This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Fast Forward Adolf Hitler Painting to Be Auctioned, Asking Price $30,000
A Los Angeles gallery is auctioning a painting by Adolf Hitler, with an initial asking price of $30,000. Hitler’s floral still life, painted in 1912 before he entered politics, will be auctioned on Thursday by the Nate D. Sanders gallery. As a teenager and young man, Hitler unsuccessfully pursued an art career and was twice…
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The Schmooze Say It With Nutella — Unless You’re Jewish
Courtesy of Nutella You might want to reconsider those Nutella-filled hamentaschen this year. The beloved purveyor of spreadable chocolate hazelnut goodness has banned certain words from its “Say it With Nutella” campaign, which allows people to customize their jar labels. This policy would be totally understandable if the list of so-called inappropriate words didn’t also…
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The Schmooze Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
It’s Dr. Seuss’s 111th birthday. You know him as the creator of “The Cat in the Hat” — but we want to celebrate his long career as a political cartoonist. During the WW II era, Seuss drew over 400 political cartoons working for the left-leaning New York City daily newspaper, PM. Yes, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better…
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Culture Will the Real Adolf Hitler Please Stand Up?
Incongruous as it may initially sound, “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare’s immortal line from “Romeo and Juliet” lies at the core of Matt Ogens’s endearingly offbeat documentary “Meet the Hitlers.” In the play, Juliet Capulet famously raises the question to declare that the stigma associated with the surname of her lover, Romeo Montague, will not…
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The Schmooze How Coke Made Hitler ‘Happy’
In an acute case of “no good deed goes unpunished,” Coca-Cola’s #MakeItHappy campaign has gone hopelessly awry. The campaign, launched during the Super Bowl, goes as follows: fans of Coke can tweet unpleasant things and the company, who then turns those angry thoughts into a fun image, which is then tweeted back with the slogan…
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Fast Forward Romania Honors ‘Hero’ Who Praises Hitler Allies
A Romanian anti-Semitism watchdog condemned Romanian President Klaus Iohannis’ honoring of a man who praised fascists who murdered Jews during the Holocaust. The Center for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism, or MCA Romania, was responding to the admission last month of the anti-Communist political activist Octav Bjoza into the Order of the Star of Romania for…
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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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