Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Breaking News German Far Right Leader Quits Over ‘Hitler’ Selfies
The head of a growing anti-immigrant, anti-Islam movement in Germany stepped down under pressure after photos of him dressed as Hitler appeared in the country’s most popular daily. Lutz Bachmann quit the Pegida organization after the Bild Zeitung splashed the 2-year-old images gleaned from Facebook on its front page Wednesday. Bachmann apologized to his followers…
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Breaking News Austria May Take Over Hitler’s Childhood Home
The Austrian government could expropriate Adolf Hitler’s childhood home in an effort to ensure the house is not turned into a neo-Nazi shrine. The country’s interior ministry is looking into expropriation if the home’s owner, who has not publicly been identified, refuses to sell it to the government, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. She reportedly…
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Breaking News Republican Sorry for Comparing President Obama to Hitler Over Paris No-Show
Representative Randy Weber, a Republican from Texas, apologized on Tuesday for a tweet he issued comparing President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend a rally in Paris to Adolf Hitler’s visit to the city after the Nazis invaded. Weber, known for his anti-Obama rhetoric, tweeted on Monday: “Even Adolph Hitler thought it more important than…
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The Schmooze Proud Hitler Impersonator Charges $90 for Photos
The real Adolf Hitler addresses Germany’s parliament. (JTA) — It sounds like the premise for a bad horror film: Adolf Hitler is reincarnated as someone who not only looks like him, but shares his views. Kosovo resident Emin Djinovci apparently believes such a film would be the story of his life. The 49-year-old Hitler impersonator,…
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News The Year Hitler Broke the Internet
Remember the public outcry in June, when a teenager from Alabama took a selfie in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and posted it on Twitter? Or the swastika ring for sale by a third-party vendor at Sears but that was removed after multiple complaints? This year has seen its share of seemingly ridiculous headlines that might…
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Breaking News Thailand Sorry for Using Hitler in Official Government Film
A senior Thai cabinet minister met Israel’s ambassador to Thailand on Thursday after the diplomat said he was “saddened” by a government propaganda film that includes an image of a Thai school child painting a portrait of Adolf Hitler. The film was commissioned by the Office of Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha as part of…
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Culture How Modernist Artists Survived (and Sometimes Thrived) Under Nazis
● Artists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany By Jonathan Petropoulos Yale University Press, 424 pages, $40 Nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, newly available archives and probing scholarship are sharpening our perspective on daily life, culture, political infighting, and collaboration and resistance in the Third Reich. Jonathan Petropoulos’s…
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Breaking News Is Romanian Mayor’s Hitler Hairdo a Hate Crime?
The Hitler hairdo of a Romanian mayor, who in 2009 was photographed wearing a Nazi uniform, prompted a Jewish watchdog group to sue him for allegedly inciting hatred. The Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, or MCA Romania, filed a criminal complaint last week against Radu Mazare, the mayor of the seaside resort town of…
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