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Jewish family makes claims to prized Passover manuscript

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 21 Apr 2016
... ago to the predecessor of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem — an act the family calls a "long-standing illegal and moral injustice." ... Barzilai says the 14th-century Haggadah was a wedding gift from his grandmother's family to his grandfather, Ludwig Marum, a lawyer from the German town of Karlsruhe who served in Germany's parliament and opposed Hitler....

Austria mulls annexation of Adolf Hitler’s house

Edit The Times of India 12 Apr 2016
The Austrian government is attempting to seize the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent it becoming a rallying point for Nazi sympathizers ... Hitler's parents rented rooms in the building while his father worked in the town as a customs official ... The Hitler family left when he was three years old and he did not return until 1938, after annexing Austria to become part of Nazi Germany....

Goodnight Mommy is a chilling Austrian horror film with national guilt at its heart

Edit New Statesman 03 Mar 2016
She tries to guess the name on the Post-it note they’ve stuck to her forehead ... The clean lines and science-fiction chill of the family’s lakeside home, with its venetian blinds on every window, help lower the temperature of a film that could easily have overheated ... It was shot in Lower Austria near the Czech border, a region associated with Hitler’s family, and there is a strong sense that the horror at the story’s heart is domestic ... ....

Shigeru Mizuki, influential Japanese cartoonist, dies

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Dec 2015
TOKYO — Shigeru Mizuki, an influential and widely popular Japanese cartoonist with a talent for humanizing mythical monsters and dissecting the monstrous side of humanity, died here on Monday ... Mizuki also took on serious subjects in graphic form, including the barbarities of war, drawn in part from his own harrowing combat experiences in World War II, and the rise of Adolf Hitler. The family moved to rural Tottori prefecture when Mr....

HITLER’S VIOLENT YOUTH: HOW TRENCH WARFARE AND STREET FIGHTING MOULDED HITLER – Review by Nate Sullivan

Edit World History Online 16 Nov 2015
Arguably the most significant figure of the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler occupies an unparalleled place in the body of World War II scholarship ... The first third of the book is devoted to relating information about Hitler’s family and childhood ... his murky family history, his father’s name change from “Schicklgruber” to “Hitler,” and young Adolf’s disappointment at not being accepted into Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts....

Is ‘The Flash’ ‘Fast Enough’?

Edit The Examiner 22 May 2015
***1/2 stars out of five ... Barry (Grant Gustin) wrestles with the decision of traveling back in time to prevent the murder of his mother at the hands of Reverse-Flash (Tom Cavanaugh/Matt Letscher), all the while seeking counsel and comfort from his friends and family ... It was all about Barry, not the Flash ... Wells) and now had a huge decision to make ... This would be equivalent to killing the entire Hitler family just to eliminate Adolf ... ....

The Wagner Family and Questions of Forgiveness (Conclusion)

Edit Huffington Post 12 May 2015
What we failed to appreciate was the seriousness and depth of the Wagner family's entanglements with Hitler and Nazism ... While it's certain that Friedelind became anti-Nazi following years of her thinking of Hitler as family, and though it's clear she believed her grandfather Richard would not have been supportive of Hitler, it remains unclear what she thought about the issue of anti-Semitism in Wagner's life, writings and works....

women peacemakers’ responses to Islamic State

Edit Minds 28 Apr 2015
By the time Hitler attacked Austria in early 1938, the membership of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was already deep in disagreement as to appropriate, and effective, strategies against such armed aggression ... Two of the Wilpfers I spoke with were born to families living under Nazism in the 1930s ... The family fled to the Netherlands, but of course did not thereby escape Hitler’s war machine....

Leonora Carrington: The most dramatic moments of the Surrealist's remarkable story

Edit The Independent 08 Mar 2015
left her family (happily), left her inheritance (she wasn't always so pleased about that), left her predictable, cossetted future (nothing delighted her more) ... not her family, and not her lover either ... she would have hoped, day after day, that the time would come when she had a ticket to board one of them, to escape from Europe and Hitler and her family and everything she was desperate to get away from....

Hitler's old house gives Austria a headache

Edit BBC News 29 Dec 2014
Media captionBethany Bell visits the house where Adolf Hitler was born ... a solid, 17th-Century former inn, where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. Hitler's family, who rented rooms upstairs, was not originally from Braunau ... Adolf Hitler only lived in Salzburger Vorstadt 15 for a few weeks, before his family moved to another address in Braunau. They left the town for good when Hitler was three years old ... We are not the children of Hitler."....

Wagner descendant heads a music fest for Beethoven, not Bayreuth

Edit The Miami Herald 11 Nov 2014
Nike Wagner suffered a bitter defeat in a family power struggle over Germany's Bayreuth Festival, which is dedicated to the operas of her great-grandfather, Richard Wagner ... He was a vicious anti-Semite who inspired Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, a frequent attendee at the Bayreuth Festival ... She lived the consequences of her family's Nazi associations ... "What I do blame her for is taking Hitler into the family, into the inner circle....

The fall of the Berlin Wall: what it meant to be there

Edit The Guardian 06 Nov 2014
Photograph. GDR Museum ... Then I ask ... Her uncle was Hitler’s finance minister, and she remembered driving out to his country estate on the morning after that other 9 November ... A Prussian noblewoman in her bones, but also bohemian, warmhearted and unconventional, Ursula’s own wartime friends had included some of the German resistance leaders who ended up trying to assassinate Hitler. Her family estate was now in East Germany, expropriated ... ....

Pickaway County farmland will revert to the wild as Bartley Preserve

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 28 Jul 2014
The property, formerly owned by the List family, contains slopes and ridges created by glaciers, allowing rare and endangered plants to thrive in seasonal wetlands ... The alliance bought 95 acres of the farm in July 2013 and is in talks with the List family to purchase an adjacent 17 acres, said Steve Fleegal, the organization’s executive director ... The land was first farmed by the Hitler family in the 1830s....
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