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Fast Forward Hitler Lookalike Busted In Fuhrer’s Hometown
Austrian police have detained a man for glorifying the Nazi regime, after he appeared in public dressed as Adolf Hitler, a police spokesman said. The 25-year-old was arrested on Monday night in Braunau am Inn, Hitler’s birthplace, the spokesman said. The daily newspaper Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten said on Saturday the man had been seen outside the…
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Fast Forward Hitler Lookalike Spotted Near Nazi Führer’s Birthplace
Austrian authorities are investigating reports of a man appearing in public in Adolf Hitler’s birthplace as the Nazi dictator’s double, including the distinctive mustache, haircut and clothing. “I have often seen this gentlemen in Braunau and wonder if this means something,” the Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten paper cited a local resident as saying on his Facebook page…
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Opinion This Week In Anti-Semitism: Duma Defamation And Heartless Valentines
The Forward plans to regularly monitor the surge of anti-Semitism in many parts of the country and the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. 1) Republicans Keep On Omitting Jews from…
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News Valentine Compares Burning Love To Jews In Oven At Central Michigan University
Valentine’s Day took an ugly turn at the College Republicans’s holiday party at Central Michigan University, when a card featuring Adolf Hitler and bearing the words “my love 4 u burns like 6,000 Jews,” mysteriously emerged. Members gave Valentine’s Day bags to each other during the February 8 party, and one bag contained an anti-Semitic…
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Fast Forward Man Reading from Anti-Semitic Tract Pushes Jewish Woman on NYC Train
A woman was attacked Monday night while riding the New York City subway in Manhattan, as a man shoved her, called her a “dirty Jew” and screamed “Heil the Hitler Youth.” The incident was said to have occurred when the woman was on the C Train on West 23rd Street, with the assailant reading aloud…
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Culture Do We All Have an Inner Gandhi — and a Hitler Too?
When Ajay Raju saw Jitish Kallat’s “Covering Letter” installed in India two years ago, he was struck by the experience of walking through the mist “screen” or “curtain,” upon which was projected a 1939 letter that Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Adolf Hitler. “You almost feel as though you’ve crossed the threshold of history,” says Raju,…
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Culture Why Nazi Propaganda Is Not As Relevant As You Might Think
One of the first things viewers see at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda,” which recently opened at the U.N., is a quote from 1924 by Adolf Hitler: “Propaganda is a truly terrible weapon in the hands of an expert.” And, as the exhibition will show,…
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Opinion My Late Uncle’s Memories of Germany in the 1930s Haunt Me Today
Anti-Semitism had always been a part of German culture before Hitler came to power, my great uncle Ernie Lowenstein told me. But the difference was noticeable as soon as he became chancellor. You could tell right away, he recalled. I was visiting Ernie in a retirement facility in Evansville, Indiana in the summer of 1992….
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