It annihilated the competition. “Predator: Badlands” got a hold of audiences this Friday, its opener, and earned the top spot in theaters — chomping down on $15.6 million in earnings, according to The Numbers. The sci-fi horror flick, the ninth installment in the “Predator” franchise, has “enough familiar situations and high-tech hunting gear to satisfy hardcore … Read more
Often associated with scams and deepfakery, AI is now being used for another, more noble purpose: unmasking history’s monsters. A German historian has utilized the omnipresent tech to glean the identity of a notorious Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph — over 80 years after it was taken. “The match, from everything I … Read more
In the words of Cole Porter, “Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?” “Art Fraud: 50 Fakes That Fooled the Art World,” the new book by Susie Hodge, will leave you wondering whether any work of art is the real McCoy. “Art fraud is rife,” Hodge begins. “Many experts believe that as … Read more
A UK couple was taken aback after discovering a World War 2-era “Nazi bunker” while renovating their home. “It’s not something you find every day!” Shaun Tullier, 35, told South West News Service while recalling the “completely wild” discovery. “It is history and it’s good to have but I couldn’t have imagined going through that … Read more
HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher ripped into the woke mob for branding actress Sydney Sweeney a Nazi — all because she joked about having “great jeans” in a new American Eagle ad. “In other uncomfortable racial news, sad news, we found out this week that Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi,” the late night funny … Read more
In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards. They looked past the thimble and race-car tokens, ignored the tiny houses and phony deeds. The real treasures were hidden within the board and its … Read more
Stumbling upon loose change has never been so lucrative. A pair of hikers in Czechia hit the jackpot after stumbling upon a cache of gold coins and jewels worth over $300,000 — which some historians speculate could’ve been purposefully hidden from the Nazis. “When he [one of the hikers] opened it, my jaw dropped,” said … Read more
A doctor in Australia found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place. A Queensland surgeon was reprimanded and slapped with a $10,000 fine for snapping a photo of a coma patient’s penis, which featured a swastika tattoo, and then sharing it in a WhatsApp group chat, according to the New Zealand Herald. A … Read more
Muriel White did not set out to be a hero. She was an American heiress who — like many other US debutantes at the turn of the 20th century — married a European aristocrat. Then the Nazis came. American heiress Muriel White on her wedding day in 1909 to Count Hermann “Manni” Seherr-Thoss. Paul Church … Read more
On Oct. 26, 1957, Reinhold Kulle and his family departed on the MS Italia from Cuxhaven, Germany, destined for a new life in America. But as Michael Soffer reveals in “Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil” (University of Chicago Press), Kulle carried a dark secret. Throughout World War II, Kulle had not only been a … Read more
With LSD finally gaining mainstream acceptance—just last month, the FDA granted breakthrough status to an LSD formula to treat anxiety—author Norman Ohler investigates how it took so long for the drug’s therapeutic benefits to be taken seriously. His conclusion: Blame the Nazis. Not only was the US government introduced to LSD through Nazi research, the … Read more
Tommy Kail knew all about the book “We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter years before it became a best-selling novel. “I met Georgia in 1999 before I graduated college,” he told the NY Post in an exclusive interview, “and she married one of my best friends.” The New York Times bestselling book is … Read more
More than 450 Jewish creatives and professionals in Hollywood are denouncing “The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer’s speech from the 2024 Oscars. In his speech, Glazer, 58, drew parallels between Nazi Germany and the ongoing conflict in Gaza. “We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi … Read more
Danny Cohen, who served as the executive producer on the Academy Award-winning film “The Zone of Interest,” revealed Friday that he does not support the acceptance speech made by director Jonathan Glazer at the 2024 Oscars. In the speech, Glazer, 58 drew parallels between Nazi Germany and the ongoing conflict in Gaza. In his acceptance … Read more
Mohamed Hadid, the real estate tycoon and father of models Gigi and Bella Hadid, called President Biden a “Zionist criminal” and claimed he and others would be “hunted down” like the Nazis for their support of Israel in a scathing social media rant. Hadid, who is Palestinian-American, posted a clip of a woman saying “f**k … Read more
“The New Look” sews together the rise of haute couture and questions about its superstars’ Nazi collaboration during World War II. The Apple TV+ series traces the modern French fashion world through the eyes of acclaimed haute couture designers Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) amidst Nazi-occupied Paris and how each of … Read more
“The Zone of Interest,” the acclaimed Holocaust drama that’s up for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars, will have its Polish premiere on Thursday at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. According to Variety, director Jonathan Glazer will introduce the harrowing film at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where parts of the movie were … Read more
On Saturday, the world marks the first International Holocaust Remembrance Day since Hamas brutally attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. There are some 245,000 Holocaust survivors still alive today — 49% of whom are in Israel, according to a new demographic report by the Claims Conference. Israel’s elderly survivors have a direct connection to October 7 … Read more
The flowing blond locks and the rippling muscles are unchanged. Fabio is still the “King of Romance” – the hard-bodied cover boy of soft-core romance novels back in the swinging ’80s and ’90s. But on the cusp of turning 65, he is breaking his lifelong public silence on politics because, he believes, he must warn … Read more
A prominent New York fashion model and interior designer has been dropped by her talent agency after she posted anti-Israel messages on social media comparing the country to Nazis. Camilla Deterre, 32 — who was profiled this summer in Graydon Carter’s news magazine Air Mail for her role in the design a swanky Chinatown restaurant … Read more