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Among intellectuals, there is an ongoing debate over whether individuals shape history. Those who argue affirmatively are often in the minority. Not so when it comes to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany...
...that case, most scholars agree with historian Friedrich Glum, who wrote in 1962 that "without Hitler the development of Germany would have taken a different course." Hence, the question history buffs frequently pose to one another: "Knowing what you know, would you have killed Hitler if you had a chance to do so before he came to power...
Almost invariably, the answer is yes. When it comes to Hitler, most people don't worry about the ethics of political assassinations. They think pragmatically: eliminating the Fuhrer would have saved millions of lives. It would obviously have been the right things...
...staff by sliding his 6-ft. 3-in. frame down the middle of a conference-room table to get a closer look at a layout. Consider Zhirinovsky Beat, a semiregular Chronicles department that follows the undignified doings of the Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Like Charlie Chaplin's lampoon of Hitler in The Great Dictator, it deflates a truculent buffoon without losing sight of the fact that some windbags blow up with a bang. "Bruce is a first-rate journalist whose work has a witty bite to it," says assistant managing editor Jim Kelly. "He lets the irony and absurdity grow...
...harm this brother, it'll be the last one you ever harm." Heard out of context, the speech seemed to be an unprovoked threat. Once he was interpreted as anti- Semitic, Farrakhan reacted with invective that removed any doubt, labeling Judaism "a gutter religion," Israel "an outlaw state" and Hitler "a very great man" ("wickedly great," he later explained...