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Fast Forward Hitler Painting Damaged By Screwdriver-Wielding Italian Man
An Italian man wielding a screwdriver attacked a painting by Adolf Hitler in an Italian museum, the BBC reported. The painting, on loan from a private collector, part of an exhibition called the “Museum of Madness” at the Museo di Salo, near Brescia, Italy. “The show about madness would not have been complete if it…
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Fast Forward Oregon Man Finds Nazi Paperwork Signed By Hitler And Himmler
A man says he found documents from Nazi Germany containing the signatures of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joaquim von Ribbentrop and other prominent Nazis in a van he bought at an auction, the Register-Guard reported. The man, from Eugene, Oregon, bought the 1985 blue Ford Econoline at an auction in mid-September, and discovered the paperwork…
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Opinion Is Communism Worse Than Nazism?
In the new normal of 2017, in which far-right and far-left militants clash openly in America’s public square, a contentious 20th century debate is newly relevant: is the extreme left as dangerous and repugnant as the extreme right? Should the hammer and sickle be as offensive as the swastika? Was Communism as evil as Nazism…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Underwear Sells For $6,700 At Auction
An anonymous buyer in the U.S. has bought a pair of Adolf Hitler’s underwear for £5,000 (around 6,700), Metro reported. The auctioneer, Bill Panagopoulos of Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Md., said that he ruled out selling the underwear to a neo-Nazi. “We’ve sold underwear belonging to Eva Braun before, but never any belonging…
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Fast Forward Accused Racist Killer Had Copy Of Hitler Speech
Police say that a man charged with what may be racially motivated killings of two black men also had a copy of a speech by Adolph Hitler in his home, the AP reported. Kenneth James Gleason, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was charged with first degree murder Tuesday for killing a homeless man and a dishwasher…
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Fast Forward The Jew Who Found Hitler’s Teeth — And Carried Them Around In A Box For Days
The memoir of a Soviet military translator who helped identify Adolf Hitler’s body from the remains of his burned teeth is finally having her famous memoir about that experience published in English. Elena Rzhevskaya’s book, “Berlin, May 1945,” chronicles her effort in the post-war Nazi capital to get a positive identification on Hitler’s remains, found…
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Fast Forward Reconstruction Of Hitler Bunker Draws Tens Of Thousands In Berlin
BERLIN (JTA) – Hitler continues to fascinate, and a new exhibit in Berlin is proof with its most sensational attraction: a reconstruction of the bunker where Hitler took his life in April 1945. Meant to show the dangers of dictatorship, the exhibit – called “How Could It Happen” – also contains thousands of documents, photos and objects that tell…
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Fast Forward Hitler Bunker Exhibit Asks: How Did Germans Become Nazis?
More than 70 years after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker in the final days of World War Two, an exhibition in the capital examines how he became a Nazi and what turned ordinary Germans into murderers during the Third Reich. The exhibition “Hitler – how could it happen” is set in a…
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