The War on Christmas, retrospective edition

You know who else celebrated Christmas?

HITLER!

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Uh-oh. I just godwined Christmas. If it ends now, it's all my fault. Sorry.

(via Inside a Nazi Christmas Party, 1941, from Life magazine)

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