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I Don't Speak German

I Don't Speak German

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Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in *their* safe spaces! In this timely and shocking - but entertaining - anti-fascist podcast, Daniel tells his friend, online writer Jack Graham, all about it.
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We've been away but now we have returned and your ears will be sorry... largely because we're back with a soft-reboot episode in which we go back to our roots, i.e. the proper nazis... specifically, the cesspit that is the TRS podcast.

In this show we take you behind the paywall and present a catalogue of hideousness, focusing on TRS co-host Jesse Dunstan (AKA Sven) and his various thoughts on ethic cleansing ('peaceful', of course), how to react properly to mass shootings by genocidal racists (don't deny, celebrate), the Holocaust (guess what he thinks), and why certain people should be forced to justify their right to exist.

In the process, Dunstan is discovered mirroring the recorded words of one Heinrich Himmler (several times), Daniel speaks earnestly about his recent difficulties, and Jack gets more familiar with the appearance of the n-word as a waveform than he ever wanted or expected to.

It's a long one. Bits of it are very grim. But we think it might be one you'll remember.

Content Warnings. Obviously.

Show Notes:

Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes.

Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper

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IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod

Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper

Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

Episode Notes:

"Did We Win?", an analysis of Unite the Right five years out by friend of the show Emily Gorcenski.

IDSG Episode 9, Mike Enoch and The Daily Shoah

IDSG Episode 52, Genocide and The Right Stuff

Angry White Men, "Pool Party's Closed: A Timeline of the Right Stuff's Meltdown"

Johnny Monoxide at the SPLC

Chip Rowe, The Highlands Current, "The Extremist Next Door"

Himmler Speech in Posen (Poland) in October 4, 1943.

  • I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people.
  • It is one of those things that is easily said. “The Jewish people is being exterminated,” every Party member will tell you “perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter.” And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say: all the others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew. And . . . none of them has seen it, has endured it. Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1000. And . . . to have seen this through and—with the exception of human weakness—to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned. Because we know how difficult things would be, if today in every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and privations, we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and instigators. We would probably be at the same stage as 16/17, if the Jews still resided in the body of the German people.

End note:

  • We have taken away the riches that they had, and . . . I have given strict order, which Obergruppenführer Pohl has carried out, we have delivered these riches to the Reich, to the State. We have taken nothing from them for ourselves. A few, who have offended against this, will be judged in accordance with an order, that I gave at the beginning: he who takes even one Mark of this is a dead man. A number of SS men have offended against this order. They are very few, and they will be dead men WITHOUT MERCY! We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people, to kill this people who would kill us. We however do not have the right to enrich ourselves with even ...
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I Don't Speak German - UNLOCKED!  Bonus Ep16 Maus (from March 2022)
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06/16/23 • 80 min

We're still working on getting back up and running so in the meantime, here's an old bonus episode. This is our March 2022 discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus, to go with our public episode from February 2022 about the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee removing the classic graphic novel about the Holocaust from the curriculum. Sadly, this is relevant again because yet another school board - this time in Nixa, Missouri - has targeted the book. It's not alone either. Nor is Maus the only classic Holocaust text being targeted. Ann Frank's diary is in the crosshairs of Mom's For Liberty.

Maus

Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board

Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka

Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown

Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts

Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true

Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month.

IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod

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Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

Links:

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/103-maus-vs-mcminn-county-school-board

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/tennessee-school-book-ban-robbing-students-history-rcna87531

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185844

https://www.jta.org/2023/06/14/united-states/a-missouri-school-district-could-ban-maus-citing-concerns-about-whether-it-is-explicit-sexual-material

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-746349

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/14/art-spiegelman-maus-book-bans/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/maus-removal-old-debate/

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/04/07/anne-frank-book-pulled-from-florida-library/11622644002/

https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-get-florida-school-to-ban-anne-franks-diary-adaption-2023-4?r=US&IR=T

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In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about the so-called 'godfather of the alt-right' and Richard Spencer's claimed "mentor", Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, one of the most important and idiosyncratic influences on today's resurgent US white supremacism.

Warnings apply.

