Tag: The Holocaust
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Debate: Should it be illegal to deny the Holocaust?
The government has proposed changes to the regulations on incitement against ethnic groups. In the proposal, they want it to be a crime to deny, for example, the Holocaust under certain conditions. Mattias Svensson, editorial writer at Svenska Dagbladet, is against criminalization – while Anders Lindberg, political editor-in-chief of Aftonbladet, is behind the government's proposal.
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Tobias Billström (M) on the number of civilian casualties in Gaza: “Raises questions about whether humanitarian law has been complied with”
It has now passed over three months since Israel was shocked by the Hamas massacres in southern Israel on October 7. 1,200 Israelis were killed and 253 people were kidnapped. Israel has since responded with extensive airstrikes and ground fighting in Gaza. According to the Hamas-controlled health authority, over 24,000 Palestinians have now been killed.…
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Emergency humanitarian situation in Gaza, KD in a pressured position of opinion and Tower Valleys who fight for their mother tongue
Hour 1: We report on the latest situation in Gaza. Among other things, about the urgent medical challenges. Johan von Schreeb, professor of global disaster medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, in the studio. Conversation about how to see the war between Israel and Hamas from an international law perspective. Guests: Said Mahmoudi, professor emeritus of…
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O’Canada! A standing ovation for a Nazi veteran prompts the speaker’s resignation and Trudeau’s apology
None of the 338 MPs stopped to consider that Russia was a major ally in the Second World War. If someone had fought against the Russians, it would mean aligning with the Nazis. Among those applauding was the German ambassador to Canada. It soon emerged that Hunka had served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division…
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The law should not determine what is true in history
This proposition implies that the law dictates a singular truth about a historical event that occurred in the distant past. This is not a matter for criminal lawyers, but for historians. Laymen may believe that history consists of indisputable facts, but in reality history is subjective, imprecise and contested, influenced by time, place and culture.…
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Behind the scenes at the UN, the row over the ore railway and Fukuyama, the political scientist who was wrong – or?
HOUR 1 The UN General Assembly has opened and heads of state and ministers have replaced each other in the speaker’s chair during the week; yesterday the Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström spoke. USA Correspondent Ginna Lindberg reports. When will we see an end to gang violence? Fryshuset’s CEO Johan Oljeqvistpolice chief Carin Götblad and…
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Gareth Evans: the case for recognising Palestine
Since a United Nations General Assembly Resolution vote in November 2012, Palestine has had the status of a state within the UN system. It is not a full member state but, like the Holy See, a non-member observer state. Australia – after a heady debate within the Gillard cabinet – abstained on that vote. The…
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471: Widding’s new life as a savage
The Swedish Democratic Member of Parliament Elsa Widding participated in a conference in Stavanger where climate deniers mingled with vaccine opponents and people who relativize the Holocaust. This did not like the Liberals’ Mats Persson, who saw her on Twitter. Jimmie Ă…kesson has been careful in backing up his member of parliament, which led to…
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The long and winding history of the war on abortion drugs
Along with the stethoscope and camembert cheese, mifepristone may be one of France’s greatest inventions. It is one of two drugs taken for medical abortions, along with misoprostol, and has made headlines in the US, where a judge in Texas issued an order banning it nationwide. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the history of…
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White director of new slavery film reportedly turned down job out of respect for ‘Black Lives Matter’
You might think there are few comedies about the Holocaust beyond ‘Life is Beautiful’, but you’d be wrong. An IMDB page lists 91 titles. But comedies about slavery? Forget it! The search engine replies: “Did you mean movies about slavery?” But that hasn’t stopped a Danish producer from making the film’The fan‘, a dark comedy…
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The Holocaust part 5 of 5: The hunt for Nazis and love in BorĂĄs
When there is peace, neither Ester, Leon nor Livia have anywhere to go. They don’t know if any family members survived and they have nothing left. At the same time, the Swedish Red Cross sends boats across the Baltic Sea to help sick people who have been liberated from the Nazi camps, and give them…
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The Holocaust part 4 of 5: The death march towards Bergen-Belsen
As the Allies approach Nazi Germany in the winter of 1944/45, the Nazis begin to push camp prisoners into the interior of Germany. During the death marches around 250,000 people die. Ester and her older sister Hela are forced to leave for several weeks. The distance between the camp they were in, and where they…
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The Holocaust Part 3 of 5: Auschwitz
When Nazi Germany loses the Battle of Stalingrad, it becomes a turning point in the war. But even though the German war fortunes have turned, they continue with the mass murders of Jews. The combined death and concentration camp Auschwitz is expanded and in 1944 almost half a million Hungarian Jews are forcibly transferred to…
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The Holocaust part 2 of 5: Holocaust camps and escape attempts
Nazi Germany attacks the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 and mobile death squads advance through Eastern Europe. Over a million people are shot dead by the so-called Einsatzgruppe. But the Nazis want to be more efficient in their killing and start using gas. Extermination camps are built to exterminate all Jews throughout Europe.…
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The Holocaust Part 1 of 5: Prisoners in the Nazi Ghetto
Leon is resourceful and manages to sneak out of the ghetto to get food for his hungry family. The food tours run for almost two years. But one day he is stopped by SS men who forcibly transfer able-bodied boys to the Majdanek concentration camp. In another ghetto, in the city of Lodz, 12-year-old Ester…
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The girl who survived five concentration camps
Hannas Dimitri’s daughter Berith Kalander tells the incredible story of her mother who was born in Poland and as a child lost her entire family in the Holocaust. Survived five concentration camps Hanna’s father and siblings were executed by soldiers in a forest in Poland and she was then sent with her little sister Anita,…
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Museums Round-Up: Countdown begins, engines fired up, for opening of new Cold War museum
