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The ‘Nakba’ Narrative is Nonsense

JNS.org - In the years since Israel’s rebirth in 1948 a narrative has taken root, a story of well-armed and financed Jewish immigrants overrunning peaceful Palestinian villages, brutally expelling Palestinians from home and country. This narrative is summ

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Elder Of Ziyon - The Jews had every reason to fear genocide in 1948

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Shattering Another Excuse for FDR's Holocaust Apathy

Contemporary defenders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Holocaust record argue that there was no point in bombing the railways to Auschwitz because the Germans sometimes were able to repair railway lines fairly quickly.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Jews acting like adults while Arabs act like babies - in 1948

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Polish Responsibility for the Holocaust Was Not Minor

A New Read on Jewish Life

One of the most heinous pieces of historical revisionism happening right now is Poland’s attempt to pretend to be a victim of the Holocaust instead of one of its prime perpetrators.

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Jewish National Fund reveals photos from Israel's early days of independence

  In honor of Israel's 75th Independence Day, the Jewish National Fund revealed this week special photos of the country's

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Jerusalem or Louisiana, the Matter of Title Has Long Been Resolved

From the blog of Leonard Grunstein at Jewish Standard

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Misconceptions about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising abound, says historian Zachary Mazur

Ahead of a lecture commemorating the 80th anniversary of the uprising, Mazur told JNS that “there is plenty of ignorance” about the uprising and its context.

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How the Palestinians got their name

The Palestinians can call themselves whatever they want, but they cannot hijack 3,000 years of history.

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Elder Of Ziyon - According to Arab interpretations of international law in 1930, Jews have the sole right to the Temple Mount today!

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Elder Of Ziyon - 75 years ago: Jewish heroes saving lives - and getting killed for it

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Just where on earth was 'Palestine'?

Exposing the media myth: Palestine - a land of authentic 'splendour' filled with indigenous Palestinians. Or was it? Have a read inside.

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First Came the Zionists, THEN Came the Palestinians...

The Palestinians like to tell everyone they lived in "Palestine" since dinosaur times then the bad Zionists came from Europe and displaced them. This is a ve...

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Elder Of Ziyon - 80 years ago: Nazis massacre Jewish leaders in Tripoli before leaving

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HRC Op-Ed In The Hill Times: History Doesn’t Support Giving Israel An ‘Occupier’ Label

HRC’s Op-Ed entitled: “History Doesn’t Support Giving Israel An ‘Occupier’ Label” was published in The Hill Times on Wednesday, January 25,

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Elder Of Ziyon - To understand today's antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism, look to the past

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New exhibit on DP camps showcases ‘extraordinary energy’ of the Jewish people

“You see this extraordinary power of their will to live, to create a future for their children and themselves that is connected to their heritage to their traditions,” said Jonathan Brent, YIVO CEO and executive director, of the exhibit at United Nations

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Jewish Soldiers Helped Liberate Palestine From the Ottoman Empire

Tombstones in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv. Photo: Ovedc via Wikicommons. A recent article from National Library of Israel …

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Israel at 75: The ancient love story between the Jewish people and their homeland

History has not always been kind to the Jewish people, but the ongoing Israel adventure feels downright miraculous, writes Gil Troy

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Elder Of Ziyon - 75 years ago: Another forgotten massacre of Jews

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'The great unpunishment': How, why so many Holocaust perpetrators got away with it

Fewer than 600 of those who enacted the Holocaust received heavy sentences after WWII. David Wilkinson's docu explores how the mass of Nazi criminals, collaborators escaped justice

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Elder Of Ziyon - If anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism, why did Arabs recruit Nazis in 1948?

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Making sense of the great Mizrahi exodus

The history and memory of the Jews expelled from Arab countries has been suppressed in order to demonize Zionism.

People who whine about the, self-inflicted, “Nakba” never as acknowledge the millions of Jews ejected from communities in which they had lived for thousands of years. The difference is that Israel took every last one of them in, while the Arab nations decided to exploit Arab “refugees” and push the lie of the fictional Arab “Palestinian.”

