Sound Proof

My dad survived the Holocaust, escaped to the Polish forest, joined the Partisans, and fought the Nazis. So I listened closely in the lead-up to the 2016 election when he said of Trump, “You know, this guy’s language and speaking style remind me of Hitler. Everyone laughed at him during the early days too.” Apparently he wasn’t the only person hearing the similarities. “Among German conspiracy theorists, ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, the American president is surfacing as a rallying cry, or even as a potential ‘liberator.'” NYT: Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany’s Far Right.