Ten, nine, eight, seven … it’s the lift-off sequence we all once associated with launching lunar modules, but today, unfortunately, it’s more likely some kind of missile – to cause needless human destruction or kill James Bond. It is fittingly reproduced here because we now have only ten days until the opening of Cold War…
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The holocaust in the family
Genia and Israel have survived the Holocaust. In the 60s, they moved into the Stockholm suburb of Kärrtorp and started a family. But with their sons Josef and Daniel, they never talk about what they have been through. When there is shooting on TV, Genia runs away. It reminds of the war, she explains. Josef…
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The openly fascist and racist party has set its sights on the parliamentary elections
Sinimusta Liike has announced its goal to nominate candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections in all constituencies and to get at least one seat in parliament. The party says on its website that it intends to offer radical nationalists a vessel to participate in parliamentary decision-making, instead of “being content to operate in the shadows.”…
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Henrik Frenkel – from wrong Alzheimer’s to incurable cancer
After a period of failing memory, Henrik Frenkel made an investigation. Then he learned that he had Alzheimer’s. Life stopped, but Henrik decided early on that he would not keep his illness quiet but instead talk about it. On a return visit a year later, the news came that was almost even harder to accept.…
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Raoul Wallenberg – disappeared behind the Iron Curtain
The editorial staff for this section consists of:Cecilia DĂĽringer – presenter and scriptEmilia Mellberg – producerPablo Leiva Wenger – stage narratorElias Klenell – sound design and final mixAlso participating is Ingrid Carlberg, author and journalist. Do you want to know more about Raoul Wallenberg? Here are some of the books that form the basis of…
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‘Beforeigners’: Dark, dangerous and dead set fun
‘Beforeigners’ is a wild time-traveling Scandinavian series with a lot to say about migration, technology and the universal need to connect, writes Dr Lisa Harper Campbell. YET ANOTHER hidden gem awaits you in the online catalog from SBS on Demand. This time it is the first Norwegian series from HBO Nordic (now HBO Max), a…
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Raoul Wallenberg – a bright figure in the darkness of the Holocaust
The editorial staff for this section consists of: Cecilia DĂĽringer – presenter and script Erik Laquist – producer Emilia Mellberg – producer Pablo Leiva Wenger – stage narrator Elias Klenell – sound design and final mix Also participating is Ingrid Carlberg, author and journalist. Do you want to know more about Raoul Wallenberg? Here are…
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Israeli newspaper names most influential Jew of 2022
The Jerusalem Post praised Vladimir Zelensky for “changing the world?” through its use of ?media and diplomacy? Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is the most influential Jew in 2022, according to the Jerusalem Post, which published its list on Sunday. Describing the former comedian as an “icon”, it hailed his use of “media and diplomacy” to…
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Julian Assange is being crucified for our sins
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being slowly murdered by the forces of the U.S. and British states, his crime has been to expose their crimes. His treatment reinforces the lessons of what he has already exposed. But aren’t the U.S. and Great Britain the good guys, a moral that we as Westerners have inculcated in…
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Live: UN again trying to evacuate Mariupol civilians, says Guterres
The UN said a third operation is under way to evacuate civilians from the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, where fighting continued on Thursday at a besieged steel plant despite Moscow’s pledge to open humanitarian corridors. Earlier, Poland said an international donor conference raised more than 6 billion euros to help rebuild the war-torn country.…
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Live: Israel says Putin apologised for Lavrov’s Hitler remarks
Russia’s Vladimir Putin has apologised for his foreign minister’s claim that Adolf Hitler had Jewish roots in a phone call with Naftali Bennett, the Israeli PM’s office said Thursday. Earlier, Poland said an international donor conference raised more than 6 billion euros for Ukraine, where fighting continued at a besieged steel plant in Mariupol despite…
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Recent developments in Ukraine: 5 May
For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flash point Ukraine. Recent developments in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All times EDT: 01:16: Britain’s defense minister said on Thursday that with forces in Belarus conducting regular military exercises, Russia is likely to “inflate the threat to Ukraine” from Belarus in order to retain…
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Finnish Jews face discrimination, says an EU anti-Semitism expert
EU anti-Semitism watchdog Katharina von Schnurbeintold Yle that the Finnish authorities need to do more to combat hate speech, including anti-Semitic narratives. "Our research shows that one in two Europeans see anti-Semitism as a problem in their home country. This figure is 17 per cent of Finns." He said, adding that the relatively small Jewish…
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That is why Putin needs Syrian mercenaries
Russian TV has shown clips of Syrian fighters in camouflage clothing and weapons. They stand in front of banners with pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Russian Defense Minister has claimed that 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East have already signed up. Sources interviewed by P1’s Middle East podcast…
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How Crimea became part of Russia and why it was gifted to Ukraine
Jewish enclave, home of a deported nation, a present for the Ukrainians: The difficult history of Russian Crimea In March, it will be eight years since the day Crimea returned to the Russian Federation. This ended its 60-year history as part of Ukraine, which began, not on February 19, 1954, but a little earlier. What…
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Who Owns the Holocaust?
He describes the Nazis and the six million Jews they murdered as “two white groups of people.” Oddly enough, Goldberg’s structure is partially correct insofar as it follows fairly closely the modern identification of race as a “social construction”. The term “white” was born precisely to identify those who should not be considered slaves to…
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The Danish government outlines 15 initiatives to combat escalating anti-Semitism
On November 14, 2019, dozens of Anti-Semitic acts were carried out all over Denmark – including the desecration of over 80 Jewish tombstones in Randers – to mark the 81st anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, a pogrom against Jews living in Germany carried out by the Nazis. It was not even a round…