Nov 27th, 2008 · Between now and the end of the year, more than 50 movies — many hoping for Oscar consideration — will hit movie screens. Moviegoers can look forward to everything from animated French mice to Nazis to visitors from other galaxies. NPR's Bob Mondello previews the offerings such as "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Valkyrie" and "Frost/Nixon."
Nov 11th, 2008 · Observant Mormons symbolically baptize dead people to give them the chance to accept Christ in the afterlife. Holocaust survivors complain that they are sometimes using names of people who died in Nazi concentration camps.
Oct 28th, 2008 · Federal authorities announced Monday that they had broken up a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate presidential candidate Barak Obama. The plan involved two white supremacists and authorities say Obama was never in any danger.
Oct 27th, 2008 · Federal authorities say they broke up a plot by two neo-Nazis to assassinate presidential nominee Barack Obama. Authorities say the plan was fantastic in its scope and that Obama was never in any danger.
Sep 30th, 2008 · In 1938, Nicholas Winton was set to go on a ski vacation when a friend called and asked him to help Jewish children flee the Nazis. The young stockbroker saved 660 children, including the mother and aunts of NPR reporter Kim Masters. Masters visits the 99-year-old Winton, who offers a lesson on memory.
Jul 29th, 2008 · The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is set after World War II and follows a London writer who becomes enthralled with the stories of Nazi occupation of the island of Guernsey, off the British coast. The book was written by Mary Ann Shaffer, who died before she could complete it. Shaffer had asked her niece, Annie Barrows, to help finish the novel after she died. Barrows talks with Deborah Amos.
Jul 21st, 2008 · The Justice Department is trying to revoke the U.S. citizenship of an 86-year-old Seattle man who was allegedly part of a Nazi unit that murdered thousands of people during World War II. Former restaurant host and retiree Peter Egner was allegedly part of a Nazi SS police unit in German-occupied Serbia. Egner's lawyer says the Nazi-hunters in the Justice Department are "scraping the bottom of the barrel" for war criminals.
Jul 9th, 2008 · Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and his colleagues are searching Chile and Argentina for former Nazi doctor Aribert Heim. He's on the Center's list of targets in Operation Last Chance, an effort to track down alleged war criminals from the Holocaust before they die.