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Show Notes

Episode 18 additions:

Popular Front: "The American Militia Movement"

"Standoff: Between Two Shotguns" by Ruth Graham at Slate

Knowledge Fight Podcast

Jared Taylor and American Renaissance:

Jared Taylor SPLC

Sam Dickson at Atlanta Antifascists

"The Racists on Ridgeland Way: Ground Zero for Alt-Right Organizing in Atlanta

Sam Francis at the SPLC

"While always a staunch conservative, Francis's views radicalized over time. He began describing himself as a "paleoconservative" focused heavily on racial issues and ended up writing for racist publications like the Council of Conservative Citizens' (CCC) newsletter, Citizens Informer. (The CCC, which had from the late 1980s until the late 1990s dozens of state legislators and other politicians in its ranks, is a white supremacist group that focuses on issues like support for the Confederate battle flag and opposition to non-white immigration, school busing and affirmative action. The group was built using the mailing lists of the White Citizens Councils, organizations formed to fight school desegregation in the South.)

Francis' definitive break with more mainstream conservatism came with his 1995 firing from The Washington Times. The newspaper acted after conservative author Dinesh D'Souza quoted a Francis speech to a 1994 conference put on by the white supremacist and race science journal, American Renaissance. D'Souza wrote that Francis' comments embodied the "new spirit of white bigotry." "

Sam Francis at Amren 1994

American Renaissance SPLC

American Renaissance on Youtube

American Renaissance website

American Renaissance podcast

"A schism over anti-Semitism threatens a key 'white nationalist' group. The outcome could be critical to the radical right." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/schism-over-anti-semitism-divides-key-white-nationalist-group-american-renaissance

"HERNDON, Va. -- For a gathering of people devoted to denouncing the inferiority of blacks and sounding the alarm about civilization-threatening Muslims, the biannual conferences thrown by the New Century Foundation, publisher of the racist newsletter American Renaissance, are decidedly genteel affairs. Men dress in suits and ties, women in formal business attire, and there are no uniformed skinheads or Klansmen to be seen. Large plasma television screens, Starbucks coffee spreads and fancy linens adorn the hotel meeting hall. Epithets have no place here.

Or at least they didn't. At the latest edition of the conferences that began in 1994, held this February at the Hyatt Dulles hotel, a nasty spat broke out that upset the gathering's decorum -- and may even shape the future of the radical right.

It began when David Duke, the former Klan leader and author of Jewish Supremacism, strode to a microphone after French author Guillaume Faye wrapped up a talk vilifying Muslims entitled "The Threat to the West." Duke thanked Faye for remarks that "touched my genes." But then he went one further.

"There is a power in the world that dominates our media, influences our government and that has led to the internal destruction of our will and spirit," Duke said, according to an undisputed account in The Forward newspaper.

"Tell us, tell us," someone in the back yelled.

"I'm not going to say it," Duke replied. Laughter began to fill the room, until a short, angry man leaped from his seat, walked up to Duke and began to curse.

"You fucking Nazi, you've disgraced this meeting!" he said."

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Slightly lighter fare this week (everything being relative) as Daniel tells Jack about how the far-right have seen Donald Trump, from the rise of the romance through to the fall, via the fluctuating feelings of the hosts of the 'Fash the Nation' podcast.

As always, warnings apply.

Us on iTunes

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Show Notes:

Cantwell banned from Gab

Fash the Nation Fash the Nation interviews Tila Tequila Fash the Nation David Duke Fash the Nation Paul Nehlen Jazzhands McFeels on the Radical Agenda in 2015 Enoch, Jazzhands, Allsup, Sven, etc 2018 Midterm coverage Fash the Nation deletes its archives after Enoch/Dunstant doxxing White Hot Takes "Fash the Nation" (To the tune of Human League "Fascination" Svenpai "Right Wing Death Squads" (To the tune of Live "Lightning Crashes." Spencer/Enoch at Syria protest Trump's Far-Right Supporters Turn on Him Over Syria Strike Brad Griffin talks Andrew Yang at the Political Cesspool, 3/23/19

Yang Gang Explained at Rolling Stone

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I Don't Speak German - 86: Internet Drama News Roundup
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05/03/21 • 97 min

In this News Roundup episode, we take a look at the 'debate' between Professor Richard Wolff (public face of Marxism these days, sadly) and 'Destiny' (AKA Steven Bonnell II), a liberal YouTube livestreamer, and Bonnell's total lack of real and honest curiosity about socialism. We then take a look at Nick Fuentes' extremely not mad reaction to YouTuber Thought Slime's video about him, and discover various things about Nick, including why he doesn't believe in dinosaurs. Or, y'know, the Holocaust. We also check in on Bret (Weinstein) and Heather (Heying) (of the Dark Horse podcast) to correct some of their pernicious bullshit and see what they think the cops should be allowed to do to protestors who are DESTROYING CIVILISATION. Daniel draws the various threads together and, in a stunning third act twist, reveals what all these things have in common.

