy nice lives there made me angry," Jack admitted.)

He also retraced his father's marches and both escapes. "It's one thing to hear the story. It's another thing to walk it and to realize that if he had stopped five feet sooner, he would not have seen the path," said Jack. "The degree of luck he needed . . . is mind-boggling."

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Hitler-themed pony in school assignment shocks parents in Illinois
https://www.rt.com/usa/412840-nazi-pony-school-task-illinois/

Eighth-grade students in northeastern Illinois were given a task involving a pony with a Nazi swastika, along with a Hitler-style haircut and moustache. Parents were not impressed with the school's methods, forcing it to apologize.

The bizarre in-class activity was handed to pupils of the Woodland Middle School in Gurnee by their language, arts and social studies teachers. Titled "If You Give a Hitler a Country" – an allusion to the classic children's book 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' – the assignment asked the children "to create a comic strip for little kids" to tell them about "Europe's appeasement towards Hitler."

Seemingly showing an example, the paper had a picture of a My Little Pony-like cartoon character giving a Nazi salute and brandishing a swastika on its right leg.

The assignment was posted on Facebook by the mother of one of the students, Kelly Masterson, raising eyebrows among many other parents online. Masterson said she was taken aback when she found her son Michael's work, in which SpongeBob SquarePants was pictured looking like Hitler, according to Daily Herald. 

"There's got to be a better way to teach our kids about the horrific things Hitler did," another district parent, Dan Umansky, told the outlet, adding that he is eager to hear the school's explanation.

One of Michael's Jewish classmates refused to complete the task, asking to be given him another one, NBC reported, citing the boy.

"All of us were shocked and then some kids were being a bit immature and trying to make this assignment a little bit funny and it's disgusting," Michael said.

The Facebook post has provoked many concerned comments. In a letter, the school responded that the activity "was to help students understand the complex issues leading up to World War II," but not to minimize the atrocities. It also said "the 'fun' and 'cartoonish' elements of the activity that students were asked to complete did not fully represent the intent of the teachers" and apologized for "any concern" the incident had caused.

However, the parents do not seem to be satisfied with the response, with one attaching a screenshot of the letter and saying that the school decided to "do nothing."

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Hitler's paintings go on sale in online auction, including possible self-portrait
https://www.rt.com/news/449628-hitler-paintings-auction-berlin/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

A series of watercolor paintings, dated between 1910 and 1911, are going under the hammer at a digital auction in Berlin on Thursday, each signed by one "A. Hitler."

"Rheinlandschaft," "Alpenlandschaft" and "Niederthal, Vent" are believed to be authentic Hitler originals, from a time predating his reign of terror as the dictator of Nazi Germany, when he was instead a 21-year-old art-school reject struggling to make ends meet.

Each painting boasts an estimated price of between €4,000 and €6,000 though only one painting, "Alpenlandschaft," has received a bid so far in the ongoing online auction at time of writing. Some believe the character in the painting may, in fact, be the future dictator and scourge of Europe himself.

The signatures on the paintings match authenticated versions of the German dictator's handwriting. 

"The specimens have been thoroughly examined and compared to real, verified pieces," handwriting expert Frank Garo told the Daily Mail.

In October 1907, a young Hitler applied to the Vienna Academy of Arts to study painting but was ultimately rejected. He would later earn a living by making copies of watercolours for use on Viennese postcards.

Hitler's pre-Nazi artworks are periodically sold at auction though Nazi-era symbols and artworks are forbidden from sale under German law. A watercolor of Neuschwanstein Castle, also initialed "A. Hitler" sold for €100,000 at auction in 2014.

The paintings are being sold by Auktionshaus Kloss having been consigned for sale from a private collection, previously purchased from an Austrian estate.

Fox News guest compares Ocasio-Cortez to Stalin, Hitler & Mao
"I'm surprised that these paintings are going on sale in Germany as I understood Germans understandably don't look favourably on people benefiting from that kind of material," Michael Liversidge, Emeritus Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol said.

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Hitler-owned book hints at plans for North American Holocaust
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/americas/holocaust-canada-north-america-blueprint-scli-intl/index.html

A rare book owned by Adolf Hitler, which is believed to detail the blueprint for a North American Holocaust, has been acquired by Canada's national archive.

