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Nazism echoes in modern politics

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New books by German writer Philipp Ruch and French historian Johann Chapoutot reexamined the Nazis’ rise to power, connecting its history to contemporary far-right politics.

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Amateurish, lazy, incompetent.
Remind you of anyone?
And yet they caused 50 million deaths.

86 EVERY REPUBLICAN this November.
‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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