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JCPenney landed in hot water this week for selling a kettle that looks more than a little bit like Hitler. To make them feel better (or worse), here are a few more stories featuring secret Nazi connections. You'll never hear Ace of Base the same way again. Or, more likely, ever again. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Sunday, June 2, 2013 SHOULD'VE SEEN THE SIGNS Ace Of Base's Secret Nazi Past noisey.vice.com Ulf Ekberg, a founding member of Ace of Base, started his career as a neo-Nazi skinhead. BUT ELSA SURVIVED IN REAL LIFE The Real Nazi Search For The Holy Grail dailymail.co.uk An Germany about archaeology under the Nazis shows how the regime launched a 'Last Crusade' expedition in wartime to find the Holy Grail from the Last Supper of Christ. WHY ISN'T THIS A SPEAKEASY? The Nazi Bunker Sitting Under A Paris Train Station messynessychic.com Unbeknownst to the thousands of passengers that pass through the station each day, right under their feet, between platforms 2 and 3 at the Gare de l'Est lies an old concrete World War II bomb shelter. DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking nytimes.com Thirteen years ago, researchers at the Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust. THE MASTER PLAN HAD HOLES IN IT Did The Nazis Inadvertently Globalize Modern Art? bigthink.com For all the ugliness of Nazism in thought and deed, it's striking to consider just how much they contemplated the arts. But did they accidentally spread the one form of art they considered abhorrent? Read more on Digg.com → KITLER Sorry, there's no secret history to this Hitler cat. Credit: The Internet Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014