Library and Archives Canada purchased the document last year for $4,500, and it was unveiled for the first time Wednesday, just days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday.

The 137-page report -- titled "Statistics, Media and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada" -- was compiled in 1944 by German linguist and researcher Heinz Kloss. He was responsible for conducting key research for the Nazi regime on issues such as nationality, with a particular focus on the United States.

Kloss -- who visited the United States in 1936-7 and maintained a network of Nazi sympathizers -- used 1930s population data to produce a personalized census of the Jewish population in North America, along with information about Jewish organizations and newspapers.

Michael Kent, curator of the Jacob M. Lowy Collection, which is preserving the book, told CNN that the report would have likely played "an important role" in any implementation of the Final Solution -- the term used by Nazi leaders to describe the extermination of the Jewish population -- had the Third Reich successfully invaded the United States and Canada.
Kent described the report as "quite shocking," and noted that it included detailed analysis not only of cities with large Jewish populations such as Toronto and Winnipeg, Manitoba, but also of small urban areas.

While other Holocaust memorial organizations have opted not to acquire or display any Nazi memorabilia, Kent told CNN that it was important for the archive to do so due to the "rise in xenophobia, dwindling knowledge of the Holocaust, and rise of Holocaust denial."

The book will go on public display Saturday before portions of it are made available online.

Rebecca Margolis of the University of Ottawa noted in a statement that the report offers a "documented confirmation of the fears felt so acutely" by Canadian Jews during World War II -- that the Nazis intended to invade North America.

Experts believe the report was part of a confidential series of research commissioned by Hitler and stored at his mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. The bookplate bears a stylized eagle, swastika and the words "ex libris Adolf Hitler," which suggest that it came from the Nazi leader's personal library.

The report, along with other books owned by Hitler, is believed to have been brought to the United States as a souvenir by American soldiers after they raided his property at the end of the war in the spring of 1945.

The Holocaust Education Trust expressed shock over the finding. "This story highlights Hitler's obsessive anti-Semitism and the chilling Nazi ambition to murder Jewish people wherever they were in the world," a representative for the trust told CNN.
"It reminds us of the need to remain resolute in standing up to anti-Semitism, defending historical truth and educating the next generation."

Steven Wilson, chief executive of the UK's United Synagogue, told CNN: "Last Sunday the British Jewish community carried out an extraordinary funeral as we buried the remains of six Holocaust victims murdered at Auschwitz. It was a stark reminder the Holocaust is not ancient history but still in living memory. This ... is a reminder of the continued importance of the fight against anti-Semitism ... and the ongoing importance of Holocaust education, particularly for younger generations."

The book will be stored in the Jacob M. Lowy Collection at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. Other libraries in North America to store books owned by Hitler include the Library of Congress and Brown University Library.

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How a box of forgotten letters became a Holocaust jazz opera
https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/how-a-box-of-forgotten-letters-became-a-holocaust-jazz-opera/

After their widowed father died in 1995, jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal and his sister packed up the family home in Great Neck, LI. They didn't know what that box of letters, all written in German, was doing in the attic, but Rosenthal took them home, anyway.

The letters stayed, nearly forgotten, until some three and a half years ago, when Rosenthal was invited to his grandmother's hometown in Germany, where the local historical society rebuilt a Jewish school destroyed by the Nazis. Rosenthal asked a historian if he'd mind translating some of the letters. "Send them," he was told.

The contents, once translated, blew his mind.

"It was unbelievable," the Upper West Sider tells The Post. "I heard my grandmother's voice, my aunt's . . . I didn't know any of those people!"

Rosenthal's father, Erich, never spoke of them. In those 200 letters, written from 1938 to 1941, Erich's mother, Herta, poured her heart out to him, her only child, who left Germany to study at the University of Chicago.

He was the only one in his immediate family to survive the Holocaust.

Now that family history is an opera. Rosenthal's "Dear Erich" — scored for a string quartet, jazz trio, woodwinds, brass and the New York City Opera — plays through Sunday at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

"I view it as a crossover piece," says its 59-year-old composer. Not only is it a mix of genres — think soaring arias and bluesy horn solos — but it describes the journey taken by his father, who crossed the Atlantic toward freedom and a new life as a sociologist, Queens College professor and family man.

