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 Who needs a Reichstag fire when you can just pretend Portland’s burning?
Donald Trump's demonization of cities led by Democrats has an eerie 1930s precedent
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Opinion I’ve seen what freedom looks like — and I can see Trump trying to take it away
Amid echoes of the 1980s and the twilight of the Communist regime, it's time for a new generation of dissidents
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Opinion He showed Americans the visceral horrors of the Third Reich — what would he think of Trump’s US?
William Shirer chronicled the collapse of one democracy. What would he see in his home country today?
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Opinion A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump’s America and we know exactly who is fanning the flames
The question isn't whether authoritarianism has arrived in our country; the question is what we're going to do about it
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Opinion Germany had a complicated reckoning with its Nazi past — will post-Trump America face a similar reckoning?
Trump's inner circle will remain loyal, but the rest of the country has a choice to make
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Opinion The US is turning a blind eye to death and devastation — it isn’t the first time
The American government seems indifferent to starvation in Gaza — just as they were when Jews were dying in WWII
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Opinion What Democrats fighting Trump should learn from Germany’s failure to stop Hitler
As Trump assaults the rule of law, echoes of history reverberate in Washington and throughout America
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Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
In Trump's second term, the president seems to be embracing the concept of Führerprinzip
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