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Naked Ambition: How PETA's Strategy of Nearly Nude Protesting Pays Off

The letters P-E-T-A stand for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals," but you're forgiven if you thought they stood for "Publicity Events involving T and A." After all, it seems every time there's a slow news day, PETA is there to take up the slack by doing a publicity campaign revolving around attractive and...

Nazi Cake a Recipe for Trouble for Austrian Pastry Shop

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...

99-Year-Old Recalls Risking Life for Holocaust Survivors [VIDEO]

The "Today" show has previewed a documentary about a remarkable woman who told the world the harrowing story of a group of Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe. Jewish-American photojournalist Ruth Gruber was 36 and working for the New York Herald Tribune in 1947 when she was sent to document the plight of 4,500 refugees...

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

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...

Holocaust Survivors: France's Train Company Owes Us 'Blood Money'

NICE, France -- Some survivors of the French trains used to deport 76,000 Jews to the death camps during World War II are angry about what was billed this week as the first public apology to them by the SNCF, France's national railway company. They believe that SNCF President Guillaume Pepy did not take true...

Background on Holocaust

The Holocaust (from the Greek ': hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also known as the Shoah (Hebrew: , HaShoah, "catastrophe"; Yiddish: , Churben or Hurban, from the Hebrew for "destruction"), was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory.

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