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Author: Pat Simons

Pat Simons is a community volunteer, a free-lance writer and a docent at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. She is the author of Brothers on the Run and the founder of Ready Readers.
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Comparing Trump and Hitler: Uncomfortable but necessary

January 14, 2017 Pat Simons 2016 Election, History, Trump 2 comments

Before the 2016 election, some historians and journalists compared Trump’s ascension with Hitler’s rise to power in Germany before World War II. Now that

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An inconvenient comparison: Germany then and the U.S. now

September 2, 2016 Pat Simons 2016 Election, History Leave a comment

We aren’t supposed to forget the past, and it’s so easy to see the differences between “Germany then” and “the U.S. now” that we

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