Hitler

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• 3/1/2020
  

  What Mussolini and Hitler's Rise to Power Can Teach Us about Opposing Trump: Unite, Unite!

  by Walter G. Moss

  The luxury of voting third party or not voting at all is no longer a sensible option for anyone wishing for a USA we can cherish.   

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/9/20
  

  In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich

  The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover.

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• 2/2/20
  

  What Did Hitler Think About Anglo-American Capitalism?

  by James Thornton Harris

  A review of Brendan Simms' controversial new book, Hitler: A Global Biography.  

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• 1/26/20
  

  How Neville Chamberlin Misread Hitler and Allowed the Third Reich to Threaten the World Order

  by Jeff Roquen

  In the new and magisterial study Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War, Tim Bouverie incisively reconstructs the ideological landscape of post-WWI Britain to explain how Chamberlain and other politicians and pundits misread Hitler and ultimately allowed the Third Reich to threaten the entire world order.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/8/20
  

  Before the ‘Final Solution’ There Was a ‘Test Killing’

  by Kenny Fries

  Too few know the history of the Nazi methodical mass murder of disabled people. That is why I write.

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• 1/5/20
  

  Trump is no Hitler: His Enablers are the Greater Problem

  by David Marks

  The degree of Trump's success has been achieved only because of the leverage he has on political cronies.

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• 12/15/19
  

  The 1936 Olympics Teach Us Why Trump's Lies Are So Dangerous

  by Andrew Maraniss

  In the face of a mounting threat to humanity, a campaign of lies, inaction, and disinterest in the truth were all equally dangerous. 

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, & Britain's Plight of Appeasement

  by Adrian Phillips

  The history of appeasement is intertwined with the history of Churchill.

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• SOURCE: The First News
  November 9, 2019
  

  Historians unearth the lost secrets of Hitler’s Wolf Lair fruit and veg plot

  by Alex Webber

  A team of local historians unearthed the remains of a garden and greenhouse complex once used to grow vegetables destined for the Fuhrer’s dining table.

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• 10/6/19
  

  Why Can’t Trump Admit Mistakes? It’s an Old Strategy Explained by Hitler

  by Cody Cain

  When maintaining a falsehood, even a slight crack can bring it all crashing down.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  September 21, 2019
  

  An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis

  The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  September 16, 2019
  

  Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman; Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms – review

  by Anne McElvoy

  A study of how the US and Germany have dealt with their racist legacies; and a new theory of what drove Hitler.

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• 9/15/19
  

  Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.

  by Claudia Koonz

  Trump is not a despot. But neither were Mussolini and Hitler early on.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  September 10, 2019
  

  When This German Artist Tried to Use His Work to Warn About Hitler, the World Ignored Him. It's Time to Listen

  by Mary M. Lane

  German painter George Grosz predicted the rise of the Nazi Regime through his art. Why did no one pay attention? 

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• 9/8/19
  

  1933 May Be Closer than We Think

  by Frank Domurad

  Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.

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• 8/25/19
  

  Devil's Bargain: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 80 Years Later

  by David Carlin

  Eighty years ago, two dictators agreed to divide up Eastern Europe. Their agreement would change the lives of millions.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/19/19
  

  A Group of German Leaders Tried to Kill Hitler in 1944. Here’s Why They Failed

  by Albinko Hasic

  For a brief moment in history, Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators thought they had succeeded in turning the tide of World War II and potentially saving thousands of additional lives. 

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• 6/23/19
  

  On the 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, It's Time to Reexamine Its Legacy.

  by David Carlin

  Versailles did not destroy the German economy, make Germany into a permanent pariah, or inspire the German lust for revenge. Instead, the Nazis capitalized on a unique economic calamity (the Great Depression), German political instability, and deep seated radical nationalist currents.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/6/19
  

  Hitler told the world the Third Reich was invincible. My German grandfather knew better

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  As a political organizer for the Social Democrats, Kellner had opposed the Nazis from the beginning, campaigning against them throughout the duration of the ill-fated Weimar Republic. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/13/19
  

  They Resisted Hitler. They Were Executed. At Last, They Lie at Rest.

  “With this, we can give back some of their dignity to those who were murdered.”