The postmodern Hitler revival.

Midstream, April, 2003 by Brackman, Harold

Nazism has disappeared, but [not] the obsession it represents for the contemporary imagination.... Is such attention fixed on the past only a gratuitous reverie, the attraction of spectacle, exorcism, or the result of a need to understand; or is it again and still, an expression of profound fears and, on the part of some, mute yearnings as well?

--Saul Friedlander, Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death (1984)

Outdistancing Lincolniana and rivaling Elvis and the British royals, "Hitler" as a title word in an online search produced 1564 books published during the year 2000 alone, adding to the 120,000 already in publication. (1)

We've been told that, yes, Hitler was "a mama's boy" who loved his dog, Wolf, but, no, he wasn't a...

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