The German-born father of Chilean presidential frontrunner José Antonio Kast was a member of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, according to a recently unearthed document obtained by The Associated Press.
New biography of Mildred Harnack, born in Milwaukee. She was a central part of the anti-Nazi resistance movement inside Nazi Germany, until her capture in 1942. Sentenced to hard labor, she was re-tried under Hitler's order, and executed.
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A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era.
Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.
Two new books on the fascist leader walk different paths; one identifying Hitler as key to virtually every juncture of the party’s rise and fall while the other looks more toward his racial worldview as profoundly preoccupied with ‘Anglo-America.
Nietzsche was overlooked for most of his career. By the time his genius was discovered, his health had rapidly deteriorated.
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