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Michigan priest has license revoked by church after mimicking Musk's straight-arm gesture

Jan. 30, 2025 11:44 AM EST

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan priest had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after he mimicked a straight-arm gesture performed by Elon Musk during a speech earlier this month that some have interpreted as a Nazi salute. Calvin Robinson, who is listed as the...

Hungarian Jews remember Holocaust tragedy 80 years after liberation of Auschwitz

Jan. 29, 2025 06:16 AM EST

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis, Tamás Léderer still can't shake the sense that the world hasn't learned from the horrors of the 20th...

Manfred Goldberg wants you to know how the Nazis took his brother’s life. And how an angel saved his

Jan. 25, 2025 14:51 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Manfred Goldberg was just 13 years old when — stripped to his skin and shuffling toward an SS guard at a Nazi labor camp in Latvia — a man leaned over his shoulder and whispered the secret that saved the young Jew’s life. “If he happens to ask you your age,...

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

Jan. 24, 2025 07:15 AM EST

HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80...

British PM Starmer visits Auschwitz, vows to fight antisemitism ahead of security talks in Poland

Jan. 17, 2025 15:29 PM EST

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday visited the Nazi German extermination camp at Auschwitz, voicing his “sheer horror” at what he saw there, before holding talks with Poland's leaders on stepping up European defense and tightening Britain's ties with the European...

Dutch delve into family pasts as the names of accused Nazi collaborators released

Jan. 14, 2025 02:08 AM EST

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — On Dutch Openness Day, this year’s release of secret documents from state archives suddenly left Peter Baas with fundamental questions about his father’s stature as a World War II resistance fighter. While many were cleaning up the mess from New...

What would Bonhoeffer do? Anti-Nazi pastor's legacy claimed, debated across political spectrum

Jan. 07, 2025 18:36 PM EST

Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is the end — for me the beginning of life.” It was – more than he knew. Even as the German theologian — a Lutheran — was anticipating...

Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer? An AP Explainer about the anti-Nazi pastor

Jan. 07, 2025 08:08 AM EST

Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian from Germany executed by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39 for his role in a resistance movement that included attempts to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer was born in 1906...

A far-right leader could soon take the helm in EU member country Austria. Here's why it matters

Jan. 06, 2025 14:42 PM EST

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A party that advocates an end to economic sanctions against Russia and has called for the “re-migration of uninvited foreigners” could soon give Austria its first government led by the far right since World War II, with a leader who has a provocative style at its helm....