Tag Archives: Hitler

Why is German reunification celebrated on 3 October?

Posted on 2020-10-03 by Andreas Moser

Today, Germany celebrates the 30th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany on 3 October 1990. The history buffs among you will know that the Berlin Wall fell almost a year earlier, on 9 November 1989. So why … Continue reading →

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History Lessons in Bolivia

Posted on 2020-06-14 by Andreas Moser

In a remote jungle school in Bolivia, I am surprised by what the children learn about Germany. Continue reading →

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“Munich” by Robert Harris

Posted on 2018-09-28 by Andreas Moser

Robert Harris, an experienced writer of historical thrillers, has taken on the Munich Agreement of 1938, in which Germany and the United Kingdom agreed that Germany could annex parts of Czechoslovakia. At the time, people believed that such a concession, … Continue reading →

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Germany 1945-1949

Posted on 2017-04-29 by Andreas Moser

These two films illustrate – with quite drastic footage, you are warned – what the Allied powers thought of Germany immediately after the end of World War II. They did see, correctly in my view, a continuity of German militarism … Continue reading →

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Sean Spicer explains Gas Chambers

Posted on 2017-04-12 by Andreas Moser

Pro tip: if you want to make historical comparisons, read a bit about history before you do so. Saying about Hitler that “he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing” displays … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler

Posted on 2016-07-30 by Andreas Moser

After Donald Trumps’s speech at the Republican National Convention, I made this joke, inspired both by the plagiarism in the current Mrs Trumps’ speech and by the speech itself: As with all my other Donald Trump jokes however, it turned out … Continue reading →

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Mein Kampf

Posted on 2015-03-28 by Andreas Moser

While in Germany the debate is still raging whether an annotated version of Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” should be published after the copyright protection will expire (I am in favor of such a publication, because what do we do historical research … Continue reading →

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Be careful with predictions!

Posted on 2014-11-10 by Andreas Moser

Oops.

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These books don’t fit together

Posted on 2014-07-27 by Andreas Moser

On my trip through Albania, I saw some small bookshops in the parks which sold what looked like second-hand books. Most of them were in Albanian, and the only English titles were often textbooks or encyclopedias. Very old ones, usually. The … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Donald Duck!

Posted on 2014-06-09 by Andreas Moser

It’s Donald Duck’s 80th birthday. Enjoy this short film which won an Oscar in 1943:

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