This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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The Schmooze Swiss Coffee With a Dash of Hitler’s Face
A Miss Hitler contest in Russia. A swastika ring for sale at Sears. Nazi chic blouses at Mango. And now, Hitler’s face on a package of coffee creamer. Swissinfo.ch reports that coffee lovers in Switzerland complained after waking up to a certain mustachioed dictator’s face along with their morning cup of Joe. The problematic creamers…
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The Schmooze There Was a Miss Hitler Pageant — And it Just Got Cancelled
Alina Voronina from Moscow poses for the contest Last week, Vocativ reported that VKontakte, essentially Russia’s version of Facebook, was hosting a Miss Hitler Pageant. As one would expect, people got a little upset about it. Hosted on the site’s Adolf Hitler page, the Miss Ostland pageant, as it’s officially known, called on women “who…
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Opinion Mango Shirt Slammed as Attempt at ‘Nazi Chic’
Mango’s new shirt After Sears’s swastika ring and Zara’s concentration camp shirt comes another piece of fashion that has incensed the internet: The lightning-like black symbols on the women’s shirt ‘Rayo’ by Spanish fashion company Mango look suspiciously like the runic insignia of the Nazi SS units and the youth organization Jungvolk. “Why does Mango…
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The Schmooze Adolf Hitler Joins Tinder — Girls Say ‘Heil!’
Adolf Hitler is on Tinder. I repeat, Adolf Hitler is on Tinder. Well, not really because, you know, Hitler took his own life in 1945 to avoid being caught by the Allied forces. There is, however, someone impersonating a 22-year-old ‘Adolf’ on the popular dating app, and some screen grabs from Reddit suggest he’s done…
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Culture What Berlin Would Have Looked Like If Hitler Won
Adolf Hitler’s utopian plans to rebuild Berlin on a monumental scale were never realized, but the preparations that got under way involved demolitions and the use of slave labor – the victims mainly Jewish, as a new exhibition shows. Masterminded by the Nazis’ favorite architect, Albert Speer, Hitler’s grand vision of a new capital for…
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Fast Forward Jewish South Africa Publication Apologizes For Op-Ed Comparing Desmond Tutu to Hitler
A Jewish publication in South Africa apologized for an Op-Ed that compared Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Adolf Hitler. The online publication South African Jewish Report posted the apology Friday on its website and removed the opinion piece, written by Leon Reich, chairman of Likud South Africa. According to the Mail & Guardian newspaper, Reich in…
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Fast Forward Czech Court Clears Publishers of Hitler Speeches of Hate Crimes
The publishers of a book containing Adolf Hitler speeches were cleared of hate-crime charges in the Czech Republic, spurring concerns from the country’s Jewish community. The Brno municipal court ruled Wednesday that it found no evidence that the 2012 book put out by a Brno-based publishing house, Guidemedia, promoted Nazi ideology. The court said the…
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Opinion The Turkey Conundrum
On July 23, a Turkish group called on social media for a boycott of the books of Turkish Jewish novelist Mario Levi. The famous novelist was born in Istanbul, and one of his best-known novels is “Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale.” However, being throughly Turkish did not shield him from the anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli wind…
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Opinion Why are we so focused on Mamdani — not Nazi-inspired ideas proliferating on the right?
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Opinion I won’t vote for Democrats who backed Mamdani. I know I’m not the only one.
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Culture Musk created Grokipedia to counter bias, but it’s full of antisemitic and racist dog-whistles
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Film & TV As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted
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