In Trump’s assault on democracy, echoes of Nazi Germany but new glimmers of hope that America will be different
Unlike the Reichstag in its final years, American lawmakers are finally showing signs of resistance
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Opinion Who needs a Reichstag fire when you can just pretend Portland’s burning?
Donald Trump's demonization of cities led by Democrats has an eerie 1930s precedent
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Opinion A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump’s America and we know exactly who is fanning the flames
The question isn't whether authoritarianism has arrived in our country; the question is what we're going to do about it
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Opinion As fires burn in LA, has Trump found his Reichstag fire moment?
Trump's decision to call in the National Guard to quell unrest recalls the ways in which Hitler asserted and consolidated power
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News Trump shot: What ‘Reichstag fire’ means and why it’s trending
The Nazi-era term has been invoked about Donald Trump before
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Culture German Activists Apologize For Stunt Using Holocaust Victims’ Ashes
A German activist art collective is apologizing for a stunt that allegedly involved the remains of Holocaust victims. On Monday, the Center for Political Beauty (ZPS) placed an oversized urn on a metal pillar close to the Reichstag in Berlin, the home of Germany’s parliament, the BBCreported. The ZPS stated that the contents of the…
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Culture 80 Years Ago Today, Hitler Threatened Genocide Of European Jews — Was Anybody Listening?
January 30, 1939. Adolf Hitler had been chancellor of Germany for exactly six years. Thousands of Jews were already imprisoned in concentration camps. Legally defined as anyone possessing at least one Jewish grandparent, Jews were prohibited from marrying so-called Aryans, and had their businesses destroyed. But his annual speech to the Reichstag, Germany’s legislative body,…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish’ Photo of Captured Nazi Reichstag Goes on Display in Russia
The recently discovered original copy of an iconic World War II photo which was doctored in the Soviet Union under Jozef Stalin was unveiled at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. A reproduction of the original negative of a photo documenting the raising of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag — the German…
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Opinion In Trump’s assault on democracy, echoes of Nazi Germany but new glimmers of hope that America will be different