Eva Umlauf is one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She has no active memory of the time she spent there. For more than 70 years, her past and her family’s fate played no role in her life.

'Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents or even their parents, their great-grandparents - maybe even. And we should be optimistic and excited about a future for Germany.

He reiterated his praise for AfD, telling supporters, 'I think you're the best hope for Germany.'

Eighteen-year-old Melike wished racism and intolerance were spoken about more frequently. "I wear a headscarf and people are often disapproving. We need to learn more about one another so we can all live well together."

"We are the last generation who can meet and listen to people who survived that tragedy. We have to make sure everyone is informed to stop anything like that ever happening again."

'My body remembers what my mind has forgotten'

In total, six million Jews were murdered in what became known as the Holocaust. Numbers have been calculated based on Nazi documents and pre- and post-war demographic data.

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.

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.

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.