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Prof. of History, Hunter Col./Grad. Center, CUNY. Author, "Nazi Menace," "Death of Democracy." Fan of cats, red wine, Miles Davis. Tweets do not rep employer.

New York, NY

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 months

@ruthbenghiat and I did this piece together for the LA Times on Trump saying we won't have to vote anymore after this election, because he'll "fix" it. Listen carefully when authoritarians tell you who they are.

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Opinion: Would Trump stop free and fair elections? Hitler and Mussolini's paths could be a clue

Trump told evangelical Christians they won't have to vote anymore. Autocrats have long seen elections as an unacceptable way for one’s political fate to be decided.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

This is an absolute emergency. Call your congresspeople and representatives and urge them to pass legislation along these lines. Congress Needs to Defend Vote Counting, Not Just Vote Casting

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Opinion | Congress Needs to Defend Vote Counting, Not Just Vote Casting (Published 2021)

A voting rights law before Congress does not fully address the imminent threats to representative democracy in the United States.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill favoring child labor; Tim Walz signs a bill giving kids school breakfast and lunch. Fair to say the kids do not look equally excited. Now vote for whichever one you prefer.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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I just saw that Benjamin Ferencz died yesterday, aged 103. A towering figure -- Nuremberg prosecutor and tireless advocate for "law not war" as he put it. Here he is opening the "Einsatzgruppen" trial (scroll down a bit).

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Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, Case #9, The Einsatzgruppen Case

The Einsatzgruppen Case was Case #9 of 12 Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings against leading German industrialists, military figures, SS perpetrators, and others.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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I wrote an op-ed for the LA Times today on the way dictators always operate on the basis of delusions.

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Op-Ed: What the bunker mentality really means

Refusal to accept unpleasant reality is the hallmark of dictators, especially if disaster or defeat is looming.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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I got this response to my tweet about Gov. Walz/school lunch bill. MAGA can't help but be vicious. It's what they love in their orange boss and his little bearded apprentice. It's what they do themselves. The incredible response to Harris/Walz shows Americans are sick of it.

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@BenjaminHett so does #TamponTim cut the boys dicks off before or after breakfast?

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My response to @JDVance1 in the LA Times. #fascism Op-Ed: When politicians claim professors like me are the enemy, what are they really attacking?

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Op-Ed: When politicians claim professors like me are the enemy, what are they really attacking?

J.D. Vance says professors are the enemy, a charge made by authoritarians who are notoriously anti-intellectual.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Just so we're all clear on this, most German Jews in the '30s and '40s considered themselves German. Hitler didn't. If you say they weren't German, you're operating with Nazi concepts, and misrepresenting and disrespecting how people thought of themselves.

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For Americans who may not know these folks: This is German Pres. Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaking about the terrible floods. The guy on the left behind is Gov. of the state afflicted (NRW) and CDU CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE Armin Laschet, who finds this all very funny. #Laschetlacht

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Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M

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Federal president Frank-Walter Steinmeier makes his statement regarding terrible flood in Germany, with almost 100 persons killed and 1,500 missing. The federal chancellor candidate @ArminLaschet from Christian Democratic Union @CDU (in the back) finds this very, very funny.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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We have a world with Trumps and Carlsons and then we have Navalnys. A dictator can murder Navalny but can't extinguish his courage or his message. It remains for us to hear the message and OPPOSE dictators and the traitors here who support them. #Nawalny #GOPTraitorsToDemocracy

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A wonderful student from my just-finished European history survey wrote to tell me that she had been to a protest because she felt "Your class inspired me to make use of my power as a citizen." And she sent me a picture of her sign. As my wife said, "your work is done."

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Berlin's Siegesallee (Victory Avenue, 1901) featured statues of historical figures as approved by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Even at the time, Germans thought it was ridiculous. Famous for their sarcasm, Berliners called it "Avenue of the Dolls" (Pupenallee)

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@bmarsalis There could be a book on flight attendants' comments to jazz musicians, including this one and the one who asked Paul Desmond "how many of you are there in the quartet?"

