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Germany still has to recover from ‘intellectual decapitation’ in World War II
Germany on Friday marked 80 years since mass book burnings by the Nazis, as officials said the country had yet to recover from its self-inflicted “intellectual decapitation”. On May 10, 1933, less than four months after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, his followers burned thousands of books by leading writers…
Germany marks 80 years since Nazi book burnings
Eighty years ago on Friday, and only months after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, his Nazi followers burnt piles of books in what has been labelled the nation’s “intellectual decapitation” — an act of terror that foreshadowed worse to come. A metal plate in the grounds of Berlin’s Bebel Square,…
Bulgarian soccer fans fined $24,900 for displaying pro-Hitler banners
Top Bulgarian football club Levski Sofia has been fined almost 20,000 euros after fans displayed banners with swastikas and praise of Adolf Hitler during a recent game, the country’s football federation said on Wednesday. “The Bulgarian football union’s disciplinary committee has imposed a fine of 37,500 leva (19,200 euros, $24,900)…
Colbert: Guns are good because Hitler used one to kill himself
Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert presented a special “gun edition” of “Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger,” in which he took stock of the ongoing gun safety debate in the U.S. and discussed the country’s refusal to sign on to an international U.N. weapons treaty.…
Last remaining member of Hitler assassination plotters Ewald Heinrich von Kleist dies at 90
Ewald Heinrich von Kleist, a former German army lieutenant who took part in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, has died at the age of 90, a think tank he co-founded said Wednesday. Von Kleist, who was arrested after the 1944 bid to remove Hitler and sent to a concentration…
Breitbart ‘Friends of Hamas’ hoaxer: ‘Of course Hitler was a left-winger’
Ben Shapiro, the Breitbart News editor-at-large who reported a false story about Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s ties to the non-existent group “Friends of Hamas,” says that there was no doubt “Hitler was a left-winger.” During a Thursday radio interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity’s radio show, Shapiro accused the…
Hitler’s rise to power ‘constant’ warning: Merkel
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that Adolf Hitler’s rise to power 80 years ago should go on reminding Germans that democracy and freedom cannot be taken for granted. Merkel was speaking at the inauguration of an exhibition in Berlin to commemorate eight decades since Hitler became chancellor on January…
Comic novel imagining Hitler return is bestseller in Germany
Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a novel that imagines his return to modern-day Berlin has become a bestseller in Germany, though a comedy about the Fuehrer is not to everyone’s taste. Instead of committing suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945, in “He’s Back” (Er Ist…
Christian radio host: Planned Parenthood is a ‘Hitler kind of killing machine’
To mark the 40th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision recognizing abortion rights for women, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Starver took to the airwaves to accuse Planned Parenthood of being a “killing machine” in the tradition mass-murdering dictator Adolf Hitler. “Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade,” Pastor…
Hitler statue in Holocaust site stirs controversy
Poland’s chief rabbi on Friday voiced outrage over a statue of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler kneeling at a Holocaust site in Warsaw, part of an installation by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. “When it comes to showing the figure of Hitler, we have an extra special responsibility to be sensitive to…
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