Austria Honors Anti-Hitler Plotter
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Paying tribute to a key figure in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler, Austria's president on Monday unveiled a plaque that praised an Austrian officer executed by the Nazis as a symbol of resistance to the German dictator.
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A prominent French political figure who ordered hundreds of Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II will be buried wearing his Legion of Honor medal, his lawyer said Sunday, even though the deceased man was stripped of his right to wear the decoration in 1998.
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Pope Benedict XVI begins a three-day pilgrimage to Austria on Friday with a solemn tribute to Jewish Holocaust victims, and an appeal to diplomats serving with the U.N. nuclear agency and other international organizations.Ahead of his visit, Benedict's seventh foreign trip in two years as pope, the German-born pontiff spoke of his affection for Austria, a mostly Catholic country 'which has been near to me since my childhood.'But the pope, who visited and vacationed here often as a cardinal, faced a challenge: Many Austrian believers, disgusted by clergy sex scandals and deeply resentful of a government-imposed church tax, have grown cold _ and tens of thousands have left the church altogether. Read more
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The last emperor of Austria, Karl I, will be beatified by Pope John Paul today amid fierce political and religious argument over how saintly he really was.
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Relatives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that archives they turned over will clear the name of the man both praised and vilified for bargaining with the Nazis for the lives of Jews.
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The country's most unusual war heroes -- including glow worms, elephants and monkeys -- will be honoured today for their devotion to duty under fire.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder reminded  Germans on the eve of Auschwitz commemorations that ordinary  people empowered the Nazis and urged them to be vigilant  against a continued far-right threat.
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One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said Tuesday.
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Â· Dutch activist exonerated under 1998 law  Â· Hitler used fire as pretext to establish dictatorship
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More than 60 years after a group of  German officers tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler,  international recognition that has eluded them for years may  soon be on its way -- despite resistance from within Germany.
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BERLIN - A regional branch of one of Germany's main political parties is planning a legal bid to have Adolf Hitler posthumously stripped of his German citizenship.Some 75 years after Braunschweig ...Comment
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The President of Austria, Heinz Fischer, and the Austrian Defence Minister, Guenther Platter, today have met with the BiH Council of Ministers Chair, Adnan Terzic, who briefed them on the efforts the Council is ...
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It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" Â a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth Â faces the ax.
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The makers of a movie starring Tom Cruise about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler will most likely be allowed to use a German memorial site after all, a spokesman for the Finance Ministry said on Friday.
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PRAGUE- Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel on a one-day official visit to Prague said that he would welcome a gesture from the Czech government to the ethnic German minority during this year's celebration ...
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VATICAN CITY Oct. 3, 2004 - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ&#39;s suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The
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Spies for communist East Germany's  feared secret police had little in common with the "good Stasi  agent" at the center of an Oscar-winning German film, a German  historian and Stasi expert said on Monday.