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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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‘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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Review: ‘Hunters’ (2020)
Just binge-watched the first season of Hunters, the bizarre Amazon Prime original about a covert group of Jews in 1970s’ New York city tracking down and killing Nazis who were integrated by the US government into American society under Operation … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Pacino, Amazon Prime, conspiracy theories, Hunters, moral dilemma, Nazism, Operation Paperclip
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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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