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 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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Opinion In Trump’s assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich
Hitler also consolidated his power by controlling, intimidating and punishing the press
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Opinion The Germans have a word for what’s happening in Trump’s America
As the president lays waste to the rule of law, too many Americans are experiencing 'Gleichschaltung' — being brought into line
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