Content Warnings Apply.

Podcast Notes:

Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month.

Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper

Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618

IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod

Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper

Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

Episode Notes:

Destiny, "You Are Just WRONG! -- Richard Wolff Debate Gets Heated" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcA5szcnESY

Matthew Gault, "Twitch Streamer Destiny and an Economist Debate Capitalism, Achieve Nothing." https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8x77/twitch-streamer-destiny-and-an-economist-debate-capitalism-achieve-nothing

"Twitch streamer and philosophical gadfly Steven “Destiny” Bonnell II spent 90 minutes of his day on Wednesday debating the merits of capitalism and socialism with noted economist Richard Wolff. Thirty-five minutes into the “debate” and the pair were arguing over the basic definitions of capitalism and socialism—economic systems whose relative merits and performance they were supposed to compare. It was not how either party had said they wanted the conversation to go.

It was also a clear picture of the state of online-led political conversation—one side stalls the conversation to demand strict definitions and gaming personalities soak up too much time and attention.

[...]

"The pair went back and forth, both often heated. Wolff is old school and a college professor. His style was collegiate, sometimes condescending, and often sounded like a lecture. Destiny is used to debating on the internet where talking fast and fussing about specifics throws off an opponent. It was a weird pairing." Rad Shiba's video on Richard Wollf, 'A Wolff in Marxist Clothing' https://youtu.be/JG7FhC2LeGE

ThoughtSlime, "Nick Fuentes is the hate nerd" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eRoYhTQDuo

Nick Fuentes response on AF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngzBo3NcurE

Nicholas J. Fuentes | Responding to Th*ught Sl*me's Hitpiece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX4QO8nPKFQ

Avi vs Nick Fuentes On the Holocaust and Trans Issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qlCoYLfSc

Dark Horse Podcast Q&A 76th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream, "Should Police Be Allowed to Kill Rioters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7wWmzmBw6I&t=3414s Starts at 56:54

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I Don't Speak German - UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep33 'Air Force One' (1997)
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10/18/24 • 77 min

Back in the mists of yore, when America's eternal 2024 presidential election began, we started a series of bonus episodes on movies about the US President (with the word 'about' being employed very loosely).

In this first episode of that series, we look at 1997's Air Force One, in which President Harrison Ford wages a one-man, definitely not Die Hard-esque in any way campaign of extreme non-negotiation with terrorists (who seem to somehow be both Russian ultra-nationalists and Kazakh communists simultaneously) who have hijacked the presidential plane in order to oh god just shoot me already.

Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. They got this one months ago.

Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts

Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true

IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod

Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper

Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_

Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social

Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

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I Don't Speak German - PREVIEW: Bonus Ep37 'Dick' (1999)
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10/18/24 • 7 min

Another in our series of election year chats about movies about presidents. By patron request, Daniel and Jack watch and discuss 1999's neo-screwball teensploitation 70s-nostalgiafest Dick, in which two teenage girls - Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams - accidentally find themselves befriending Richard Nixon (Dan Hedaya) and becoming entangled in Watergate. It's terribly fun.

Full episode exclusive for Patreon subscribers.

Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month.

Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts

Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true

IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod

Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper

Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_

Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social

Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

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To round off our first year, Daniel is joined by special guest Jason Wilson to talk about the fascinating figure Representative Matt Shea. Hopefully this edition will please those listeners who've been asking for longer episodes!

Content Warning.

Notes and links (thanks to Jason for this compilation):

Kenneth S Stern (1997) A force upon the plain : the American militia movement and the politics of hate. https://www.worldcat.org/title/force-upon-the-plain-the-american-militia-movement-and-the-politics-of-hate/oclc/1002393469&referer=brief_results

Kathleen Belew (2019) Bring the war home the white power movement and paramilitary America https://www.worldcat.org/title/bring-the-war-home-the-white-power-movement-and-paramilitary-america/oclc/1129866369&referer=brief_results (great overview and analysis of lots of things we discussed)

Linda Gordon (2018) The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition https://www.worldcat.org/title/second-coming-of-the-kkk-the-ku-klux-klan-of-the-1920s-and-the-american-political-tradition/oclc/1076323469&referer=brief_results (really good material on the 1920s Klan in Oregon)

