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How the Nazis co-opted Christmas

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imageA postcard.depicts Adolf Hitler posing with a child and a Christmas tree. Author provided

In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd.

According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned “the cowardly Jews for breaking the...

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