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Why Hanukkah Made Western Civilization Possible

Hanukkah made western civilization possible by preserving idea of one God instead of pagan beliefs of many gods. Holiday is more than just a Jewish victory.

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Elder Of Ziyon - 24 years since the PLO fooled Clinton into thinking they amended their charter

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Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

“The failures of journalism that Landes examines did not begin in 2000 with the Second Intifada. The idea of Israel as oppressor and colonialist interloper and the Palestinians as innocent victims have been central to Arab and Palestinian Arab political culture since the 1940s. In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union, the support of which during 1947–49 was so important to the establishment of the Jewish state, joined Israel’s enemies in maintaining that first Zionists and then the state of Israel were to blame for the conflict. From the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, an anti-Israeli consensus emerged in the United Nations General Assembly. The Soviet bloc, communist China and other communist regimes joined Islamic states, many Third World nations, and the Arab states in denouncing Zionism as a form of racism and Israel as a practitioner of cruelty and aggression.”

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The Temple Mount: Whose Is It?

Palestinian Arab terror groups charged that the Jewish presence on the Mount was improper, infringed upon Arab Muslim right, had to cease.

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I Was Robbed of 70% of the Land of Israel

This is the kind of information that most people simply don't know and those that do, are too dishonest to discuss it. It is important for you to read and then share it out. It's time to reclaim the n

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The Failed British Double-Cross of Israel

Heretofore overlooked British General Staff documents demonstrate that the oft-marginalized Lehi leader Avraham ‘Yair’ Stern’s assessment of British intentions toward Mandate Palestine was correct

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Israel: What happened to the 1947 UN Partition Plan?

How the Palestinians rejected sovereignty, part 2: The UN partition plan

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Elder Of Ziyon - A short history of "Arabs Threaten Jews" (not "Zionists")

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The One Week of World War II That Gave Rise to the Modern Middle East

This week marks the 80th anniversary of three seismic events in North Africa that would change the shape of the entire Middle East. On November 8, 1942, Britain and the U.S. launched Operation Torch—the invasion of French North Africa (today Morocco and Algeria).

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Jewish History: The Balfour bogeyman

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Peter Bergson - The Unintended Hero of the Holocaust Era

Saving 200,000 European Jews.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Britain Needs To Apologize To The Jews for What They Did During The Mandate, More Than To The Arabs

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Elder Of Ziyon - The King David Hotel Bombing—What Arab Terrorist Ever Warned a Jew, First? (Judean Rose)

Was the King David Hotel bombing an example of "Jewish terror?"

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How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust

Ken Burns’s documentaries blend striking visuals of still photos or archival film with colorful and often insightful analysis and narration. But his skill as

Burns is a leftist hack who is exploiting the Shoah to prop up the left’s dangerous immigration policies.

“What Burns omits is more telling. His 2014 production, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, included at least some criticism of FDR’s inaction when it came to the Holocaust. But this film—a film about the Holocaust—consistently defends him. The story told here is one in which the president, a man who had largely unchallenged political power as he bestrode the American scene, wanted to do more but was prevented from doing so. In this telling, it is a nativist Congress, Jew-haters at the State Department, the general acceptance of anti-Semitism, as well as the exigencies of fighting the war and the impossibility of effective action or rescue that stopped this well-meaning president from saving more Jews.”

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Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care

The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration …

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The first Jew to escape Auschwitz helped save 200,000 lives -- but few know his name

Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'

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Elder Of Ziyon - There was a single Muslim poem about Jerusalem written before 1967. It is about revenge against Crusaders.

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Obviously written out of animosity toward Crusaders, not because of any particular feelings about Jerusalem.

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American filmmaker Ken Burns has a Palestine problem

Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?

Jen Burns turned out to be a real bastard. Just like the Democrat’s hero FDR.

