UPDATE: Harris calls Trump ‘unstable’ after former chief of staff warns that Trump wanted generals like Hitler’s WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff is warning that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “did some good things.” the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019 came in interviews with both The New York Times and The Atlantic They build on a growing series of warnings from former top Trump officials as the election enters its final weeks WATCH: Trump’s ramped-up rhetoric raises new concerns about violence and authoritarianism Kelly has long been critical of Trump and previously accused him of calling veterans killed in combat “suckers” and “losers.” Still his new warnings came just two weeks before Election Day as Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers “enemies from within.” Kelly said he would usually quash the conversation by saying “nothing (Hitler) did was good,” but that Trump would occasionally bring up the topic again Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing “German generals,” Kelly would ask if he meant “Bismarck’s generals,” referring to Otto von Bismarck the former chancellor of the German Reich who oversaw the unification of Germany “Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,” Kelly recalled asking Trump WATCH: Trump plans to massively expand executive power if elected, report says Trump’s campaign denied these stories on Tuesday arguing Kelly has “beclowned himself with these debunked stories he has fabricated.” Polls show the race is tight in a string of swing states and both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are crisscrossing the country making their final pitches to the sliver of undecided voters White House chief of staff John Kelly listens to a prayer at President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rally in Billings Harris’ running mate who served 24 years in various units and jobs in the Army National Guard quickly used the interviews to assail Trump on Tuesday night the guardrails are gone,” Walz said speaking in Wisconsin “Trump is descending into this madness — a former president of the United States and the candidate for president of the United States says he wants generals like Adolf Hitler had.” WATCH: Walz campaigns with Obama in Madison, Wisconsin, as early voting begins Kelly also said in his interview with The Times that Trump met the definition of a fascist including that fascism was “a far-right authoritarian ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader,” Kelly concluded Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist Kelly added that Trump often fumed at any attempt to constrain his power “He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government,” Kelly told The Times “I think he’d love to be just like he was in business — he could tell people to do things and they would do it and not really bother too much about whether what the legalities were and whatnot.” Kelly is not the first former top Trump administration official to cast the former president as a threat who served as Trump’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Bob Woodward in his recent book “War” that Trump was “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.” And retired Gen reportedly later told Woodward that he agreed with Milley’s assessment © 1996 - 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization Subscribe to Here's the Deal with Lisa Desjardins WASHINGTON − Billionaire Elon Musk, who has been cutting thousands of federal workers as the head of Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday reposted a message on X saying “Hitler didn’t murder millions of people and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people drew furious reactions from a labor union and the Anti-Defamation League president of the American Federation of State “America’s public service workers — our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians — chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers.” “Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs Social Security and Medicare,” Saunders said TESLA Trump, standing next to Elon Musk, says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that seeks to combat antisemitism, said the post was “deeply disturbing.” “It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the group said on social media Musk has more than 219 million followers on X Musk's repost compared federal workers to three of the modern era's greatest killers Musk's repost comes at a time when his attack on the federal government has spurred "Tesla Takedown" protests, with Tesla owners being harassed and multiple dealerships being vandalized across the nation Back in January, Musk sparked controversy with a gesture that drew comparisons to the Nazi salute while speaking at an inaugural event for President Donald Trump Back then, the ADL defended Musk’s gesture as “awkward,” while it was being panned by critics “It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm we appreciate that people are on edge,” read ADL’s post plunging by close to 50% since its peak in December Trump hosted an event at the White House on Wednesday to showcase his support for Tesla Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House Correspondent for USA TODAY or they can vote for a woman who has never said a good thing about a genocidal maniac the negative things he has allegedly had to say about members of the armed forces and the positive remarks he has allegedly made about people like Hitler “Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had,” Harris told reporters “Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the ‘enemy from within’ and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens.” This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from She continued: “And let’s be clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to criticize him would qualify It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is This is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best from the people who worked with him side by side in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room.” and would rule like one if given the chance The vice president ended her remarks by telling voters: “Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there and no longer be there to rein him in The question in 13 days will be: What do the American people want?” This 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The adaptation of the 2004 novel Caging Skies is about Jojo (played by Roman Griffin Davis) a 10-year-old member of a Nazi organization for preteens called the Jungvolk who realizes his mother (Scarlett Johansson) has been letting a Jewish girl named Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) hide out in their home Nazi youth groups like the one Jojo joins were very real some members were fiercely dedicated to Hitler while others would fit Elsa’s description of Jojo as “a 10-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.” even nearly a century after these groups were first established the questions raised by their existence — about the role of children in the history of hate and the way hate affects those children — remain powerfully relevant That children would be involved in the Nazi regime was clear from the beginning. As Adolf Hitler put it at the annual Nazi party rally in 1935 “He alone who owns the youth gains the future.” (This quote has also been paraphrased as “Whoever has the youth has the future.”) The development of youth organizations meant to groom the future leaders of his Nazi Party dated back to the establishment of the party in the early 1920s when all boys and girls in Nazi Germany were required by law to join a Nazi youth group All boys over 10 years old joined the Jungvolk (meaning “Young People”) and then graduated to the Hitler Youth when they turned 14 girls joined the Jungmädel (“Young Girls”) and then graduated to Bund Deutscher Mädel (the “League of German Girls” or BDM for short) about 100,000 girls and boys were members of all the organizations combined Youths who were discovered not to have joined could be sent to “re-education” camps or their parents were fined and imprisoned people who would take over as grown-ups and continue the ideology of the Third Reich,” says historian Michael Kater author of Hitler Youth and Culture in Nazi Germany “History is fed to boys as a story of the great German destiny,” TIME described in a July 1941 report on the inner workings of youth organizations in Nazi Germany “Mathematics is taught in terms of bullet trajectories the little leader-geniuses are searched for the qualities every German warrior must have: punctuality so that his complete case history of character development will be available for the future use of Army psychologists.” Eleven-year-old boys in the Hitler Youth organization learning how to fire a rifle.Keystone—Getty ImagesBut while the adults involved knew that they were grooming a new generation of Nazis, many of the children would later recall the period in more innocent terms, even as their fun was in the service of hateful indoctrination. A July 8, 1935, TIME article reported that 9 million “apple-cheeked wondering children” had participated in Summer Solstice Festivals through the Hitler Youth at which they were told by Hermann Göring that Adolf Hitler was performing God’s miracles students in Germany were required to read material like the 1938 essay Comradeship which presented camping with the Hitler Youth as a time of “wonderfully thrilling stories” and communing with nature In his 1985 memoir, another former member described the program in its pre-war days as similar to Boy Scouts He fondly recalled activities like the “test of courage” in which members were required to jump from a high diving board “There were some stinging belly flops,” he wrote “but the pain was worth it when our Fähnleinführer the 15-year-old leader of Fähnlein (literally “little flag”) handed us the coveted dagger with its inscription Blood and Honor From that moment on we were fully accepted.” Heck also reveled in the chance to get out of the house and socialize with people his own age “Far from being forced to enter the ranks of the Jungvolk I could barely contain my impatience and was filled with ‘duties’ that seemed sheer pleasure.” Meanwhile, girls collected tin foil and warm clothes for soldiers, and received lessons on farming gymnastics and running — activities that might sound pleasant enough but were designed to keep their bodies and their homes in good physical shape so that they could attract a mate and raise children in the Nazi ideology participation in the Hitler Youth was also seen as a leg up in society as children from all economic backgrounds wore the same uniforms Some members of Hitler Youth organizations who went on to fame after World War II have cited these more innocent attractions as central to their memories of participation in such a group or said they only joined because they had to A 1938 photo of Hitler Youth members looking on as Jewish people were forced to scrub the streets in Vienna, Austria.