This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Fast Forward California Police Say Hitler Graffiti Not A Hate Crime
(JTA) — Police have not classified graffiti referencing Adolf Hitler on a Northern California school as a hate crime. The graffiti was discovered Saturday at the Edison Elementary School in Alameda, which has suffered several anti-Semitic incidents this term, the East Bay Times reported Wednesday. It was drawn in marker and quickly cleaned up, according…
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Fast Forward Italian Scholars Release Country’s First Critical Edition Of ‘Mein Kampf’
With the European far-right on the march, Italian scholars have released their country’s first annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto, “Mein Kampf.” “We decided to translate ‘Mein Kampf’ since we found the book to be the perfect example of how dangerous modern politics can be. Hitler can be considered the father of European populism,”…
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Fast Forward Infamous New Jersey Neo-Nazi Changes Last Name To Hitler
(JTA) — A white supremacist who gave his children Nazi-linked names has officially changed his last name to Hitler. The name change for Isidore Heath Hitler, who is in his early 40s, took legal effect this week, the news website MyCentralJersey.co first reported. Isidore Heath Campbell had his request approved in March by Hunterdon County Superior…
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Fast Forward When Hitler Was A Common Last Name In Jewish Brooklyn
“Herr Adolf Hitler of Germany would be covered with confusion if he dared to enter the strictly kosher home of Mrs. Rose Hitler, pretty young Jewish housewife, who lives at 233 E. 92nd Street, in the heart of Brooklyn’s Brownsville.” That is the start of an improbable article from June 1933, entitled “Kiss the Mezuzah…
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Fast Forward Honduran Presidential Candidate’s Beauty Queen Wife Apologizes For Praising Hitler
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The wife of a prominent Honduran presidential candidate wrote a letter to Latin America’s umbrella Jewish organization to apologize for praising Hitler. Iroshka Elvir, 25, was named Miss Honduras in 2015, said “Hitler was a great leader” during an interview with El Heraldo newspaper published on April 26. “When I talked about Hitler I…
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Fast Forward Julia Ioffe: White Supremacists Promoting Hitler And ‘Hate Facts’ At Princeton
A white nationalist group is littering Princeton University with anti-Semitic fliers promoting “hate facts” about Jews decorated with an illustration of Hitler. Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe, who graduated from Princeton, tweeted an image of one of the posters, distributed by the group called Vanguard America. Someone’s hanging these around my alma mater. pic.twitter.com/L7cf4B1bTu — Julia…
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The Schmooze Why This Writer Doesn’t Regret His Failed Hitler Sitcom
What happens when you write a zany sitcom about Adolf Hitler, his wife and their Jewish next door neighbors? Well, not a whole lot. “Heil Honey, I’m Home,” a British comedy show produced in 1990, only made it one episode in before it was promptly pulled off the air. The show’s creator Geoff Atkinson spoke…
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Opinion This Week In Anti-Semitism: Troll Attacks And Hitler’s Birthday
The Forward regularly monitors the surge of anti-Semitism across the country and around the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. 1. French-Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy was inundated with anti-Semitic attacks online….
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