Company slammed for selling Hitler hoodies by anti-Nazi Simon Wiesenthal Centre
The hoodies were available online listed as funny and casual items by online marketplace VOVA but an angry response from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre s Dr Shimon Samuels has forced them to scrap the items
Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany in 1933 (Image: Roger Viollet/Getty Images)
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This week in history: December 21-27
20 December 2020
Wreckage of Dabwali fire
On December 23, 1995, some 540 people were killed and a further 160 injured in a fire which broke out in the town of Mandi Dabwali, about 180 miles northwest of New Delhi, the capital of India.
A synthetic tent erected to hold a school awards ceremony for the local DAV Public School erupted into flames, apparently triggered by an electrical short circuit, trapping approximately 1,500 people inside the makeshift structure with only a single exit. The fire lasted only five minutes but was so intense that many victims were burned beyond recognition. More than 200 children were cremated without any identification. Some of the deaths were attributed to the stampede created when the entire crowd tried to escape at once through the single exit.
The Wandering Jew Has Arrived by Albert Londres is a new translation by Helga Abraham of
Le Juif errant est arrivé, first published in France in 1930. The text is a collection of twenty-seven
articles by Londres originally published in the mass-circulation newspaper
Le Petit Parisien.
One of the great journalists of his time, of any time, Londres was born in 1884 and died in 1932 when the passenger ship taking him back to France, after carrying out a major and mysterious investigation in China, caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Aden. If he was writing now he would be called an investigative journalist. He wrote on prisons, colonial labour, prostitution and madness and is recognised as a source for Hergé’s cartoon character Tintin, whose first journalistic adventure, set in the Soviet Union, was published in January 1929; Londres’s own highly critical account of the Soviet Union had appeared in 1920.