Tag: Nazi

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Eichmann audios recorded in Argentina to be released

  

  An Israeli documentary to be released shortly features voice recordings of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Mossad in the early 1960s in San Fernando, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was reported.

• Thursday, December 30th 2021 - 20:33 UTC

  Uruguay needs to sell the Graf Spee's eagle to pay those who retrieved it

  

  An Uruguayan Court of Appeals has ruled the Government needs to sell the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the 3rd Reich's Admiral Graf Spee off the Montevideo coast.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  Unprecedented consensus in Chile against newspaper article marking 75th anniversary of Göring's death

  

  Chile's Jewish community, Germany's Embassy in Santiago and the entire country's political spectrum Sunday agreed to condemn an article carried by the large-circulation daily El Mercurio reviewing the life of convicted Nazi leader Hermann Göring.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Former Nazi camp guard brought to trial at age 100

  

  A 100-year-old former Nazi camp guard has been brought to trial Thursday for his alleged involvement as an accessory to more than 3,000 murders.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Brazilian Culture secretary resigns after a speech with quotes Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels

  

  Brazil's culture secretary Roberto Alvim resigned on Friday over a speech in which he appeared to quote Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 18:58 UTC

  Uruguayan Conservative Party integrates neo-Nazi member

  

  The political party of the former commander in chief of the National Army and candidate for president of Uruguay, Guido Manini Ríos, faces for the second time in a month an internal resolution on a member with a neo-Nazi past.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:32 UTC

  Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court

  

  Uruguay's government must sell a huge, bronze Nazi eagle, and gun ranging telemeter, salvaged from a sunken World War II era Nazi Germany warship, a court ruled on Friday. The nearly 350 kilo eagle with a swastika held in its claws was part of the stern of the German “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee that was sunk off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, that is almost eighty years ago.

• Sunday, June 16th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine ambassador to Haiti removed over comments referred to the Nazi Army

  

  Argentina removed its ambassador to Haiti from his post over a tweet that angered Jewish groups earlier this month. On Argentina’s Army Day, 29 May, Day, Pedro Von Eyken tweeted: “Today is the Day of the Argentine Army, that of General José de San Martín and many others who gave it glory and honor.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:26 UTC

  Germany's second wealthiest family admits Hitler links and exploiting slave labor under Nazi rule

  

  A German industrial dynasty with big stakes in various international brands has admitted brutality towards slave laborers during Nazi rule. A partner in JAB Holding, Peter Harf, said the Reimann family was shocked by links to Nazi abuses, discovered by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in archives.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Pope Francis will open Vatican archives on Pius XII and the Holocaust

  

  Pope Francis has said the Roman Catholic Church will open up its archives on Pius XII, who was Pope during World War Two. Pius, who was Pope from 1939 to 1958, has been accused of tolerating the rise of Nazi Germany and of not doing enough to protect Jews during the Holocaust. The Vatican says he worked behind the scenes to try to protect Jews.