Hitler's Face: The Biography of an Image (Material Texts)

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In 2019, Divya Spandana, a former member of the Indian parliament and social media manager of the Indian National Congress (INC) party, tweeted a side-by-side photo of Adolf Hitler and Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India. The pictures showed both men holding the ears of children. Spandana captioned the tweet, “What are your thoughts?” Reichstag Fire and Reichstag election: on 27 February the Reichstag building was set on fire. A Dutch communist, van der Lubbe, was caught red-handed in the burning building. Days later in the election 44 per cent of the population voted for the Nazis, who won 288 seats in the Reichstag – still not an overall majority. Hitler had to join with the nationalists to form a majority.

When the hallucinations clear, Donald finds himself in his bed (wearing stars-and-stripes patterned pajamas), and realizes that the whole experience was a nightmare; however, he sees the shadow of a figure holding its right hand up. Believing it is a Nazi salute, he begins to do so himself until he realizes that it is the shadow of a miniature Statue of Liberty, holding her torch high in her right hand. Remembering that he lives in the United States, Donald embraces the statue, saying, "Am I glad to be a citizen of the United States of America!". I think the artistic style of the posters contributed greatly to the fact that they were so successful in influencing the masses," Wunderlich told DW, adding that she means they were "successful" in the sense of Nazi politics. a b c Bright, Martin (13 December 2007). "Unity Mitford and 'Hitler's baby' ". The New Statesman . Retrieved 19 August 2022.Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria—died April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany) leader of the Nazi Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor ( Kanzler) and Führer of Germany (1933–45). Hitler’s worldview revolved around two concepts: territorial expansion and racial supremacy. Those themes informed his decision to invade Poland, which marked the start of World War II, as well as the systematic killing of six million Jews and millions of others during the Holocaust. The short ends with a caricature of Hitler's angry face, and a tomato is thrown at it, forming the words The End.

By the time of his last public appearance just days before his death, in the garden of the New Reich Chancellery building, where he reviewed and congratulated teenaged Volkssturm ("people's storm") and Hitler Youth soldiers for their efforts in the Battle of Berlin against the Soviet Red Army, Hitler was bent over, shuffled when he walked, and could not stop his left arm, which he held behind him, from trembling. His eyes were glassy, his skin was greasy, and his speech could sometimes barely be heard. He looked to be much older than his actual age, which was 56, and hardly resembled the charismatic orator who had led the Nazi Party to power. Dimuro, Gina (11 June 2018). "Origins Of Evil: The Rage-Filled Story Of Alois Hitler". All That's Interesting.

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Hauner, Milan (1983). Hitler: A Chronology of his Life and Time. London: Macmillan. p.181. ISBN 0-333-30983-9. The health of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, has long been a subject of popular controversy. Both his physical and mental health have come under scrutiny. Alois Hitler's illegitimacy would cause speculation as early as the 1920s—and still present in popular culture today—that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. Credible evidence to support the notion of Hitler's Jewish descent has never turned up. The two most likely candidates to have been Hitler's grandfather are the man who married his grandmother and that man's brother. Linz Wunderlich says that perhaps they were even deliberately approached by the Propaganda Ministry "for their modernity." The Nazis wanted to set themselves apart from the Weimar Republic and its style. They wanted to present themselves as a nation "that is modern, that is new and that is different."