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Vanity Fair studio portrait of American newspaper and radio commentator Walter Winchell half-sitting on a stool and lighting a cigarette. 1930 (Photo by Edward Steichen/Condé Nast via Getty Images)

AMERICAN MASTERS: Walter Winchell: The Power Of Gossip

Stream or tune in Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Saturday, Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2

Adolf Hitler's birth house in Braunau am Inn, Austria, as seen in 2012. Austrian officials said Wednesday the building will be renovated and turned into a police station.

Hitler's Birth Home In Austria Will Become A Police Station

Austrian officials hope the decision to turn the three-story building in the town of Braunau am Inn into a police station will be a deterrent to those who would make the site a neo-Nazi shrine.

Thousands of people gather for an anti-fascist protest outside a court in Athens on Wednesday. The court ruled the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organization, and delivered landmark guilty verdicts in a five-year trial against dozens of defendants, including former lawmakers.

Golden Dawn: Greek Court Delivers Landmark Verdicts Against Neo-Nazi Party

The court ruled Golden Dawn is a criminal organization. Huge crowds massed outside the courtroom, waving banners that read "Nazis in Prison." The crowds roared after each guilty verdict was announced.

Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a youth in Hitler's army and has the Fuhrer as his imaginary friend in Takia Waititi's "Jojo Rabbit."

Takia Waititi Plays Hitler In 'Jojo Rabbit'

Film is being marketed as 'anti-hate satire'

Swastika, New York, Is Keeping Its Name

When an outsider suggested the tiny northern hamlet of Swastika should change its name, town supervisors quickly rejected a change.

Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, shown at a news conference last November, says he sees the possibility of closer relations with the U.S.

Formal Ties With U.S.? Not For Now, Says Taiwan Foreign Minister

Two high-ranking Trump administration officials have been to the island recently. The visits come against a backdrop of deepening mistrust and deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China.

President Trump holds a Constitution Day proclamation after speaking Thursday during the White House Conference on American History at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Trump Announces 'Patriotic Education' Commission, A Largely Political Move

Trump decries what he says are a "twisted web of lies" being taught in U.S. classrooms about systemic racism in America. But the federal government does not have jurisdiction over school curriculum.

Author Traces What Happened To WWII's 'Last Million' Displaced People

Historian David Nasaw tells the story of the concentration camp survivors, POWs and other displaced people who remained in Germany following the war. Many had no home to return to.

People march during the nationwide protest demanding the end to the Trump administration in New York City on Saturday. Protesters have often accused President Trump of being fascist.

Fascism Scholar Says U.S. Is 'Losing Its Democratic Status'

Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote the book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He talked with NPR about defining fascism and how conspiracy theories play a part.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Adm. Brett P. Giroir, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, testified before Congress in June on the status of the pandemic. Fauci is just one of the public health leaders and their families across the U.S. who have received death threats and harassment since the pandemic began.

Opinion: Public Health Leaders Deserve More Respect

This pandemic is like war, and federal, state and local health officers are leading the U.S. response. Yet unlike war heroes, who are lionized, they are facing unprecedented attacks and death threats.

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