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Pre-1933 Nazis ran repeatedly for office, litigated everything, and repeatedly strove for press coverage (Goebbels wrote over and over in his diary "The main thing is, they [the press] are talking about us"). Once in power the Nazi SD did extensive opinion research.

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Tom Nichols

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Also, fascists don't "run" for office. They don't do polling. They don't try to win court cases. They don't try for "earned media." They use discipline, ideology, and violence to build a mass movement that terrorizes those weak institutions into paralysis and collapse. /15

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@ruthbenghiat and I in today's LA TImes -- I think this doesn't have a paywall: Opinion: Would Trump stop free and fair elections? Hitler and Mussolini's paths could be a clue

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Opinion: Would Trump stop free and fair elections? Hitler and Mussolini's paths could be a clue

Trump told evangelical Christians they won't have to vote anymore. Autocrats have long seen elections as an unacceptable way for one’s political fate to be decided.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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With friends in Jersey City last night, we had this view of the Manhattan skyline, the full moon, and the 9/11 Memorial.

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On this day 4 years ago my dad died. This is one of my favorite pictures of him, on vacation in Paris in 1977. And yes, always dressed like that, vacation or otherwise. He went to Oilers hockey games dressed like that. He was a man of unshakable decency and integrity.

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I am also excited about doing this @democracyFIRST event with @ruthbenghiat and John Nichols on Thursday, September 12, in Fox Point (Milwaukee):

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United to Preserve: A conversation with Benjamin Hett & Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Having my birthday martini

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Because I can’t get to libraries, ordered an obscure (German) book that had to come from France. This is what I got.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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This left idiocy of not rallying all democrats together to fight the far right has a distinguished pedigree. The Communists of Weimar are smiling down upon you. It worked out so well for them, you see.

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David Klion

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If you live in New York and are registered as a Democrat, you can and should submit a primary ballot today just like this. The machine will ask if you meant to leave it blank, and yes, you did.

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My LA Times piece on America's Beer Hall Putsch

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Op-Ed: The Trump insurrection was America's Beer Hall Putsch

The mobs attacking the Capitol were terrifying, but they aren't the greatest danger to American democracy.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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90 years ago today in a Berlin courtroom, a 27-year-old lawyer named Hans Litten cross-examined Hitler into the ground and exposed his lies and violence. Spoiler alert -- not many people paid attention.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Hey, this is exciting. Next week, ARD TV in Germany is running a mini-Series called "Bonn," about the rivalry between '50s intelligence chiefs Otto John and Reinhard Gehlen. This is a great cold war spy story . . .

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Prophetic Doonesbury cartoon from this day in 1987.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Now, when I order from Grubhub, how terrified will I be when there is the knock at the door and it's the Gazpacho?

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Reading an excellent dissertation about neo-Nazi violence in post-unification Germany by a young scholar named Esther Adair and came across this quote from Richard von Weizsäcker, 1992:

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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More adventures in grading: a student plagiarized a few lines from -- wait for it -- one of my books.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Three years ago today my father died. He set an example of honor and dignity that I only rarely match. Dad I wish we could talk again. Here we are circa 1969.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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@REFrankel @LisPower1 The fascist coup d’état for which she was a spokesperson and apologist was of course not dangerous territory at all.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Nazi persecution of gay women and trans people is finally getting attention on Holocaust Memorial Day. Great story by @JasminLoerchner citing research by people like @ankahajkova @L_Marhoefer and @manwithoutatan

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(S+) Nationalsozialismus: Wie die Nazis queere Menschen verfolgten

Die Würzburgerin Ilse Totzke wurde für ihre Sexualität denunziert. Das NS-Regime terrorisierte und ermordete queere Menschen. Am Internationalen Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Holocaust erinnert...

