http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25372/nazis-were-given-%e2%80%98safe-haven%e2%80%99-in-u-s-report-says http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25372/nazis-were-given-%e2%80%98safe-haven%e2%80%99-in-u-s-report-says#comments Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:21:06 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25372 “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.

The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.

It describes the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at Auschwitz, part of whose scalp was kept in a Justice Department official’s drawer; the vigilante killing of a former Waffen SS soldier in New Jersey; and the government’s mistaken identification of the Treblinka concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.

The report catalogs both the successes and failures of the band of lawyers, historians and investigators at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which was created in 1979 to deport Nazis.

Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés. Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.’s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25372/nazis-were-given-%e2%80%98safe-haven%e2%80%99-in-u-s-report-says/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24261/colonia-dignidad-cult-leader-paul-schaefer-dies http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24261/colonia-dignidad-cult-leader-paul-schaefer-dies#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:54:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24261 Former Nazi Paul Schaefer, who founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the 1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children, died of heart failure in a prison hospital Saturday, officials said.

He was 88.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24261/colonia-dignidad-cult-leader-paul-schaefer-dies/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23163/young-adolf-hitler-and-two-sisters-removed-from-home http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23163/young-adolf-hitler-and-two-sisters-removed-from-home#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:07:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23163 Adolf Hitler Campbell and his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, were taken from their Holland Township, N.J., home on Friday by the state's Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), Sgt. John Harris of the Holland Township Police Department told FOXNews.com.

New Jersey officials said Wednesday that it is not just a matter of names. "DYFS would never remove a child simply based on that child's name," Bernyk said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23163/young-adolf-hitler-and-two-sisters-removed-from-home/feed 0