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New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Would they have been able to find that he wrote a racist manifesto in prison? It seems like there was evidence at the time that the headline is wrong.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NYT: "Hitler won't invade the Soviet Union, even though he wrote that he considered Slavs to be untermensch and targeted them specifically as a bunch of Jew-loving communists. It would be an incredibly daft thing to do that would destroy his empire."

Hitler: Invades Soviet Union

NYT: Shocked pikachu face