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group—Getty ImagesBut, especially after World War II officially began in 1939 being a member of a Hitler Youth organization was not about seemingly innocent camping trips and the bonds of friendship Members of Hitler Youth groups aided storm troopers in atrocities carried out by the Nazi regime according to Kater — from ordering Jewish people in Vienna to clean the pavement with toothbrushes or their own hands to raiding synagogues and destroying sacred Hebrew scrolls and texts Members of the girls’ groups served in administrative positions in Nazi offices farm laborers or munitions-factory workers In a 1943 TIME article on life in Nazi Germany one British Army chaplain who had been a prisoner of war gave the Gestapo and the Hitler Youth shared credit for the situation: “Hitler has made the youth and the youth are ruling Germany.” Some members of these organizations were particularly infamous. The Auschwitz guard Irma Grese who was notorious for setting a pack of attack dogs on her inmates began that work as a teenage member of a youth organization A British Army court sentenced her to death by hanging in the fall of 1945 the Nazi German police force — a belated disclosure that many saw as hypocritical Hans and Sophie Scholl famously turned against their Hitler Youth roots by distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets.ADN Zentralbild—Getty Images)At the same time despite the mandatory nature of participation the history of Nazi youth organizations does contain examples of resistance young enough that they “were reared under Hitler’s National Socialism supposedly imbued with its doctrines.” “We are your bad conscience,” said one of the leaflets “Everyone wants to exonerate himself from his share of the blame … But it cannot be done: everyone is guilty TIME reported that the pamphlet that got them discovered said: “The eyes of even the most stupid Germans these eyes have been opened by the terrible blood bath in which Hitler and his confederates are trying to drown all Europe in the name of the freedom of the German nation Germany’s name will remain forever dishonored if German youth does not at last rise up avenge and destroy its tormentors and help in the building of a new spirit in Europe It expects from us in 1943 the breaking of the National Socialist terror.” The end of the Nazi regime would not come for another two years Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.waxman@time.com Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has centered his unlikely rise from reality television star to onetime — and potentially future — president on the idea that he’s wiser than Washington’s bumbling political class once going so far as to label himself a “very stable genius.” But when it comes to one of history’s darkest moments Facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump insisted he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled and infamous figures once used similar words The Nazi dictator spoke of impure Jewish blood “poisoning” Aryan German blood to dehumanize Jews and justify the systemic murder of millions during the Holocaust “I never knew that Hitler said it,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday volunteering once again that he never read Hitler’s biographical manifesto “I know nothing about Hitler,” he insisted “I have no idea what Hitler said other than (what) I’ve seen on the news entirely different thing than what I’m saying.” Trump’s assertion that he knows so little about one of the 20th century’s most documented figures is notable for someone seeking the presidency particularly when it comes to people who espouse racist or antisemitic rhetoric is a tactic Trump has repeatedly deployed when aiming to distance himself from uncomfortable storylines After he was endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke during his winning 2016 campaign Trump insisted he had no knowledge of the white supremacist who had run for office numerous times and is described by the Anti-Defamation League as “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite.” OK?" he told CNN’s Jake Tapper in February 2016 “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.” Asked if he would condemn the white supremacists supporting him Trump said he would “have to look at the group I don’t know what group you’re talking about.” He continued to repeat that assertion even after Tapper said he was referring to the KKK Trump has also pleaded ignorance in other cases. As he ran for reelection in 2020, Trump said he didn’t know much about QAnon, the convoluted conspiracy that alleges Democrats are involved in a satanic pedophilia ring and casts Trump as the nation’s savior — even as he retweeted accounts promoting the conspiracy “I know nothing about it,” he said during an NBC town hall “I don’t know that and neither do you,” he said which was part of a desperate bid to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden “I don’t know who the Proud Boys are," Trump told reporters after instructing the group, during a presidential debate you'll have to give me a definition ‘cause I don’t really know who they are,” Trump said of the group Trump has also suggested he was unaware of some of the most consequential periods of American history Greg Abbott to define the post-Civil War era known as Reconstruction as he boasted about his growing popularity with Hispanic voters and Republican wins along the border “They say the first time since Reconstruction That means the Civil War," Trump told the audience You said I’m the first one to win all of these towns since Reconstruction.' He said Reconstruction: since the Civil War.’ That’s a long time ago Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said Trump “has been very clear that he’s talking about criminals and terrorists who have crossed the border under Joe Biden’s watch the United States will return to a secure border and a system that places the safety and security of Americans first." The former president's claims about Hitler are particularly notable given his upbringing in New York home to one of the nation's largest Jewish populations Trump has also participated in Holocaust memorial events. He spoke at a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol hosted by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017, where he denounced Holocaust deniers as accomplices to “horrible evil." And he paid a brief visit to Yad Vashem where he called the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews “the most savage crime against God and his children.” Trump's insistence that he has not read “Mein Kampf” — an assertion he also made at an Iowa rally last week — evoked a different Hitler book he once allegedly had in his possession Journalist Marie Brenner reported in Vanity Fair magazine in 1990 that Trump’s ex-wife “from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches ‘My New Order,’ which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.” “it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of ‘Mein Kampf,’ and he’s a Jew.” Davis confirmed to Brenner that he had indeed given Trump ”a book about Hitler,” but it was “My New Order “I thought he would find it interesting,” Davis said Trump returned to this subject.," Brenner wrote Knowing basic American history is important for a president said Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer but certainly you want a president with a feel for some of the basic parts of American history that Reconstruction was a "a formative moment for civil rights and race relations." “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.” Trump told Hewitt his message was “very different” and he had “zero” racist intent “They say that he said something about blood What I’m saying when I talk about people coming into our country is they are destroying our country.” he repeated “poisoning” references eight times Among those references: “They are poisoning our country They are poisoning the blood of our country They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums rewritten or redistributed without permission The only irritating part about going over my thoughts of this week’s Preacher is having to address the opening “Hilter” begins with a look at Hitler’s life outside of Hell I wasn’t a fan of involving Hitler in this series as I don’t know what it accomplishes outside the initial shock humor of this particular depiction Calling back to the character this late in the season was inevitable since Noah Taylor’s been a credited cast member all season but it’s just a reminder that I’m fine not worrying about the story of him and Eugene “Hitler” has a lot of other things going on that I was quite the fan of and I’m a big fan of how The Grail and Angelville have now collided we are at a point where two antagonistic forces are present and allowing for the story to start surging forward It’s even more interesting that this particular path does not rely on these characters getting into violent confrontations (aside from the current relationship between Tulip and Featherstone) everyone apart from Gran’ma Marie is stuck in something of a stalemate With Starr in need of a way to stop the Allfather he’s made his way to Angelville and negotiates a deal with Marie Every sort of awkward exchange that I would expect with Starr having to deal with these people takes place which easily makes this some of the more entertaining stuff to come out of Angelville Given that season three has had a rough go of making this location the sort of threat I’ve been wanting to see it as settling for solid humor (which can help build tension and suspense) is what I’m happy to count on at this point Making this turn of events all the better is placing Tulip and Featherstone in another room and having them go at it verbally and physically There may be something to say for the show making excuses to involve Tulip by way of a side quest but it has lead to great material this week The scenes finding her matched against Featherstone are fun placing her in an undercover scenario setup is great and I’m looking forward to seeing this Osaka mission play out next this finds the character in a better and more entertaining position Cassidy is having a great time as a free-living vampire Cassidy has been made to feel as if he’s right at home and doing the right thing Even with Hoover and a gang of vampire-hunting Catholics getting the drop on them only to further find himself under the spell of his new lover and so Eccarius is really a murderous vampire that feeds on his followers in multiple ways but I’m fascinated by this external story taking place in his universe Whether or not Cassidy can figure things out on his own Jesse gets plenty to work with this week as well although he’s more support to Starr and Marie as she provides more understanding about the relationship she shares with her grandson There’s a viciousness to what we are seeing with her handling of Jesse but also clearly evident compassion that complicates things Jesse will have to get Genesis back eventually but we still get to wait in anticipation over what sort of comeuppance Marie will finally get which will presumably challenge Jesse’s take on his family Starr is smart enough to have found a way to get to Jesse – his word as Jesse is now in a position to get back 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Please enter your username or email address You will receive a link to create a new password via email The head of Southern University’s Department of Political Science and History put the images of President Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler on a flyer advertising a lecture the professor is giving Wednesday said he used the images to attract attention to an ad hoc lecture that is not part of the curricula that no student is required to attend and for which no grades will be given Samuels is speaking about the president’s impeachment trial and making historical connections to decisions made by officials in democracies that turned totalitarian Southern faculty and student periodically speak publicly in the lobby of Higgins Hall The audience is made up of whoever wants to stop and listen Samuels came about the theme from the impeachment’s effect on the upcoming presidential primary elections The speech is entitled "The Moment We Have Feared is Upon Us: Why the 2020 Election May Be Democracy's Last Stand in America." But it does attract attention,” Samuels said adding that outrageous exaggeration is the way to build an audience these days News Tips:newstips@theadvocate.com Other questions:subscriberservices@theadvocate.com Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: By Arlo PerezChurchill launches the largest military evacuation in military history. But there's a secret killer in the waters. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers. in History | November 16th, 2016 27 Comments The now Pres­i­dent-elect made vicious and belit­tling attacks on African-Amer­i­cans dur­ing the cam­paign sea­son (and for sev­er­al decades before) why should any­one assume—given the his­to­ry of coun­try after coun­try after country—that a bul­ly­ing nativist auto­crat doesn’t mean what he says We know celebri­ty breeds triv­i­al­iza­tion But we also know well that in some of the most famous—but by no means only—cases of dem­a­gogues who rose to pow­er with hate speech the rhetoric quick­ly turned to many years of incom­pre­hen­si­ble hard­ly any­one believed that the melo­dra­mat­ic vit­ri­ol Hitler and Mus­soli­ni spat at scape­goats of all kinds In 1922—at the dawn of Hitler’s bud­ding nation­al­ist move­ment—The New York Times pub­lished its first pro­file titled “New Pop­u­lar Idol Ris­es in Bavaria,” begins with sev­er­al alarm­ing sub­head­ings: “Hitler cred­it­ed with extra­or­di­nary pow­ers of sway­ing crowds to his will,” “forms gray-shirt­ed army… They obey orders implic­it­ly,” “Leader a reac­tionary,” “Anti-Red and Anti-Semit­ic.” It then goes on to under­mine these charges well-informed [unnamed] sources,” we’re told “Hitler’s anti-Semi­tism was not so gen­uine or vio­lent as it sound­ed,” though “the Hitler move­ment is not of a mere local or pic­turesque inter­est.” He was mere­ly using anti-Semit­ic pro­pa­gan­da as a bait to catch mass­es of fol­low­ers and keep them aroused enthu­si­as­tic and in line for the time when his orga­ni­za­tion is per­fect­ed and suf­fi­cient­ly pow­er­ful to be employed effec­tive­ly for polit­i­cal pur­pos­es The paper quotes one admir­ing “sophis­ti­cat­ed politi­cian” as say­ing “You can’t expect the mass­es to under­stand or appre­ci­ate your fin­er real aims You must feed the mass­es with crud­er morsels and ideas like anti-Semi­tism It would be polit­i­cal­ly all wrong to tell them the truth about where you real­ly are lead­ing them.” Where might this be We cyn­i­cal­ly expect all politi­cians to lie to feed us “crud­er morsels.” But assum­ing that racism big­otry, and scapegoating—whether sin­cere or not—will go down so eas­i­ly with so many peo­ple con­sti­tutes a very dark view of “the mass­es.”  “Why did many main­stream Amer­i­can news­pa­pers por­tray the Hitler regime pos­i­tive­ly,” asks Med­off How could they pub­lish warm human-inter­est sto­ries about a bru­tal dic­ta­tor Why did they excuse or ratio­nal­ize Nazi anti-Semi­tism These are ques­tions that should haunt the con­science of U.S ren­dered signs of noth­ing “unusu­al afoot.” The nor­mal­iza­tion of Nazism in Ger­many involved a tremen­dous pro­pa­gan­da effort, much of it aimed at chil­dren the press seemed more than will­ing to turn an eth­no-nation­al­ist move­ment with frightening—and plain­ly stated—objectives into an ordi­nary Anti-Semi­tism was described as legit­i­mate polit­i­cal resent­ment or rea­son­able anger at Ger­man Jews’ “com­mer­cial clan­nish­ness.” Some­how the vic­tims of Nazism had to be respon­si­ble for their own mur­der and per­se­cu­tion “There must be some rea­son,” wrote The Chris­t­ian Cen­tu­ry in an April “oth­er than race or creed—just what is that rea­son?” Few peo­ple, it seems could or would allow them­selves to imag­ine that the new Ger­man Führer actu­al­ly meant what he said via Boing Boing Free Online His­to­ry Cours­es, a sub­set of our col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties How Did Hitler Rise to Pow­er? : New TED-ED Ani­ma­tion Pro­vides a Case Study in How Fas­cists Get Demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly Elect­ed George Orwell Reviews Mein Kampf: “He Envis­ages a Hor­ri­ble Brain­less Empire” (1940) Gand­hi Writes Let­ters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Vio­lence a Force Which Can Match the Most Vio­lent Forces in the World” (1939/40) Josh Jones is a writer and musi­cian based in Durham, NC. Fol­low him at @jdmagness by Josh Jones | Permalink | Comments (27) | We’re hop­ing to rely on our loy­al read­ers rather than errat­ic ads. To sup­port Open Cul­ture’s edu­ca­tion­al mis­sion, please con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion. We accept Pay­Pal, Ven­mo (@openculture), Patre­on and Cryp­to! Please find all options here. We thank you! I real­ly love this web­site and typ­i­cal­ly use it as a way to escape the neg­a­tive news on the more pop­u­lar news sites but I am real­ly tired of the biased anti-trump rhetoric open cul­ture is putting on their site late­ly the Lib­er­als are now becom­ing the par­ty of NO Please return to pro­vid­ing inter­est­ing arti­cles so I hope you don’t take this per­son­al­ly You’re say­ing that Trump is the new Hitler so I also ask you not to take this per­son­al­ly Your com­ment to Josh is mean­ing­less con­cern­ing the pub­lished post but your com­ment which is com­plete­ly rhetor­i­cal once that instead of rebut­ting the argu­ments in a ratio­nal way sim­ply attacks the author with makeshift terms like ‘anti-trump rhetoric’ not a rhetor­i­cal one: peo­ple are being advised not to take Trump’s racist com­ments seri­ous­ly there is a risk that Trump actu­al­ly mean it and there is no guar­an­tee that it will hap­pen again It is a log­i­cal argu­ment that seems to me com­plete­ly inde­pen­dent of your polit­i­cal align­ment whether or not peo­ple find the risk of geno­cide some­thing bad but one which is not part of the dis­cus­sion con­sid­er­ing its prob­a­bil­i­ty Peo­ple tru­ly do not under­stand the ice­berg we are crash­ing into I agree and was in the process of craft­ing a sim­i­lar response to Bri­an when I read yours who is taught — like oth­er his­to­ri­ans — to rec­og­nize pat­terns to me it seems Josh’s post is almost pure­ly his­tor­i­cal sur­fac­ing at a time when the con­nec­tion with the past is most appar­ent Whether or not any­one has issue with that “con­nec­tion” or “pat­tern,” and it being voiced I don’t think it’s appro­pri­ate to tar­get the jour­nal­ism of a par­tic­u­lar­ly writer or web­site — like Josh — with words like “return to pro­vid­ing inter­est­ing arti­cles.” sim­ply because it dis­plays a type of nar­cis­sism and con­cern only with what one­self wants to see thought the arti­cle was quite inter­est­ing Just want to say thanks for the spot on replies cf http://mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2016/11/out-of-past.html It appears thing have changed lit­tle at the New York Times; still apol­o­giz­ing for total­i­tar­i­an­ism Ear­ly indi­ca­tions con­firm that Trump’s assem­bled cab­i­net will quick­ly undo basic tenets of our democ­ra­cy that we have tak­en for grant­ed up to now Igno­rance-laden moti­va­tions always have unsus­tain­able out­comes I was not mak­ing a polit­i­cal state­ment All I want­ed was one safe haven away from all of the Hub­bub that is going on in the world Open­cul­ture usu­al­ly offers more artis­tic news so all I want­ed was for things to go before the elec­tion began Sor­ry you took my com­ments so per­son­al­ly I did­n’t intend for them to come off that way I believe the coun­try has elect­ed a very dan­ger­ous author­i­tar­i­an bul­ly and that many peo­ple will suf­fer for it The evi­dence is so over­whelm­ing and has been on dis­play for so long that I feel no need to repeat any of it should unequiv­o­cal­ly and with­out reser­va­tion The stakes are basic human rights and civ­il lib­er­ties That said–and I also say this respectfully–if you do not like this arti­cle and who­ev­er else mis­con­strued my state­ments I am not aligned with any par­ty and am non-par­ti­san I did not argue or attack as Jan said and I did not make the arti­cle out to what I want­ed to believe it to be as Haley sug­gest­ed I also do not have a polit­i­cal align­ment as Jan said I only made a sug­ges­tion that if you don’t want to lose read­ers stop with the polit­i­cal arti­cles no mat­ter who it is for or against As for your need to push your per­son­al agen­da onto oth­ers; I also heard the same response from Repub­li­cans about Oba­ma I think you’ve made it clear that you’re just look­ing out for us I’ll add to my state­ment and then say no more: The val­ues that this site reg­u­lar­ly champions–free speech and free inquiry and human­is­tic endeavor–are under threat whether you per­ceive that to be the case or no That is of great inter­est to our read­ers Our focus on cur­rent affairs and his­tor­i­cal par­al­lels is not about a “per­son­al agen­da.” A very inter­est­ing his­tor­i­cal par­al­lel Thank you for the art­ful­ly writ­ten piece Our coun­try’s demo­c­ra­t­ic ideals are in dan­ger of being destroyed by the Trump regime I’m active­ly seek­ing media out­lets that under­stand this fact Dan and Open Cul­ture for pro­vid­ing this much need­ed voice to coun­ter­act main­stream medi­a’s pathet­ic attempt to nor­mal­ize any­thing asso­ci­at­ed with Trump His­tor­i­cal com­par­isons with an n of 1 aren’t par­tic­u­lar­ly use­ful or inter­est­ing I just get tired of see­ing all of the doom and gloom in the news Did­n’t you see that Stephen Hawk­ing gave us 1000 years before the world ends Well it did­n’t end when we elect­ed the first black pres­i­dent and it won’t end now I just wish the media would bring us togeth­er instead of dri­ving us apart I also have a prob­lem with your use of the word rhetoric What is report­ed about our pres­i­dent elect is often based on his own words So a jour­nal­ist report­ing on the words some­one is using is not using rhetoric He was record­ed talk­ing about grab­bing women by the pussy No one made him say that and the media was­n’t twist­ing his words or tak­ing it out of con­text to per­suade peo­ple of a cer­tain view­point they sim­ply report­ed his words am sick of hear­ing about all this polit­i­cal bs but I think it is impor­tant that we do lis­ten and pay atten­tion The nation has elect­ed some­one who has called for a ban of all peo­ple of a par­tic­u­lar reli­gion Some­how many feel we can’t put any restric­tions on guns (even back­ground checks) because peo­ple yell about the right to bear arms being in the con­sti­tu­tion yet a large por­tion of the pop­u­la­tion backed a man say­ing he’d like to ban Mus­lims from enter­ing the coun­try and yet we have free­dom of reli­gion in that very same doc­u­ment Cer­tain­ly one could argue that immi­grants are not yet cit­i­zens so there­fore the con­sti­tu­tion does­n’t apply to them but I guess its the prin­ci­ple of the thing Is there any guar­an­tee that a Chris­t­ian will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be a good future cit­i­zen yet a Mus­lim will not I think this is an incred­i­bly impor­tant time in our coun­try We have a pres­i­dent elect whose vic­to­ry was open­ly sup­port­ed by the KKK I think that no mat­ter which side of the aisle you are on you should be for basic human rights and decen­cy I think many aver­age cit­i­zens stand­ing idly by is what allows many of these hor­ri­ble sit­u­a­tions Hitler was­n’t the last exam­ple of eth­nic cleans­ing and sad­ly I’m sure there will be more exam­ples in the future These two were less than ide­al but I think you missed an oppor­tu­ni­ty by not vot­ing I hope that regard­less of your thoughts on vot­ing if you see injus­tice com­mit­ted against your fel­low man you will speak out This is some­thing we all need to com­mit to Netanyahu is now actu­al­ly look­ing for­ward to work­ing with Mr Thank you for your polite and thought­ful response I guess the best that we can do is to try and make a pos­i­tive impact on the world around us the best way that we think we can This is my ulti­mate goal each morn­ing when I wake up Apo­lit­i­cal apa­thy is pre­cise­ly why no one should be feel­ing com­pla­cent or safe about our sys­tem of “checks and bal­ances.” We are one Supreme Court jus­tice away from no more checks and bal­ances It’s a call for an apa­thet­ic pop­u­la­tion to “Pay atten­tion I take it that civic engage­ment in the gov­ern­ment isn’t a pri­or­i­ty for you It amazes me that no one read­ing this arti­cle recalls a recent politi­cian who also had the abil­i­ty to sway crowds to his will with a mete­oric rise from seem­ing­ly nowhere This politi­cian ran for office under the vague notion of change and ideas like exhort­ing a