Terrence Petty is the author of Nazis At The Watercooler: War Criminals In Postwar German Government Agencies and Enemy Of The People: The Munich Post and the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler.
Terrence Petty
By Terrence Petty
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Opinion Think speaking out against Trump won’t help? A 1943 protest in Nazi Germany says you’re wrong.
The Rosenstrasse protest against the roundup of husbands and sons provides an inspiring example for today's resistance
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Culture His parents fled the Nazis in 1937 — now he’s using his chutzpah to fight Donald Trump
Sen. Ron Wyden discusses his Jewish heritage and his fears of history repeating itself
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Opinion If Trump is being compared to Hitler, who was Hitler before he was Hitler?
As he embraces authoritarianism, Trump takes his place in a rogues' gallery populated by such disreputable figures as Nero and Robespierre
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Opinion A century ago, Hitler declared war on the ‘lying press’ and targeted a feisty little newspaper — sound familiar?
In the 1920s and ’30s, Germans failed to heed the warnings of the Münchener Post
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Opinion RFK Jr. and Trump are talking about an ‘autism registry.’ This sounds disturbingly familiar.
Nazi Germany collected medical data about the disabled, including those on the autism spectrum
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Opinion The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump’s ruthless grab for power
Trump has created an American version of Adolf Hitler's 'Dolchstosslegende,' also known as the 'stabbed-in-the-back' lie
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Opinion Trump is cracking down on universities — just like Hitler targeted academics who didn’t bow to his will
Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann fled Nazi oppression; American intellectuals are feeling a sense of deja vu
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Opinion Neville Chamberlain taught us where Trump’s appeasement of Putin could lead
When Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement, he did not know he was paving the way for World War II
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