103 - Bang To Reichs

These days you can get arrested just for being Hitler. 

We put recent media "gaffes" promoting the far right into historical context. Newspaper coverage of Mussolini and Hitler in the 1930s on both sides of the Atlantic - including a spotlight on the Daily Mirror's pro-Fascist and pro-Hitler content, Nazi collaboration by Associated Press, the American press and the KKK in the 1920s, reporting of the milkshaking of Andy Ngo, and more.

Plus, how being hit as a child didn't do Wes Streeting any harm.

NATO shares image of Ukrainian soldier wearing Nazi insignia; deletes it later - Opindia (2022)

FC Metalist Karkhiv

Soldier with Deus Vult badge

Donald Trump retweets far-right group's anti-Muslim videos - BBC News (2017)

How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media - EJ Dickson for Rolling Stone (2019)

Where the New York Times article on an American Nazi went wrong - Ezra Klein for Vox (2017)

How media ‘fluff’ helped Hitler rise to power - Charlotte Hsu, University of Buffalo News (2015)

Interview with Dr Felix Harcourt. The media and the Ku Klux Klan: a debate that began in the 1920s - Lois Beckett and Jesse Brenneman in The Guardian (2018)

Podcast: Face the Racist Nation - WNYC Studios (2018)

Gary Younge interviews Richard Spencer - Guardian channel (YouTube)

Wes Streeting on smacking