‘Worse than Hitler’: Nazi revisionism in the service of US foreign policy

https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/worse-than-hitler 

It is a trope that has surprisingly long roots and goes at least as far back as only a decade after the end of the Second World War. When the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, purchased arms from Communist Czechoslovakia in 1955, much to chagrin of the US, The New York Times – an always reliable mouthpiece of the US establishment – began to refer to him as ‘Hitler on the Nile’.[1]