Adolf Hitler

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/21/2021
  

  Letters Found In An Attic Reveal Eerie Similarities Between Adolf Hitler And His Father

  A trove of letters discovered in an Austrian attic are a rare primary source about the parents of the Nazi leader. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  2/9/2021
  

  Trump Probably Won't Speak at His Impeachment Trial. That May be a Good Thing

  Columnist Hayes Brown suggests that there's enough evidence Democrats can bring against Trump without giving him a public platform to espouse conspiracy theories. German authorities came to regret giving Hitler such a platform in 1924, as summarized by historian Volker Ullrich.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  12/12/2020
  

  Hitler’s Pet Alligator to be Stuffed, Put on Display in Russia

  The 84 year-old reptile will be stuffed and displayed in Moscow after traveling from Mississippi to Berlin and being gifted to Russia by British troops after the capture of Berlin in 1945. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12/2/2020
  

  Revisiting Hitler’s Final Days in the Bunker

  The use of the German film "Downfall" in internet memes points to the danger of treating Hitler's demise as a closure to the murderous ideologies he propagated. 

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• 12/6/2020
  

  Is There Anything Left to Learn about Hitler?

  by James Thornton Harris

  Volker Ullrich presents a picture of a leader whose "egocentrism... inability to self-criticize…tendency to overestimate himself... contempt for others and lack of empathy" made him willing to destroy his nation along with himself, but warns that the Third Reich was "a dictatorship of consent." 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  12/2/2020
  

  What The Hitler Conspiracies Mean

  by Richard J. Evans

  Against evidence and common sense, theories persist that Adolf Hitler escaped Berlin to live in Argentina. An expert on the memory of the Third Reich argues that the conspiracy theories reflect a broad rejection of expertise and show the need for historians to engage the public. 

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• SOURCE: Champaign (IL) News-Gazette
  6/21/2020
  

  UI Historian Takes Close Look At Nazis’ First Days In Power

  University of Illinois professor Peter Fritzche has written a recent book on the first 100 days of the Third Reich which considers the balance of Hitler's influence and prevailing currents of antisemitism and authoritarianism in the German public. 

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• 4/5/2020
  

  New Deal or Nazism? Historical Comparisons to Trump's Performance as a Leader in Crisis

  by Walter G. Moss

  Comparing the first 100 days in power of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler offers a sobering reminder of the consequences of decisions pursued by leaders in crisis. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/18/2020
  

  Amazon Bans, Then Reinstates, Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

  The retailer is trying to do two contradictory things: Ban hate literature but allow free speech.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-23-16
  

  Anger as Churchill's home turned into Hitler HQ for Transformers 5

  War veterans are horrified that Blenheim Palace has been draped in swastika flags for Michael Bay’s latest film

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  12-2-15
  

  The Battle to Publish Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the U.S.

  A team of historians is publishing a two-volume, 2,000-page German edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for the first time in seven decades.

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• SOURCE: Mental Floss
  11-5-15
  

  When the Pope Ordered the Death of Adolf Hitler

  by David Brown

  Pope Pius XII resolved to do whatever he could to have Hitler killed.

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• SOURCE: HistoryNet
  11-5-12
  

  Mein Kampf: The Sequel

  by Gerhard L. Weinberg

  Hitler's second book wasn't suppressed, only mislaid.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  5-6-14
  

  Germany's interest in Adolf Hitler at record levels

  Some 2,000 books on Hitler were published in Germany last year.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  3-24-14
  

  Holocaust-Denier David Irving makes $5,000 selling lock of Hitler’s hair

  Need a lock of Hitler’s hair? Who you gonna call? (David Irving, apparently.)

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3-23-14
  

  Germany asks: is it OK to laugh at Hitler?

  The Führer found himself reborn in the 21st century in a 2012 comic novel by Timur Vermes, which sold 1.4m copies in Germany. Its success suggests Germans now look at their former leader in the same way as the rest of the world does.

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• 3-31-14
  

  Business Leaders Will Have More Influence on Politics When They Shelve the "Populists are Nazis" Meme

  by Benjamin Waterhouse

  Business leaders have been comparing their opponents to Nazis -- and Communists, and socialists -- for a long time. It's never worked well for them.

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• 3-24-14
  

  Enough With the Hitler Analogies

  by Christian Karner

  Our understanding of World War II has been deeply enriched by a memory boom of books and research. The same cannot be said by the Hitler analogy boom.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  3-20-14
  

  Good News From Ukraine: Everyone Still Hates Hitler

  by Matt Ford

  All sides in the Crimean crisis are invoking the Third Reich. Why?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3-18-14
  

  Another rich guy says populists are like Nazis

  Remember the story about the rich guy comparing left-wing populism to Nazism? It’s happening again, only this time it’s a different rich guy.