manda­to­ry ser­vice pro­gram as well orga­nized and well fund­ed as the armed forces This per­son was an asso­ciate of far left rad­i­cals once on the fbi’s most want­ed list for domes­tic ter­ror­ism tried to nom­i­nate rad­i­cals to promi­nent polit­i­cal posts and when unable to do that cre­at­ed posts which did not need top be con­firmed despite the author­i­ty bestowed on them the press did all they could to aid his cam­paign con­spir­ing togeth­er on their nar­ra­tive and with­hold­ing evi­dence of unpop­u­lar views There’s a vast dif­fer­ence between the hate speech/rhetoric of an author­i­tar­i­an tyrant and the per­sua­sive ora­tion of a trans­for­ma­tive leader Not sur­pris­ing that the news­pa­per which won a Pulitzer Prize for Wal­ter Duran­ty’s report­ing on how won­der­ful­ly things were going in Stal­in’s USSR in the 1930’s would serve as an ear­ly apol­o­gist for Hitler XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media We find the free courses and audio books you need the language lessons & educational videos you want By Associated Press EducationSports Wire Michigan State quarterback Sam Leavitt (4) is hit out of bounds by Michigan defensive back DJ Waller Jr (13) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in East Lansing >> Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller said he has suspended an employee involved in allowing Adolf Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards before playing No will be paid pending an investigation that will help to determine potential action in the future Haller said no one in the department viewed the entire video “Antisemitism must be denounced,” Haller said in a statement Sunday Night “The image displayed prior to Saturday night’s game is not representative of who we are and the culture we embody we must own our failures and accept responsibility The creator and producer of The Quiz Channel on YouTube which includes Hitler’s image as part of a quiz said the school didn’t ask for permission to use his content or pay him for it and defended his decision to include the question on his platform “It’s an absolutely normal trivia question shown in an inappropriate setting,” Floris van Pallandt wrote on his YouTube page “Ignoring the dark facets of history is by no means the answer The channel is publicly available and free for users While the Wolverines were finishing off a 49-0 win over the Spartans on Saturday night Michigan State spokesman Matt Larson apologized that the inappropriate content was displayed more than an hour before kickoff “MSU will not be using the third-party source going forward and will implement stronger screening and approval procedures for all videoboard content in the future,” Larson said which had 40 questions in its latest video including asking where was Hitler born with his image before showing Austria as the answer what color was Spock’s blood?” before green was shown as the answer “I am deeply sorry for the image displayed at Spartan Stadium which made many of our community feel alienated and unsafe,” interim university President Teresa Woodruff said Sunday I asked last evening for a full review of this university event and will take all necessary steps to align our messages and actions to our values “I will work with our Jewish community and every member of minoritized populations to ensure Spartans feel that this is a place where everyone can live go to class and attend events that are welcoming.” Haller apologized and said his department is responsible for all content on its videoboards it is my responsibility to make sure all those who interact with Spartan Athletics feel safe “The image was harmful to our communities especially our Jewish community which is currently experiencing a rise in antisemitism Haller said he will reach out to Jewish-community groups in the East Lansing-area and on campus to tell them personally how the department failed and provide a chance to give feedback “I understand our response might be met with skepticism,” Haller said and we will do all that is necessary to earn back your trust.” 500 Ala Moana Blvd. #2-200Honolulu, HI 96813(808) 529-4747 Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Feared German leader’s final days spent in darkness of the Fuhrerbunker as a ‘palsied prematurely aged old man in a soup-stained uniform’ reduced to shrieking ‘nonsensical orders to half-exterminated armies’ I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice With the Western Allies days away from retaking Europe, Poland in the hands of the advancing Red Army and Berlin under relentless siege the Fuhrer was forced to concede his vision of founding a new empire to last a thousand years lay in tatters his hope of global conquest for the greater glory of the Teutonic “master race” doomed to end in failure He shot himself through the right temple with a 7.65mm Walther PP pistol biting down on a cyanide capsule as he did so to ensure there would be no question of his survival Hitler, Braun, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels plus members of the party’s trusted inner circle and staff had taken up residence in the Fuhrerbunker on 16 January as the once-mighty German army found itself pushed to the verge of collapse after six years of devastating conflict Each subsequent day had brought more news of steady British and American progress into Nazi-occupied territory from the west and the unstoppable march of Soviet troops to the east the Russians had arrived to commence the Battle of Berlin bringing 2.5 million men and 6,525 tanks to the doorstep of the world’s third-largest city on three fronts commanded in turn by marshals Georgy Zhukov The exhausted Nazis were outnumbered and outgunned five-to-one with little serious hope of defending the capital reliant on flimsy barricades thrown up in desperation to fend off invasion “It would be much better to have me shot,” remarked General Helmuch Weidling when he was tasked with mounting a last stand to save Berlin Adolf Hitler made his final appearance above ground as he emerged from the sanctuary that had become his prison to hand out the Iron Cross to members of the Hitler Youth among the devastated remains of what had been the Chancellery’s garden It was his 56th birthday and the last time he would feel the brush of sunlight against his cheek The occasion was marked by Russian soldiers firing on Hermannplatz and killing a number of people queueing outside the Karstadt department store “Through the fire-blackened ruins the scent of lilac rose in waves out of derelict gardens whose owners had fled or died,” Douglas Botting wrote of that spring in In the Ruins of the Reich (1985) The stumps of trees amputated by the bombing were bursting with green leaf With only the hammering of saturation bombing by the Allies to listen out for Hitler had suffered a total nervous breakdown on 22 April after becoming certain of defeat when he learned that Waffen-SS general Felix Steiner had disobeyed a direct order Steiner’s detachment had been instructed to attack Zhukov’s forces encircling the city from the north while the German Ninth Army under Theodor Busse approached from the south in a pincer movement Steiner had baulked at so unrealistic a command anticipating the massacre of his already-depleted forces “Hitler had been incarcerated in the bunker for over three months and his grasp on reality was fading fast,” writes Botting of the Fuhrer’s feverish state of mind prematurely aged old man in a soup-stained uniform living deep under the ground of the Reich Chancellery gardens continued to demand absolute obedience and fanatical resistance [and] continued to shriek nonsensical orders to non-existent or half-exterminated armies.” Ranting tearfully and admitting the war was lost for the first time later that same afternoon on the optimum means of committing suicide who recommended pistol-and-poison as the only truly foolproof method When Luftwaffe supreme commander Hermann Goering heard of Hitler’s outburst from Berchtesgaden he dispatched a telegram asking him to step down in accordance with a 1941 decree naming Goering his successor Persuaded by his secretary Martin Bormann that the Reichsmarschall intended a coup arrested by the SS and threatened with execution Field Marshal Robert Ritter von Greim was summoned from Munich to replace him sending gifts of coffee and tinned food for their parents and giving instructions for the disposal of her gold and diamond watches Within a week Berlin’s telephone lines would be dead leaving short-wave radio transmitted from a tethered balloon the only means of communication between the bunker and the outside world The city’s streets continued to face heavy bombardment from Russian artillery fire with the native citizens who had not succeeded in escaping left with little choice but to seek shelter in basements and candle-lit subway tunnels disease and petty crime were rife and the only meat available was that which could be carved from dead horses Stores and private residences were looted for bottles of wine while some resorted to “Saturnalian orgies” or suicide to escape the hellishness of daily existence At 9pm on 28 April, a BBC report citing Reuters reached Hitler that Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler had approached the Allies with an offer to surrender mediated by Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte It had been declined but Hitler was infuriated that Himmler had assumed the authority to negotiate branding him a traitor to the Fatherland and having his representative in Berlin That fact that Fegelein had married Gretl Braun and was therefore Hitler’s prospective brother-in-law did nothing to stay his hand General Hans Krebs and Bormann made desperate final appeals to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Admiral Karl Donitz respectively to order their commanders to make a final push against the Soviets but a single city block away from the Fuhrerbunker while Busse’s Ninth Army had been brutally cut down on the Berlin-Dresden autobahn “Reich Chancellery a heap of rubble,” Bormann admitted in a telegram In the early hours of 29 April – and shortly after poisoning his beloved Alsatian dog Blondi and handing out cyanide pills to his secretaries who concealed their mounting panic behind subservient smiles – Hitler married Braun in a civil ceremony witnessed by their peers and toasted half-heartedly with glasses of champagne after which the dictator made out his last will and testament Hitler spent the rest of that day putting his affairs in order giving instructions for his papers to be destroyed and saying farewell to his entourage shaking hands and mumbling whatever words of consolation he could muster later remembered tears in his eyes: “They seemed to be looking far away The tension which had been building up to an almost unendurable point in the bunker broke and several persons went up to the canteen – to dance The weird party soon became so noisy that word was sent from the Fuhrer’s quarters requesting more quiet” a pallid Hitler is said by biographer Hans-Otto Meissner to have greeted Magda Goebbels by taking the gold party insignia from his grey overcoat and fastening it to her lapel with trembling hands prompting her to burst into tears at the honour It was the highest recognition ever awarded to a woman by the Third Reich The bodies of Adolf and Eva Hitler were discovered at 3.30pm that afternoon slumped on a bloody sofa by Joseph Goebbels Hitler’s adjutant Otto Gunshe and his valet The latter was so shocked by the sight he simply picked up a Dresden vase Hitler had upset when his body had slumped forward from the fatal gunshot rearranged the tulips and daffodils within and returned it to its rightful place on a side table the Fuhrer’s favourite portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia glowering down upon the scene Their cadavers were swiftly wrapped in brown army blankets doused in petrol and burnt in a trench in the same Chancellery grounds where Hitler had received the boy soldiers two weeks previously “I don’t want to be put on exhibition in a Russian waxworks,” he had told Gunsche Donitz and Goebbels succeeded Hitler as head of state and chancellor respectively The latter and his wife would have their children put to sleep by lethal injection just a day later It is believed that Magda administered the poison herself a chilling act she appears to have plotted at least a month in advance She had confided as much to her sister-in-law from her first marriage according to Anja Klabunde’s 1999 biography: “We have demanded monstrous things from the German people treated other nations with pitiless cruelty For this the victors will exact their full revenge In the days to come Joseph will be regarded as one of the greatest criminals that Germany has ever produced Frau Goebbels wept but nevertheless played Solitaire with her husband after going through with the executions all six of their offspring lying unwaking in their beds in matching white nightgowns Their parents too would be dead within hours their end mirroring the demise of the Hitlers Berlin surrendered to the Soviet Union on 2 May, the same day that the US armed forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, carried the news of the Fuhrer’s suicide and succession in the plainest terms imaginable, its headline announcing simply: “Hitler dead”. Germany’s total concession would follow six days later on a date now marked as Victory in Europe Day. But the true extent of the horrors with which Adolf Hitler’s name will forever be associated would only subsequently become known to the wider world, which, in that moment, came together to cheer his downfall in jubilant celebration, daring to imagine a brighter tomorrow. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies (Writer’s note:  In my three decades with NBC I had the opportunity to speak to Presidents  and sadly those who had caused great pain to families and entire communities Daniel Jacobson rivals the great positive influencers at top of the list I found out about the now 105 year old when I was with his granddaughter at the U.S Supreme Court when we were two of the FIU College of Law graduates being sworn in to be able to practice law before the high court  My time in an Air Force fighter jet over Iraq was nothing compared to what Sgt and my respect for all Army and Marines men and women from every generation has no bounds took all the atrocities directed at millions of Jews and with a stroke of a pen taught Adolph Hitler like him that hatred and racism will never win It was an honor to share his birthday with him and to share his legacy with you on the anniversary of his penmanship.) The music is playing and shouts of happy birthday are filling the room there are lots of birthdays but this is one most of us will never see  It’s birthday number 105 for Daniel Jacobson  He is the Jewish American soldier who survived his WWII trek fighting Germans and made history when sending a very personal message about overcoming Adolph Hitler’s atrocities  It was a written message coming from a very unlikely place—- beneath Hitler’s personal letterhead  Monday May 6th marks the 79th anniversary of Jacobson writing he exclusively told the Miami Community News program In the Know “I mean I had completely forgotten about it  I’m really surprised the letter was saved.” But his writings have survived almost 8 decades to motivate those of the Jewish faith and anyone fortunate to learn of Jacobson’s fascinating adventure We spoke to Jacobson from where he resides now the Oakmonte Village complex in central Broward County Florida Records show Jacobson went into the Army on January 14th I wasn’t smart enough then to know about what I was going to get into,” Jacobson said and when we went we were so unprepared for anything,” he said  It was starting from scratch.”  Regardless of his thoughts about their preparation Jacobson went into combat for the first time his when his unit landed in Sicily in the summer of 1943 They started fighting up the Italian peninsula  “I’d seen so much and read so much about what was happening and everything there There’s no way I’m coming back,” he told us  Hitler had already taken control of much of Europe and was forcing Jewish business to close and Jewish homeowners to leave their properties Jacobson would see first hand the depths of Hitler’s ultimate evils that were underway readers learned all about Sergeant Jacobson in the newspaper His 45th Infantry Division moved on to France “You had your friends there and I’ll tell you—you had their back and they had yours  “We got him and we were all ecstatic,” Jacobson said  “There was just happiness—people—it’s just a feeling inside of you of relief that you have never had before.”  1945 his unit freed the 30,000 prisoners at the Dachau death camp outside Munich  Jacobson told us there wasn’t anything in advance that prepared them for what they would eventually discover what Jacobson experienced is the one thing his son conveyed is what he won’t talk about even 79 years later the letter Jacobson wrote to his wife is what cemented him into history  Assigned to guard Adolph Hitler’s Munich residence he took the opportunity to go into Hitler’s study and gather the German dictators own emblazoned  stationary  There were stamps there that had you know the Hitler swastika on it  I took all that … and then when I looked at the stationary and I see that it’s Adolph Hitler but I said to me was a profanity to myself what I thought of him And a Jew picked up his personal stationary and is writing letters on it on his stationary to my wife Hitler’s treasured stationary has come to  this.” Jacobson went on to write in my first paragraph to my wife I wrote Hitler would be turning in his grave if he knew a Jew was writing on his personal stationary and telling of his defeat “ The stamps show the letter to Julia came by airmail  We asked if he realized he was writing history no it is in my mind that I was getting even with Hitler for what he did everything and we got even,” he said His letter is presented in Washington for all to see at the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum—the letter found 50 years after writing it by his children  “We are so honored with everything my grandfather has done with his life “ said Jessie Saiontz who is Jacobson’s granddaughter  “It means the world that he’s still with us and he’s still with it amazing human and he is just an inspiration to everybody that knows him His life of service serves as a reminder to people because his story reverberates through decades of all of our lives.” “Danny had the unique experience of invading Hitler’s office,” said Broward County Commissioner Steve Geller the accolades came from the county where Jacobson lives  “It’s signed by Nan Rich the Mayor of Broward County—Congratulations,” Geller said and family and onlookers applauded “Danny was able to obtain Hitler’s stationary She also gave Jacobson free rein for his birthday “So you have a whole weekend named for you,” Paul said to cheers sent honors from her district and Congress  He became emotional when reflecting on his life’s adventure  “This is all like a dream to me right now  All I did is what 100 thousand more did what I did and they’re not getting any acknowledgment for it All of them gave up their lives for this country and some people don’t believe this country’s good—-get out,” he said emphatically Russia invading Ukraine is just one concern Jacobson sees the potential of history tragically repeating itself  “Right now people don’t even know about Dachau or anything  They have no knowledge whatsoever….History is there  “If our allies can’t trust us we’re finished I mean right now we are on the verge of it and I dream about this practically every night “ And here at home with the January 6th riot and deep political divisions in America  “Nobody knows how close we are to becoming a dictatorship  We asked the former Army Sergeant if that means he felt the U.S They can’t see what’s been said what’s in the papers— was on television I mean what’s being said about this country —make this better America “I’m very frightened.”  Our time with him concluded with Jacobson expressing an educated fear from a man most would say has seen it all and has now lived 105 years to tell about it Promote your business to the localized audience you want to reach with Miami's Community Newspapers. Call 305.669.7355 or view our Media Kit. it was clear to the military and most Nazi leaders that Germany would be defeated the Red Army of the Soviet Union was closing in as well This would be the headquarters of Nazi Germany until the end of the war The Soviet Army was less than 1,600 feet (500 meters) from the bunker One of the closest people to Hitler was Heinz Linge an SS officer who had served as Hitler’s chief valet from September 1939 Two days before April 30 Hitler told Linge of his suicide plans He asked Linge to take his body and the body of his wife into the garden and burn them On April 30 Hitler took lunch with his secretaries Hitler said farewell to his servants and staff Hitler replied that he had given an order for his troops to break through the Soviet siege and Linge could escape to some unit still in action ‘for the coming man.’ Linge saluted and left Linge was the first to discover Hitler and Braun dead They were taken to the garden and there burned as Hitler had ordered but was captured by Soviet forces several days later The 2004 movie Downfall depicts the last days of Hitler and his entourage in the Fuhrerbunker The part of Heinz Linz is played by Thomas Limpinsel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yZUUhOsGYk Joris Nieuwint is a battlefield guide for the Operation Market Garden area His primary focus is on the Allied operations from September 17th Having lived in the Market Garden area for 25 years he has been studying the events for nearly as long He has a deep understanding of the history and a passion for sharing the stories of the men who are no longer with us @joris1944 facebook.com/joris.nieuwint Norman Ohler alleges Nazis used a form of crystal meth to drug the German people into compliance Hitler almost died from a cocaine overdose during the last days of the Second World War German author Norman Ohler said that the Nazi leader almost stopped breathing after receiving an injection of the drug through his nose in September 1944 written by his assistant physician Dr Erwin Giesing said that he administered the drug to Hitler at least 50 times between July and September in the form of nose and throat dabs But after becoming concerned that the dictator was becoming dependent and it was affecting his decision making it said Dr Morell refused to give him anymore until he had a full medical check up During the examination Hitler is reported to have said: “Look in my nose again and put that cocaine thing in to get rid of the pressure in my head The subsequent dose was then apparently so strong Hitler lost consciousness and was briefly at risk of respiratory paralysis it meant that "the self-described abstainer almost died of an overdose” A review by Cambridge historian said the claims implied the German people were not really responsible for the atrocities committed by the Nazis Professor Evans also dismissed the idea that the “euphoria” brought on by the drug, fuelled his genocidal aggression which led to the mass extermination of Jewish people and vulnerable minorities in the death camps. Mr Ohler does state the drugs did not exonerate Hitler from his decisions and he concluded that the Nazi leader was “anything but insane” But Professor Evans said the book read too much like a revisionist account of Nazi history Similarly Birbeck College Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann, in a review for the Financial Times had “sexed” up his research and it was not true that the German public had easy access to drugs claims new book","description":"Norman Ohler alleges Nazis used a form of crystal meth to drug the German people into compliance Egypt's parliament speaker favourably compared President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Adolf Hilter on Tuesday