# Hitler

This week

4th June 2023 - 10th June 2023

# Nazi memorabilia

Pencil belonging to Hitler sells for £5,400, one tenth of pre-auction estimate

An original signed photograph of Hitler was also sold for thousands less than predicted.

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Tue 3:38 PM

Last week

28th May 2023 - 10th June 2023

# Nazi memorabilia

Belfast auction house urged to withdraw the sale of a pencil belonging to Hitler

Oliver Sears, whose mother is a Holocaust survivor, said the auction is about ‘making money at all costs without any consideration of the morality of what they are doing’.

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May 31st 2023, 10:54 AM

Last year

2022

# wait...what?

Jimmy Carr may destroy a Hitler painting with a flamethrower in a new Channel 4 show

The station has bought artworks created by “problematic” artists such as convicted sex offenders Rolf Harris and Eric Gill, the Guardian reports.

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Oct 13th 2022, 9:11 AM

# Sergei Lavrov

Israeli PM Bennet ‘accepts apology from Putin over Hitler remarks’

Russia’s foreign minister made comments about the Holocaust that were deeply offensive to Jews.

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May 5th 2022, 7:55 PM

All time

# Hitler Youth

Former SS soldier charged over disparaging memory of Nazi victims dies

Karl Muenter had already been convicted in France over his role in the killing of 86 males in 1944.

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Sep 22nd 2019, 3:32 PM

# Imran Khan

Pakistan prime minister says international inaction over Kashmir is the same as appeasing Hitler

New Delhi last week rescinded years of autonomy enjoyed by the Indian-ruled part of Kashmir.

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Aug 11th 2019, 6:28 PM

# Nazi

German billionaire family to donate €10 million after discovering Nazi past

With wealth estimated at €33 billion, the Reimann family is believed to be Germany’s second richest.

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Mar 24th 2019, 7:08 PM

# le monde

French newspaper apologises for Hitleresque image of Macron on front page

The paper’s weekly magazine was accused of being reminiscent of the Nazi leader.

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Dec 31st 2018, 6:00 PM

# alexander gauland

German far-right leader sparks outrage in describing Nazi rule as 'just a speck of bird s**t'

“We have a glorious history and one, my dear friends, that lasted a lot longer than those damned 12 years”, Alexander Gauland said.

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Jun 3rd 2018, 6:00 AM

# Internal Security Agency

Two Polish men detained on suspicion of spreading fascism by organising Hitler birthday concert

Police confiscated neo-fascist paraphernalia including flags and banners.

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Apr 22nd 2018, 5:01 PM

# Indonesia

Museum removes 'fun' Hitler display after protests

Visitors had been encouraged to take selfies with the waxwork.

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Nov 13th 2017, 10:39 AM

# rave reviews

German opera confronts Wagner's antisemitism head-on

Angela Merkel attended the opening night of the Mastersingers of Nuremberg.

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Jul 30th 2017, 12:00 PM

# Scotland

Outrage as pictures emerge of man dressed as Hitler at Orange Lodge fancy dress competition

The picutures also feature children dressed in rags with the Star of David sewn onto their clothes.

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Jul 16th 2017, 1:21 PM

# World War 2

Holocaust survivors more at risk of developing cancer

Researchers studied over 150,000 people for more than 45 years.

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Jul 10th 2017, 6:05 AM

# Hitler

France to honour prisoners forced to work on Hitler's secret weapon in WWII

Thousands of slaves were forced to work on Hitler’s secret weapon: the V2 rockets.

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May 21st 2017, 8:15 AM

# Chemical Weapons

Spicer apologises over 'insensitive' Hitler remarks amid calls for him to be fired

“I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive comment about the Holocaust and there is no comparison.”

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Apr 12th 2017, 7:11 AM

# history lesson

Sean Spicer just said even Hitler 'didn't sink to using chemical weapons'

The White House Press Secretary is under fire once again for his comments.

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Apr 11th 2017, 8:40 PM

# Nazi Salute

Dutch retailer pulls children's colouring book with picture of Hitler

The chain said customers who bought the book would be offered a refund.

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Apr 5th 2017, 9:57 PM

# hate crime

Extremist who called Jewish people 'subhuman animals' jailed in London

Lawrence Burns has been sentenced to four years in prison.

