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In a post he uploaded on the blog of the Movement of Active Citizens, SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos, said on Sunday that his party never likened Merkel to Hitler.

Glezos, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance, expressed his concerns over the climate of "discord, intolerance and hostility" that exists between Greece and Germany.

The fighting in Syria, which started with an uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed into a deadly civil war, has entered its fifth year. As of January 2015, it has claimed over 220,000 lives, displaced 7.6 million people inside Syria, and driven another 3.5 million people out of the country.

The revelations held within classified Nazi SS documents are shocking.

The documents which saw the light of day recently reveal that Nazi SS used V-2 rockets to kill thousands of German civilians by bombing their cities, just for… target practice!

A 57-year-old man who let off a racist rant at a Nigerian doctor working at Kozani?s general hospital on Thursday received a six-month suspended prison sentence after a court found him guilty of violating anti-racism laws.

Russia has called on Bulgarian authorities to prevent a planned torchlight rally organised by a Bulgarian radical nationalist party in honour of a controversial WWII army general known for his pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic activities.

The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria has sent a protest note to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry citing the UN resolution on combating glorification of Nazism.

German anti-Islam movement LEGIDA took on the streets of Leipzig with around 15,000 protesters on Wednesday evening.

Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, published a notable piece a couple of weeks ago in the magazine Commentary. Titled, ?Erdo?an?s Willing Enablers,? this was a bold critique of some Turkish writers, including myself, who allegedly enabled the ?authoritarian, repressive regime? of President Tayyip Erdo?an.

This columnist?s first of a few encounters with Melih Gökçek, the unchallenged mayor of the Turkish capital since 1994, was through a press release from the municipality, sent by fax to this newspaper, in the mid-1990s. It was grotesquely (but cutely) signed: Melih Gökçek, Lord Mayor of Ankara. It caused laughter in the newsroom.

‘Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination’ by Stefan Ihrig (Harvard University Press, 311 pages, $30)

Report: U.S. recruited Nazis to help during Cold War

NEW YORK -- The CIA and other U.S. agencies "used the services" of over 1,000 former Nazis during the Cold War, the New York Times is reporting.