This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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Fast Forward Richard Wagner ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitism May Emerge in Letters From Grandson
A descendant of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, promised to hand over the correspondence of her late father to the Bavarian State Archives. Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of the composer and director of the annual Bayreuth Festival of his works, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper in Berlin that she plans to give Wolfgang Wagner’s letters…
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Fast Forward Germans Fascinated by Nazi Era Eight Decades Later
An exhibition chronicling the Nazi party’s rise to power draws tens of thousands of visitors. Millions of TV viewers tune in to watch a drama about the Third Reich. A satirical novel in which Hitler pops up in modern Berlin becomes an overnight bestseller. German interest in the darkest chapter of their history seems stronger…
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The Schmooze Hitler Reacts to Google Reader Shutdown
Users of Google’s RSS application, Google Reader, responded with a mixture of fury and indifference this morning when the company announced that it will end the service on July 1. Naturally, the occasion couldn’t pass without a “Downfall” parody, with Hitler responding to the unsettling news. Needless to say, the Fuhrer was less than pleased.
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Culture Rebooting The Führer
Although he has been dead for nearly 70 years, Adolf Hitler continues to make headlines. In recent years, the Nazi dictator has become an inescapable presence in Western political and cultural life, serving as a polemical trump card in political debates, a demonic star in feature films, a marketable symbol in advertising campaigns and an…
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Culture Author Guy Saville Imagines ‘Afrika Reich’ Where the Nazis Won
The Afrika Reich By Guy Saville Henry Holt & Co., 400 pages, $28 Recently, fictional Nazis have been enjoying a resurgence in contemporary literature. As seen in high-brow novels such as Jonathan Littell’s “The Kindly Ones,” works of young adult fiction, such as John Boyne’s “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” and mass market books,…
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Fast Forward Belgian Carnival Float Lampoons Leaders as Nazis
A float satirizing local politicians dressed as Nazis holding canisters of Zyklon B gas is to take part in a carnival parade in the Belgian city of Aalst. The float, which also features a railway wagon and a political leader dressed as Hitler, was featured on the Facebook page of a group called FTP. The…
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Fast Forward Hitler Ad Yanked From Turkish Mall
An ad featuring Adolf Hitler placed at a Turkish mall was pulled following complaints by Jewish leaders. The ad at the Sapphire Mall in Istanbul was promoting a wax museum. It featured a large color portrait of the late Nazi leader standing behind a podium. The text read, “If you could meet anyone, who would…
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Music Hitler’s Jewish Neighbor Remembers When
A former Jewish neighbor of Adolf Hitler in Munich has co-authored a book describing his childhood brushes with the dictator. Edgar Feuchtwanger, 88, has joined forces with French journalist Bertil Scali to write “Hitler, mon voisin, souvenirs d’un enfant juif,” or “My Neighbor Hitler: memories of a Jewish child.” The 320-page book is due out…
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