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Adolf Hitler stories: 67 news summaries

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Ahmadinejad Threatens to Jail Election Foes

Iran president accuses opponents of using 'Hitler's methods'

Jun 10, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Iran’s increasingly heated presidential campaign winds down, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is accusing his opponents of using “Hitler’s methods” to smear him, Reuters reports. Ahmadinejad threatened to arrest moderate Mir Hossein Mousavi and two other candidates, saying, “No one has the right to insult the president, and... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Adolf Hitler • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi

 Hitler Sells Again in Germany 


May 31, 09 7:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Broadway hit musical comedy The Producers finally opened in Berlin to boffo box office receipts—but not before in intense sales push to break through German reluctance to see an ersatz Hitler hamming it up on stage, reports the Los Angeles Times. "If you put it on most... More »

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Germany • Berlin • Broadway • Adolf Hitler • Mel Brooks • The Producers • musical • Springtime for Hitler

 'Funny Fuhrer' 
 Finally Hits Berlin 

'The Producers' inspires uneasy laughs with its German debut

May 19, 09 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Producers has goose-stepped its way onto a German stage 76 years after the springtime when Hitler took power, the New York Times reports. There were plenty of laughs—if sometimes uneasy ones—on opening night Sunday, but the Nazi-mocking musical and its swastika-laden ads prompted a fresh round of... More »

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Germany • Berlin • Adolf Hitler • Mel Brooks • The Producers • Nazis

(Newser) - After serving as Adolph Hitler’s adoring secretary for 12 years, Christa Schroeder recounted her experiences in a 1949 memoir, Hitler in Private. With an English translation on the way, the New York Post reveals some highlights—including an account of Hitler’s doctor injecting him with hormones from... More »

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Germany • hormones • Adolf Hitler • vegetarianism • dieting • Japanese

David Duke Goes to the Birds in Austria

Former Ku Klux Klan leader runs nature photography business

May 15, 09 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Duke appears to have traded in burning crosses for a high-powered camera lens, reports the Telegraph, which tracked the former Ku Klux Klan honcho to a village in Austria. The onetime US presidential candidate now sells photos of birds and other wildlife he’s taken as he traipses through... More »

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Czech Republic • Louisiana • Austria • Ku Klux Klan • Adolf Hitler • right wingers • David Duke • wildlife photography

 Napoleon's Novella 
 Reveals His Sappy Side 

It's on the romantic life of an ambitious soldier

May 12, 09 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Before Napoleon the ruthless emperor came Napoleon the romance-writing softy—and his masterpiece is due out in English this fall. Clisson and Eugenie is a novella about a triumphant soldier who returns home to marry his lady—of the same name as Napoleon’s first love. The manuscript, penned when... More »

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France • Adolf Hitler • empire • Napoleon • romance • novel • Benito Mussolini

Hitler's Nazi Super-Cows Head to Britain

Führer attempted to create master race
of Aryan oxen

Apr 22, 09 1:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British farm specializing in rare breeds has purchased descendants from a Nazi project aimed at breeding an ubër-ox, the Independent reports. The Heck cattle stock were developed from efforts to recreate the auroch—a huge proto-cow that once roamed Europe—through selective breeding to remove the genes of... More »

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cattle • Adolf Hitler • cows • Nazi

(Newser) - This could be awkward. Mel Brooks’ The Producers has been a smash around the world, but will the Hitler-mocking musical play in Germany? The Admiralspalast theater in Berlin—which the real Führer once frequented—is betting Germans are ready to laugh at the blood-soaked past, the Daily Mail reports.... More »

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Germany • Berlin • Adolf Hitler • Mel Brooks • The Producers • Nazis • Mein Kampf

More Hitler Paintings Go
Up for Sale

British auction house has 13 thought to be painted by him

Mar 27, 09 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British auction house will sell 13 paintings next month attributed to a minor Austrian-born amateur artist: Adolf Hitler. The works, which include a supposed self-portrait signed "AH," were found by a soldier in 1945, Reuters reports, though lingering doubts remain about authenticity. Two years ago, 21 Hitler... More »

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art • Adolf Hitler • painting • art auction • Howard Stern Grid

(Newser) - Adolf Hitler's frustrated father is blasting New Jersey officials for removing his children from his home only "because of their names," reports AP. Heath Campbell also charged that his 2-year-old daughter, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, appeared sick and dirty when he was allowed to see her. Adolf Hitler, 3,... More »

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New Jersey • child abuse • Adolf Hitler • social services • Nazis • Adolf Hitler Campbell • Heath Campbell

 Adolf Hitler, 3, 
 Removed From Home 

Social services take Adolf and sisters away from parents

Jan 14, 09 4:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Authorities have removed Adolf Hitler Campbell and his siblings from their parents' New Jersey home, the Express-Times reports. Adolf, 3, and his baby sisters— JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and  Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie—were taken by social services. It wasn't immediately clear why they were removed. There were no reports of neglect... More »

