This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison
Submitted 3 months ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to history@lemmy.world
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
massacre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I had to downvote this to keep it at 42. I’m sorry - I couldn’t let the 43 stand.
adevcorn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
same
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Average NYT article
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It’s nice to see some things haven’t changed.
jdr@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Did any of you even check to see if it’s real?
snopes.com/…/nyt-1924-hitler-tamed-by-prison/
(it is, but you didn’t know that!)
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
NYT has a long history of being wrong about what to do about fascists
suction@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Robert has good intentions but damn is he cringe
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, because I am the original reporter, so I was there. Guess you feel pretty silly.
Also, turns out I underestimated Hitler. My bad on that one.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I didn’t check, but the time, dates, people and places were historically accurate. You’re right that I didn’t check if this newspaper clipping was real.
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, because I can’t be bothered to fact check everything I see. It’s why I appreciate it when people do it for me in comments. Thanks!
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
It’s visually convincing (looks like a proper old-timey newspaper article, even has a misspelling/adapted name that nobody would use today), and OP even included the context with the source and date above the pic. I’ve seen the pic before, and if it were fake, nobody would manage/bother to add the original date it was published in.
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Writing “neutral” op-ed and slice of life stories about Nazis is one of the Times’s favorite things to do.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It takes a lot of mindlessness from the mindless masses to go from
reactionary extremist
to
Chancellor of the Third Reich
and the utter destruction of many countries. Which is where these right-wing tendencies stampede straight towards.
We can’t even begin to fathom what Europe would look like today if republicans instead of Democrats were at the helm in Washington, as the Marshall Plan surely would NOT have happened.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not sure whether you mean “mindless obliviousness” or “mindless rage” here, because I think reality was much closer to the latter. The Nazi party went from nothing to hundreds of thousands of members and 44% of the vote in parliamentary elections in less than a decade. They were extremely popular and their brand of ethno-nationalism resonated with a German public that was disillusioned by the humiliation they all felt (due to the treaty of Versailles) and the economic disaster of hyperinflation (deliberately created to pay down the old war debts as well as Versailles-imposed reparations).
Today most people think of Hitler as a devil single-handedly responsible for the Holocaust and all the invasions of neighbouring countries but that’s an oversimplification. There were tons of other nasty, ideological men in the Nazi party who would’ve done the same or worse had Hitler never existed. The conditions for a wildfire existed, Hitler just happened to be the spark which became ground zero of the blaze.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 months ago
This is really well said. Thank you
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We can’t even begin to fathom what Europe would look like today if republicans instead of Democrats were at the helm in Washington, as the Marshall Plan surely would NOT have happened.
Germany would be weaker and poorer than now. And more national-socialist, of course.
Basically Central and even in some parts Western Europe would be more similar to Eastern Europe today than we can imagine.
At the same time - if USA wouldn’t create this tendency of swaying societies full of unreformed evil to their side by forgiving everything and everyone and giving money, maybe the world wouldn’t be that bad.
Anyway, Marshall plan not happening would mean Soviet ideology being more competitive, European militaries of the Cold War being less formidable. It would change the balance. It’s possible that USSR would be able press through a somewhat more leftist Austria and a unified Germany somewhat dependent on it. It’s also a question what role would Turkey play, same with Israel. Without restoration of Europe would they be more attractive as western assets or less, and thus what relationship would the rest of the Middle-East have with the former allies.
kn33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We need a fediverse equivalent of /r100yearago for this stuff
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
!100yearsago@sh.itjust.works & !100yearsago@lemmy.world
But both of them are dead now. They still have a lot of subscribers, so maybe someone could start posting to them again.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I wrote the bot for one of them, I can restart it.
pelley@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did Susan Collins write that article?
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Susan Collins: “Hitler’s life was truly a rags-to-riches story. It just goes to show that you can do anything when you work hard enough.”
vaquedoso@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well obviously his time in prison was the result of a political witchhunt orquestrated by the radical left /s
ladicius@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And his time in the Berlin bunker was the result of a witch-hunt organised by about half of the world.
lugal@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As a prison abolismist, I am very sceptical about things like this. Sure, for this Hilter guy it worked and I’m glad it did, still on a whole, more people get radicalized than de-radicalized in prison.
Most prisoners are there for property crimes and the “bad guys” who really hurt people, aren’t helped or bettered either. We aren’t free until all of us are free. Don’t let positive examples like this one cloud your judgment on an overall bad institution like the prison complex. Transformative justice is a much better solution, also for people like this.
noxy@yiffit.net 3 months ago
pretty sure it didn’t work for this guy
bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I look forward to following this story as it develops.
lugal@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We will see
SteefLem@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“….tamed by prison” yeah hehehe
Draegur@lemm.ee 3 months ago
hitlers cannot be tamed.
they are ironically the only subject for whom the Final Solution is the only solution.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The solution we’re using for the Unibomber seems to be working pretty well.