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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I’ve been here the last couple of days—the National Archives in College Park. My first archive trip since 2018!!! Grateful to the superb, friendly, helpful NARA staff. ⁦ @USNatArchives ⁩

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One of the joys of writing an op-ed is the thoughtful responses you get from readers like this:

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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I'm really fucking tired of people on the left whining "it's Biden's job to court us." Our political system is easy: it's Biden or Trump. That's your choice. If you vote for anyone who isn't Biden, you're voting for Trump. Enjoy.

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I'll say it once. Vote for who you like, or don't vote. But Trump in the White House during a Mideast war may mean World War III, and species extinction. Which is worse than genocide. The inability of some on the Left to grasp this is a self-regarding failure of the imagination.

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Spouse and I celebrated with jumbo margaritas. Spouse pointed out that we just had the 34th anniversary of our first date, so we think we contributed to the 34 convictions.

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I was glad to be involved in this series, and I am excited to see the whole thing, coming soon on Netflix:

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Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial | Official Trailer | Netflix

The Third Reich was one of the bloodiest regimes in history, but are the atrocities committed during World War II being lost to modern memory? Through the fr...

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A faculty member @HumboldtUni who for about a quarter century has been sexually harassing female students in the most disgusting way. Humboldt reprimanded him in 2007. . .

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So this came in the mail yesterday. I’m pretty sure this is my book in Japanese.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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It's a measure of how truly stupid #MoscowMarge is that she thought she could debate @TimothyDSnyder

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Prof. @TimothyDSnyder shuts down Marjorie Taylor Greene after raising the slur of "nazis in Ukraine" (spoiler: it's russians, it's always russians)

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I am sorry, I just don’t find the idea of the Icarus Travel Agency to be encouraging.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Today is the 75th anniversary of the "Valkyrie" attempt to kill Hitler. These are the powerful words of Henning von Tresckow, one of the leaders of Valkyrie, shortly before he killed himself so that he would not be tortured into betraying anyone.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Today's the official launch. Current events got you down? Cheer up by reading of a time when democracy was in worldwide crisis, adults in the room tried to restrain a crazy leader, democratic leaders colluded with dictators, and desperate refugees were stopped by nativism . . .

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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Of course, in 1933 Hitler and the Nazis campaigned on the idea that this would be the last election and Germans would never have to vote again. But go ahead, Trump supporters, keep telling me how there are no parallels.

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Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again.

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Happening right now just outside my college on the upper East side of Manhattan. The Russian consulate is nearby.

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When I was a kid, my dad used to complain “I’m spending all this money just to heat the cat.“ The tradition continues.

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Just out: me in the New York Times on Halik Kochanski's "Resistance"

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Risking Their Lives to Defy Hitler (Published 2022)

Halik Kochanski’s “Resistance” traces the underground opposition to the Nazis across the continent of Europe.

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@KevinMKruse @ManuBhagavan Along with being stupid, it is brutally insensitive to the people who will pay the full costs of a Trump victory -- more children in cages, more families separated, more people dying of covid, more global warming . . .

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Me in the LA Times today, on the Trump threat to democracy in 2024:

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2024 could be the year America fends off dictatorship, or invites it in

History shows that fascists get more extreme with time. Anywhere they have come to power, they have done so through an electoral system, with support from a significant segment of voters, in alliance...

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It's my dad's birthday today. He would have been 94. Always a gentleman in all respects.

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I’m pretty sure I am not the only historian of Germany blinking in astonishment at the new, huge, bright, airy Federal Archives. Many colleagues will remember the rat in a tunnel quality of the old building…

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Am re-reading a classic, George Mosse's "Toward the Final Solution," and found this, establishing yet again how timeless most forms of stupidity really are.

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The research assistant gettin’ it done. Or not.

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Filming for a documentary yesterday and today. This is me in my makeup, various skin blotches magically gone.

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My wife’s cousin saw this at a Ukrainian restaurant in Canada.

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My wife knows that her husband can be induced to do almost any boring task if incentivized by a visit to a wine bar afterwards.

