This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Fast Forward Students At Quaker School Defend Teacher Who Joked ‘Heil Hitler!’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Students and alumni at a Quaker-run private school in Manhattan are rallying around a teacher who was let go after making a joking Nazi salute in his mathematics classroom. Ben Frisch, a teacher at Friends Seminary, was fired for saying “Heil Hitler!” while raising his arm to illustrate what in basic…
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Fast Forward Indian Publishers Tout Hitler As ‘Visionary Leader’
Gandhi, Obama, Mandela and — Hitler? Those are some of the faces of “skillful visionaries” on a children’s book called “Leaders” published by Pegasus Books, an imprint of B. Jain’s publishing house in India. The sales pitch runs: “In the time that feels devoid of great leadership, we have found men and women who will…
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Fast Forward Polish Firm Sells ‘Hitler Socks,’ Renames Them After Auschwitz Museum Complains
A Polish company is under fire for trying to sell socks that look like Adolf Hitler — and then trying to hide the evidence. Nanushki, a company that specializes in friendly-looking socks, offers the footwear on its website. The company originally claimed that the “Adolf” socks were designed “to bring order in the socks drawer,”…
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Fast Forward ‘Hunting Hitler’ Show Accidentally Reveals Face Of Nazi War Criminal’s Grandson
The History Channel tv show “Hunting Hitler” accidentally revealed the face of a Nazi war criminal’s grandson, the New York Daily News reported. During a recap of the interview during the show, footage from the interview was shown that did not blur the man’s face, as it had been when the interview was first shown….
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Culture How A Jewish Artist Reclaimed ‘Mein Kampf’
Gideon Rubin wasn’t expecting a package on that spring morning a year ago, although his wife, Silia Ka Tung, had been having strange things delivered to their London flat for months. Rubin, an Israeli-born painter, was working on a project that would be exhibited at London’s Freud Museum for the 80th anniversary of the psychoanalyst’s…
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The Schmooze Siggy Flicker, Unlikely Voice For Holocaust Education On ‘The Real Housewives,’ Departs Show
There was a time when you might have prayed, “May my daughter never grow up to be a star on the reality TV show ‘Real Housewives.’” Now you can change that prayer to, “Should my daughter grow up to be a star on ‘Real Housewives,’ may she be like Siggy Flicker.” In a dreamlike turn…
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Fast Forward Erykah Badu, Hip-Hop Legend And Spiritual Icon, Can Find The Good In Hitler
Singer Erykah Badu prides herself of being able to see something good in everyone, even the worst of people. “I saw something good in Hitler,” she said in a recent interview with Vulture. What exactly was that positive something she found about Adolf Hitler? “Hitler was a wonderful painter,” Badu added. (She relented this point…
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The Schmooze Erykah Badu Says She Is ‘Not An Anti-Semitic Person,’ Praises Hitler
Is it right to separate the art from the artist? Can it ever be appropriate to enjoy the art of a person who may have committed evil acts? Musician Erykah Badu is taking the question a step further, asking specifically, if the artist is Hitler and the art is paintings made by Hitler, can we…
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