Adolf Hitler 
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SOURCE: MSNBC
2/9/2021
Trump Probably Won't Speak at His Impeachment Trial. That May be a Good Thing
Columnist Hayes Brown suggests that there's enough evidence Democrats can bring against Trump without giving him a public platform to espouse conspiracy theories. German authorities came to regret giving Hitler such a platform in 1924, as summarized by historian Volker Ullrich.
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SOURCE: New York Post
12/12/2020
Hitler’s Pet Alligator to be Stuffed, Put on Display in Russia
The 84 year-old reptile will be stuffed and displayed in Moscow after traveling from Mississippi to Berlin and being gifted to Russia by British troops after the capture of Berlin in 1945.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/2/2020
Revisiting Hitler’s Final Days in the Bunker
The use of the German film "Downfall" in internet memes points to the danger of treating Hitler's demise as a closure to the murderous ideologies he propagated.
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12/6/2020
Is There Anything Left to Learn about Hitler?
by James Thornton Harris
Volker Ullrich presents a picture of a leader whose "egocentrism... inability to self-criticize…tendency to overestimate himself... contempt for others and lack of empathy" made him willing to destroy his nation along with himself, but warns that the Third Reich was "a dictatorship of consent."
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SOURCE: New Statesman
12/2/2020
What The Hitler Conspiracies Mean
by Richard J. Evans
Against evidence and common sense, theories persist that Adolf Hitler escaped Berlin to live in Argentina. An expert on the memory of the Third Reich argues that the conspiracy theories reflect a broad rejection of expertise and show the need for historians to engage the public.
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SOURCE: Champaign (IL) News-Gazette
6/21/2020
UI Historian Takes Close Look At Nazis’ First Days In Power
University of Illinois professor Peter Fritzche has written a recent book on the first 100 days of the Third Reich which considers the balance of Hitler's influence and prevailing currents of antisemitism and authoritarianism in the German public.
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4/5/2020
New Deal or Nazism? Historical Comparisons to Trump's Performance as a Leader in Crisis
by Walter G. Moss
Comparing the first 100 days in power of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler offers a sobering reminder of the consequences of decisions pursued by leaders in crisis.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/18/2020
Amazon Bans, Then Reinstates, Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
The retailer is trying to do two contradictory things: Ban hate literature but allow free speech.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9-23-16
Anger as Churchill's home turned into Hitler HQ for Transformers 5
War veterans are horrified that Blenheim Palace has been draped in swastika flags for Michael Bay’s latest film
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
12-2-15
The Battle to Publish Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the U.S.
A team of historians is publishing a two-volume, 2,000-page German edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for the first time in seven decades.
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SOURCE: Mental Floss
11-5-15
When the Pope Ordered the Death of Adolf Hitler
by David Brown
Pope Pius XII resolved to do whatever he could to have Hitler killed.
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SOURCE: HistoryNet
11-5-12
Mein Kampf: The Sequel
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Hitler's second book wasn't suppressed, only mislaid.
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SOURCE: The Telegraph
5-6-14
Germany's interest in Adolf Hitler at record levels
Some 2,000 books on Hitler were published in Germany last year.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
3-24-14
Holocaust-Denier David Irving makes $5,000 selling lock of Hitler’s hair
Need a lock of Hitler’s hair? Who you gonna call? (David Irving, apparently.)
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SOURCE: The Guardian
3-23-14
Germany asks: is it OK to laugh at Hitler?
The Führer found himself reborn in the 21st century in a 2012 comic novel by Timur Vermes, which sold 1.4m copies in Germany. Its success suggests Germans now look at their former leader in the same way as the rest of the world does.
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3-31-14
Business Leaders Will Have More Influence on Politics When They Shelve the "Populists are Nazis" Meme
by Benjamin Waterhouse
Business leaders have been comparing their opponents to Nazis -- and Communists, and socialists -- for a long time. It's never worked well for them.
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3-24-14
Enough With the Hitler Analogies
by Christian Karner
Our understanding of World War II has been deeply enriched by a memory boom of books and research. The same cannot be said by the Hitler analogy boom.
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SOURCE: Atlantic
3-20-14
Good News From Ukraine: Everyone Still Hates Hitler
by Matt Ford
All sides in the Crimean crisis are invoking the Third Reich. Why?
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3-18-14
Another rich guy says populists are like Nazis
Remember the story about the rich guy comparing left-wing populism to Nazism? It’s happening again, only this time it’s a different rich guy.
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SOURCE: Israel National News
1-27-14
Strange 1924 Article Claimed Hitler 'Favorable to Jews'
The article originally appeared in the Zionist paper Doar Hayom.
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