Showing posts with label Adolf Hitler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adolf Hitler. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

How Donald Trump's Rhetoric Is Shockingly Similar to Nazism | The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Dec 20, 2023 | Steve Schmidt breaks down how similar Trump's latest rhetoric is to Adolf Hitler and why that should be so frightening.

Friday, November 24, 2023

The Night of Long Knives - Hitler's Rise to Power | Parts 1 & 2 | Free Documentary | History

Dec 16, 2022 | The Night of the Long Knives is considered the first act of horror committed by the Nazis. What happened in Germany, and in Hitler's rise to power, that led to this organized purge in 1934? Caught between the conservative tendency and the revolutionary aspirations dividing the country, the Chancellor had to choose a side. Hitler intended to send a clear message to calm the rumors of a military coup against him.



Es erstaunt mich immer wieder, daß das deutsche Volk, welches so hochintelligent und kultiviert war, dazumal von diesem Scheusal aufgenommen worden war. – © Mark Alexander

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers

Aug 23, 2021 | Many men who were partly of Jewish ancestry served in the German armed forces during WW2 - find out how and why they ended up in Hitler's army.

Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries.


Sunday, November 19, 2023

In Hitler’s Birthplace, Soul-Searching Over a Poisonous Past

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Austrian government is turning the house where Hitler was born into a police station. But many think it should be used instead to teach essential lessons about history.

The building where Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. | Marylise Vigneau for The New York Times

The Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, sitting just at the border with Germany, has a 15th-century church tower, cobblestone streets and cluttered rows of charming, colorful houses, some in green, pink and blue.

It also has a fraught historical burden. On the upper floors of the house at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 on April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born.

One recent afternoon, Annette Pommer, 32, a history teacher, stared through the window of the Sailer cafe at the three-story 17th-century building across the street where Hitler spent the first few months of his life. She could hear the pounding of jackhammers; an excavator was crawling over a pile of bricks at the rear of the house while workers in hard hats swept the soil.

For many years, Braunau residents say, few gave the house a second thought, except when tourists asked for a photograph, or the occasional neo-Nazi showed up on the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday with a candle or wreath.

But in 2017, the Austrian government, acutely sensitive to the house’s poisonous symbolism and potential for abuse, expropriated the property, and after a period of debate, announced the building would be renovated to become a police station. The goal was to stop it from attracting any modern supporters of Hitler and to sever associations with its painful history. Construction began in October.

“It’s a missed opportunity,” Ms. Pommer said.

Like many in Braunau, she had wanted the building to become a museum or exhibition space to explore Austria’s part in the Nazi regime, a usage that could provide an especially valuable lesson at a time when war again rages in Europe, antisemitism is rising and far-right parties are stirring.

“It should be about how people become Hitler,” she said. “It’s not a house of evil. It’s just a house where a child was born. But it’s right to explain what became of that child.” » | Graham Bowley, Reporting from Braunau am Inn, Austria | Sunday, November 19, 2023

Thursday, November 09, 2023

Hilary Clinton Likens Trump to Hitler and Warns He Would End Democracy

THE GUARDIAN: Former senator and secretary of state says Nazi leader was initially elected and that ‘Trump is telling us what he intends to do’

Hillary Clinton warned that Donald Trump back in the White House ‘would be the end of our country as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly’. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Hillary Clinton has compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler as she offered a blunt warning about the dangers of a second Trump presidency.

Trump back in the White House, Clinton said during an appearance on ABC’s daytime talkshow The View on Wednesday, “would be the end of our country as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly”.

The former first lady, senator and secretary of state said: “When I was secretary of state, I used to talk about ‘one and done’. What I meant by that is that people would get legitimately elected and then they would try to do away with elections, and do away with opposition, and do away with a free press.”

Then Clinton added: “Hitler was duly elected. All of a sudden somebody with those tendencies, dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like ‘OK we’re gonna shut this down, we’re gonna throw these people in jail.’ And they didn’t usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do.” » | Sam Levine | Thursday, November 9, 2023

Hillary Clinton is absolutely right to compare Trump with Hitler. Trump would be a very dangerous choice for president. Somehow, the USA and the world managed to get through his first term in office – with difficultry. But a second term in office, especially with the world in the state it is now in, it would be far more difficult to do so. The man is unhinged. He’d be more suited to running a brothel rather than a country! Frankly, one would have to have a screw loose to vote for Trump for president for a second term. In any case, why are the authorities taking so long to lock him up? Surely with all those indictments, courts would have plenty of reason to open the jail doors and then demand that the keys be thrown away! (Just as Trump wanted be done with Hillary Clinton. Lest we forget!) By locking Trump up, the people would be spared from disaster. – © Mark Alexander