Jane Kramer (2003) Lone patriot : the short career of an American militiaman. https://www.worldcat.org/title/lone-patriot-the-short-career-of-an-american-militiaman/oclc/52724431?referer=br&ht=edition

David A Neiwert (1999) In God's country : the patriot movement and the Pacific Northwest https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-gods-country-the-patriot-movement-and-the-pacific-northwest/oclc/493949695&referer=brief_results (Exhaustively detailed contemporaneous work on the militia movement in PNW)

David Neiwert (2009) The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right https://www.worldcat.org/title/the-eliminationists-how-hate-talk-radicalized-the-american-right/oclc/7390575626&referer=brief_results (This speaks to the right generally but is important for our context)

David Neiwert (2018) Alt-America : the rise of the radical right in the age of Trump https://www.worldcat.org/title/alt-america-the-rise-of-the-radical-right-in-the-age-of-trump/oclc/1017576651?referer=br&ht=edition (Best view of the current moment from long time PNW reporter)

David Helvarg (2004) The war against the greens : the "Wise-Use" movement, the New Right, and the browning of America https://www.worldcat.org/title/war-against-the-greens-the-wise-use-movement-the-new-right-and-the-browning-of-america/oclc/53993117&referer=brief_results (Specific account of the development of anti-environmental politics in the west)

Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (2011) Drawing the global colour line : white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality https://www.worldcat.org/title/drawing-the-global-colour-line-white-mens-countries-and-the-international-challenge-of-racial-equality/oclc/1052849084&referer=brief_results (Just brilliant in historicizing the development of white supremacy - in thought and policy - across settler colonial societies around the turn of the twentieth century. Pankaj Mishra draws on it here https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/opinion/race-politics-whiteness.html)

Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons (2000) Right-wing populism in America : too close for comfort

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I Don't Speak German - News Brief: Blood Tribe March in Nashville
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02/19/24 • 37 min

A trial balloon for a new format. Relatively brief, topical, news update episodes. We might do more of this going forward.

This one is a response to the recent march of masked neo-nazis waving swastika flags through Nashville, Tennessee. We talk about the group involved, Blood Tribe, and their leader, attitudes, and associates.

Content Warnings

Show Notes:

Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes.

Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts

Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true

IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod

Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper

Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_

Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social

Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

Episode Notes:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazis-march-through-downtown-nashville-in-the-middle-of-black-history-month

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-town-drives-out-blood-tribe-nazi-encampment

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a34db/upcoming-neo-nazi-rally-shows-how-disparate-extreme-right-groups-work-together

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VN8Q3U1GYmo

https://twitter.com/brotherjones_/status/1758936273153085941?t=Xl940T4MymEJFNwbv8-xtw&s=19

https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1759162412044005506?t=RPJIC-pesOCNm1TyQd1wJw&s=19

https://twitter.com/NuanceBro/status/1758974163987943656?t=3GCLkboEX44mQWlsVKC2Kg&s=19

https://www.splcenter.org/states/tennessee

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/04/17/tennessee-three-attempt-silence-lawmakers-strikes-heart-democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moxzSxwwmio

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I Don't Speak German - PREVIEW: Backer Bonus E5 Downfall
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05/24/21 • 3 min

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode about 2004's Downfall about Hitler's last days (it's the source of the YouTube 'Hitler gets angry' meme).

Plus access to all other bonus episodes.

Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts

Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true

Content Warnings.

Podcast Notes:

Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month.

IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod

Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper

Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

Show Notes:

Downfall at Wikipedia

Traudl Junge at Wikipedia

Hitler Downfall Parody Memes

Ian Kershaw on Downfall

  • Does it help us to understand Hitler any better? My own feeling is that, brilliant though the portrayal is, it does not. It is hard to see how it could - or, indeed, what great enlightenment it would bring if we did know him better (whatever that means). Would we then have a clearer grasp of his hold over the German people, or why so many intelligent individuals in positions of authority were prepared to put his wishes into practice? At any rate, no amount of intuitive acting is likely to make him any more intelligible to audiences which cannot possibly enter his warped mentality. His life has been scrutinised as scarcely no one else’s, but an inner core is still unfathomable. Hitler will always remain in some senses an enigma.

Christian Berkel at Wikipedia

Alfred Zech at Wikipedia

AP History 2019 Exam Questions

  • Not even a mention of WWII.

The Massaging of History by David Cesarani and Peter Longerich https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/07/germany.secondworldwar

"The film Downfall relies on memoirs written by Hitler's allies to distance themselves from Nazism"

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