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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
For about a dozen years, the pages of the Münchener Post newspaper were splashed with headlines warning that Adolf Hitler was an existential threat to Germany’s first democracy, the Weimar Republic, and calling on the citizenry to stand up against his ambitions for absolute power.
The Post acquired leaked documents from the Nazis’ Munich headquarters, dirt on Adolf Hitler from disgruntled followers, and whatever else they could get their hands on in their dauntless pursuit of der Führer, which lasted from the early 1920s until the Nazi leader brutally shut down the paper after he came to power in 1933.
This epic clash between a despotic madman and a feisty little newspaper run by socialists began playing itself out a century ago. But Hitler’s battles with the Münchener Post are relevant to our own perilous times. The newspaper’s fearlessness is a symbol of how a free press can challenge authoritarianism.
At rallies before his adoring followers, Donald Trump often points at non-MAGA journalists at the event and taunts them with his favorite epithet: “the fake news.”
Like Trump, Hitler had his own pet insults for journalists who exposed his lies. The “lying press” was one of them, which, incidentally, Trump has also used against journalists.
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The Post acquired leaked documents from the Nazis’ Munich headquarters, dirt on Adolf Hitler from disgruntled followers, and whatever else they could get their hands on in their dauntless pursuit of der Führer, which lasted from the early 1920s until the Nazi leader brutally shut down the paper after he came to power in 1933.
This epic clash between a despotic madman and a feisty little newspaper run by socialists began playing itself out a century ago. But Hitler’s battles with the Münchener Post are relevant to our own perilous times. The newspaper’s fearlessness is a symbol of how a free press can challenge authoritarianism.
At rallies before his adoring followers, Donald Trump often points at non-MAGA journalists at the event and taunts them with his favorite epithet: “the fake news.”
Like Trump, Hitler had his own pet insults for journalists who exposed his lies. The “lying press” was one of them, which, incidentally, Trump has also used against journalists.
A century ago, Hitler declared war on the 'lying press' and targeted a feisty little newspaper — sound familiar?
In the 1920s and ’30s, Germans failed to heed the warnings of a feisty little newspaper called the Münchener Post.
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