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Friday, October 06, 2023

Meet Prince Philipp of Hesse, the [Late] Queen’s Third Cousin, a ‘Bisexual Dilettante’ and Hitler’s Art Dealer

Prince Philip of Hesse with his wife Princess Mafalda. (Wikimedia Commons)

PINK NEWS: Most people have never heard of Prince Philipp of Hesse, Queen Elizabeth II’s third cousin and Queen Victoria’s great-grandson, but his life as Adolf Hitler’s bisexual art agent is finally being told in a fascinating new book.

Dean Palmer is a non-fiction TV producer, director and writer who has worked with Netflix, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

His new book, Tea With Hitler, tells the stories of the royal family’s Nazi relatives, including Prince Philipp of Hesse, after whom the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was named.

The Hesse family are direct relations of today’s British royal family, with the name “Hesse” having been abandoned by the Duke of Edinburgh’s grandmother in favour of the more English-sounding “Mountbatten” during the First World War.

It is through the Hesse family that Queen Elizabeth II and her late husband are related, and both of them are third cousins of Prince Philipp of Hesse.

Queen Victoria had nine children, but as they married into royal families across Europe, her descendants found themselves “on opposite sides of two World Wars”, Palmer told PinkNews.

Prince Philipp of Hesse was born in Germany and raised at Friedrichshof castle, built by his grandmother, who was Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter. But he was educated in England, attending a prep school in Bexhill-on-Sea, and even had an English nanny. » | Lily Wakefield | Wednesday, June 9, 2023

WIKIPEDIA:

Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse »

Princess Mafalda of Savoy »

Vatican Documents Show Secret Back Channel between Pope Pius XII and Adolf Hitler

Jun 7, 2022 | A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Adolf Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look at these revelations. Historian David Kertzer, author of “The Pope At War: The Secret History of Pope Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler,” joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Kann das Geburtshaus von Adolf Hitler neu genutzt werden? | DW Nachrichten

Sep 30, 2023 | Im österreichischen Braunau steht das Geburtshaus von Adolf Hitler. Seit langer Zeit wird wird diskutiert, wie damit umgegangen werden soll. Nun soll dort eine Polizeistation und ein Schulungszentrum für Menschenrechte eingerichtet werden. Die Arbeiten beginnen demnächst. Gegenstimmen beklagen, dass ein derart historisch belastetes Haus nur Gedenkstätte sein darf und in einen Kontext eingeordnet werden muss.


WIKIPEDIA: Braunau am Inn »

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Obersalzberg – From the Alpine Village to the Führer's Off-limits Area: Eyewitness Reports

Jan 31, 2022 | Obersalzberg had been Adolf Hitler's vacation domicile since 1923. During the National Socialist era, the mountain ridge above Berchtesgaden became the second seat of government of the Nazi regime.

With historical footage and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this film documents the expulsion of the local population and the transformation of the old village into the "Führersperrgebiet" (Fuhrer's Restricted Area) with large buildings such as Hitler's Berghof and the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle’s Nest).

Former neighbors tell how Hitler lived in the Wachenfeld house in the 1920s and wrote "Mein Kampf." While they had to sell their houses after 1933, Hitler enjoyed life on Obersalzberg with Eva Braun, received state guests such as Benito Mussolini and led the Second World War from here.

It was not until April 1945 that the "Führersperrgebiet" was partially destroyed in an air raid. The exhibition film by journalist and book author Ulrich Chaussy was shown in the Dokumentation Obersalzberg from 1999 to 2021. The film was slightly edited for the online version.

Sources:

Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 609 20", Quelle: Bundesarchiv, Bestand Film: K-72204
Obersalzberg, Quelle: Bundesarchiv, Bestand Film: 27462-1



WIKIPEDIA: Obersalzberg and Mein Kampf.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler | BBC Select

Sep 19, 2023 | Why did millions of Germans support Adolf Hitler, ultimately destroying their own country?

History has had its share of terrifying, tyrannical despots, but Adolf Hitler’s legacy of destruction is without parallel. But how did the self-proclaimed Fuhrer form such a connection with millions of Germans, leading them to support him as their absolute leader and ultimately, destroy their own country in World War II?

In a series of history documentaries by the BBC containing testimonies, compelling footage and reconstructions, British historian Laurence Rees looks at the infamous yet unlikely figure who generated such ardent support and disastrous devotion from his countrymen and women.