“Sadly, Roosevelt chose to keep Jews out of the Virgin Islands, despite the offer by the governor and legislative assembly of that territory to open their doors to Jews fleeing Hitler.”

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The Jewish 'nakba' was greater than the Arab • Point of No Return

The following is an extract from one chapter, including footnotes, from The  Industry of Lies  by Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini. It is an insightful and concise must-read. The book was published by Norwegian pro-Israel group Med Israel For Fred (MIFF

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Elder Of Ziyon - Seven inconvenient and under-reported facts about the Munich Olympics massacre

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Memo to Secret Police Chief Reveals Hunt for Chabad’s Soviet Underground

What does a top-secret post-war memo to Stalin’s MGB boss tell us about the Soviet campaign against Chabad?

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A Ceasefire Line Is Not a Border for a Palestinian State: Debunking the Green Line Myth

In a recent opinion piece for The Washington Post, noted Israeli activist and journalist Gershom Gorenberg referred numerous times to the Green Line as

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How Did Jews Flee to Israel from the Arab World?

A look at some of the brave souls who risked their lives to reach Israel before and just after the state's founding...

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Elder Of Ziyon - Jewish immigrants weren't "white" in the US as recently as 1952

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Wr aren’t white (whatever that means). We are Judeans. We originate in the Middle East.

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Elder Of Ziyon -19th century Arab Palestine was a bunch of squabbling groups who hated each other

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Decades After Serving, Jewish Lieutenant Receives World War II War Medals

Jewish men, women and children march with bundles down the main thoroughfare in Krakow, Poland, during the liquidation of the …

Great history. Although there was no “navy Air Force.” I also didn’t know that the armed forces had “Jewish quotas” - but I am not surprised.

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The Holocaust was not just another genocide

Antisemitism education in schools is not up to the job and requires deep and urgent reform

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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Yamit: The Forgotten Expulsion (Judean Rose)

Candid interview with Isser Coopersmith about the evacuation of Yamit.

“Land for peace” was never going toward work, that was obvious to me my entire adult life. You can’t make peace, at all, ever, no matter what you do, with people who want to murder you. Israel should never given up an inch of land, and it’s a travesty that so many brave Jewish men and women, almost always religious, that did so much to secure the nation, and to make Jews safer, we’re treated appallingly by their own government.

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Elder Of Ziyon - The Jewish Agency's history destroys the "Palestine was an Arab state" narrative

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Elder Of Ziyon - Did Jews buy land in Transjordan as early as the 1870s?

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Elder Of Ziyon - As the Mufti forbade selling land to Jews, Transjordanian sheikhs WANTED Jews to buy their land

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Ashkenazi Jews Are Middle Eastern - JIMENA

On a genetic level there is virtually no difference between Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews except that Ashkenazi Jews have slightly more European admixture reflecting our long sojourn on the European continent dating back to Roman times and even ea

Jews need to stop referring to themselves as “Jews of color,” or “white Jews.” We are ALL middle eastern. Unfortunately, the link to genetic studies proving that fact isn’t active in this article, but you can find tons of links to scientific articles proving that fact by doing a quick Google search.

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History: Who stole Palestinian land? Jordan did!

The Hashemites had no connection to the land until the Arab revolt, and then Abdullah was imposed on the residents by imperial Britain.

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100 Years Ago This Month: When Congress Embraced Zionism—Unanimously

One hundred years ago this week, the United States Congress unanimously embraced Zionism.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Palestine Jews were encouraged to visit Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Egypt in the 1920s

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The 1967 Six Day War: Why it matters

From the blog of David Harris at The Times of Israel

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Elder Of Ziyon - Three minutes of color film footage of the Jews of Nasielsk, Poland, on the eve of the Holocaust

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This breaks my heart.

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Massacre of Iraqi Jews Remembered on 81st Anniversary

Young Iraqi Jews who fled to pre-state Israel following the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Baghdad. Photo: Moshe Baruch Jewish groups …

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Elder Of Ziyon - 74 years ago: World compliments Arabs on how humanely they ethically cleansed Jews from Jerusalem

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The Jewish nation's capital throughout history - Jerusalem

Islamists artificially inflate Islam's link to the city, but Islamic terrorism turned Jerusalem, literally the City of Peace, into a bloody battleground and thus forfeited any claim to share in the city's destiny. Op-ed.

