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Fast Forward Texas Prisoners Can’t Read ‘Freakonomics’ – But ‘Mein Kampf’ Is Allowed
You can’t read Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can read Hitler’s memoir. You can’t read Alice Walker’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel “The Color Purple.” You can read former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke’s “My Awakening.” These are some of the strange discrepancies in the official reading list from which inmates in Texas prisons can request books, the Dallas…
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Fast Forward London Judaica Shop Shaken After Caller Says ‘Hitler Had The Best Ovens’
A Hasidic-owned Judaica shop in London received a one-line phone call Thursday evening. A man said, “Hitler had the best ovens,” and immediately hung up. The staff member who answered the call said he was “disgusted, shocked and frightened by this unexpected call, especially when my grandparents and most members of my family perished in…
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Fast Forward Sudanese Soccer Fans Appear To Celebrate Holocaust With Massive Hitler Banner
An anti-discrimination soccer network is investigating a Sudanese club after its supporters were seen holding a massive banner of Adolf Hitler and appearing to celebrate the Holocaust, the Mirror reported. FARE, an international network backed by major soccer institutions like FIFA, tweeted early Monday about the supporters of Al Hilal Omdurman, a major Sudanese team….
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Fast Forward The U.S. Army Has A Restricted Archive Of Hitler Paintings
Fort Belvoir, about 20 miles south of the Pentagon in northern Virginia, is the home of some of the U.S. Army’s most important units, like the Missile Defense Agency and the Intelligence and Security Command. It’s also the home of hundreds of Nazi artworks taken from Germany after World War II — including four paintings…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Massive Trump-As-Hitler Effigy Burned Outside Duterte Meeting
Protesters in the Philippines burned a 13-foot tall effigy of Donald Trump dressed as Hitler, complete with twirling swastika arms, the Mirror reported. The burning came ahead of Trump’s meeting with the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been widely accused of human rights violations in his so-called “war on drugs.” The effigy’s four arms,…
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Fast Forward Visitors Take Selfies With Hitler At Auschwitz In Indonesian Museum
(JTA) — A museum in Indonesia defended a wax figure of Adolf Hitler set against a backdrop of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Da Mata, a waxwork and visual effects museum in Yogyakarta, amid outrage over the display said it was “fun.” The Hitler figure has been up since 2014. “No visitors complained about it. Most…
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Fast Forward Texas Governor: At Least Sutherland Springs Shooting Wasn’t As Bad As Hitler
Texas governor Greg Abbott downplayed the Sutherland Springs shooting by comparing it with the actions of Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. He said that part of the grieving process was to put the killing of 26 people in a church on Sunday morning “in context.” “Because [the shooting]…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Mustache Shaved In Nazi-Killing Video Game
A new video game that lets you kill Hitler and his hordes of Nazi robots was forced by German law to shave Hitler’s infamous mustache for the game’s German version. While the English-language version of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, are replete with Nazi imagery and language, German law required the game’s makers to scrub…
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