saying the Nazi leader “made mistakes” but “built a strong infrastructure” for his country In the opening session of the year's fifth and final parliamentary session, Ali Abdel Aal delivered a speech to MPs calling on them to support Sisi rather than “export problems” to him but what allowed him to expand eastward and westward was that he created a strong infrastructure' “Nation building in transitional periods requires harsher measures… No country would progress without a strong infrastructure,” he said but what allowed him to expand eastward and westward was that he created a strong infrastructure for the German state that remains the source of its leading position in the first world.” Abdel Aal criticised the government for the lack of economic progress suggesting it works far less hard for the country than Sisi "The problem is that we have a president who leaps to achieve goals and a government that walks with one foot," he said has been covered by pro-state local media that quoted Ali’s speech Abdel Aal’s comments came in the aftermath of a recent spate of anti-Sisi protests and a crackdown that has seen at least 2,000 people arrested including well-known critics of the president crowds demonstrated in Cairo and other cities in the first major street protests against president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi since he crushed peaceful protests after coming to power in a military coup in 2013 The protests came after calls from Mohamed Ali, an Egyptian businessman-turned-whistleblower for Egyptians to take to the streets following a football match that evening between Al Ahly and Zamalek The owner of a real-estate company that has worked with the Egyptian armed forces for 15 years Ali has been leading an online anti-Sisi campaign since the beginning of September through a series of video testimonies accusing the president of corruption and misappropriation of public funds Some of the projects assigned to his company are palatial residences worth millions of dollars built for Sisi and his family since he became defence minister in 2012 In his only public response to the claims, Sisi did not deny building new palaces and vowed to build "more and more" palaces "in the name of Egypt" Sisi's remarks have ignited more opposition, with social media campaigns and hashtags calling on Sisi to step down going viral in Egypt and worldwide.   At a time when opposition is criminalised and tens of thousands of political prisoners languish in Egyptian jails Ali's revelations have sparked a rare public debate on the military’s opaque budget and the contrast between Sisi’s calls for Egyptians to tighten their belts amid stringent austerity measures and the billions spent on luxury palaces claims that he is acting individually at his own risk Opponents of Sisi from across the political spectrum have expressed sympathy for Ali’s online campaign while TV channels run by exiled opposition leaders have reposted his daily videos were triggered by video testimonies posted online by an exiled Egyptian whistleblower who accused Sisi and other top officials of corruption and misappropriation of public funds has been the most talked about figure in Egypt since the beginning of September when he started posting daily videos online revealing details of palatial residences built for Sisi using state funds earmarked for the military saying he did build palaces and “will build more and more” because they are built “for Egypt” Copyright © 2014 - 2025. Middle East Eye Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters Middle East Eye          ISSN 2634-2456                      Germany’s military forces were falling apart and the country itself was surrounded by the enemy on all sides The Soviet Union had gained control over Poland in order to make their way to do the same with Berlin; the British and Canadian troops had crossed the Rhine and were making their way into the industrial center of Ruhr and the American front in the South was invading upwards towards Mannheim and Mainz As all of these combined efforts were forcing the German offensive to crumble meetings between the Allies were being held to discuss putting an end to the war in Europe Hitler had already been preparing for the end as well once the Third Reich had all but disintegrated Hitler began to retreat to his Fuhrerbunker he was still making demands on his fellow Nazi officers to carry out operations to hold back the Allies there was no stopping the sheer force of the manpower heading their way instructions to SS General Felix Steiner to bring in a force to rescue Berlin were never carried out and Hitler fell into an almost nervous breakdown due to what he deemed the incompetency of his officers Hitler had come to the realization that his war was actually lost we look back at our thoughts on 'Hilter,' season 3's seventh episode of AMC's television adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic book series ● So "David Hilter"/Hitler (Noah Taylor) proved you can't teach an old genocidal psychotic new tricks so it's back on the chain gang – and back to Hell – for both him and Eugene (Ian Colletti) courtesy of The Saint of Killers (Graham McTavish) but it's chilly enough to bring Herr Starr (Pip Torrens) and Gran'ma Marie L'Angell (Betty Buckley) together to break bread over Jesse (Dominic Cooper): Gran'ma gets a whole lot of souls and Starr gets Jesse to help him take care of that "little matter" known as the Allfather (Jonny Coyne) – and Jesse's going to have to trust Starr this time and Jody (Jeremy Childs) are sent packing to Osaka for a little international intrigue – if they survive the plane ride ● Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) and Eccarius (Adam Croasdell) grew closer with Eccarius attempting to save Cassidy from an assault team of jacked up priests and nuns on assignment from Hoover (Malcolm Barrett) Cassidy ends up saving the day – and grows closer to the Children of Blood Too bad Cassidy doesn't know the truth about what really happens to Eccarius' "vampire missionaries"… So as we get ready for the eighth episode of the season, 'The Tom/Brady', get caught up by "rewinding" back to our review of last week's seventh episode 'Hitler' (below) and see why we think AMC's Preacher has positioned itself for one helluva' run going into their final three episodes of the season; followed by an overview and highlight from the episode: Gran'ma and Starr form an uneasy partnership to avert the apocalypse; Cassidy learns to love Eccarius Here's a look at what viewers can expect from this week's episode 'The Tom/Brady,' and a look ahead at what's still to come in AMC's third season trailer: Angelville and the Grail team up to steal souls in New Orleans and Osaka in a last-ditch effort to satisfy Gran'ma and save the world PREACHER is a dramatic thrill ride that follows West Texas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) his badass girlfriend Tulip (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) as they embark on a road trip to find God and are thrust into a twisted battle spanning Heaven The 10-episode third season follows Jesse's quest for God which takes him back to the place he's been avoiding his whole life: home the Louisiana Plantation where Jesse was raised and find old grudges and deadly obligations await them With the help of his friends — and a few enemies — Jesse will need to escape his past…because the future of the world depends on it Julie Ann Emery, Malcolm Barrett, and Noah Taylor also return for the series' third season joined by new series regulars Betty Buckley (Supergirl and Prema Cruz (Mozart in the Jungle) MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Researchers in Germany are on track to publish a heavily annotated version of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf," the first time the tome has been printed in the country in 75 years Despite denazification laws that went into place after the end of World War II in Germany banning Nazi iconography, the anti-Semitic book was never banned. Bavaria, though, never allowed any publishers to reprint the book, and the government never published it itself, until now "I understand some immediately feel uncomfortable when a book that played such a dramatic role is made available again to the public," Magnus Brechtken, the institute's deputy director, told The Washington Post I think that this is also a useful way of communicating historical education and enlightenment -- a publication with the appropriate comments exactly to prevent these traumatic events from ever happening again." Others aren't so supportive of the book's publication in Germany "I am absolutely against the publication of 'Mein Kampf,' even with annotations Can you annotate a person like Hitler?" said Levi Salomon spokesman for the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism in Berlin said she initially wasn't a strong opponent of the project but that changed after she spoke to Holocaust survivors who oppose the publication "This book is most evil; it is a worse anti-Semitic pamphlet and a guidebook for the Holocaust," she said "It is a Pandora's Box that 1 interview on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ show The joint interview with white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes spanned nearly three hours Ye repeated his love for Hitler and the Nazi Party multiple times even debating Jones on the issue when the host tried to separate Ye from antisemitic beliefs One particular claim caught the attention of many when Ye denied a central fact about the Holocaust "Hitler had a really good outfit and was a good architect, and he didn’t kill 6 million Jews," Ye said. He also added later that "the Holocaust is not what happened."  Those claims are egregiously false. Hitler was the Nazi Party’s leader, and there is overwhelming evidence as well as physical remnants proving that the Nazis murdered millions of people in the Holocaust Other victims, who also numbered in the millions, also were deemed inferior by the Nazis The Holocaust is the best documented case of genocide according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Nazi officers kept records of victims and maps of where Jewish executions occurred government agencies and Jewish organizations have used census reports captured German and Axis archives and postwar investigations to accurately estimate the human losses among other publicly shared photographs and footage Physical evidence from the genocide is also displayed at numerous Holocaust museums, including the train cars that were used to take people to concentration camps and the clothing and shoes of the people who were killed Visitors look at the shoes of Jewish people who were killed by the Nazis on March 15 at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial​ museum in Jerusalem We rate Ye’s claims about Hitler and the Holocaust Pants on Fire Archived Twitter post Newsweek, Kanye West Hitler remarks in full—What Ye said about Nazis to Alex Jones Council of Europe, Holocaust Rememberance United Nations, Forgotten victims: The Nazi genocide of the Roma and the Sinti The Weiner Holocaust Library, The persecution of Black people in the Nazi camp system United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia, The murder of people with disabilities Time magazine, Why it took decades for LGBTQ stories to be included in Holocaust history United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Documenting numbers of vicims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution U.S. European Command, History of supreme allied commander Europe (SACEUR) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Film of General Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting the Ohrdruf Camp Museum of Jewish Heritage, Freight car Uued by the Deutsche Reichsbahn Former President Donald Trump declared illegal immigration is “poisoning the blood” of the country in a post on Truth Social Saturday defiantly repeating a line widely criticized as echoing Hitler when he first deployed it in October as his rhetoric increasingly draws