Tag: Nazi

• 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.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2017 - 05:08 UTC

  Argentina: Nazi paraphernalia stash found in Buenos Aires suburb

  

  Around 75 artifacts believed to have belonged to high-ranking nazi officers, which were stashed in a private collector's home in Beccar, a suburb of Buenos Aires, were found by Argentine police. The discovery is regarded to be further proof of the presence of Nazis in South America after World War II.

• Sunday, October 13th 2013 - 11:47 UTC

  Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi officer Erich Priebke

  

  Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died in Italy, officials in Buenos Aires said on Friday. Priebke died in Rome aged 100 after serving nearly 15 years under house arrest for a World War II massacre in Italy for which he never expressed remorse.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 15:56 UTC

  New book claims ‘overwhelming evidence’ shows Hitler ended his days in Argentina

  

  A new book has claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not kill himself in Berlin in 1945 but ended his days in Argentina

• Friday, August 12th 2011 - 17:24 UTC

  Berlin Wall’s Lesson for the Barrier-Builders of Today

  

  By Frederick Taylor - It was a chilly night for high summer in Berlin 50 years ago 13 August 1961, and it took East German Communists only about five hours to divide one of Europe’s grandest cities neatly in two.