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...worldwide depression, which partly inspired Japan's move into China, left most Americans unable to deal with anything beyond their own breadlines and Hoovervilles and, Brother, can you spare a dime? To the extent that they worried about foreign problems at all, they worried mainly about Adolf Hitler, who had seized Austria and the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, then demanded western Poland...
...Adolf Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt used radio to spread very different messages, proving that powerful new media have the potential for evil or for good. That is a lesson Prodigy Services is learning all over again. The home- computer network, which IBM and Sears jointly operate, offers electronic bulletin boards on which subscribers can exchange typewritten comments. Last week the Anti-Defamation League, a national monitor of hate groups, disclosed that Prodigy boards are being used to promote anti-Semitic propaganda. Messages have appeared contending, among other things, that the murder of millions during the Holocaust is "fantasy and exaggeration...
...worst spasm of nativist violence since the days of Adolf Hitler, bringing the number of attacks to nearly 400 since the beginning of the year. With a record 220,000 asylum seekers expected by year's end, even more clashes seem likely. While the latest wave of xenophobic incidents originated in the formerly communist east, anti-foreigner sentiment is being demonstrated throughout the country...
Capalbo said that the rumor surfaces every four or five years. "I'm sure that Nostradamus had the power to predict Adolf Hitler, but he never had the foresight to see Boston College," Capalbo said...
...June's Russian presidential election despite -- or because of -- his wild ideas (he now speaks of solving food shortages by invading the former East Germany with an army brandishing nuclear weapons). Says economist Timofeyev: "Right now, Zhirinovsky seems like a fool, but we have to remember that nobody took Adolf Hitler seriously until it was too late...