Rosenthal suspects that survivor's guilt kept his father from speaking of the past. "He never knew what happened to his mother," he says. "I'm sure that contributed to the pain he felt, but never discussed."

The opera flits between past and present, Chicago and Germany. Some of the letters are typically motherly: Despite her hardships, Herta worries that her son isn't eating enough.

One of the most heartbreaking missives followed the Nazi rampage Kristallnacht. Aware that her letters could be read by the authorities, Herta chose her words carefully.

"Your father had to take a trip with many friends and relatives," she wrote. That was code, Rosenthal says, for "they were herded up and taken away." There were no concentration camps yet, but Theodor Rosenthal eventually returned to his wife so broken, he died days later.

And Herta? Rosenthal's wife, Lesley — an "internet research wiz," who co-wrote the opera's libretto — found records showing a train from Herta's town left on June 12, 1942, six months after her last letter. It went to the Sobibor death camp.

"In the opera, we can do a few things we can't in real life," says Rosenthal. "There's a lost letter we made up where Erich does learn [about] his mother — and that she really wanted him to go forth with his life."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=71&v=jFXKmhBIiz4

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You can't say anything about jew and their "holocaust," and, now, it seems, you can't say anything about a pathetic movie about their fucking holohoax.   

'Schindler's List' waffle fries cause outrage at Aussie diner
https://www.rt.com/news/450699-schindlers-list-waffle-fries/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

A Jewish patron was shocked and disgusted when she saw the menu at a Gold Coast diner which advertised "Schindler's List" waffle fries for $15 a pop. The woman lodged a formal complaint with the Anti-Defamation Commission.

"I cannot express how disturbed, uncomfortable and in plain shock we were both in after reading the menu," said the customer, named only as 'Lisa,' as cited by the Daily Mail.

The management at The Arc at Nobbys, located on Australia's east coast, has since removed the Holocaust-themed item and apologized for its insensitive menu, explaining that, "Fries are popular menu item so we named our four fries after four movies that are popular classics," and that any offense caused was unintentional.



The diner also featured dishes named after popular classics such as 'Pulp Fiction,' 'The Terminator,' and 'The Godfather.'

"This hurtful and insensitive incident would leave most gasping, and is the latest example of a trend that only seems to be getting worse as we move further in time and people forget what actually happened in World War II," Dr Dvir Abramovich, chairman of Australia's Anti-Defamation Commission said in a statement.

"The ignorance is so sad!!!!!(& scary)!!!!" wrote one social media user in response to the incident.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has previously reported that 2018 saw a staggering 59 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents across Australia.

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Finland helped Nazis murder Jews during WWII: report
https://nypost.com/2019/02/10/finland-helped-nazis-murder-jews-during-wwii-report/

Finnish military volunteers helped the Nazis carry out the mass killing of Jews during World War II, according to a new report.

Authorities in the Scandinavian nation revealed the findings Friday in a 248-page government-commissioned independent report, which showed that 1,408 Finnish volunteers — many between the ages of 17 and 20 — served with the SS Panzer Division Wiking from 1941 to 1943.

"It is very likely that they participated in the killing of Jews, other civilians and prisoners of war as part of the German SS troops," said Jussi Nuorteva, director-general of Finland's National Archives.

Finland proved an "example of unique and exemplary civic courage" by owning up to its dark past, Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Sunday. Finland undertook the study at Zuroff's request in 2018.

After losing several territories to a Soviet invasion in 1939, Finland entered a deal with Nazi Germany for material support against Moscow. But the agreement also required the Nordic country provide some 400 volunteers for the SS Wiking division — a pact it reluctantly honored, the report concluded.

"At the beginning of the attack (on the Soviet Union), Finns were unaware of the Germans' goal of eradicating the Jews. Finns were, above all, interested in fighting against the Soviet Union," Nuorteva said, adding that "the starting point for Finns' involvement was different compared to most other countries joining SS foreign volunteers."

The investigation was based on the diaries of 76 such Finns — eight of whom are still alive today.

