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The Hippest New Coifführer: 'Hitler Youth' Haircut

Mark Russell — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:42:37 CST

It's the latest retro look to come back into fashion, a haircut that seems like something out of Boardwalk Empire , or a cut J. Edgar Hoover sported, or a style embraced by ... Nazi Germany? Yes, the clean-cut look—buzzed short on the sides, the longer top slicked back with pomade—...

Glenn Beck: Norway Victims Just Like Hitler Youth

Tim Karan — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:34:27 CDT

Glenn Beck has prompted outrage yet again, this time for comparing teenage victims of the Norway shooting rampage to Hitler youth. The right-wing radio host said the Labor Party's camp on Utoya Island— where 68 people were shot last week —is eerily similar to the Nazis' juvenile branch, reports the...

Pope Talks About Life Under Nazis

Mark Russell — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:14:59 CDT

German-born Pope Benedict XVI rarely talks about when he was conscripted into the Hitler Youth as a teen. But yesterday, in an audience with a German Catholic group, Benedict made a rare mention of life under the Nazis, calling it a "dark time," reports the AP . "It looked like the...

Hitler Youth Reached Out to Brit Boy Scouts

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:54:00 CST

Hitler's Nazi Youth organization created cycling tours and other activities in a bid to win over British Boy Scouts, reveals just-released UK intelligence files. Boy Scouts participated in the tours and attended camps run by Nazi Youth on British soil in 1937, according to the documents. MI-5 agents alerted officials...

Pope Recalls Holocaust Horrors, Forgets Jews

Drew Nelles — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:12:26 CDT

Pope Benedict XVI recognized the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II today by paying tribute to Poles and the “tragedy of the Holocaust,” but did not mention its Jewish victims, the New York Times reports. The omission may further strain relations between Jewish leaders and the pope,...

Aide Admits Pope's Hitler Youth Past— With Explanation

Rob Quinn — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:35:45 CDT

Pope Benedict's chief spokesman baffled many yesterday by insisting that the pontiff had never been in the Hitler Youth group, despite the Pope's own biography saying he was a member, the Los Angeles Times reports. "The Pope was never in the Hitler Youth, never, never, never,'' Father Federico Lombardi...

Pundit's Pontificating Draws Fire

Sam Gale Rosen — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:58:10 CDT

Not for the first time, people are calling for Bill Maher's head—in this case for taking pot shots at Pope Benedict XVI on his HBO show. "If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader," Maher said....

Hitler Youth HQ to Become Posh Club

Colleen Barry — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:27:25 CDT

An idling behemoth in Berlin that has housed both the Hitler Youth and the East German Communist Party will soon become a swanky media club, complete with a 42-seat theater, a swimming pool and upscale bars. A secretive British investor recently bought the Bauhaus landmark, and hopes to open a...