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February 29, 1936

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Featured Pick

profiles

Führer—I: The Sublimated World of Adolf Hitler

Janet Flanner

Fanatic, celibate, vegetarian. Janet Flanner’s 1936 Profile of the man who brought the Nazis to power.

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James Thurber