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Hitler: Y.A. Fiction Fan Girl

Behind the Bastards

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The Doomed Struggle in North America

A lot of Hitler's interest in the Old West was based on real history. Reading those novels as a kid sparked sort of a fascination in him with just sort of the whole American frontier and He studied everything that we did during that period of time. In 1939 Hitler forced 90,000 Polish Jews onto a reservation Ghetto in direct imitation of a strategy Kit Carson pursued with a Navajo's So a lot of Hitler’s interest in the old west was based onreal history But that obsession with real history was sparked by his own admission That these stories were true because remember Carl came out was like This is me.

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