Stream the series on BBC Select here.

Monday, September 18, 2023

„Sie haben einen zweiten Hitler herangezogen“

Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj bei einer Veranstaltung am Rande des NATO-Gipfels in Vilnius im Juli

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG – UKRAINE-LIVEBLOG: Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat kurz vor dem Start der UN-Generaldebatte vor einem dritten Weltkrieg gewarnt und Kremlchef Wladimir Putin mit Adolf Hitler verglichen. Die russische Gesellschaft habe den Respekt der Weltöffentlichkeit verloren, sagte Selenskyj laut englischer Übersetzung des US-Senders CBS in einem am Sonntag ausgestrahlten Interview der Sendung „60 Minutes“. „Sie haben ihn gewählt und wiedergewählt und einen zweiten Hitler herangezogen.“ Man könne die Zeit nicht zurückdrehen, aber Putin jetzt stoppen.

„Wenn die Ukraine fällt, was wird dann in zehn Jahren passieren?“, sagte Selenskyj weiter. Wenn die Russen Polen erreichen würden, komme dann ein dritter Weltkrieg, fragte er. Daher müsse sich die ganze Welt entscheiden, ob Putin aufgehalten werden solle oder man den Beginn eines Weltkriegs heraufbeschwören wolle. Fortlesen » | Simon Hüsgen | Montag, 18. September 2023

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Letter Found in Vatican Archives Confirms Church Was Told About Death Camps

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The newly discovered letter, written by a German Jesuit to Pope Pius XII’s personal secretary, suggests that the pope knew of Hitler’s atrocities but chose to remain silent.

Pope Pius XII blessing the crowds in front of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome in 1947. The pope’s recently opened archives have been the subject of research to learn about his response to Hitler and Nazism. | Bettmann, via Getty Images

A letter found among the private papers of Pope Pius XII suggests that the Holy See was told in 1942 that up to 6,000 people, “above all Poles and Jews,” were being killed in furnaces every day at Belzec, a Nazi death camp in Poland.

Though news of the atrocities being perpetrated by Hitler was already reaching Pope Pius XII’s ears, this information was especially important because it came from a trusted church source based in Germany, said Giovanni Coco, a Vatican archivist who discovered the letter. The source was “in the heart of the enemy territory,” Mr. Coco said on Saturday.

The document, which was made public this weekend by the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera, adds to the evidence that some scholars say shows Pius knew about the Holocaust as it happened. Some scholars say Pius did not want to confront or offend Hitler because he feared Communism, believed that the Axis powers would win the war and wanted to avoid alienating millions of German and Nazi-sympathizing Catholics.

Other historians insist that Pius XII remained silent publicly because he was surreptitiously arranging for — or at least allowing — local Catholics to aid and save Jews from the Nazis, and he also feared that the Nazis might come after Catholics. » | Elisabetta Povoledo, Reporting from Rome | Saturday,, September 16, 2023

Friday, August 04, 2023

British Royal Connections to the NSDAP

Mar 17, 2023

In view of the very controversial nature of this extremely interesting documentary, I have decided not to embed it on this blog; rather, I have decided to provide you with a link to the documentary on YouTube instead. This documentary offers a surprising insight into leading characters in the United Kingdom prior to, and during, the Second World War. Click here to watch this fascinating documentary.

How Britain’s Nazi-loving press baron made the case for Hitler: The Daily Mail was once the country’s highest selling newspaper, but owner Lord Rothermere was more concerned with ‘Bolshevik troublemakers’ than an impending genocide »

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Austria to Use Hitler’s Birthplace for Police Human Rights Training

THE GUARDIAN: House in Braunau am Inn will become police station and training centre after €20m renovation

In a survey, 53% of those questioned said they would prefer it to become a centre for anti-fascism and tolerance. Photograph: Manfred Fesl/AFP/Getty Images

Austria has announced it will use the house where Adolf Hitler was born to provide human rights training to police officers, in what authorities hope will be the final chapter in a lengthy saga over what to do with the building.

The elegant 17th-century house in Braunau am Inn, near the German border, was bought by the government in 2016 under a compulsory purchase order after a long-running legal battle.
Hitler was born in a rented room on the top floor of the house in 1889.

