This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Community Playing In The Shadow Of Hitler
As an original member of the band Twisted Sister, I have performed in almost 9,000 shows around the world. But the story of the craziest, historic and most emotionally affecting show I’ve ever played happened on September 30th, 1983 in Nuremberg, Germany — in Zeppelin field, the site of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies. We were a…
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Fast Forward LOOK: 6 Bizarre Hitler-Trump Mashup Memes
Much has been said on the Trump-Hitler comparison. Is it fair? Is it useful? Earlier this month a prominent Hitler scholar offered a detailed comparison in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Just this week a card game designer sent a Hitler-themed board game to U.S. senators, urging them to resist Trump. Of course, Trump…
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Fast Forward ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Co-Creator Sends Hitler Game To Every Senator
The co-creator of Cards Against Humanity has sent his new game that “models the rise of fascism in a democracy” to every U.S. senator. The name of the board game is Secret Hitler — and its creators think the senators could learn something from it about President Trump. Max Temkin, one of the creators of…
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Fast Forward Adolf Hitler’s Personal Phone Sells For $243K
Adolf Hitler’s personal phone has sold at auction for a whopping $243,000. The “weapon of mass destruction,” which the Nazi Fuhrer used to order invasions and direct the war effort, was sold on behalf the son of an American general. “I certainly won’t miss it,” the seller Ranulf Rayner, 82, told CNN. “It’s a fairly…
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Community No, Trump Is Not Hitler — Here’s Why.
Trump is not Hitler. Only Hitler was Hitler. There’s nothing worthwhile to be accomplished by introducing that comparison as a rhetorical tactic. As German historian Thomas Weber points out in his article on DW, comparing anyone to Hitler is a distraction and any argument that draws that parallel is destined to futility. And yet this…
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Fast Forward Hitler Lookalike Busted In Fuhrer’s Hometown
Austrian police have detained a man for glorifying the Nazi regime, after he appeared in public dressed as Adolf Hitler, a police spokesman said. The 25-year-old was arrested on Monday night in Braunau am Inn, Hitler’s birthplace, the spokesman said. The daily newspaper Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten said on Saturday the man had been seen outside the…
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Fast Forward Hitler Lookalike Spotted Near Nazi Führer’s Birthplace
Austrian authorities are investigating reports of a man appearing in public in Adolf Hitler’s birthplace as the Nazi dictator’s double, including the distinctive mustache, haircut and clothing. “I have often seen this gentlemen in Braunau and wonder if this means something,” the Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten paper cited a local resident as saying on his Facebook page…
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Opinion This Week In Anti-Semitism: Duma Defamation And Heartless Valentines
The Forward plans to regularly monitor the surge of anti-Semitism in many parts of the country and 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) Republicans Keep On Omitting Jews from…
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