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.
Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane “Desert Fox”, is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf Hitler and the dawning realisation that he was serving a devil. The drama, due to be broadcast on the public ARD television…
Municipal authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat removed the sign for a men’s’ clothing store named Hitler. The sign – on which the letter “i” was dotted with a swastika – was removed Tuesday after hundreds of complaints from both within and outside of the Jewish community. “The store owners had voluntarily agreed to…
The pre-war archives of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, who was with Hitler from the earliest days, will be put on auction in the United States this week. Alexander Autographs, one of the largest auction houses for rare historical documents and manuscripts, is offering the rare archive for a starting price of $200,000 on…
My great-uncle Eddie returned from World War II in 1945 with a shrapnel wound in his leg, a Purple Heart and four souvenirs from the Nazi regime he helped to defeat: a German bayonet, a helmet, a rifle, and a copy of “Mein Kampf.” He appointed his sister, Helen, my grandmother, as guardian of the…
The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts By Daniel Pick Oxford University Press, 368 pages, $35 More than 20 years ago, Neal Gabler declared that Hollywood was the creation of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. In his remarkable book “An Empire of Their Own,” Gabler in fact suggested that the Meyers…
A Jewish politician from Brazil said he would sue a colleague for suggesting he was a Nazi. Isaac Tayah, president of the city council of Manaus, said he would file charges in a federal court for racism, libel and defamation, according to A Crtitica, a Brazilian news site. Earlier this month, councilman Mario Frota published…
The owners of a men’s clothing store in the Indian state of Gujarat are being urged to change the name from Hitler. The store in Ahmedabad is named for one of the proprietor’s grandfather, whose nickname was Hitler, the Times of India reported. He reportedly was called Hitler “because of his strict nature,” according to…
Australia’s public broadcaster apologized after a radio host asked his listeners to play a word association game involving Hitler and fan-forced ovens. The prank broadcast Aug. 9 on triple j, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s youth radio station, caused Dvir Abramovich, the director of the Center for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Melbourne,…
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