This is the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
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The Schmooze Hitler Paintings Could Pull in Big Money at Auction
The historical significance of paintings by Adolf Hitler is obvious. And a new cache of watercolors by der führer — discovered by an Austrian lawyer on an estate he recently bought — is expected to fetch nearly a quarter of a million dollars at an auction on September 30. What’s more interesting about the tableaux,…
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The Schmooze A Thrilling Escape ‘From Somewhere in the Bavarian Alps’
“Escape,” an exciting World War II-era anti-isolationist thriller and romance, was released to great acclaim nearly 70 years ago, but for years has been difficult to get a hold of. Fortunately, the film, which anticipated “Casablanca,” snuck quietly onto DVD last April. In “Escape,” a naive American (Robert Taylor) travels to a country — never…
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The Schmooze When Hitler Became a Hipster
Did you ever wonder when someone would come along and make fun of Hitler and hipsters in the very same web comic? Well, wonder no more. Hilarious? Offensive? Hilariously offensive? Tell us what you think in the comments.
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The Schmooze Australia School Apologizes for Hitler Costume Prize
Here’s a twist on Hitler Youth. A Western Australian Catholic school has been forced to apologize for handing a costume prize to a pre-teen boy dressed as Adolf Hitler. A class of 9- and 10-year-olds at a Perth school “had been asked to dress up as famous people,” the BBC reported Friday. The boy’s winning…
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The Schmooze Hiking Little Hitler
A little crag near Stockholm is causing a minor uproar in the Jewish world, thanks to the inconveniently named Cordelia Hess, a historian who, on a recent hike, took issue with several Nazi-inspired trail names. “I thought it rather unpleasant to climb through the ‘Crematorium’ or say that ‘now I am going to do Kristallnacht,’”…
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The Schmooze Nazi-Naming Parents Should Lose Custody of Children, Court Says
It looks like baby Hitler won’t be coming home anytime soon. And when we say Hitler, we of course mean the 4-year-old boy — full name, Adolf Hitler Campbell — whose nazi-obsessed parents branded him with the unfortunate handle. A state appeals court in New Jersey has ruled that Heath and Deborah Campbell will not…
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The Schmooze Oliver Stone ‘Sorry’ for Anti-Jewish Comments
Maybe he’s not such an expert on natural born killers, after all. For the second time this year, filmmaker Oliver Stone has generated controversy with comments about Adolf Hitler, contending in London’s Sunday Times that the Nazi dictator needed to be viewed “in context.” The July 25 interview also quoted the “Platoon” and “Wall Street”…
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The Schmooze Sarah Palin’s Holocaust Rhetoric
Ever since her first appearance in the national spotlight, Sarah Palin has garnered mild affection from the Jewish community for her frequent shout-outs to Israel (especially via Twitter and Facebook) and critiques of President Obama’s policies in the Middle East, most recently regarding the flotilla incident. But her social media war against Obama’s policies has…
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