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News Trump’s Nazi triangle post the latest in a series of seeming dog whistles
A red triangle. The number 14. The number 88. President Trump has again provided fodder for the critics who have accused him of using Nazi and anti-Semitic symbols to signal his sympathies with white nationalist supporters. His campaign posted the latest example on Facebook on Thursday: an ad featuring an inverted red triangle — used…
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Fast Forward Rabbis can serve in German military for the first time in 90 years
The German parliament voted unanimously Thursday to allow rabbis to serve as military chaplains in the Bundeswher, Germany’s military. Rabbis have not been able to serve as chaplains in the German military since Adolf Hitler expelled them in 1933. Jewish soldiers could only use Protestant or Catholic military chaplains. The change was first put forward…
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Fast Forward Jewish 101-year-old woman: Hitler was my neighbor and was ‘terrified of us’
(JTA) — A 101-year-old woman living in the United Kingdom has revealed that Adolf Hitler was her next-door neighbor. Alice Frank Stock lived next to the Nazi leader in Munich on Prinzregentplatz Street in the 1920s and early ’30s, she told the news agency SWNS. “There were two entrances, one was for our apartment and…
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News That ‘Secret Hitler’ board game? Huge holiday hit at Amazon, since 2017
A board game called “Secret Hitler” has been a perennial best seller for the past three holiday seasons at Amazon, and organizations are calling for it to be removed from the e-commerce giant. So far, Amazon has not responded. The game is not new to Amazon, as data shows. Instead, it has been a top-100…
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Breaking News Secret Hitler board game removed from 3 Montreal stores
(JTA) — A board game called Secret Hitler was removed from the shelves of three stores in Montreal. Branches of the Tour de Jeux chain removed the game following a call from B’nai Brith Canada. Harvey Levine, B’nai Brith’s regional director in Quebec, told the Montreal Gazette that his office had received complaints from members…
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Fast Forward This Lebanese-Swiss Businessman Bought Hitler’s Top Hat— So Neo-Nazis Couldn’t
A Lebanese-Swiss businessman purchased ten items belonging to Adolf Hitler that were sold at an auction last week so that they didn’t “fall into the wrong hands.” Abdallah Chatila, a Geneva businessman who made his fortune in diamonds and real estate, purchased items including Hitler’s top hat, cigar box and typewriter, and a silver-plated copy…
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Culture The Strange Saga Of The Fake Hitler Diaries That Sparked An International Scandal
In 1978, a handsome leather volume monogrammed with Adolf Hitler’s initials entered the collectors’ market. It would be the first of many. The books were diaries chronicling the Fuhrer’s life, often in banal detail. The New Yorker reported in 2013 that they included reflections on his bad breath and girlfriend Eva Braun’s false pregnancy. But,…
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Fast Forward Principal And Teacher At Utah School Placed On Leave After Student Dresses As Hitler
(JTA) — The principal and a teacher at an elementary school in Utah have been placed on paid administrative leave after a student dressed in an Adolf Hitler costume and participated in the schools Halloween parade. The student at the Creekside Elementary School in Kaysville, Utah wore a brown long-sleeve shirt with a red swastika…
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