comparisons to dictators and fascists More the Whittemore Center Arena on December 16 Earlier Saturday at a rally in New Hampshire Trump said illegal immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” a phrase that closely mirrors one used several times in Hilter’s “Mein Kampf” to describe the “influx of foreign blood” as “poison.” Trump on Saturday also quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin and praised dictators Hungarian President Viktor Orban and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Trump said “even Vladimir Putin” says that President Joe Biden has led “politically motivated prosecution of his political rival.” He called Orban “highly respected” and Kim “very nice.” “Illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation,” Trump posted Saturday night from mental institutions—from all over the world.” “Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement in response to Trump’s remarks in New Hampshire Chris Christie called Trump’s statements about illegal immigrants “disgusting” in an interview with CNN Sunday author of the book “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” likened the statements to “fascist rhetoric,” noting that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini “literally talked about killing rats who were bringing infectious diseases and communism into Italy,” she told CNN Trump on Saturday also wrote that Biden “is a threat to democracy” in a Truth Social post, repeating another phrase he has frequently used in recent months to flip the script on Biden, who often uses the same language to describe Trump. The number of articles written about the sex life of Adolf Hitler almost exceeds the coverage of his political career and war crimes. Why the obsession with, of all things, the Führer’s sexuality? Some suspect his preferences in the bedroom might be linked to his behavior on the world stage Others merely want to know what it was like to enter a relationship with one of the most ruthless dictators in human history.  A quick survey reveals that Hitler was never particularly preoccupied with relationships, sexual or romantic. Joachim C. Fest’s authoritative biography of the Führer, Hitler presents him as an aloof and deeply serious individual who was enamored above all with his own ideas; when his peers started discussing girls Hitler showed interest only in opera and architecture.  he took great pride in the fact that he lacked a private life Hitler was unmarried and appeared to keep no mistresses or girlfriends He thought of himself as an ineligible bachelor: someone who wished to devote himself not to a single person like so many others produced by the Third Reich the supposedly celibate Hitler did in fact conduct affairs with a number of women The details of these affairs reveal a different side of him one in which his lust for power and control is transferred over into the private sphere Each of his relationships was more problematic than the last The first serious relationship Adolf Hitler had was with his niece, Geli Raubal. She was the daughter of Hitler’s half-sister, who asked if she could stay in his Munich apartment while she completed her studies. Hitler took an unexpected liking to the spirited girl, perhaps because she, in the words of biographer Michael Lynch “provided the sort of companionship that politics could not.” It is unknown whether Hitler and Raubal ever engaged in intercourse the nature of their relationship certainly went beyond that of niece and uncle the Führer was extremely possessive of Raubal routinely forbidding her from wearing certain types of clothes or socializing without his permission.   Geli was flattered by her uncle’s devoted attention,” Lynch writes in his biography “but soon found it frighteningly overbearing.” When Hitler stopped Raubal from marrying a man her parents had already approved of after Hitler had left for a party rally in Nuremberg Raubal committed suicide with one of his revolvers When it comes to Hitler’s love affairs it’s hard to separate the personal from the political newspapers speculating that Hitler had slain her himself threatened the survival of the entire Nazi Party was so distraught by the accusations that he briefly considered quitting politics altogether.  Contrary to popular belief, Raubal’s death left a big impact on the Führer. Upon returning to Munich, he gathered her clothes and belongings into a single room, and then declared that this room would be used as a shrine to her memory, though Ernst Hanfstaengl, a close friend of Hitler’s and author of Hitler: The Missing Years believes Hitler may have exaggerated his grief for political purposes.  Hitler’s newfound status and power as Chancellor of Germany made him significantly more attractive in the eyes of others dozens of whom ended up going out of their way to get in his The sister-in-law of Britain’s foremost fascist politician Mitford first saw Adolf Hitler at one of his rallies and instantly fell under his spell.  Mitford quickly established herself as a trusted member of Hitler’s inner circle. She not only appeared at celebrations like the Bayreuth Festival, but also accompanied him to diplomatic events, including the 1936 Summer Olympics. Hitler’s appreciation of Mitford was boosted by her increasing anti-Semitism; writing for a Nazi newspaper she warned of a “Jewish danger” in England and proudly called herself a “Jew hater.”  Hitler’s relationship with Mitford came to an abrupt end when World War II started urged Hitler not to discuss military matters in the presence of a foreigner begged Hitler not to go to war with her home country she tried to commit suicide with a pistol she had received from Hitler after promising to use it only for self-defense.  which occurred because of the bullet in her brain interprets a failed suicide attempt in 1931 as a possible bid for Hitler’s attention.  Historians and contemporaries disagree on why Adolf Hitler found himself gravitating toward Braun. Peter Longerich’s Hitler: A Biography supposed the Führer settled for Braun to stop those close to him from gossiping about the reasons for his single status a Bavarian noblewoman and close friend of Hitler’s argued that he preferred Braun over someone like Mitford because she More importantly, perhaps, was the fact that she was uneducated and disinterested in Hitler’s affairs. “Hitler wanted to be absolutely free,” Reinhard Spitzy an SS officer who met Braun on several occasions Hitler wanted a traditional housewife who cooked and cleaned for him instead of a “woman who would discuss with him political questions or who would try to have her influence […] Eva Braun didn’t interfere in politics.”  Braun’s interaction with him was fully restricted to the domestic sphere swimming and skiing as she anxiously waited his return from the big city When Hitler failed to make ample time for her during his infrequent visits the two would launch into long arguments that usually ended with Braun in tears and Hitler screaming.  Fittingly, Adolf Hitler married Braun in a bunker while Soviet soldiers approached Berlin. Shortly after saying their vows, husband and wife agreed to end their life together. Braun could have survived the war, but chose not to. Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge claimed Braun did not want to live in a world without the Führer; like so many Germans I’ve built up quite the tolerance to tranquilizers over the years There are only a few episodes of Preacher left before the Season 3 finale and the pace continues to pick up in the latest episode After contacting Herr Starr in the previous episode Jesse meets with the holy leader at his grandma's house as Starr and Marie L'Angelle meet for the first time Cassidy also gets quite a lot of focus in this one as his absolutely brilliant story arc - featuring Les Enfants Du Sang and their leader Eccarius - continues This episode also finally re-introduces us to Adolf Hitler who's now working in a supermarket under the name David Hilter It's the first time we've really seen this character in Season 3 and considering we're coming towards the final few episodes The Saint Of Killers (with Eugene in tow) manages to track down Hitler to drag him back to hell which understandably rubs Hitler up the wrong way While there are still quite a few issues that Preacher needs to work out Hilter is a surprisingly entertaining instalment of the AMC series WhatCulture is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab) ©Future Publishing Limited Quay House England and Wales company registration number 2008885 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Some of Adolf Hitler’s last surviving relatives have been living a quiet, normal existence on Long Island — and are not in favor of the president, according to the New York Post. Germany’s Bild newspaper recently paid a visit to Hitler’s great-nephews: Alexander who was born in the United Kingdom to his half-brother Reportedly the only living descendants on the German dictator’s paternal side the three men have settled in the New York suburbs where American flags are propped in their yards The New Yorker reported that in 1929 “Willy” Hitler went to Germany to visit father — who left the family when Willy was a child — where he attended a Nuremberg rally he spoke to the press as Hitler’s “English nephew,” which enraged the dictator Willy continued speaking about his family after he moved to New York and changed the family’s name: first to Hiller For years his sons have refused to speak to the media recently gave in to share with Bild his opinions on politics he said he is not a fan of President Trump “The last person I would say I admire is Donald Trump,” he told the newspaper “He is definitely not one of my favorites.” He continued: “It’s the way he does it that annoys me Alyssa Fisher is a news writer at the Forward. 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Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site. history lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University “It provided Hitler with a showcase,” Burstin says “It was a propaganda bonanza for him.” member of the International Olympic Committee had traveled to Germany prior to the Olympics to ensure Mayer would receive her rightful spot on the team Some athletes and Olympics organizers in the United States and Europe considered pulling out of the Olympics altogether to compete elsewhere. The debate on whether to pull out on the American end was particularly heated, as the boycott began with the U.S. team. Avery Brundage then the president of the American Olympic Committee arguing that “the Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.” And so those Olympics would have repercussions that went far beyond the world of sports “It kind of dulled the opposition to [Hitler] that clearly had been quite evident up to 1936,” Burstin says “A lot of people felt he was clearly heading in the wrong direction and by going to the Olympics we gave him the opportunity to appear sane Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter the Olympics presented hardly a pause in the terrible progress of Nazism killed himself two days after the games upon his dismissal from military service due to his Jewish ancestry would also compete in the 1948 Olympic Games in London after surviving Auschwitz The Berlin Olympics were the first to host the torch relay and the first to be broadcast on television—and some of its deeper-seated elements have continued as well “Those games really set the stage for the Olympics as we know them today,” Large says “That injection of politics and extreme nationalism There’s no question that nationalism is a very fundamental part of it all.” Contact us at letters@time.com Amanda Bynes' latest Twitter ramblings are focused on a very sensitive topic: Adolf Hitler The troubled star took to social media on Monday to share her thoughts on the late genocidal dictator and Nazi Germany. "Adolf Hilter tricked the germans into believing that jews were less than the germans and that they should be segregated and then killed," Bynes wrote "But germans who