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Does that Trump Time Magazine cover really reference a Nazi war criminal?

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores the controversy surrounding a Time Magazine cover featuring Donald Trump, which sparked online debates due to its resemblance to a 1963 Newsweek photo of Alfried Krupp, a convicted Nazi war criminal. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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World War IiDonald TrumpCold WarNazi War CriminalsIndustrialistsForced LaborTime MagazineAlfried KruppUs Germany RelationsPolitical Imagery

Places mentioned

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
"The Krupp familys involvement in arms production dates back to the Thirty Years War (16181648), when Anton Krupp oversaw a gunsmithing operation in Essen."
Germany
"After West Germanys founding in 1949, the occupying powers came under intense pressure from federal, state, and local officials, civilians, former Wehrmacht soldiers, and even religious leaders to grant amnesties to war criminals."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"Almost as soon as the Time cover appeared on social media, people began noticing that Trumps pose was eerily similar to Krupps in a 1963 Newsweek photo."
France
"They documented the systematic looting of industrial assets from France, Belgium and the Netherlands, contracts with the SS for concentration camp labor, and the use of punishment cages for workers."
Belgium
"They documented the systematic looting of industrial assets from France, Belgium and the Netherlands, contracts with the SS for concentration camp labor, and the use of punishment cages for workers."
Netherlands
"They documented the systematic looting of industrial assets from France, Belgium and the Netherlands, contracts with the SS for concentration camp labor, and the use of punishment cages for workers."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"including Jewish inmates from Auschwitz."
Ukraine
"As Adolf Hitlers armies rampaged across Europe and the Soviet Union, they were followed by German industrialists who plundered the occupied countries"

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