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That Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier Flick About Making 94 Hitler Babies

In 1978, Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, two of Hollywood’s biggest stars, starred in a sci-fi thriller about Nazis. Called The Boys from Brazil, the film tells a strange story: Using Hitler’s DNA, Mengele clones him 94 times, by secluding surrogate mothers in a Brazilian clinic, and then sending them the little Hitler babies to adoption agencies […]

By Joanna Valente

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What’s So Funny About the Holocaust? This New Film Asks

The notion that, for millennia, Jews have used humor to cope with persecution and struggle isn’t new—but the idea that certain topics may be off-limits to that humor is. So the question is: Is it okay to make jokes about the Holocaust? And why do we feel the need to, anyway? Filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein’s new documentary, The […]

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100 Senators Received This New Hitler-Themed Card Game

Max Temkin, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity—the obsessively irreverent card game that involves coming up with the obscenest notions imaginable and guessing which of your horrible friends invented them—made a new game about Hitler, and he’s been giving it away for free to those who need it most. Namely: U.S. senators. All the U.S. senators. […]

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