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Mar 10th 2017, 5:33 PM

# Weapon of Mobile Destruction

Hitler's personal telephone sells for €228,000

“This was Hitler’s mobile device of destruction.”

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Feb 20th 2017, 8:01 AM

# Bestseller

Hitler's Mein Kampf sells 85,000 copies in Germany

It was initially planned to print only 4,000 copies of the Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic manifesto, but production was boosted after intense demand.

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Jan 4th 2017, 10:56 AM

# Donald Trump

Does the rise of populism mean we're returning to the 1930s? Some historians see striking parallels

“We are facing a cataclysmic moment,” British writer Simon Schama warned following the US election.

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Nov 26th 2016, 8:30 PM

# PRIVATE museum

Replica of bunker where Hitler spent his final days goes on display in Berlin

The project hasn’t been universally welcomed.

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Oct 29th 2016, 8:30 AM

# Ginsheim-Gustavsburg

Hundreds of Irish Travellers have been accused of bringing chaos to a small town in Germany

Last week around 500-600 people in over 100 caravans descended on the town of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg, camping illegally on a meadow beside the Rhine.

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Aug 20th 2016, 5:50 PM

# out and proud

This Netflix glitch in a Hitler documentary is hilariously unfortunate

Rewriting history?

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Jun 12th 2016, 9:05 AM

# cash in the axis

One of Adolf Hitler's message machines was found in a shed in England

The Lorenz machine sold on eBay for £10.

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May 29th 2016, 6:57 PM

# superstate

The gloves are off: Boris Johnson compares EU to Hitler in latest Brexit twist

June’s referendum is still too close to call.

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May 15th 2016, 7:52 AM

# nazi sympathiser

Austria plans to seize ownership of Hitler's birthplace

The government want to stop it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

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Apr 9th 2016, 12:58 PM

# going going gone

Adolf Hitler's own copy of Mein Kampf has just sold at auction

The book from his Munich apartment sold for more than €18,000.

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Mar 18th 2016, 9:30 PM

# mind of a tyrant

'A fully-fledged masochist': Inside the CIA's psychological profile of Adolf Hitler

The report was commissioned in 1943.

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Feb 28th 2016, 6:00 PM

# Auschwitz survivor

Anne Frank's stepsister compares Donald Trump to Hitler

Eva Schloss also likened the experience of Jewish people in WWII to that of Syrian refugees today.

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Jan 28th 2016, 3:42 PM

# from Phibsborough to berlin

The fascinating story of an Irish jazz sensation who witnessed the Nazis come to power

Josephine Alexandra Mitchell, or Zandra, was the country’s first female saxophonist.

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Dec 25th 2015, 8:30 AM

# baltic beaches

Hitler's 3-mile-long abandoned Nazi resort is being transformed into a luxury getaway

Hitler ordered the construction of the massive ‘Prora’ complex in the 1930s – but it later fell into ruin.

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Dec 19th 2015, 10:30 AM

# new records

Hitler may have only had one testicle, new research claims

This is according to new medical records that have surfaced.

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Dec 19th 2015, 10:00 AM

# August Landmesser

The tragically powerful story behind the lone German who refused to give Hitler the Nazi salute

August Landmesser’s act of defiance stands out amid the throng of Nazi salutes at this 1936 rally.

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Nov 7th 2015, 6:00 PM

# He's back

A Hitler mockumentary has touched a nerve in Germany

In the bestselling what-if novel published three years ago, Hitler is baffled to find himself in a multicultural Germany led by a woman, Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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Oct 10th 2015, 9:00 PM

# total rush

Apparently the Nazis were high on a crystal meth-style drug

The Nazis reportedly wanted Pervitin to rival Coca Cola.

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Sep 14th 2015, 5:50 PM

# Reality check

Tila Tequlia has been kicked out of Celebrity Big Brother for 'sympathising with Hitler'

They sure know how to pick them, don’t they?

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Aug 29th 2015, 9:41 AM

Voices

'Old, frail, repentant… But still a criminal: The bookkeeper of Auschwitz should die in prison'

Oskar Gröning looks like he could be a kindly grandfather. He probably is. But he also volunteered to serve in one of the greatest murder camps ever constructed.

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Jul 18th 2015, 8:00 AM

# nazi past

Today marks 70 years since this happened

But Hitler’s Austrian birthplace still can’t deal with his legacy

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Apr 30th 2015, 6:05 AM