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Nazi Cake a Recipe for Trouble for Austrian Pastry Shop

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

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...

Demjanjuk Threatens Hunger Strike in Nazi Guard Trial

By Dana ChivvisFeb 22nd 2011 – 9:54AM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

John Demjanjuk, the former Soviet soldier on trial in Germany for his alleged actions as a Nazi concentration camp guard, is threatening to go on a hunger strike if the court doesn't agree to review documents he says could exonerate him. Demjanjuk, 90, entered court today holding a sign with the number "1627" written on...

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...

Hilarious Irreverence: Fark's Headline of the Year Winners

By Tony DeconinckJan 6th 2011 – 10:30AM
Fark.com

Fark.com

One thing you find out pretty fast working at Fark is that any news story -- no matter how grim -- can be turned into a joke. For those of you not familiar with Fark.com, it's a deeply irreverent social-media news site run by Drew Curtis, where even the most dreary headlines are churned into comedy. Each day, members of...

Nazi-Era Graves Found Near Austrian Psych Ward

By Lauren FrayerJan 4th 2011 – 9:15AM
AP

AP

A mass grave believed to hold the remains of 220 victims of Nazi euthanasia has been uncovered outside a psychiatric hospital in western Austria. The grisly discovery was made by construction workers digging the foundation for an extension to the Hall Hospital, in Tyrol province. Work has been halted while investigators...

Background on Nazi

The Third Reich, also Nazi Germany, is the common name for Germany when it was a totalitarian state ruled by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

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