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Opinion The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who Infuriated Hitler
Now that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner has been announced, let’s pause to remember the courageous, improbable and tragic story of Carl von Ossietzky, the 1936 laureate, a journalist and activist who exposed the Nazis’ clandestine rearmament of Germany and paid a terrible price for his defiance. Some years, the process of awarding the…
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Fast Forward Philippines President Visits Synagogue To Apologize for Hitler Remarks
(JTA) — Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte apologized to members of the country’s Jewish community for suggesting that he would kill as many drug dealers as Adolf Hitler did Jews. “Please accept my apology. It will never happen again,” Duterte said Tuesday at the Beit Yaacov Synagogue in Makati, a city in the Manila metropolitan area where the…
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Fast Forward Philippines President Compares Himself To Hitler in Anti-Crime Rant
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte likened himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would “be happy” to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country. His comments triggered shock and anger among Jewish groups in the United States, which will add to pressure on the U.S. government to take a…
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Culture Is New York Times Critic Comparing Trump to Hitler?
Sometimes, when New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani is channeling the voice of Holden Caulfield or over-using the word limn, she can be a tad grating. Other times, though, she still has the capacity to knock one out of the park. That’s the case today with Kakutani’s already-gone-viral review of “Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939,” which uses…
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Fast Forward Nazi Time Capsule From 1934 Unearthed in Present Day Poland
— Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed a Nazi time capsule circa 1934 that contained images of Adolf Hitler, newspapers and other artifacts. The archaeologists had been aware for years of the existence of the time capsule, which was buried underground, but had not been able to reach the copper cylinder container, according to The Independent. The capsule was located earlier this…
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The Schmooze ‘Transparent’ Creator Jill Soloway Calls Donald Trump ‘Inheritor of Hitler’ at Emmys
‘Transparent’ creator Jill Soloway referred to Donald Trump as “the inheritor to Hitler” at the Emmys. The Republican presidential candidate “needs to be called out every chance we get as one of the most dangerous monsters to ever approach our lifetimes,” Soloway told reporters backstage. “He’s a complete dangerous monster,” she said. “Any moment I…
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Fast Forward Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone Again Claims Hitler Backed Zionism
— Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone reiterated his claims that Hitler supported Zionism, claims that got him suspended from Britain’s beleaguered Labour Party. Livingstone on Monday returned to the BBC London morning radio show where he made the original remarks five months ago, in defense of Labour lawmaker Naz Shah, who was suspended a day…
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News ‘Trump Youth’ Group Draws on Nazi-Associations, White Supremacist Tropes
“Trump Youth,” a group for millennial Donald Trump supporters bears striking similarities to Hitler’s youth movement, and its leader urged fighting “globalists,” a term that white nationalists often associate with Jews. “Our nations have been commandeered by an international criminal cartel and this parasite is feeding on our energy. It’s in Japan, it’s in China,…
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