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“The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data. “We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.” The documented camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel. (via The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking - NYTimes.com)

“The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data. “We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.” The documented camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel. (via The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking - NYTimes.com)

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Leader Of Anti-Semitic Party In Hungary Discovers He's Jewish

futurejournalismproject:

FJP: News following comedy - Remember Dave Chappelle’s Clayton Bigsby, the blind racist?

kohenari:

If Alanis Morissette ever does a follow-up to her “Ironic” song, I’m hoping this gets worked in there somewhere (especially since it’s actually ironic, unlike most of the examples she chose for her song):

One of the leaders of Hungary’s Jobbik Party, which the Anti-Defamation League says is one of the few political parties in Europe to overtly campaign with anti-Semitic materials, has discovered that he is himself a Jew.

As the AP says, Csanad Szegedi had in the past railed about the “Jewishness” of the political class. According to the ADL, his party’s presidential candidate referred to Israeli Jews as “lice-infested, dirty murderers.”

For Szegedi all of this came to a screeching halt, when in 2010 a prisoner confronted him with evidence that he had Jewish roots. According to the AP, Szegedi tried to bribe the prisoner to keep him quiet, but rumors and innuendo reached a fever pitch by late last year and in June, Szegedi conceded that his mother was a Jew. According to Jewish law, that makes Szegedi Jewish, too.

Not only that, but Szegedi’s grandmother survived Auschwitz and his grandfather survived labor camps.

HT: Rabbi Jason Miller.

If he tried to bribe the messenger, it seems to me that he didn’t just find out; rather, he already knew it and wanted to keep it just for himself.

Either way, what a douchebag!
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Richard Prasquier, center, with President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande. Photo by: Reuters Political analysts say Sarkozy is expected to lose, but Prasquier wrote he was worried by a possible victory by Francois Hollande. What would be the influence of “the leftist parties and the Greens which express a deep hostility towards Israel”? asked Prasquier, before answering: “I expect a surge in leftist and Communist manifestations of anti-Zionism.” (via French Jewish leader in hot waterover apparent endorsement of Sarkozy - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News)

Richard Prasquier, center, with President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande.

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Political analysts say Sarkozy is expected to lose, but Prasquier wrote he was worried by a possible victory by Francois Hollande. What would be the influence of “the leftist parties and the Greens which express a deep hostility towards Israel”? asked Prasquier, before answering: “I expect a surge in leftist and Communist manifestations of anti-Zionism.” (via French Jewish leader in hot waterover apparent endorsement of Sarkozy - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News)

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