Tag Archives: Adolf Hitler
Partial review: ‘Hitler’s Circle of Evil’ (2018)
Hitler’s Circle of Evil is a documentary series on Netflix that narrates the lives and actions of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, leading up to and during the Second World War. This is a partial review because it is based on … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Berchtesgaden, Berghof, Ernst Rohm, fascism, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Hitler's Circle of Evil, interwar Germany, Joseph Goebbels, lebensraum, Martin Bormann, Mein Kampf, Nazi Party, Nazism, Netflix, Reinhard Heydrich, Rudolph Hess, Second World War, Third Reich, World War II
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The sea of metal
Two of the most decisive moments of the Second World War that I can’t get enough of are the Battle of Stalingrad and the D-Day landings. In the Battle of Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler’s army suffered its first major defeat, signalling to … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 June 1944, Adolf Hitler, Allied invasion of Normandy, Battle of Berlin, Battle of Stalingrad, beachhead, Caen, D-Day landings, English Channel, fascism, Friedrich Paulus, Geoffrey Wawro, military history, Operation Neptune, Peter Lieb, Second World War, World War II
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‘Hunters’, sci-fi and pseudoscience
One of the ways in which pseudoscience is connected to authoritarian governments is through its newfound purpose and duty to supply an alternate intellectual tradition that subsumes science as well as culminates in the identitarian superiority of a race, culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Bharatiya Janata Party, civil aviation, Delhi riots, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, electricity, ethnic cleansing, Hindutva, Hunters, identity politics, John Forster, Nazism, occult, provincialism, pseudoscience, sci-fi, science fiction, technology, The Coming Race, Vril
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Why ‘Mein Kampf’ in 2016 will be more ‘readable’ than ever, not less
The first four fifths of this article are fascinating. It’s titled “The future of Mein Kempf in a meme world”. Though I’ve not consumed historically significant events with consistent interest, World War II has been an exception by far. And belonging to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, attention spans, crowd-sourcing, Gavriel Rosenfeld, knowledge dissemination, Mein Kampf, memetics, Millennials, Nazism, network effects, virality
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