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My campus bookstore just notified me that a book I ordered for one of my courses is on back order and will be late. The book is "The Train Was On Time." #irony

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Grateful for this New York Times review from Fredrik Logevall -- already . . . How Hitler Took the World Into War

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How Hitler Took the World Into War (Published 2020)

Benjamin Carter Hett’s “The Nazi Menace” examines the path to World War II and German responsibility.

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Just got my author copies of "The Nazi Menace"! It will be out officially August 4.

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I was very glad to appear on this podcast with @RachelBitecofer talking about the rise of the Nazis and parallels to today.

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🚨🚨 New Episode Alert! Shadowboxing the Apocalypse: Episode 1 The Nazis: Masters of Victimhood Fiction

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@WalshFreedom @DineshDSouza It's one thing (good) to engage with different viewpoints, but at some point you have to recognize when someone is just putting out consciously dishonest disinformation, and then there is no point debating them. That's where he is.

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I went to see this old friend too

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I've picked up a few new followers lately, so hi and welcome everyone. I tweet (in no particular order) about my cat Ilse, German and European history, and my rage over US politics. Occasional forays into other passions like red wine and the music of Miles Davis. But here's Ilse.

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Put another way: grow the fuck up. This country is never going to be all that people on the far left want it to be. Let's just try to keep it from being an unmitigated fascist dystopia, shall we?

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

5 months

I'm really fucking tired of people on the left whining "it's Biden's job to court us." Our political system is easy: it's Biden or Trump. That's your choice. If you vote for anyone who isn't Biden, you're voting for Trump. Enjoy.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

Out today! German edition of "Nazi Menace," auf Deutsch "Eskalationen," from Reclam, excellent translation by my friend Karin Hielscher.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

7 months

I am very happy to see this out in @CentralEuropean , and am grateful to colleagues @JenniferVEvans @RichterHedwig @ankahajkova and @nate_stoltzfus for their candid and stimulating contributions, from which I learned a lot, and for the editing and support of Monica Black.

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7 months

A group of great colleagues ( @JenniferVEvans , @ankahajkova , @RichterHedwig , @BenjaminHett and @nate_stoltzfus ) has produced a thought-provoking forum with @CentralEuropean that I recommend to everyone interested in the relationship between power and historiography. 1/2

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

7 months

Had the honor of being one of the speakers at the conference "The Weimar Republic and Adolf Hitler," put on by @StadtLandsberg and @Leibniz_IfZ . Amazing turnout, beautiful hall and town, got to meet great colleagues @Thomas__Weber @JohannesHuerter Thomas Raithel and many others.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

Congressman, I know you don't know any German, or anything else either, but this an insurance card, same as I am sure you have been carrying for many many years without complaining about it.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

6 months

Just learned of the following at jury selection for Trump. Judge asks potential juror: "It says here you tweeted, and I quote, 'fuck that treasonous orange shitgibbon and the dead ferret on his head.' Is that accurate?" "The tweet speaks for itself, your honor." #TrumpTrials

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

A great story about Russian brutality being defeated by Ukrainian resolve and improvisatory skill. How Ukraine tamed Russian missile barrages and kept the lights on

How Ukraine tamed Russian missile barrages and kept the lights on

As winter ends, Russia has lost this phase of the conflict

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

Weighing a permanent prohibition on undergraduate papers about "Nazi Propaganda."

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

Released this day in 1959. I still vividly remember discovering this at age 14 and looking myself in my room for about a week, playing it over and over.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

When the academic job market gets even worse: a student informs me he is out of a search he applied for, because the college has announced it is going under.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

Student leaving my office hours yesterday called me "bro." I haven't felt this cool in decades.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

4 years

My dad died last April, not Covid, but alone in his nursing home, my mother not able to visit, me unable to travel. I choked up when Biden spoke of those who lost someone even when it wasn't Covid. New lesson: it is a powerful thing to hear a president acknowledge such a thing.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

@FrankMacDonaldi @PhillipsPOBrien Let me put in a little plug here for one of the greatest military logistics officers in history, Lt. General William H. Tunner, the mastermind of logistics for the Berlin Air Lift -- and yes, what a perfect name.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

I think any cat would be proud to be so featured.

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3 years

Alas that it had to come to this.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

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@PreetBharara I wouldn't have given this answer in 1984, but now looking at the list I think "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

What could possibly go wrong.

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2 years

There seems to be a fire 🔥 at the Reichstag 😬

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

Here we go, semester day 1

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

Today the mail brought the Slovak editions of my last two books. Very excited to see them, though I can't read them! Thanks, N Press in Bratislava!

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

Well here we go, off to first class of the season. Maybe it’s a good omen that the train came right away when I hit the overheated subway platform.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

There will be a lot of rage directed to Manchin in the next while, but let's be real, you might as well blame my cat for wanting to kill birds. M. is not going to be anything else, and his state is not likely to elect anything better. Let's focus energies on winning elsewhere.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

@SKubinak Yeah, me too, but maybe if we fight now we won't be in a concentration camp later.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

My review of Simms and @CharlieLaderman , "Hitler's American Gamble," in the New York Times. Very interesting new book. The Decision That Cost Hitler the War

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The Decision That Cost Hitler the War (Published 2021)

“Hitler’s American Gamble,” by Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman, examines Hitler’s ill-fated choice to declare war on the United States.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

My conversation with Congressman @BillPascrell is now on Youtube!

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Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

3 years

I sat down with @BenjaminHett last week to discuss parallels between the rise of fascism in the 1930s and America today. His #1 ingredient to fascism? Watch the professor’s answer. Our full conversation is here:

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

My cat is snoring on the radiator next to me; I am reading about Georg Elser's assassination attempt on Hitler; Putin is foaming at the mouth; it might be 1939. It's just the Monday afternoon of the historian.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

Nice outing yesterday to the New York botanical Garden, complete with actual spring weather.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

Jackson Heights, New York, Monday, 8:31 am: Friends had always warned Harry this was how it would end, but tragically he didn’t listen.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

I think cats spend the entire day asking one question: what’s going on and what’s in it for me?

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

On what planet do you live? This is a photograph of a man who put the highest value on invading, conquering, and exploiting Ukraine, while murdering or trying to murder almost all of its inhabitants.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

1 year

I went to the Koepenick town hall where (being good sports) they put up a statue of Wilhelm Voigt, the Captain of Koepenick, who outwitted all authorities to rob the place in 1906.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

Great thread. It is always pleasant seeing a MAGA fool get taken apart by someone with actual knowledge.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

I would say that one of these guys is a little better at communicating than the other.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

Lately I have been feeling particularly proud of my association in the mid-1980s with a Ukrainian band, Trembita, in my hometown of Edmonton, Canada. We did an album in 1986. 21 y.o. me with saxophone.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

1 year

I had a really great time on @thetonymichaels podcast. Tony voices the rage at GOP stupidity that my kitchen and my cat hear so much of. I love getting to talk about Nazis and say f**k a lot at the same time.

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The Tony Michaels Podcast 🎙

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1 year

Republicans PREFORM Fake Outrage at the Southern Border The Tony Michaels Podcast @BenjaminHett joins us Watch LIVE on YouTube 📺👇 Mon-Fri 12-2pm ET Support Tony Here 👇

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

3 years

77 Years ago today was "Valkyrie," the German resistance attempt to assassinate Hitler and remove his regime. In honor of the occasion, the last words of one of the leaders, Henning von Tresckow, just before he took his life so he wouldn't betray anyone under torture:

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

5 years

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has put out an unfortunate statement about analogies to the Holocaust. 221 historians specializing in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including me, signed an open letter in response:

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

5 years

It's coming, June 2: "The Nazi Menace," follow-up to my "The Death of Democracy."

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

1 year

It was a beautiful day yesterday in my beloved city. 5th Ave and 42nd Street.

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Benjamin Carter Hett 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

2 years

My task today is reading this mess.

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