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You may be surprised to hear that there are books that mention Hitler in the first paragraph — in fact, some concern themselves with him exclusively!
by devindotcom 12y ago
You may be surprised to hear that there are books that mention Hitler in the first paragraph — in fact, some concern themselves with him exclusively!
- jonnathanson 12y agoIn fact, Hitler even beat out Jesus for total references for a good stretch of the mid-20th Century. For a long time, he was also stealing Christmas. But we're happy to note that Christmas overtook Hitler in the 1980s, and has narrowly edged him out ever since. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Hitler%2CJesus%2CChristmas&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CHitler%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJesus%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CChristmas%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Hitler%2CJesus...
- SonOfLilit 12y agoI think there's an exemption to Godwin's Law for writing about Nazi Germany.