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Yom Yerushalayim: Correcting a Historical Injustice

Israel’s first prime minister David Ben Gurion. Photo: Wiki Commons. JNS.org – How are we to understand the meaning of …

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The Untold Story of a Paratrooper Who Captured Jerusalem in 1967

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Jerusalem's Supreme Muslim Council, Headed By Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, In 1925: The Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound's 'Identity With The Site Of Solomon's Temple Is Beyond Dispute'

The Haram Al-Sharif Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem, known to Christians and Jews as the Temple Mount, is a focal point of tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Secret UK propaganda campaign stoked Israel hatred to appear authentic

Declassified files show Britain attempted to sow division between Moscow and its Arab allies using fake reports blaming both sides for Egypt's defeat in the 1967 Six Day War

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When Arabs Became Palestinians

Israeli troops overlook Jerusalem’s Old City, during the Six-Day War, June 1967. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. With the recent eruption of …

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The Jewish Nakba: basic facts have been abandoned and forgotten

This week in the run-up to 14 May, the  day when  Israel’s independence was declared 74 years ago, articles about the Palestinian Nakba are already proliferating. Not one mentions the greater nakba of Jewish refugees driven from Arab countries. In fact on

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Israel, 1948: Vidal Sassoon in Combat

Not long before becoming the world's most famous hairstylist and building a business empire, Sassoon fought for Israeli independence. He lost friends, gained confidence, went weeks without a shower, and literally never learned the Hebrew word for 'retreat

I had no idea about any of this. And I went to camp with his daughter!

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History of US State Department Shows ‘Jewish White Privilege’ Is a Myth

US State Department Truman Building. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. On April 12, 2022, the State Department published its 2021 “Country Reports …

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Revealing the truth behind al-Aqsa and 100 years of lies

You would think that after nearly 100 years of history repeating itself, the media would catch on, but alas the last few weeks proved otherwise.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Arabs admired Nazi Germany - not in spite of genocide but because of it

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Elder Of Ziyon - In 1938, "Nature" published a paper saying Jews can't easily be good physicists - but Arya

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Thus proving again that science has always been manipulated for political reasons. It’s also shows why it’s absolutely moronic when people say they “believe” in science. Science isn’t a belief, it’s a process, and blind belief leads to nightmarish horrific results when racism is presented as “science.” “Nature” still exists, and is still respected. It also still lies to validate evil agendas.

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Elder Of Ziyon - The Holocaust was well documented even by 1943, but the world didn't care

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We're all obligated to remember the victims of the Holocaust

  "Dear Berthe, this is already the fourth day. I am on the train car now. I hope, my child,

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The Incredible Tunnel of King Hezekiah

According to the Biblical story, Hezekiah launched one of the most technologically complex operations in all of ancient history.

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Elder Of Ziyon - A large variety of Palestine kosher for Passover wines were imported to North America in 1914

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Why We Don't have to Accept the Palestinian Lie

From the blog of Amy Rosenthal at The Times of Israel

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Elder Of Ziyon - In 1966, Palestinians protested against Jordan - but not to create a state in the “West Bank”

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Elder Of Ziyon - The Holocaust is Not the Reason for the State of Israel

Should the Holocaust serve as justification for the founding of the State of Israel?

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BBC, the revision of history and the invention of Ancient Palestine

Ancient Palestine existed 3000 years ago - that's according to a BBC2 historical documentary that has been seen almost 10 million times.

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Pretending the Kindertransport was a part of a 'noble tradition' is ignorant of history

Special provision was made for children because Britain refused to let in their parents

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Remembering the Anschluss

Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring. Photo: German Federal Archives Eighty-four years ago — on March 12, 1938 — Austria was …