This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
Adolf Hitler
The Latest
-
The Schmooze Mercedes Angry at Hitler Run-Over Video
Mercedes is less than pleased with a student-filmed phony advertisement depicting a young Hitler getting run over by a C-Class luxury sedan. The video, filmed and released by German film school students for a competition sponsored in part by Mercedes-Benz, shows the car meandering around an Austrian village — Hitler’s hometown. We see the car…
-
The Schmooze Stephen Fry Calls for Sochi Olympics Boycott
British actor and comedian Stephen Fry urged on Wednesday that Russia should be banned from hosting the Winter Olympics due to its repressive policies against gays and lesbians, the Mirror reported. In an open letter to British prime minister David Cameron, Fry compared the victimizations of homosexuals Putin’s Russia to the treatment of Jews in…
-
Culture Wagner Festival Confronts Controversial Past
On the occasion of the Bayreuth Festival the Grüner Hügel, or Green Hill, that is home to the Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus was littered with 500 multicolored “mini-Wagners” — garden-gnomelike figurines of the composer, hands raised as if ready to conduct. These cute statuettes share the hill with an outdoor exhibition, “Silenced Voices,” honoring 53 Jewish singers, musicians…
-
Fast Forward Adolf Hitler Mural Painted at Top Thailand College
Chulalongkorn University, a prestigious institution in Thailand, issued an apology for a mural of Adolf Hitler painted outside one of its buildings. The university apologized Monday in a statement following criticism of the mural painted outside its Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts building, The Associated Press reported. The mural, which was meant to be…
-
Culture How We Got Hitler-ized
It has been dismissed as a tempest in a teapot, but the recent brouhaha over JC Penney’s now-infamous Hitler teakettle may be more significant than it initially appears. Click to enlarge/Kurt Hoffman illustration. Far from being an isolated incident, it is merely the latest in a long series of news stories in recent years about…
-
Fast Forward Nazi Dad Wears Third Reich Uniform to Court
A white supremacist father who named his children after his Third Reich heroes reportedly shocked a New Jersey judge by wearing a Nazi uniform to a hearing to demand visitation rights to one of the children. Heath Campbell, who called his oldest child Adolf Hitler, turned up at Hunterdon County Family Court in Flemington in…
-
Fast Forward ‘Hitler’ Tea Kettle Sells Out Online
A tea kettle that resembles Adolf Hitler has sold out online. Retailer JC Penney came under fire this week for advertising and selling the space-saving tea kettle designed by American architect Michael Graves. The tea kettle and it resemblance to Hitler caught the attention of commuters near Culver City, Calif., who drove past a 10-foot-tall…
-
Culture Edgar Feuchtwanger Recalls Living Across The Street From Adolf Hitler
When we call someone a “nightmare neighbor from hell,” we usually mean that phrase hyperbolically, but some of those who lived in the vicinity of Adolf Hitler decades ago in Germany and Austria found the term remarkably apt. The French publisher Les éditions Michel Lafon has published the German Jewish historian Edgar Feuchtwanger’s “Hitler My…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
- 2
News Zohran Mamdani has represented Astoria’s Jews for 4 years. What do they think of him?
- 3
News Curtis Sliwa has a plan to beat Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayor’s race — and it starts with apologizing to Jews
- 4
News What Zohran Mamdani has actually said about Jews, Israel and antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Can Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe be reversed? It’s up to Trump
-
Fast Forward For the Jewish community in central Texas, deadly flooding hits close to home
-
Sports He was one of the greatest Jewish soccer players who ever lived — pity you probably haven’t heard of him
-
Fast Forward Croatian right-wing singer performs pro-Nazi salute with hundreds of thousands of fans
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
