Hitler

The Uncanny Resemblance of the Beer Hall Putsch and the January 6 Insurrection

by David E. Gumpert

Jailing and silencing Hitler after the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 nearly destroyed the National Socialist movement. Without significant punishment, will the plotters of the January 6 putsch be able to repeat the Nazis' second, successful power grab? 

New Documentary Asks Why Obsession with Hitler Endures

"Why take 90 minutes to warn everyone yet again about Hitler, they wonder, when every mention of him only seems to do more harm than good?"

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Gets New French Edition, With Each Lie Annotated

The publishers, who will donate proceeds to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, argue that with other versions of Hitler's manifesto circulating widely, a translation that preserves the incoherence and paranoia of the original with extensive debunking commentary is a positive contribution to efforts to fight the far right. 

US Embassy in Hungary slams article likening Soros to Hitler

A Hungarian culture minister suggested that the Hungarian-American Jewish financier's advocacy of stronger democratic standards in the EU--which reflect criticism of right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary--are similar to the crimes committed against the two nations by Nazi Germany, among other attacks.

Kentucky State Police Quoted Hitler and Encouraged Cadets to be ‘Ruthless’ in a Training Program

The rhetoric in the slide show is consistent with “warrior-style” police training, which teaches officers to dehumanize people to act aggressively and forcefully. It also trains officers to approach every encounter with citizens as having a possibility of becoming dangerous or fatal.

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.   

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.

What Did Hitler Think About Anglo-American Capitalism?

by James Thornton Harris

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

by Adrian Phillips

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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? 

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.