Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator of Nazi Germany.
An exhibition chronicling the Nazi party’s rise to power draws tens of thousands of visitors. Millions of TV viewers tune in to watch a drama about the Third Reich. A satirical novel in which Hitler pops up in modern Berlin becomes an overnight bestseller. German interest in the darkest chapter of their history seems stronger…
Users of Google’s RSS application, Google Reader, responded with a mixture of fury and indifference this morning when the company announced that it will end the service on July 1. Naturally, the occasion couldn’t pass without a “Downfall” parody, with Hitler responding to the unsettling news. Needless to say, the Fuhrer was less than pleased.
Although he has been dead for nearly 70 years, Adolf Hitler continues to make headlines. In recent years, the Nazi dictator has become an inescapable presence in Western political and cultural life, serving as a polemical trump card in political debates, a demonic star in feature films, a marketable symbol in advertising campaigns and an…
The Afrika Reich By Guy Saville Henry Holt & Co., 400 pages, $28 Recently, fictional Nazis have been enjoying a resurgence in contemporary literature. As seen in high-brow novels such as Jonathan Littell’s “The Kindly Ones,” works of young adult fiction, such as John Boyne’s “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” and mass market books,…
A float satirizing local politicians dressed as Nazis holding canisters of Zyklon B gas is to take part in a carnival parade in the Belgian city of Aalst. The float, which also features a railway wagon and a political leader dressed as Hitler, was featured on the Facebook page of a group called FTP. The…
An ad featuring Adolf Hitler placed at a Turkish mall was pulled following complaints by Jewish leaders. The ad at the Sapphire Mall in Istanbul was promoting a wax museum. It featured a large color portrait of the late Nazi leader standing behind a podium. The text read, “If you could meet anyone, who would…
A former Jewish neighbor of Adolf Hitler in Munich has co-authored a book describing his childhood brushes with the dictator. Edgar Feuchtwanger, 88, has joined forces with French journalist Bertil Scali to write “Hitler, mon voisin, souvenirs d’un enfant juif,” or “My Neighbor Hitler: memories of a Jewish child.” The 320-page book is due out…
A Swiss army commander reportedly praised Nazi-era German general Erwin Rommel before a group of officers, holding up Rommel as an example for the Swiss army to follow. According to a report in the Swiss newspaper Der Sonntag, the officer, a lieutenant colonel identified only as “PL,” defended his words as “no praise for Rommel…
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