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Nazi Cake a Recipe for Trouble for Austrian Pastry Shop

By Lee SpeigelApr 6th 2011 – 1:12PM
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Alamy

An Austrian baker is pleading the same defense that many Nazis used at Nuremberg -- "I was just following orders" -- after baking a cake festooned with swastikas and a baby raising its right hand in a "Heil Hitler" salute. Bakery owner Manfred Klaschka says he made the cake -- at a cost of $128 -- at the request of a...

Does This House Look Like Adolf Hitler?

Mar 31st 2011 – 10:02AM
AP

AP

LONDON -- An unassuming semi-detached house in Wales has become an unlikely Web star after Internet users decided that it looks a lot like Adolf Hitler's face. The Swansea home's tan-colored, four-window facade stared out from British tabloid newspapers Wednesday following heavy distribution on social networking...

On Holocaust Memorial Day, Hitler and Nazi Metaphors as Prevalent as Ever

By Mary Phillips-SandyJan 27th 2011 – 1:46PM

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date in 1945 Soviet troops liberated survivors at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and in 2005 the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as a day to commemorate victims of the Nazi era. To mark the anniversary, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., plans...

Hitler-Mocking Dog Enraged Nazis, Documents Reveal

Jan 7th 2011 – 8:25AM
AP

AP

BERLIN -- Germany's Nazi government was so angry about a dog trained to imitate Hitler that it started an obsessive campaign against its Finnish owner, according to newly discovered documents. In the middle of World War II, the Foreign Office in Berlin commanded its diplomats in the Nazi-friendly Nordic country to gather...

Son of Hitler's Deputy Bormann Accused of Child Sex Abuse

By Theunis BatesJan 4th 2011 – 11:14AM
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Getty Images

Martin Bormann Jr., the eldest son of Adolf Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann, has spent decades attempting to atone for his father's sins. He has served as a priest and a Catholic missionary and has lectured in Germany, Austria and Israel on the horrors of the Holocaust. But Bormann Jr.'s almost saintly reputation is now...

Background on Hitler

Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party ( (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party).

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