Trump denies plagiarizing Hitler with ‘poisoning blood’ phrase: ‘I never read ‘Mein Kampf”
Trump’s critics say his claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” echoes language Hitler used in “Mein Kampf"
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Fast Forward German scholars make their best-selling annotated version of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ available online for free
The internet is rife with versions of the text “from very dubious sources,” said the head of the Institute of Contemporary History
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Culture White Boy Summer is a bad idea — but are its shirts racist?
“White Boy Summer” is one more item in a line of Chet Hanks’ bad decisions — but does it also have a racist aesthetic? Son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, the 30-year-old actor-rapper, who is the recent subject of a protective order requested by his ex-girlfriend, went on Instagram last week to announce (or…
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Culture ‘Mein Kampf’ Is Back — And There Are Reasons To Worry About That
On this date in 1925, Adolf Hitler published “Mein Kampf.” The most recent annotated version quickly became a non-fiction best seller in Germany with around 85,000 copies sold. The book had previously been banned from publication in the country (though it could still legally be read if a copy could be found). But in 2015,…
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Fast Forward Amazon, Wal-Mart Were Selling Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Apparently Marketed To Neo-Nazis
Several multi-national booksellers, including Amazon, Wal-Mart and Barnes and Nobles, were selling a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” with a product description apparently marketed directly to neo-Nazis, HuffPost reported. The version of this book — in a translation the product description erroneously calls the “official” translation of the Nazi regime — is on…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Mein Kampf Read On House Floor By Republican Congressman
Representative Mo Brooks, a Republican from Alabama, brought Adolf Hitler’s own words to the floor of the U.S. Congress on Monday, quoting at length from Hitler’s autobiography, “Mein Kampf.” In a speech in which he said that “socialists and the fake news media” should “cleanse their souls and atone for their sins” for endorsing the…
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Culture How A Jewish Artist Reclaimed ‘Mein Kampf’
Gideon Rubin wasn’t expecting a package on that spring morning a year ago, although his wife, Silia Ka Tung, had been having strange things delivered to their London flat for months. Rubin, an Israeli-born painter, was working on a project that would be exhibited at London’s Freud Museum for the 80th anniversary of the psychoanalyst’s…
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Fast Forward Judge Says Neo-Nazi Who Made Bombs And Read Hitler ‘Not A Threat’
A suspected neo-Nazi with explosives who idolizes Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and reads Hitler is not a threat to society, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas McCoun rejected the government’s argument that Brandon Russell should be held in jail because he “poses a threat to the community or is likely to flee…
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