Development to turn it into a training centre incorporating a police station, expected to cost about €20m, will begin in the autumn, according to authorities. » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Wednesday, May 24, 2023

WIKIPEDIA: Braunau am Inn.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Musik im Dritten Reich - Der Maestro und die Cellistin von Auschwitz | DW Doku Deutsch

Nov 9, 2022 | Warum war klassische Musik für Hitler und Goebbels so wichtig? Die Hauptpersonen des Films sind zwei Menschen, die auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise für die Musikkultur im Nationalsozialismus stehen: Stardirigent Wilhelm Furtwängler und die Cellistin des Frauenorchesters in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Hier ein Dirigent, der weltweit gefeiert wurde, der mit Hitler und seinen Helfern ein Bündnis einging. Dort eine junge Frau, die als deutsche Jüdin nach Auschwitz verschleppt wurde und nur dank ihrer musikalischen Begabung überlebte.

Beide waren von der Nazi-Diktatur betroffen: Furtwängler entschied sich in Deutschland zu bleiben und paktierte mit den Nazis. Lasker-Wallfisch dagegen versuchte im brutalen Alltag des Vernichtungslagers zu überleben, das Cello war ihre Lebensversicherung. Beide verband die Liebe zur klassischen Musik, die sowohl in der Berliner Philharmonie, beim Reichsparteitag in Nürnberg oder auch in Auschwitz-Birkenau zu hören war. Warum gingen begnadete Künstler wie Furtwängler einen Pakt mit dem Bösen ein? Warum wurde in Todeslagern Musik gespielt? Und wie veränderte sich für die Opfer ihr Blick auf die Musik?

Deutsche Musik sollte die Vormachtstellung des "Dritten Reiches" in der Welt legitimieren und von den Untaten der Nazis ablenken. Neben Beethoven, Bach oder Bruckner hatte Richard Wagner als Hitlers Lieblingskomponist einen besonders hohen Stellenwert. Hitler war sich der Macht der Musik bewusst und Propagandaminister Joseph Goebbels kontrollierte das Musikleben im Nazistaat, in dem jüdische Künstler keinen Platz mehr hatten. So wurden die Berliner Philharmoniker zum staatlichen "Reichsorchester"

. Gesprächspartner*innen in der Musikdokumentation von Christian Berger sind unter anderem die Dirigenten Daniel Barenboim und Christian Thielemann, die Kinder von Wilhelm Furtwängler und natürlich die 97-jährige Cellistin Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Es sind besonders ihre Erinnerungen, die unter die Haut gehen. Historisches Filmmaterial, das für den Film restauriert und koloriert wurde, macht Geschichte greifbar und legt Zeugnis ab über eine dramatische Zeit.


Tuesday, December 13, 2022

5 Gründe für Hitlers Reichtum | Terra X

Nov 22, 2020 | Selbstlos, asketisch, immer im Dienst seines Volkes - so inszenierte sich Adolf Hitler. Er habe sich aus Armut emporgearbeitet, sei immer ein Mann aus dem Volk geblieben. Doch seine Steuerakte zeigt einen anderen Hitler: Millionenschwer und nicht gewillt, Steuern zu zahlen. Wie reich war Hitler wirklich und woher hatte er seine Millionen?

Der NS-Agitator verfügte viel früher und umfassender über Geldquellen, als noch lange nach dem Ende der NS-Zeit angenommen. Er hatte mächtige Gönner, nicht nur im In-, sondern auch im Ausland. Als er 1945 Selbstmord beging, war er ein schwerreicher Mann. Schon zu Beginn seiner „Karriere“ verfügte Hitler über genügend Einkünfte – wohlhabende Spender finanzierten ihn heimlich. Zum Beispiel die Gattin des Piano-Herstellers Bechstein, oder Amerikas Autokönig Henry Ford.

Als er an der Macht war, schien der Geldstrom kein Ende mehr zu nehmen: Acht Millionen Reichsmark flossen als Tantiemen für sein Buch „Mein Kampf“ – das Machwerk wurde vom Staat als Geschenk an alle Neuvermählten überreicht. Anteile am Verkauf von Briefmarken mit Hitlers Porträt, Einnahmen von Fotos, auf denen er abgebildet war – all das floss in die Taschen des Reichskanzlers und „Reichspräsidenten“, der zudem ab 1934 für beide Ämter Vergütungen kassierte. Zahlreiche deutsche Großunternehmen versuchten, sich mit Zuwendungen die Gunst des Diktators zu erkaufen. Die "Adolf Hitler-Spende der deutschen Industrie" brachte zwischen 1933 und 1945 insgesamt 700 Millionen Reichsmark in einen Fonds, der zur "persönlichen Verfügung des Führers" stand. Daraus stammten die 100 Millionen Mark, mit denen Hitler das "Führergebiet Obersalzberg" ausbauen ließ.

