A Fullerton School District school opted this week to remove Nazi symbols from their sixth-graders’ performance of the play “The Sound of Music.” The play, set in Austria at the beginning of World War II, tells the true story of a family who must flee their country as the Nazis invade. District Superintendent Rob Pletka…
Fullerton School District Removes Nazi Symbols from Sixth-Grade ‘Sound of Music’ Play
Credit Suisse Failed to Investigate Its Past Ties With Nazis, Says Senate Committee
Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse failed to review “all relevant records” of potential Nazi accounts while also firing an outside lawyer who was overseeing an internal probe of the issue, according to an investigation conducted by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. In March 2020, the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), a Jewish human rights…
Credit Suisse Failed to Investigate Its Past Ties With Nazis: Senate Panel
Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse failed to review “all relevant records” of potential Nazi accounts while also firing an outside lawyer who was overseeing an internal probe of the issue, according to an investigation conducted by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. In March 2020, the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), a Jewish human rights…
Azov Special Operations Regiment Becomes ‘Separate Assault Brigade’ With Ukrainian Army’s Ground Forces
The special operations forces of the “Azov” regiment have become the Third Separate Assault Brigade as part of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, according to officials. Andriy Biletskyi, the founder and first commander of the unit, a controversial unit of the National Guard of Ukraine with alleged ties to neo-Nazis, confirmed the news on Telegram. “The Azov Specops Regiment is now…
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes rescues an inventor of a new bomb site before the Nazis can get him. The inventor agrees to help the Allies but soon disappears, and Holmes suspects Moriarty may be involved. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button…
Political Struggle Behind the Term ‘China Hong Kong’
Commentary It has been almost two years since I was forced to resign from the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA), yet I still regularly keep abreast of its news. In mainland China, the media prefixes “Hong Kong” with the word “China,” mostly occurring after 2019. While this surprised me, I found that HKEAA…
Russia’s Supreme Court Designates Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a ‘Terrorist’ Group
MOSCOW—Russia’s top court on Tuesday designated Ukraine’s Azov Regiment as a terrorist group, a Reuters correspondent in the courtroom said, paving the way for captured soldiers to be tried under stringent anti-terror laws and be jailed for up to 20 years. The Azov Regiment, which has far-right and ultra-nationalist roots, has been one of the…
Ashes of 8,000 WWII Victims Found in 2 Poland Mass Graves
WARSAW, Poland—Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the Nazis during World War II in forest executions that the Nazis later tried to hide by incinerating the bodies and planting trees on the burial pits. Investigators from a national historical institute…
U.S. Supreme Court Sides With La Mesa Resident in Nazi-Looted Painting Suit
LA MESA, Calif.—The U.S. Supreme Court revived on April 21 a lawsuit brought by a La Mesa resident who claimed he and his family should have ownership of a French Impressionist painting looted from their ancestor by the Nazis. The dispute over Camille Pissarro’s “Rue Saint-Honore, Afternoon, Rain Effect” stems from a lawsuit filed by now-deceased…
A Father and Son’s Journey Back to Auschwitz
“Shmuel’s Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father” is a poetically written memoir about a man and his aging father journeying back to Auschwitz to retrace his father’s footsteps during the Holocaust, and find the bridge where his father’s youngest brother was killed trying to escape the Nazis. Jason Sommer is an…
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