A controversial memorial to Ukrainian soldiers who served in a Nazi unit during the second world war has been removed from a Canadian cemetery following years of protests by community groups who described the shrine as “painful” and offensive. The cenotaph, which had stood in the privately owned St Volodymyr Ukrainian cemetery in Oakville, Ontario, […]
I write as the daughter of German immigrants who survived Nazi Germany and came to America in the early 1950s. My father was conscripted in Germany, at 17 years of age, and fought in the German army on the Russian front. At war’s end, he was illegally captured by the Russians and transported to a […]
The Missouri Republican Party said it is working to remove a Republican candidate for governor after it was revealed he has ties with the Ku Klux Klan, and was seen in a photo giving a Nazi salute while standing in front of a burning cross. Darrell Leon McClanahan III “filed for Governor as a Republican […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Nashville Jewish community is speaking out following a downtown demonstration on Saturday involving swastika flags and a group of people described by multiple lawmakers as “Nazis.” News 2 spoke with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday, Feb. 18 to learn more about the group marching and possible affiliations. Carla Hill, […]
A group of roughly two dozen people clad in apparent Nazi gear and symbolism marched in downtown Nashville near the Capitol Saturday. Metro Nashville Police were initially “monitoring some type of demonstration,” but later said it hadn’t appeared to materialize. A reporter for the Tennessean didn’t see anything after arriving on the scene. Videos and […]
Ukraine’s military has chosen a defensive strategy that echoes the German approach from WWII. Lacking enough troops to defend its huge territory, Nazi Germany opted for a mobile defense. Even an full-scale active defense has limitations and won’t help Ukraine seize back its land. In 1943, as the tide of war turned against the Third […]
One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party will go on trial in April on charges related to his alleged use of a slogan used by the Nazis’ SA stormtroopers in a 2021 speech, a court said on Friday. Bjorn Hocke, 51, is the party’s leader in the eastern state […]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz reminded Germans of their Nazi past on Wednesday as he called on citizens to reject the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) which is second in most national polls. Hundreds of thousands of people have joined demonstrations across Germany against the AfD after a report that two senior party members had discussed plans […]
This is the second of two Flashbacks on John Bugas, an FBI official in Detroit during World War II who became a Ford Motor Co. executive. Part one ran last Sunday, Jan. 21. The showdown between John Bugas and Harry Bennett was years in the making. Bugas was the former head of the Detroit FBI […]
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Russian city of St. Petersburg on Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of a devastating World War II siege by Nazi forces with a series of memorial events attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and close allies. The Kremlin leader laid flowers at a monument to fallen […]
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Ukraine “glorifies” Adolf Hitler’s SS killing squads and vowed to “eradicate Nazism,” as he opened a memorial marking 80 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad. The Russian leader has repeatedly invoked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War to justify his […]
The Russian Ministry of Justice has prohibited public displays of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists’ symbols and “Glory to Ukraine” slogan. Source: Russian state-owned news agency TASS with reference to the website of Russia’s Justice Ministry Details: The Russian Ministry of Justice writes that they also banned the emblem of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists […]