Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told
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Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told is a neo-Nazi propaganda film{{Cite web |last=Adler |first=Lana |date=2016-11-09 |title=5 Creepy Anti-Semitic Memes On Reddit, Or How the 'Alt-Right' Spent Election Day |url=https://forward.com/opinion/353795/5-creepy-anti-semitic-memes-on-reddit-or-how-the-alt-right-spent-election/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=The Forward |language=en |quote=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. |archive-date=2023-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616135946/https://forward.com/opinion/353795/5-creepy-anti-semitic-memes-on-reddit-or-how-the-alt-right-spent-election/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=17 September 2021 |title=QAnon's Antisemitism and What Comes Next |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/report/qanons-antisemitism-and-what-comes-next |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326115939/https://www.adl.org/resources/report/qanons-antisemitism-and-what-comes-next |archive-date=March 26, 2023 |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Anti-Defamation League |language=en |quote=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?"}}{{Cite web |last=Hananoki |first=Eric |date=2023-08-23 |title=GOP debate streaming partner Rumble placed RNC ads on numerous pro-Hitler videos |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/rumble/gop-debate-streaming-partner-rumble-placed-rnc-ads-numerous-pro-hitler-videos |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Media Matters for America |language=en |quote=The film Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told is a similarly pro-Nazi film. |archive-date=2023-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024115332/https://www.mediamatters.org/rumble/gop-debate-streaming-partner-rumble-placed-rnc-ads-numerous-pro-hitler-videos |url-status=live }} released in 2013.
Narrative
The film is a revisionist and pro-Adolf Hitler film.{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=A. C. |last2=Winston |first2=Ali |date=2018-05-22 |title=An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/an-alarming-tip-about-a-neo-nazi-marine-then-an-uncertain-response |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=ProPublica |language=en |archive-date=2019-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224071235/https://www.propublica.org/article/an-alarming-tip-about-a-neo-nazi-marine-then-an-uncertain-response |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Dylan |date=March 7, 2023 |title=Pima Supes appoint Holocaust denier as Libertarian Party official |url=http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report//030723_croteau_libertarian/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Tucson Sentinel |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Washington |first=Jessica |date=2023-08-24 |title=Say What?! GOP Debate Advertisements Reportedly Ran on Pro-Hitler Videos |url=https://www.theroot.com/say-what-gop-debate-advertisements-reportedly-ran-on-1850769604 |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=The Root |language=en |archive-date=2023-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215202101/https://www.theroot.com/say-what-gop-debate-advertisements-reportedly-ran-on-1850769604 |url-status=live }} It depicts Hitler as an unfairly maligned hero.{{Cite journal |last=Gill |first=Gerard |date=2021-12-08 |title=Fascist cross-pollination of Australian conspiracist Telegram channels |url=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11830 |journal=First Monday |language=en |doi=10.5210/fm.v26i12.11830 |issn=1396-0466 |quote=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. |doi-access=free |access-date=2024-02-08 |archive-date=2023-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427100756/https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11830 |url-status=live }}
Promotion
The film has been commonly promoted by neo-Nazis{{Cite web |title=The Nordic Resistance Movement |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/report/nordic-resistance-movement |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Anti-Defamation League |quote=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. |archive-date=2024-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102232245/https://www.adl.org/resources/report/nordic-resistance-movement |url-status=live }} and QAnon conspiracy theorists.{{Cite web |last=Gilbert |first=David |date=2021-11-05 |title=Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qpe7/qanon-dallas-jfk-michael-brian-protzman-negative48 |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Vice |language=en |archive-date=2023-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327011411/https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qpe7/qanon-dallas-jfk-michael-brian-protzman-negative48 |url-status=live }} Perennial Green candidate,{{Cite web |title=Perennial Green candidate Croteau posts Holocaust denial, anti-Semitic meme |url=https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082117_croteau_jews/perennial-green-candidate-croteau-posts-holocaust-denial-anti-semitic-meme/ |access-date=2024-08-14}} 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."
Prominent Minnesota imam Asad Zaman also promoted the film on social media, which led to criticism by local politicians, among them Tim Walz, who had appeared in public with him. Zaman later deleted the post and distanced himself from it.{{cite web |last=Hadjenberg |first=Jackie |date=August 14, 2024 |title=Tim Walz says he has no personal relationship with imam who shared pro-Hitler video |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/08/14/politics/tim-walz-says-he-has-no-personal-relationship-with-imam-who-shared-pro-hitler-video/ |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}
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