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Trump-Hitler comparisons too easy and ignore the murderous history

  • Written by Sylvia Taschka, Senior Lecturer of History, Wayne State University
A sign comparing Trump to Hitler at the Women's March in Seattle, in January 2018. Shutterstock

“Everyone seems to have become Hitler.”

Historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld wrote these words in his study of how the Nazi past has become a recurring theme in contemporary culture – to the point of almost becoming trivial. What is...

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