Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told

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Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told
Adolf Hitler, The Greatest Story Never Told box art.jpg
Directed byDennis Wise [1]
Release date
  • 2013 (2013)
Running time
6.5 hours [2]
LanguageEnglish

Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told is a neo-Nazi propaganda film [3] [4] [5] released in 2013.

Contents

Narrative

The film is a revisionist [6] [1] and pro-Adolf Hitler film. [6] [2] [7] It depicts Hitler as an unfairly maligned hero. [8]

Promotion

The film has been commonly promoted by neo-Nazis [6] [1] and QAnon conspiracy theorists. [4] [9] Perennial Green candidate, [10] Libertarian Party official and Holocaust denier David Croteau has also promoted the film, saying he "spent many hours last week reviewing this very long and detailed portrayal of the modern world wars. I believe we have been lied to, again by traitors in our government." [2]

Prominent Minnesota imam Asad Zaman also promoted the film on social media, which led to criticism of local politicians, among them Tim Walz, who had appeared in public with him. Zaman later deleted the post and distanced himself from it. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Nordic Resistance Movement". Anti-Defamation League . Archived from the original on 2 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024. Films viewed by the NRM in such sessions include the Swedish-produced antisemitic propaganda miniseries, Europa – the Last Battle, which praises Hitler and claims that Jews started both World Wars, and Dennis Wise's revisionist film, Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told.
  2. 1 2 3 Smith, Dylan (7 March 2023). "Pima Supes appoint Holocaust denier as Libertarian Party official". Tucson Sentinel . Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  3. Adler, Lana (9 November 2016). "5 Creepy Anti-Semitic Memes On Reddit, Or How the 'Alt-Right' Spent Election Day". The Forward . Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2024. And, of course, lest we forget, the inevitable Hitler worship by aptly named edgelord HitlerAlwaysRight, who posted some straight-up neo-Nazi propaganda in video form.
  4. 1 2 "QAnon's Antisemitism and What Comes Next". Anti-Defamation League . 17 September 2021. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023. At one point, Joe M exhorted his Twitter followers to watch pro-Nazi propaganda film "Adolf Hitler: the Greatest Story Never Told," writing: "What if the casting of Hitler as a villain was fabricated by the Churchill/Rothschild/Roosevelt/Stalin Deep State to frame him for the Holocaust, and his speeches against 'Jews' were really in reference to the Luciferian banking cabal?"
  5. Hananoki, Eric (23 August 2023). "GOP debate streaming partner Rumble placed RNC ads on numerous pro-Hitler videos". Media Matters for America . Archived from the original on 24 October 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2024. The film Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told is a similarly pro-Nazi film.
  6. 1 2 3 Thompson, A. C.; Winston, Ali (22 May 2018). "An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response". ProPublica . Archived from the original on 24 February 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  7. Washington, Jessica (24 August 2023). "Say What?! GOP Debate Advertisements Reportedly Ran on Pro-Hitler Videos". The Root . Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  8. Gill, Gerard (8 December 2021). "Fascist cross-pollination of Australian conspiracist Telegram channels". First Monday . doi: 10.5210/fm.v26i12.11830 . ISSN   1396-0466. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2024. Likewise, in the Project Phoenix Community channel, a user who refers to Hitler negatively is told to "Stop listening to enemy propaganda and watch 'The Greatest Story Never Told'." This recommendation refers to a documentary painting Adolf Hitler as an unfairly maligned historical hero.
  9. Gilbert, David (5 November 2021). "Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK". Vice . Archived from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  10. "Perennial Green candidate Croteau posts Holocaust denial, anti-Semitic meme" . Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  11. Hadjenberg, Jackie (14 August 2024). "Tim Walz says he has no personal relationship with imam who shared pro-Hitler video". Jewish Telegraphic Agency .