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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong • Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthrough
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong • Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthrough

theguardian.com
u/Naurgul — 11 days ago
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Recent favorite in-depth stories. (With gift links)

Hi all. Here is a few interesting stories I read recently. Gift links where I could!

  • The Atlantic (Gift Link): In this 2014 piece, Caitlin Flanagan shows how national fraternities pushed liability onto their own members, and how Wesleyan ended up blaming a freshman for her own assault.
  • NYT (Gift Link): A.G. Sulzberger makes the case for how his family kept The New York Times alive through its worst decade.
  • The Guardian: Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara trace how a trafficker used Instagram to sell a 12-year-old DC girl.
  • The Sun Magazine: Derek Askey sat on a murder jury weeks after his father died and couldn't tell his wife a word of it.
  • Texas Monthly: Michael Hall follows Forrest Welborn, who lived as a suspect in the Austin yogurt shop murders for 34 years and says a payout of nearly $5 million hasn't set him free.
  • NYT (Gift Link): Amanda Hess meets Bernadine Bluntly, a tradwife influencer who left her husband and now warns women away from the movement she sold.
u/PathToAutonomy — 13 days ago