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New Jersey • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Neo-Nazi • child custody • Adolf Hitler Campbell

 Cruise May 
 Have to Buy 
 Hitler's Globe 

Owner of copyrighted artifact may sue

Jan 2, 09 11:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Valkyrie star Tom Cruise could be a “real-life hero”—by putting up the cash to purchase Adolf Hitler’s globe before United Artists is sued over it, the New York Post reports. The globe, a replica of which was featured prominently in Valkyrie, is owned by San Francisco... More »

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Tom Cruise • Valkyrie • Adolf Hitler • celebrity • lawsuit

 Happy Birthday, Adolf Whaaat? 

Boy named for Hitler, sister for Himmler, other sibling 'Aryan Nation'

Dec 17, 08 3:32 AM CST
(Newser) - He's blond, blue-eyed, just 3 years old and his name is Adolf Hitler Campbell. Staff at a ShopRite in his New Jersey hometown were so offended by his name that they refused to create a cake with "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler" written on it, reports the New York Daily ... More »

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Adolf Hitler • SS • Nazis • Adolf Hitler Campbell • Heath Campbell • swastikas • ShopRite

Stalin Planned
to Destroy Moscow Ahead of Nazis

Bombs, booby traps
set in 1,200 buildings

Dec 5, 08 4:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Stalin would have all but destroyed Moscow if the Nazis had taken the city, the Telegraph reports. Secret 1941 documents now on display detail the rigging of 1,200 buildings with explosives so that the Germans—only 19 miles from the city at the time—would conquer little more than... More »

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Russia • Moscow • explosives • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Josef Stalin

Feds Recover Bookmark From Hitler's Mistress

Sting operation nets gift from Eva to Adolf
stolen from museum

Nov 27, 08 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A gold bookmark given Adolf Hitler by lover Eva Braun, stolen from a Madrid museum in 2002, has been recovered in a sting operation, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Undercover federal agents pounced on a Romanian businessman in a Seattle parking lot, where he had arranged to sell the bookmark for... More »

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theft • Adolf Hitler • auction • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • bookmark • Nazi memorabilia • Christian Popescu • Kleon Tona • Wilhelm Keitel

Cruise in an Eye Patch May Prove Hard Sell in Valkyrie

Shifting release date shows studio's concerns with film

Nov 23, 08 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - A fear that audiences won't take to Tom Cruise in an eye-patch has kept Valkyrie, about a failed plot by German officers to assassinate Hitler, in United Artists' vaults. Advertising Age reports that studio execs postponed the film’s release multiple times over worries it wouldn’t stand up in... More »

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film • Tom Cruise • Claus von Stauffenberg • Valkyrie • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • assassination attempt • political movies

 Berlin Statue to Honor 
 Would-Be Hitler Assassin

Bomb-planting carpenter finally wins national recognition

Oct 24, 08 3:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Berlin is planning a memorial to honor one of the unsung heroes of the Nazi era—a humble carpenter who came within minutes of assassinating Hitler. Georg Elser planted a bomb in a Munich beer hall in 1939 that nearly killed Hitler just nine weeks into World War II—but... More »

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Dachau • Adolf Hitler • Third Reich • Nazism • Nazis • Bürgerbräukeller • Beer Hall Putsch • Georg Elser • British Intelligence • Rolf Hochhuth • Etienne François

Web 2.0 Makes Hitler
a Satirical Star

YouTube videos spoof Nazi leader

Sep 28, 08 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hitler wants his Xbox back, at least in one of many YouTube spoofs. Using clips from a 2004 German film about the Nazi’s demise, users have also rewritten subtitles to show Hitler ranting about Hillary Clinton and Adam Sandler movies. The spoofs are the latest Web 2.0 spawn,... More »

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Internet • YouTube • film • Web 2.0 • Adolf Hitler

 Berlin Opens Hitler's
 'Future City' Tunnels 

Network provides glimpse of megalomaniac's plans for world capital

Aug 27, 08 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Berlin has opened three vast tunnels under the city built as part of Adolf Hitler's vision of a grandiose Nazi capital, Reuters reports. The tunnels were to house a transit system beneath planned boulevards, squares, and huge buildings, including a Great Hall with room for 180,000 people. The Albert... More »

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architecture • Germany • Berlin • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Third Reich • Albert Speer

Is Germany Ready for
Mein Kampf?

Access to banned book would sap its power, some Germans argue

Aug 17, 08 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Adolf Hitler's banned hate-filled manifesto Mein Kampf should be returned to the nation's bookstores, some Germans argue. A critical edition—annotated to put the tome "into context"—would demystify it and shed light on the author's mad ramblings, they say. The push comes as the book's copyright nears... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • Adolf Hitler • book • Mein Kampf

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