My Family Was Hunted by Nazis. But I Was Fired For ‘Defending Hitler.’
The bronze sculpture of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin stands in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. (Bruce Chambers via Alamy)
David Volodzko criticized Lenin in ‘The Seattle Times.’ Now he is without a job. A story of profound intolerance in our country’s most “tolerant” city.
I was just fired from my job at The Seattle Times after defending Hitler. The only problem is, I never defended Hitler. In fact, my family was hunted by the Nazis; my grandfather was a Nazi killer who later almost died in a concentration camp; and some of my best journalistic work has been exposing neo-Nazi lies. But if you want to hear a story about th…
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