| March 8, 2009 | - The World Bank said that the global economy would shrink in 2009 for the first time since World War II.
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New York Times
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| March 17, 2008 | - Horst Rippert, an 88-year-old former German fighter pilot, told the biographer of Antoine de Saint-Exupery that one of the 28 planes that Rippert gunned down during World War II was piloted by The Little Prince author. “If I had known,” Rippert said, “I wouldn't have fired.”
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The Scotsman
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| August 7, 2007 | - The public disclosure of Adolf Hitler's private record collection indicated that the Fuehrer enjoyed listening to Jewish musicians play Tchaikovsky.
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Guardian
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| March 1, 2007 | - A woman in Naples found a live World War II-era hand grenade in a bag of potatoes.
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BBC
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| December 11, 2006 | -
Iran held a conference to examine whether the Holocaust happened.
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AP via CBS
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| December 6, 2006 | - In New York City, the World War II aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid was finally pulled out of the mud.
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Washington Post
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| November 20, 2006 | - Residents of Oberlin, Ohio, were upset by the presence of gingerbread
Nazis.
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ABC News
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| November 8, 2006 | - The principal of a high school in North Carolina apologized after an excerpt of a speech by Joseph Goebbels was played over the PA system during a soccer game.
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CNN
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| October 12, 2006 | - Adam Pearlman, the “American Al Qaeda,” was charged with treason, making him the first U.S. citizen so indicted since World War II.
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CBS News
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| September 18, 2006 | - Neo-Nazis won seats in the regional parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
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Australia Herald-Sun
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| August 23, 2006 | - The Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said banks that handle money for Iran and North Korea were the same as those that accepted Nazi assets.
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Associated Press via Yahoo News
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| August 14, 2006 | - It was pointed out that the United States has been fighting in Iraq for as long as it fought Germany during World War II.
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The Chicago Tribune
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| February 24, 2006 | - The mayor of London was suspended for four weeks with full pay for saying to a Jewish journalist: "You are just like a concentration-camp guard."
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BBC News
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
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CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| February 17, 2006 | - The Supreme Court of Italy, considering the case of a man who forced his 14-year-old stepdaughter to perform oral sex, ruled that molesting girls who have already had sexual experience is not as bad as molesting virgins. “The real problem,” commented Mussolini's granddaughter, “is that there are no women in the supreme court.”
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CNN.com
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| February 7, 2006 | - The Arab European League website published cartoons mocking the Holocaust. One showed Adolf Hitler in bed with Anne Frank; Hitler says: “put this in your diary, Anne.”
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UPI
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| December 14, 2005 | -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a myth.
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BBC News
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| June 22, 2005 | -
Italy sentenced ten former Nazi SS officers to life in prison in absentia.
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BBC News
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| May 24, 2005 | -
Japan announced it would close down its fund for WWII-era sex slaves.
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BBC News
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| May 14, 2005 | -
Wal-Mart apologized for running an advertisement that equated current Arizona zoning ordinances with the Nazi regime. Using a photo of a 1933 book burning in Berlin, the ad read: “Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not . . . So why should we allow local government to limit where we shop?”
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Washington Post
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| May 10, 2005 | - A Holocaust memorial opened in Berlin. Some people were upset that it only commemorated the deaths of Jews.
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Reuters
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| May 8, 2005 | - It was the 60th anniversary of VE Day. The German ambassador to London called on Britain to change its attitude towards Germany. “They continue to see us as Nazis,” he said, “as if they have to refight the battles every evening.”
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The Independent
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| April 27, 2005 | - The Austrian housewares chain Baumax renamed their tool shed from “Mauthausen,” which was the name of a Nazi concentration camp, to “Linde,” which means “linden tree.”
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New York Times
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| April 22, 2005 | -
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi publicly apologized for the “tremendous damage and suffering” caused by Japan's actions prior to and during World War II.
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BBC News
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| August 26, 2003 | -
Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, compared the Iraqi guerrillas to the Nazi Werewolves who resisted the Allies after World War II; Rice pleaded for patience and suggested that building democracy in Iraq might take a very, very long time.
"Our own history should remind us that the union of democratic principle and practice is always a work in progress.
When the Founding Fathers said, 'We the People,' they did not mean me.
My ancestors were considered three-fifths of a person."
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New York Times
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| July 2, 2003 | - President Johannes Rau of Germany had the word "Luftwaffe" removed from his two government airplanes to avoid upsetting people in countries conquered by Germany during World War II.
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Reuters
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| February 11, 2003 | -
Howard Coble, a Republican congressman from North Carolina who chairs a House subcommittee on domestic security, declared that the interning of Japanese Americans during World War II “was appropriate at the time.” He also said that he thought President Roosevelt took the action “for their own protection.” Federal officials announced that the Army Corps of Engineers had removed 10,000 tons of soil contaminated with arsenic from a Washington, D.C., neighborhood about four miles from the White House. More than 425 munitions were removed from the area, which was used to test chemical weapons during World War I, and rounds containing arsine gas were taken from the Korean ambassador's residence.
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| April 24, 2001 | - A Thai senator claimed to have found evidence of a cache of gold hidden by Japanese soldiers during World War II; troops were called in to look for the loot.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Japan approved a new history textbook that, according to critics in China and elsewhere, fails adequately to criticize Japanese conduct in World War II.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Holocaust survivors filed suit against the United States because it did not bomb Auschwitz during World War II.
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| January 23, 2001 | -
California was forced to impose blackouts for the first time since World War II; George W. Bush said that he was opposed to price caps on wholesale power and suggested that California simply relax its environmental regulations and allow power companies to go full tilt. He recently gave the following analysis: “The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.” Much of California's electricity is produced by plants in Texas.
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| October 10, 2000 | - Thousands of Chinese who worked as slaves for Japan in World War II filed suit in California against Japanese companies that might have profited from their servitude; Japanese military occupiers enslaved over ten million Chinese on the mainland and some 50,000 in Japan.
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| October 10, 2000 | - DNA tests identified the Hungarian WWII prisoner of war who spent 53 years in a Russian mental hospital.
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