Adolf Hitler

A large sign calling for a cease-fire in Gaza hangs from a building in Dublin on Feb. 12.

World News

Why Ireland is one of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world

8:52pm March 14, 2024

One of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world is not an Arab or Muslim country. It's not even in the Middle East. Polls show Ireland has some of the highest support for the Palestinians.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign event on November 11, 2023 in Claremont, New Hampshire.

Why Trump's authoritarian language about 'vermin' matters

1:44pm November 17, 2023

by Danielle Kurtzleben

The former president called his political opponents "vermin" and said immigration is "poisoning the blood" of the U.S., echoing language used by Adolf Hitler, raising questions about authoritarianism.

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Ken Burns' new three-part documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, explores what everyday Americans knew — or didn't know — about what the Nazis were doing in Europe. Above, a tenant farmer reads a newspaper in Creek County, Okla., in February 1940.

Arts

Ken Burns connects the past and the present in 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'

1:26pm September 15, 2022

by David Bianculli

Burns' new six-hour series brings World War II history to life — and reminds us that our life, right now, is indeed history in the making.

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National

A watch that belonged to Adolf Hitler sells for $1.1 million

2:32am August 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

Jewish leaders and others objected to the sale at a Maryland auction house, saying it had little to no historical value.

Adolf Hitler's birth house in Braunau am Inn, Austria, as seen in 2012. Austrian officials said Wednesday the building will be renovated and turned into a police station.

World News

Hitler's Birth Home In Austria Will Become A Police Station

3:00pm November 20, 2019

by Paolo Zialcita

Austrian officials hope the decision to turn the three-story building in the town of Braunau am Inn into a police station will be a deterrent to those who would make the site a neo-Nazi shrine.

An archival image of the building in Braunau am Inn, Austria, where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889.

A Long Legal Battle Over Hitler's Birth Home In Austria Ends

5:11pm August 06, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

Austria's top court says Gerlinde Pommer should receive $908,000 from the government in exchange for the property. "Part of the house should be used for educational purposes," a local historian says.

In this 1933 photo released by Alexander Historical Auctions, Adolf Hitler embraces Rosa Bernile Nienau at his mountainside Bavarian retreat in Germany. The photograph is inscribed by Hitler himself in dark blue ink.

World News

Photo Of Hitler Posing With A Girl Who Had A Jewish Grandmother Auctioned For $11.5K

7:47pm November 14, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

Rosa Bernile Nienau was apparently a favorite of the man responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews. Hitler personally inscribed the photo.

This is one of the last pictures taken of Adolf Hitler in his bunker in Berlin in 1945 as he shakes hands with General Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner.

French Researchers: Hitler Really Did Die In The Bunker In 1945

10:12am May 21, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Conspiracy theories have abounded for years about the fate of the Fuhrer, ranging from his escape to Argentina aboard a German U-boat to living out his days at a secret Nazi moon base.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer answers reporters' questions during the daily news conference at the White House on Tuesday.

Politics & Government

White House Spokesman Stumbles Over Assad-Hitler Comparison

9:03pm April 11, 2017

by Scott Horsley

In the middle of an international debate about Syria, Bashar Assad, Russia and Iran, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer made an ill-conceived, ahistorical reference to Hitler. He later apologized.

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German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a speech in October 1944. Author Norman Ohler says that Hitler's abuse of drugs increased "significantly" from the fall of 1941 until the winter of 1944.

Author Says Hitler Was 'Blitzed' On Cocaine And Opiates During The War

7:05pm March 07, 2017

Author Norman Ohler says that Adolf Hitler's drug abuse increased "significantly" from the fall of 1941 until winter of 1944: "Hitler needed those highs to substitute [for] his natural charisma."

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