Dieses Video ist eine Produktion des ZDF, in Zusammenarbeit mit History Media GmbH


Hitler, It Seems, Loved Money and Died Rich

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Hitler died wealthy.

According to a new [new in 2002] German television documentary, Hitler liked money, both for the luxuries it bought him and the loyalties it ensured, and he amassed a lot of it.

In all the continuing fascination with Hitler since his suicide on April 30, 1945, in his Berlin bunker as the Soviet Army closed in, little attention has been paid, until now, to his personal finances.

Abstemious in his public image, Hitler liked to live grandly. He paid much attention to his income from his own writing and from the copyright fees for his photographs, said Ingo Helm, a 47-year-old freelance journalist and filmmaker, who spent over a year making ''Hitler's Money,'' which will be shown later this month on a state-owned station, ARD.

''Hitler saw himself as an unrecognized genius, and in order to change this situation he was very interested in power, money and social advancement,'' Mr. Helm said in an interview today, after word of his film was made public in German media. ''All this was balsam for the tortured soul of the unrecognized genius.''

Hitler himself described at great length his poverty and hardship as a struggling artist in Vienna before World War I, although he had a small inheritance. His poverty embarrassed him deeply. In ''Mein Kampf,'' from which he would make millions, he emphasized the hard struggle for existence of the ''upstart'' who had risen ''by his own efforts from his previous position in life to a higher one,'' that ''kills all pity'' and destroys ''feeling for the misery of those who have remained behind.''



Last year [2001], there was another flurry of attention, this time to a more serious work of history trying to make the case that Hitler was gay. The book, ''The Hidden Hitler,'' by Lothar Machtan, suggests that Hitler ordered the killing of several high-ranking Nazis to protect his secret, including Ernst Röhm, the head of the Sturmabteilung, or Brownshirts.

Röhm was gay, and Mr. Machtan writes that he tried to blackmail Hitler by threatening to reveal his sexuality, one reason that Hitler supposedly ordered ''the night of the long knives'' in 1934, when he purged more than 100 of his most embarrassing and threatening followers.

Even the Nazi persecution of gay men, many of whom were sent to concentration camps, was a function of Hitler's self-hatred and effort to disguise his own sexual preferences, Mr. Machtan argues. » | Steven Erlanger* | Thursday, August 8, 2002

View on TIMESMACHINE.

* Steven Erlanger is the chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe for The New York Times, a position he assumed in 2017. He is based in Brussels.

Saturday, December 03, 2022

Kanye West fait l’éloge de Hitler et embarrasse le Parti républicain

LE MONDE : La présence du rappeur, quelques jours plus tôt, à un dîner au domicile de Donald Trump, en compagnie du suprémaciste Nick Fuentes, avait déjà provoqué des remous chez les conservateurs.

« Je vois de bonnes choses chez Hitler. » Puis : « J’aime les juifs, mais j’aime aussi les nazis. » En prononçant ces mots au cours d’une nouvelle interview délirante de trois heures, le rappeur américain Kanye West – surnommé à présent « Ye » – a réussi à mettre très légèrement mal à l’aise son hôte, Alex Jones.

Ce dernier, personnalité influente du monde conspirationniste et de l’extrême droite, recevait le rappeur, jeudi 1er décembre, dans son émission « Infowars », en compagnie du suprémaciste blanc Nick Fuentes. Les deux hommes avaient fait les gros titres une semaine plus tôt, en étant accueillis pour dîner par Donald Trump dans sa résidence floridienne de Mar-a-Lago. Un rendez-vous qui a provoqué de forts remous au sein du Parti républicain. » | Par Piotr Smolar (Washington, correspondant) | Samedi 3 décembre 2022

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Thursday, December 01, 2022

The Rise of Hitler | Holocaust Education | USHMM*

Nov 29, 2022 | After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party gradually restricted Jewish citizens’ rights and violence against Jews increased by 1938. What events led up to the mass murder of six million Jews? Can recognizing similar warning signs help prevent genocide today? One notable wave of violence across Germany, known as Kristallnacht, was organized by the Nazi regime. Additional anti-Jewish laws followed. Jews tried to emigrate to escape persecution, but many countries would not accept large numbers of refugees. Those who chose to help made a difference. For example, about 10,000 Jewish children were rescued under the Kindertransport program, which sent them abroad.


* USHMM - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum