U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada, who announced the charges, called it one of the “largest takedowns in the history of the Department of Justice against a neo-Nazi, white supremacist, violent extremist organization.”That announcement landing in the final weeks of a presidential election prompts us to contrast the facts of our crime problem with the fiction that Republican presidential nominee 'Old Donald' and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, would have us believe.
The posts, which make use of cheap and popular AI voice-cloning tools, have drawn praise in comments on X and TikTok, such as 'I miss you uncle A,' 'He was a hero,' and 'Maybe he is NOT the villain.' On Telegram and the 'dark web,' extremists brag that the AI-manipulated speeches offer an engaging and effortless way to repackage Hitler's ideas to radicalize young people.
The propaganda - documented in videos, chat forum messages and screen recordings of neo-Nazi activity shared exclusively with The Washington Post by the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the SITE Intelligence Group - is helping to fuel a resurgence in online interest in Hitler on the American right, experts say. In a report published Friday, ISD researchers found that content glorifying, excusing or translating Hitler's speeches into English has racked up some 25 million views across X, TikTok and Instagram since Aug. 13.
The videos are gaining traction as 'Old Donald' and his Republican running mate Vance, have advanced conspiracy theories popular among online neo-Nazi communities, including baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating pets.
While it’s impossible to quantify the real-world impact of far-right online propaganda, Gais said, you can see evidence of its influence when prominent figures such as conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and 'Old Donald' adviser Stephen Miller espouse elements of the antisemitic “great replacement” conspiracy theory, or when mass shooters in Buffalo, El Paso and Christchurch, New Zealand, cite it as inspiration.
To verify that Mr. Robinson was the poster behind the comments, CNN identified the username 'minisoldr' as one Mr. Robinson used frequently online. In addition to matching biographical details, the report said, Mr. Robinson had listed his full name on the Nude Africa site along with an email address that he had used on various websites 'for decades.'
That was a glimpse of how Bikers For Trump felt in 2019 and they supported him in 2020. So what in the world is going on now? Beats me. I’ve been searching for articles on what cooled the Bikers on their previous icon. He doesn’t appeal to them now, to the point where they have changed their name to Bikers For America.White supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from "Old Donald's" campaign early Friday, announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a 'catastrophic loss.'
'Tonight I declared a new Groyper War against the 'Old Donald' campaign,' Fuentes wrote on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after midnight, referring to a group of far-right activists known as groypers.
Despite white men making up a massive part of 'Old Donald''s primary support base'and his attempts to pander to them this election cycle'the Republican nominee has seen a stunning slip in support within this demographic.
America still can't figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
So over the past year I made two trips to Germany, traveling to Berlin and to Dachau visiting sites that only eight decades ago were instrumental to an industrialized slaughter of human beings unlike any the world had ever seen. I learned that the way the country remembers this genocide is the subject of ongoing debate - a debate that is highly relevant to fights about public memory taking place in the U.S.
It signals that Substack's recent move to ban five small, openly pro-Nazi accounts has failed to quell a backlash from writers who have called on it to crack down on expressions of support for white supremacy.
The woman said the gesture had been intended as a joke and that she did not mean it seriously. However, police who inspected her phone found Nazi-themed chat messages and pictures being shared between the four.
At a time of deep distress over the stability of democracy in America and elsewhere, Benjamin Carter Hett’s chronicle of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler could not be more timely. “The Death of Democracy” makes for chilling reading precisely because it deals with Hitler’s early years, when he was a fringe politician exploiting disaffection with German democracy to gain an institutional foothold and then leveraging the bitter divisions among the established political parties.How a hypernationalist, crafty liar exploited political divisions in 1930s Germany
Last year, a watch supposedly worn by Hitler went for $1.1 million at auction. What opened my eyes was learning how much Nazi stuff there was on LiveAuctioneers, the pre-eminent online platform for antiques dealers. According to a Times Opinion analysis, the site has published more than 30,000 listings for Nazi memorabilia in the past 15 years, making it probably the biggest, and certainly the most mainstream, purveyor of Nazi artifacts in the country.
While some of Clauberg’s Jewish patients died in this way, others were deliberately put to death so that autopsies could be carried out.
The Nazi-led series of attacks in the country in 1938 left more than 90 people dead, and destroyed Jewish-owned businesses and places of worship. It is widely seen as the beginning of the Holocaust. The message, heavily criticised for its insensitivity, was later blamed on "an error in our system".
He was found guilty of aiding and abetting the murders of 3,518 people. He was complicit in the shooting of Soviet prisoners of war and the murder of others with Zyklon B gas.
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