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Culture ‘Mein Kampf’ Is Back — And There Are Reasons To Worry About That
Yesterday, news broke that the new annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” had become a non-fiction best seller in Germany with around 85,000 copies sold. The book had previously been banned from publication in the country (though it could still legally be read if a copy could be found). But in 2015, the copyright,…
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Fast Forward Mein Kampf Flying Off the Shelves in Germany
Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” — presented in a new critical edition clocking in at almost 2,000 pages — is proving to be a runaway success at the bookstore in Germany, selling more than 85,000 copies and going into its sixth print run a year after its publication. The new edition, released by the Munich-based Institute…
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Fast Forward Austria Will Seize Hitler House to Keep Out Neo-Nazis
— Austrian lawmakers voted to dispossess the home where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born. The vote Wednesday night followed years of the German border town of Braunau and later the national government trying to purchase the home from its owners. In October, the Austrian government initiated legal procedures to dispossess the home from its…
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Fast Forward Walmart Pulls ‘Got Hitler?’ ‘Got Pepe?’ Mugs from Online Store
Walmart’s online store was until recently selling a “Got Hitler?” mug. Styled in the same font as the famous “Got Milk?” phrase, the “Got Hitler?” mugs were being marketed through a third party vendor on the Walmart site, JM Holdings. After the web site Vocativ reported that Walmart’s online store was selling the cups, the…
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Fast Forward Adolf Burger, Last of ‘Hitler’s Counterfeiters,’ Dies at 99
PRAGUE (JTA) — Adolf Burger, a Holocaust survivor who was forced by the Nazis to counterfeit British banknotes during World War II, has died in Prague at the age of 99, his family said. Burger, a native of Slovakia, was a typographer by profession. He was arrested in 1942 for producing false baptism records for…
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Fast Forward Complaint Filed After Dutch Party’s Muslim Founders Say Hitler Was Jewish
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch anti-discrimination group complained to police over a political party whose Muslim founders said Adolf Hitler was Jewish and that homosexuality was a contagious illness. The Bureau Against Discrimination on Wednesday filed the hate speech complaint over the Free Democracy Party, which was established last week ahead of the general parliamentary election scheduled for March,…
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News ‘Dear Americans’ Meme From German: Don’t Repeat Our Mistakes by Voting for Donald Trump
While only Americans can vote tomorrow, there is a lot of stake for the rest of the world as well. So a German man living in the U.S. created a meme to warn Americans of the dangers of electing a demagogue. The letter went viral over the weekend and was shared widely using the hashtag…
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News Guess Who Ghost Wrote One of the First Books Praising Hitler? It Was Adolf.
In the first-ever biography of Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer was described as the “German savior” and compared to Jesus. Now, a historian thinks he found proof that it was not an admirer who penned the praise-singing book — it was Hitler himself. “Adolf Hitler: His Life and his Speeches” was first published in 1923, a…
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