By mid-1943, the Finnish government sensed Germany was losing the war, and called home its SS volunteers — many of whom served out the remainder of the war in the Finnish military.

"We share the responsibility for ensuring that such atrocities will never be repeated," said Finnish state secretary Paula Lehtomaki.

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Got a good one here.  jew says that he has laid 70,000 - yes, 70,000 - little individually-engraved plaques on roads and paths all over the world, but, look, he says that he started by laying plaques for the Sinti and Roma.   Isn't he thoughtful?  One for the Sinti and one for the Roma, and 69,998 for the jews, and only 5,930,002 to go!

The project began in 1992, when Cologne-based artist Gunter Demnig first laid plaques in this format for Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust, who during that time were commonly referred to as 'Gypsies'. He called the plaques 'stumbling stones' as a metaphor. "You won't fall," he recently told CNN. "But if you stumble and look, you must bow down with your head and your heart."

The Holocaust memorial of 70,000 stones
Michael Friedrichs-Friedländer hand-engraves individual Holocaust fates onto small plaques called Stolpersteine, which constitute the world's largest decentralised memorial.
There's a big long article, with must-see pictures, at this link:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190328-the-holocaust-memorial-of-70000-stones

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpVkJlDSdWg

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Hitler's vegetable garden discovered at his secret headquarters
https://www.foxnews.com/science/hitlers-vegetable-garden-discovered-secret-headquarters

A garden that once provided Adolf Hitler with fresh vegetables has been discovered at his infamous Wolf's Lair headquarters.

Hitler spent much of his time in the final years of the war at the Wolf's Lair, which is located in what is now Poland. The top-secret, heavily guarded bunker complex was used by the Nazis until January 1945, when it was abandoned and partly destroyed ahead of advancing Soviet forces.

The garden was found on the grounds of Mazurolandia, a nearby theme park museum, and excavations took place during the summer.

"We discovered Hitler's Garden in the 4th Zone of the Wolf's Lair," said Mazurolandia, in a translated statement, adding that experts from the Mazurian Military Museum were brought in to investigate the site.

The First News reports that the garden was found 2,953 feet from Hitler's bunker. An excavation uncovered the foundations of the gardener's house, two greenhouses and an underground boiler room that provided water and warm air to grow fresh produce all year round. Wartime ceramics, porcelain and glassware were also found.

A vegetarian, teetotaler and non-smoker, Hitler enjoyed plenty of green produce at the Wolf's Lair. Paranoid about being poisoned, the Nazi leader also ensured that a number of food tasters worked at the Wolf's Lair to sample his meals.

"The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you can imagine. And always with a side of rice or pasta," Margot Woelk, one of the food tasters, told the Associated Press in 2013.

Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent 2 1/2 years as one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair.

The Wolf's Lair was also the scene of an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the evil German leader on July 20, 1944, when trusted colonel Claus von Stauffenberg detonated a bomb in a conference room at the headquarters. Hitler survived, but nearly 5,000 people were executed following the assassination attempt, including von Stauffenberg.

In 2017, a painted red telephone that belonged to Hitler and was used at the Wolf's Lair — sold at an auction for $243,000.  The phone was described by Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Md. as "arguably the most destructive 'weapon' of all time."

The phone was "used in vehicles, trains, his field headquarters, at the Wolf's Lair...and in the last desperate days deep beneath Berlin," according to the auction house.

Experts are also looking to unlock the sinister secrets of hidden Nazi bases dotted across Europe. Other sites include the vast base of Dag Bromberg, which, like the Wolf's Lair,  is hidden in a Polish forest, and the V-2 rocket base Kraftwerk Nord West in France.

A number of Nazi sites from World War II have been unearthed in recent years. In 2016, scientists at the Russian Arctic National Park discovered the remains of a secret Nazi base on the remote island of Alexandra Land in the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

Earlier this year, local government officials announced the discovery of hundreds of chilling items at Nazi massacre sites in northwestern Germany.

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GERMAN AUCTION HOUSE DEFENDS SELLING NAZI ITEMS, INCLUDING COPY OF HITLER'S MEIN KAMPF WITH $4,000 STARTING PRICE
https://www.newsweek.com/german-auction-house-nazi-items-hitler-mein-kampf-1472185

An auction house in Germany which has sparked outrage for selling hundreds of Nazi items—including clothing owned by Adolf Hitler—has defended its decision.