Draegur@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah: we fucking killed him. He died last year. Shame we took so long. But in the end, right wing terrorists can only be dealt with ONE WAY: Detained and exterminated.
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Lock him up!
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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 months ago
NYT: “Hitler won’t invade the Soviet Union, even though he wrote that he considered Slavs to be untermeschen 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
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Propaganda even in a democratic and liberal country exist then and still to this day. I just remembered that the character of Charles Foster Kane from “Citizen Kane” film, is himself a commentary on the power and influence that the media has on the minds of the people.
“People will think what I tell them to think!”
The quote is relevant then and just as relevant now.
That being said, I definitely notice from the conditioning on the public particularly when it comes to immigration and class issues. In my country, the far-right reared its ugly head. A lot of it has been fueled by resentment with competition with migrants from the lack of housing, as the result of decade long apprehension to building social housing and ideological austerity. However, the mainstream media shies away from outright mentioning the root cause. Social media and news outlets still relegate those who became attracted to the far-right as “fringe”, “loud minority”, “uneducated”, “scumbags” or “riff raffs”. Those terms have underlying classism and is thinly-veiled insult to the working class. But even if some folks try to acknowledge the real root cause, even they still stop short of clearly saying that housing shortage is the major problem but rather use the manicured phrase “those with genuine concerns”. And politicians in my country tend to say that phrase rather than admitting “housing crisis is the root cause”, because many politicians are landlords themselves.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
jk rowling tamed by twitter
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What’s with that copyright? Was it everywhere at that time?
As seen in Snope’s screenshot, other short stories follow the same formula: header, © by times, (author) for times, and then text. I suppose it’s been done so you can’t cut off these without leaving a text without a header. But how it helps anything? Or that’s how everyone (used to) did it?
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It seems like “the new York times company” and “the new York times” are different entities, the “company” one seems to fill a role similar to Bloomberg or Reuters. Which makes it less strange for the Times contacting the Times by wireless.
Before 1989 copyright notices had to be in all works in the usa : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice And since different articles can have different sources, they probably gave each article a separate copyright notice.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe it could be printed in another newspaper/in a different region? Can’t tell if “reported over wireless” (radio/telegraph) means the reporter was sending the report from Berlin or if this report was being sent from NYC to wherever this paper was, if it was indeed not the NYT.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Or if ‘Wireless’ is the source of the news, whatever it is in 1924.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 3 months ago
@freezing cold takes
takeheart@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s well known that the judiciary at the time was very lenient towards right wing extremists. His time in jail was rather cozy and gave him time to develop and write down more of his ideological underpinnings. And come up with a more comprehensive plan for taking over.
That’s why I find it very worrisome when people like Donald Trump get what amounts to a slap on the wrist for staging an insurrection. Not just that but they actually put him on the ballot again 😱. And this time the people propping him up in the background came up with an elaborate plan for claiming the election and then completely restructuring the executive authoritarian style (aka Project 2025).
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
America made it clear it wants to be taken over by Nazis when it didn’t have Trump’s head on a pike outside the white house on January 7th.
Alteon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, let’s create a martyr of Trump. Fantastic idea. No way that would have backfired. Nosiree.
Democrats tried to do things by the book. Legally. You know, the way things should be done. Not by escalating tensions with more violence.
Democrats are absolutely infuriated by all of this. The shear frustration that more is not able to be done. Hell, look at Jack Smith and everything he’s been fighting for and trying to get pushed through. There have never been lawsuits like this brought against a former President - shit has to be airtight. You can’t just walk into court and say, “Trump sucks, he’s a menace, lock him up,” and expect Trump to get hauled off to jail.
Your not being remotely realistic about how things SHOULD happen. Sure, the reactionary in me would have loved to know that the traitor got drawn and quartered, but the realist in me knows that it wouldn’t have done anything but beget more violence and extremism from the right. Trump cronies structured the Judicial System in his favor, and yes. He’s a fucking menace, but it’s not likely we’ve lost here, Kamala will win and he’ll get fucked. Let’s do this legally, and not take the “Nuclear, who cares about the fallout” option.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Agreed, and it’s telling that the same Democrats who did absolutely nothing to stop these fascists, resulting in a probable second (or even permanent) Trump presidency, are supposed to be moral imperative we all have to vote for lest fascists take over. I’m not sure why any reasonable person trusts anything these Democrats say.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
imprisoning him would’ve been fine too
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Yes. About 7 months after this article, he published “Mein Kampf” which he finished writing during his prison sentence.