| May 3, 2008 | - Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb, died at the age of 90.
| Source:
CNN
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| April 23, 2008 | - Tony Zirkle, a candidate for Congress in Indiana who previously proposed segregating races into different states, spoke before a neo-Nazi group at an event to commemorate the birth of Adolf Hitler. “I'll speak before any group that invites me,” said Zirkle. “I've spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta.”
| Source:
Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times
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| August 7, 2007 | - The public disclosure of Adolf Hitler's private record collection indicated that the Fuehrer enjoyed listening to Jewish musicians play Tchaikovsky.
| Source:
Guardian
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| August 25, 2006 | -
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said “Israel is doing the same thing as Hitler.”
| Source:
CNN
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| August 16, 2006 | - Pacifist ex-Nazi
Günther Grass got to keep his Nobel Prize.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The Australian
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| August 12, 2006 | -
Günter Grass announced that he had once been a member of the Nazi SS.
| Source:
Telegraph.co.uk
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| February 7, 2006 | - The Arab European League website published cartoons mocking the Holocaust. One showed Adolf Hitler in bed with Anne Frank; Hitler says: “put this in your diary, Anne.”
| Source:
UPI
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| February 3, 2006 | - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler because both Chavez and Hitler were elected legally and then "consolidated power." He also pointed out that Chavez has "a lot of oil money."
| Source:
MSNBC
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| October 20, 2005 | - Lamb and Lynx Gaede, thirteen-year-old twin sisters who perform as the band Prussian Blue, were under criticism for singing songs that praise Rudolph Hess. "We just want to preserve our race," explained Lynx.
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 8, 2005 | - Around three thousand neo-Nazis rallied in Berlin.
| Source:
Knight-Ridder
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| April 23, 2005 | - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who belonged to the Hitler Youth before he became a priest, won the papacy by a landslide and styled himself Benedict XVI. The new pope dislikes homosexuality (he moved quickly to condemn a Spanish bill that would permit gays to marry), abortion, and the death penalty, but he loves little kittens. In 2001, he ordered Catholic bishops to hide allegations against pedophile priests from the public.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
New York Daily News
Source 3:
The Observer
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| April 20, 2005 | - A rabbi had a fistfight with a man wearing a swastika
T-shirt in the Kansas City, Missouri, airport.
| Source:
Kansas.com
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| February 17, 2005 | - A luxury hotel was scheduled to open at Berchtesgaden.
| Source:
AP
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| January 13, 2005 | - Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, was revealed to have gone to a party dressed as a Nazi.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| October 4, 2003 | -
Schwarzenegger was also trying to explain comments he made years ago about his admiration for Adolf Hitler: "I admired Hitler for instance because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on."
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 1, 2003 | - A Russian man said he had Hitler's penis, and offered to sell it for $20,000.
| Source:
Ananova
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| November 20, 2001 | -
Schoolchildren in India
voted overwhelmingly to name a white tiger cub in the Lucknow Zoo Osama bin Laden; Hitler was another popular choice.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Lothar Machtan, a German historian, revealed that Hitler was gay.
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| October 2, 2001 | - Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy defended his remarks that Western civilization is superior to Islam and that it “is bound to occidentalize and conquer new people.” He said that criticism of his views was “artificial” and “based on nothing.” Benito Mussolini was enjoying a renaissance in Italy; portraits of Il Duce were showing up on wine bottles in Rome, as were pictures of Hitler.
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