Hermann Historica auction house is due to sell 842 items linked to the Nazis in the German city of Munich on Wednesday.

In its description of the "German Historical Collectibles from 1919 Onwards" collection, the company states: "Connoisseurs of edged weapons, decorations or uniforms will be spoilt for choice in this section."

The lot includes a leather-bound edition of Hitler's antisemitic manifesto Mein Kampf, with a starting price of $3,868 (€3,500), as well as a top hat the Nazi dictator owned, and a cocktail dress worn by his wife Eva Braun.

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association, wrote to the auction house last week urging it to rethink the sale. He penned the letter almost exactly 81 years after Kristallnacht, when Nazis attacked Jewish people and buildings.

"This is not a legal appeal to you, but very much a moral one. What you are doing is not illegal, but it is wrong," the rabbi wrote.

Margolin highlighted six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust and "today, across Europe and including Germany (which now has the highest recorded cases in Europe), antisemitism in on the rise [sic], and we believe the sale of such memorabilia has little intrinsic historical value but instead will be bought by those who glorify and seek to justify the actions of the greatest evil to affect Europe. The trade therefore in such items should simply not take place."

Margolin cited the recent case of a letter written by a child murdered in the Holocaust which was withdrawn from sale following a court case.

"The ensuing public pressure resulted in the cancelling of the sale. The message from society was clear and unambiguous: some things simply cannot be traded," Margolin said.

Bernhard Pacher, managing director of Hermann Historica told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency the company is handling the sale with care, and is attempting to control who can bid on the items. Potential buyers—who can bid in person, online and over the phone—must register beforehand, he said.

Pacher said: "It's our job to prevent the wrong people from getting these things."

However, the auctioneer said: "But it's practically unavoidable to ensure that one person or another with the wrong ideology doesn't get into the mix."

"By far, the great majority of the customers who shop with us are museums, state-owned collections and private collectors, all of which meticulously deal with these issue," he said.

Pacher admitted the auction house can't control what clients do with the items once they are bought. He also said his business had been sent a number of letters since Margolin's plea, including some which were insulting.

[yankeedoodle]

What took them so long?

VIDEO showcases artifacts recovered from Hitler's 'Wolf's Lair' bunker

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Dozens of items have been recovered after a weeks-long excavation of Adolf Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters located in Poland. The infamous Nazi compound has remained largely untouched since Hitler left it in 1944.

Ruptly footage shows combs, razors, toothbrushes, plates, signboards and other objects found in the 'Wolf's Lair', an extensive complex tucked away in a remote Polish forest.

The cache of artifacts also includes a still-functioning lighter. Many of the items are stamped with swastikas and other Nazi insignia. Zenon Piotrowicz, managing director of the historic site, said that any new discovery is important as it shows how the compound functioned during the war. For example, historians found a plate reading "Barbershop."

It was the 'Wolf's Lair' where Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg committed a failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. The bunker was completely abandoned by the Nazis in 1945, as the Soviet Army advanced on Berlin in the final months of the war. The site has been open to the public since the beginning of 1990s.

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Extremely rare Nazi Enigma code transmitter tops $100k at auction (VIDEO)

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A fabled device used by Nazi Germany to transmit coded messages during the Second World War has been sold at an auction for more than $100,000.
The cipher device, weighing nearly 30 pounds, was bought by an internet buyer for $106,000, according to the auction house, Heritage Auctions. The machine – which resembles a modified typewriter – comes with operating instructions and a case with an engraved Third Reich emblem.

The device stumped the Allies for years, until British mathematician Alan Turing managed to crack its code. Most of the machines were destroyed by the Germans during the war so they could not fall into enemy hands – making them a much sought-after collectible.

Enigmas are apparently going up in value. In 2017, one of the machines put up for auction raked in a mere $51,500.

[maz]

Washington Post tweet from today just as Jews are being called out for violating stay at home order.

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[abduLMaria]

I keep saving my sh-t ... hoping to find some diamonds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Zisblatt