This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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The Schmooze A Letter from Dad…on Hitler’s Stationery
Many of us have saved old letters and cards that were sent to us by family members and close friends when we were children. Some of us even have scrapbooks filled with old “Welcome Baby” notes and birthday cards that our parents compiled as keepsakes. But only Dennis Helms has such a greeting written on…
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The Schmooze Batali Bites the Banker Hand That Feeds Him
You don’t have to be a fan of the U.S. banking system to realize that credit default swaps are not the same as gas chambers and the gulag. Or so you would think. But celebrity chef Mario Batali evidently doesn’t see that distinction, having compared American bankers to both Hitler and Stalin while participating in…
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The Schmooze Hitler Art Sale Called Off
To the relief of Sweden’s Jewish community, the sale of art allegedly painted by Adolf Hitler has been temporarily canceled — largely because the paintings may not truly have been the work of the Nazi dictator. Swedish news site The Local reports that the paintings were to be auctioned off by Swedish debt collectors who…
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Culture Strange Tale of Hitler’s Jewish Psychic
The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Circle By Arthur Magida Palgrave Macmillan, 288 pages, $26 Where else but in the annals of Jewish history does a boy born to a pair of impoverished runaways become a world-famous mind reader, psychic, astrologer, crime fighter, newspaper publisher, novelist and, if that’s…
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The Schmooze Up for Auction: Hitler’s Reading Glasses, Cigarette Case
The controversy about the sale of Nazi memorabilia continues. Just months after Josef Mengele’s diaries were purchased by an anonymous American Orthodox Jew who says he may loan them to Yad Vashem, and days after Hitler’s Gemlich letter went on display at the Museum of Tolerance, it has been announced that an auction of some…
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The Schmooze Hitler’s First Anti-Semitic Letter On Display in L.A.
A letter typed and signed by Adolf Hitler in 1919, and thought to be his first written comments calling for the annihilation of the Jews, is now on display at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The document, known as the Gemlich letter, was purchased by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for $150,000 and revealed…
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The Schmooze Hank Williams Jr. Dumped Over Obama Comment
Be careful with those Hitler analogies, America. Hank Williams, Jr., the guy who performs the “Monday Night Football” theme song, saw the anthem dropped by ESPN last night after he compared President Obama to the Nazi dictator on Fox News. In an interview on “Fox and Friends,” Williams remarked that the recent “golf summit” between…
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Opinion Fresh Headlines From the Crypt: ‘Bomb Auschwitz,’ Says Golda; FDR: No Way
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Philadelphia offers an annual list of The Ten Most Absurd Statements About Allies’ Responses to the Holocaust. The list is a high point in the institute’s unceasing mission to keep the heat on President Franklin D. Roosevelt for having done nothing to stop the Nazi genocide…
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