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Everyone Seems To Have Become Hitler Analysis

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“Everyone seems to have become Hitler”. Gabriel D. Rosenfeld recently wrote these words in his recent study of how the Nazi past has become a recurring theme in contemporary culture – to the point of almost becoming trivial. Since Donald Trump’s election win in 2016, the use of “Hitler” or “Nazi” to describe Trump, has quite frankly trivialised the Nazi regime and the horrors they committed. These claims do more to confuse than clarify the issues at stake and threaten the legitimacy of the atrocities committed during WW2 by the regime itself.

Since 2016, the Trump presidency has been played the Hitler card even more than any of his predecessors. These comparisons have not just increased in frequency, but their intensity and falsely equivalent …show more content…

Immigration, rampant xenophobia, social and economic reconstruction, and a loss of faith in the government’s ability to solve pressing problems or prevent new ones.
Whenever this political or moral comparison is used, we set the bar for inhumanity as high as possible. Why should the horrors and atrocities of World War 2 and the Holocaust be the primary measure for all things political?
During an emotional speech at the Anti-Defamation League New York headquarters last year, National Director Emeritus Abraham Foxman condemned comparisons between U.S President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler as partisan and belittling of the Holocaust. “I don’t care how you feel politically: to compare a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America, because you don’t like him, to Hitler is Holocaust trivialization,” he stated at the 25th anniversary lunch honouring the Hidden Child Foundation – an organization devoted to recognizing and validating survivors who were either in hiding physically or under an assumed, non-Jewish name during the

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