More in ‘Adolf Hitler’

Family

Welcome Home?

My children are becoming German citizens, and I’m going nuts
By Marjorie Ingall | 7:00 AM Mar 8, 2010

Once upon a time there was a young rabbi named Ulrich. He lived with his beautiful wife and their adorable baby in Heidelberg, Germany, a city of poets and composers and philosophers. Ulrich’s city was surrounded by dark forests and nestled by a sparkling river. There was even a castle. Ulrich was happy there. His ...

Freud-Owned Hitler Painting For Sale

One Jew who may have helped the Führer out
By Marc Tracy | 10:00 AM Feb 16, 2010

Mullock’s Specialist Auctioneers have an interesting specimen for sale: a watercolor painting of a pastoral church, with two intriguing names on it.
On the back, implying the one-time owner: “Sigmund Freud, Vienna.”
Signed on the front, implying the painter: “A. Hitler, 1910.”
Both were in the Austro-Hungarian capital at the same time, which means they may have ...

Oliver Stone Calls Hitler ‘Easy Scapegoat’

New documentary may prove slightly controversial
By Marc Tracy | 12:00 PM Jan 11, 2010

We’re guessing this won’t be the last time you hear about this. Oliver Stone has directed a 10-part documentary for Showtime called Secret History of America. It will, among other things, try to draw some revisionist shades of gray when it comes to Adolph Hitler. Said the controversial filmmaker:
Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history ...

Sundown: The NYT’s Exotic Philo-Semitism

Plus landing a White House invite, Dylan vs. Diamond, and more
By Marc Tracy | 5:00 PM Dec 8, 2009

• Slate’s Jack Shafer examines the New York Times’s proclivity, evidenced in its weekend story about Montana (which we covered yesterday), for “hey-folks-we’ve-found-some-Jews-living-in-a-strange-place moments.” [Slate]
• “Is there jockeying?” a Jewish Democratic consultant says of the White House Hanukkah party guest list. “Oh my God, jockeying is a polite word.” [WaPo]
• Heeb magazine compares the two ...

Sundown: The Hitler-Mobile

Plus Jews on film, unconventional art, and more
By Hadara Graubart | 5:06 PM Nov 23, 2009

• Despite feeling “really torn” about trading in property that once belonged to a “horrible mass murderer,” a German car dealer has reportedly arranged the sale of Hitler’s Mercedes to a Russian billionaire. [AP]
• A group of Los Angeles Catholic schoolteachers celebrated a midweek Shabbat as part of the ADL’s “Bearing Witness” program, which reinforced ...

Hitler’s War on Christmas Revealed

Exhibit reveals Nazi plans to de-Christ Christmas
By Hadara Graubart | 11:01 AM Nov 18, 2009

If, in keeping with the trends of the time, Bill O’Reilly decides to use Nazi imagery to express his rage at the “war on Christmas” this year—well, he may actually have a leg to stand on. Turns out Hitler & Co. did have beef with the holiday, and, as demonstrated in a new exhibition in ...

Daybreak: Rubashkin Convicted

Plus a Ponzi scheme in Florida, Nazi imagery, and more in the news
By Hadara Graubart | 9:02 AM Nov 13, 2009

• Shalom Rubashkin was convicted of 86 out of 91 fraud charges during his tenure as owner of the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant in Iowa; “combined sentences could reach over 1,250 years,” says the JTA. [JTA]
• Meantime, the Ponzi scheme allegedly perpetrated by Florida attorney Scott Rothstein is growing in scope as the FBI ...

U.K. Kids Think Auschwitz Is Theme Park

But only some of them, in a multiple-choice poll
By Hadara Graubart | 3:00 PM Nov 6, 2009

If kids say the darnedest things, they’re bound to get even darned-er if you feed them funny potential answers to serious questions: A multiple-choice survey of 2,000 9- to 15-year-old children in the United Kingdom found that “while a majority of children have basic knowledge about the two world wars, a significant minority have no ...

Sundown: The Big Questions

On Halloween, heresy, and Hitler
By Hadara Graubart | 5:00 PM Oct 30, 2009

• A mother addresses what she calls “one of the biggest Jewish dilemmas”: Can our kids celebrate Halloween? Her conclusion seems to be that the only reason to say yes is that costumes are “cute” and the only reason to say no is that it skeletons are “spooky.” [Jewish Journal]
• The Telegraph takes on a ...

Books

War Diary of a Vampire

In the new fantasy novel 'The Midnight Guardian,' the pop-culture vampire trend turns Jewish
By Marc Tracy | 6:59 AM Oct 30, 2009

Although they must avoid sunlight, vampires have never been hotter. One out of seven books sold in the United States in the first quarter of the year were in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series; the movie based on Meyer’s first book grossed nearly $200 million domestically. HBO’s True Blood, which plops down vampires in a Southern ...