feel that Adolf Hilter was incorrect aren't guilty in my book." While Bynes' tweets aren't totally out of bounds VIDEO: Amanda explains sleeping at a mall Adolf Hilter tricked the germans into believing that jews were less than the germans and that they should be segregated and then killed In addition to tweeting about the controversial topic of Nazi Germany, Bynes shared other random thoughts this morning. "If you have to force someone to do anything - you are in the wrong," she wrote "Forcing someone to like you when it is obvious they don't like you is considered unattractive in my mind." "If you don't like someone regardless of who they are you have every right to be rude to Them...I'm so rude." It goes against my religion to follow an ugly person "I only follow ppl I find beautiful," she continued "It goes against my religion to follow an ugly person...That's why I feel pretty." Bynes also opened up about her current health condition on Twitter "I was diagnosed bi - polar and manic depressive so I'm on medication and I'm seeing my psychologist and pyshchiatrist weekly so I'm fine :D," she tweeted last week My lawyer said if I comply with the courts and take my meds and see my psychologist and pyshchiatrist weekly then I will get unconserved PHOTOS: Amanda Bynes through the years His focus is on covering news and politics in Texas as well as other general news across the United States James joined Newsweek in July 2022 from LBC and previously worked for the Daily Express You can get in touch with James by emailing j.bickerton@newsweek.com either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content was one of the most blood-soaked dictators in human history His sexual activities have also been the subject of intense speculation both before and after his suicide in a Berlin bunker On January 15 a widely shared thread, alleging Hitler was a pedophile, was posted on Twitter The Swedish Twitter user wrote: "Hitler being a pedo is not discussed enough imo [in my opinion] Hitler being a pedo is not discussed enough imo Virtually everyone he dated was a teenager Maria Reiter was around 16 as well.All known sexual relationships Hitler had started with teenagers whilst he was in his "Virtually everyone he dated was a teenager "All known sexual relationships Hitler had started with teenagers whilst he was in his 30s & even 40s It shows a particular type of masculinity expressing itself That weird dude who is 35 yet hits on 17 year olds." Newsweek has combed through claims about Hitler's sexual activities including claims he enjoyed being beaten and forced his half-niece to urinate on him Hitler began a close relationship with Geli Raubal after her mother began working for him as a housekeeper in 1925 The future dictator became obsessed with Raubal though it's unclear if they ever had a sexual relationship British historian Ian Kershaw wrote: "Whether actively sexual or not Hitler's behavior towards Geli has all the traits of a strong Raubal was found shot dead in Hitler's Munich apartment having apparently killed herself with his gun developed an infatuation with 16-year-old shopgirl Maria Reiter after they met in the Bavarian resort town of Obersalzberg In a 1959 interview with German magazine Stern Reiter claimed Hitler "told her that he wanted her to be his wife but at the moment he had not the time to think of such things." after which Reiter attempted suicide in 1928 Reiter traveled to Munich to see Hitler in 1931 during which she claimed: "I let everything happen I had never been so happy as I was that night." However this reunion didn't lead to anything long-term and Reiter later married an officer in the Munich SS At the time Braun was an assistant to Heinrich Hoffmann After Raubal shot herself in 1931 Hitler became significantly more invested in his relationship with Braun According to Braun's biographer Angela Lambert the couple had become lovers by the end of that year As Soviet troops advanced across Berlin in April 1945 Braun and Hitler were married in the dictator's final bunker shortly after which they both died by suicide—Hitler using his gun and Braun by poison It should be noted there is no evidence Hitler had sex with any of Raubal Reiter or Braun when they were still children pedophilia is typically used to describe sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children which none of the three girls would have been when they first met Hitler According to the Marriam-Webster dictionary pedophilia "specifically" is "a psychiatric disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child." Speaking to Newsweek Professor Paul Lerner who teaches German history at the University of Southern California argued Hitler's infatuation with young women is not key to understanding his politics He said: "It bears emphasis that Hitler's alleged sexual interest in young women (although supported by some evidence) does not tell us a whole lot about the history of Nazism or fascism which I believe is where we should put our energies as historians." There is some evidence Hitler may have been a masochist who derived sexual pleasure out of being hurt or humiliated by women In the 1930s Hitler began a friendship with Renate Müller after being introduced by director Alfred Ziesler According to the 2021 documentary series Hitler's Secret Sex Life Müller later confided in Ziesler that Hitler had ordered her to kick him as he lay on the ground causing the future dictator to become visibly aroused In October 1937 Müller fell from her death while being visited by Nazi officials though it's unclear if this was an accident A 1943 report by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, concluded Hitler was a "impotent coprophile," who enjoyed being urinated and defecated on during sexual activity an early Nazi and political opponent of Hitler who claimed Hitler forced Raubal to perform these acts on him In an interview with Newsweek Helga Thorson, an associate history professor at the University of Victoria, Canada, said: "Nazi party ideology and propaganda attempted to project and deflect their own behaviors (sexual or otherwise) onto others, usually onto one of their political enemies such as Communists or Social Democrats and Nazi propaganda sought to portray Hitler as a deity as well as a committed and selfless servant of the people on the other—and therefore notably downplayed any references to Hitler's sexual life The Hitler's Secret Sex Life documentary alleges Hitler became "a full-blown porn addict" from 1933 onward with material provided by official Nazi photographer Heinrich Hoffmann and films played at his own home theater In a piece for Newsweek Jewish writer Lindsay Karp said: "Antisemitism is so constant and so colossal that it's become expected in the lives of Jewish people Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all Talk about a dark horse on the Bloomberg most hit profiles today [Monday September 20] Lucky number 13 is Time's 1938 man of the year: Hitler Numbers one through twelve on Monday's Bloomberg leadership boards (the most-searched profiles of the day) make sense - 1) Anthony Noto, because he's leaving the NFL for Goldman Sachs 2) Anthony Scaramucci, because he asked Obama a question during the Town Hall Monday 3) Stephen Nashar, because he's launching a hedge fund. We have two guesses why the former leader of the German Reich was so randomly popular Monday Hopefully one of them is right and we can put this mystery to bed Because during Obama's Town Hall meeting, Steve Schwarzman's comment comparing Obama to Hitler came out of the woodwork again Because a GOP candidate, Glen Urquhart, appeared in a video today in which he says that Thomas Jefferson was not the origin of the concept of "separation of Church and State." Urquhart says Hitler originated the idea where does this phrase separation of Church and State come from it was not in Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists He was reassuring that the federal government wouldn't trample on their religion The exact phrase 'separation of Church and State' came out of Adolph Hitler's mouth Next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State ask them why they're Nazis." And here's where he's wrong, courtesy of CBS News: Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." If you have other ideas about why Hitler made it all the way up to #13 most popular Bloomberg leader on Monday There's no excuse for thinking this is funny: Kanye West confessed his liking for German leader Adolf Hilter and Nazis in 2018 the rapper admitted he held controversial opinions on World War II The statement was allegedly taken out of the interview The matter is now discussed during an episode of “Higher Learning” podcast amid Ye's fresh anti-semitic attacks Host Van Lathan tells co-host Rachel Lindsay: “I’ve already heard him say that stuff before." I was taken aback because that type of anti-Semitic talk is disgusting I knew that that was in him because when came to TMZ he said that stuff and they took it out of the interview,” he alleged real-world implication to everything that you just said there.’ What I say after that — if I can remember ’12 million people actually died because of Nazism and Hitler and all of that stuff,’ and then I move on to talk about what he said about slavery,” Lathan continued “The reason they took it out is because it wouldn’t have made sense unless they kept in Kanye saying he loved Hitler and the Nazis A magnum of wine believed to have been personally commissioned by Adolph Hitler and bearing the Nazi leader's face on its label has been auctioned for more than £1,500 The 1.5-litre bottle fetched a hammer price of £1,540 Scotland-based auction house McTear’s confirmed to Decanter.com It appears buyers were not perturbed by the wine’s association with a perpetrator of some of humankind’s worst known atrocities although a pre-auction estimate had valued at the bottle at up to £2,000 Hitler is believed to have ordered a batch of ‘Fuherwein’ to mark his birthday on 20 April in 1943 The label depicts the Nazi dictator in full uniform whisky and wine specialist at McTear’s said the wine ‘has been verified by an independent historian and a member of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust’ Having contacted McTear’s to request the name of the expert a WSET spokesperson said it had no record of any such person being employed or having studied with the organisation ‘This has nothing at all to do with the WSET,’ the spokesperson said It is not fully clear how the bottle made its way out of Hitler’s inner circle ‘We received the bottle from a gentleman in Hungary,’ said Hughes ‘The bottle was given to this man’s father This bottle has been in the possession of the owner’s family since then.’ McTear’s was unable to offer any information about the wine’s buyer other than that he or she is based in Australia Some previous attempts to sell wine linked to the Nazis have been criticised which campaigns for Jewish human rights and hunts remaining Nazi war criminals called for a boycott of an Italian company that it said was producing a range of wines with Nazi and fascist labels This story was updated at 16:10 UK time on 24/04/2014 to include comment from the WSET and the buyer’s location In Fowler Show on YouTube by HlarsonJune 15, 20140 Comments share it with your friends and hit that “like” button Story: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/05/3445464/lawmaker-compares-labor-unions-to-hitler-and-putin/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0u5um90_NU You must be logged in to post a comment Copyright TEXT TYTNetwork.com and The Young Turks marking 90 years since Adolf Hitler’s ascension to the position of German chancellor is it any more clear why democracy fell apart so utterly across Germany in the 1930s   How did a democratic government allow Hitler to seize power  And are there still lessons to be learned in the context of the modern political sphere Benjamin Carter Hett answers those questions and more in his book: The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic Developed by Square1