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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that Nazi concentration camps were "extreme symbols of evil" and hell on earth. The German-born pontiff, who was forced to join the Hitler ...
The Danish brewing company Carlsberg, headquartered in Copenhagen, used the symbol as its logo from 1881 to the 1930s, and then discontinued it because of its Nazi association.
ROME (JTA) — Pope Benedict XVI called Nazi death camps "extreme symbols of evil" and hell on earth. Speaking Sunday to the faithful gathered at his summer home at Castel Gandolfo near Rome, ...
New legislation comes into effect immediately ...
In the wake of a series of neo-Nazi incidents, Australia’s government is moving toward passing legislation to ban the use of Nazi symbols on clothing, flags and websites and in other domains.
New laws banning the public performance of the Nazi salute and the display and sale of Nazi symbols in Australia went into effect Monday as the Oceania country attempts to temper anti-Semitism.
The Danish brewing company Carlsberg, headquartered in Copenhagen, used the symbol as its logo from 1881 to the 1930s, and then discontinued it because of its Nazi association.
Separately, police arrested three men in October for performing the Nazi salute outside the Jewish Museum of Australia. There were more anti-Jewish incidents in October and November last year than ...
How an auspicious sacred sign was twisted to become the graphic embodiment of hate and intolerance. Kalpana Sunder explores the extraordinary history of a potent emblem.