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Hitler’s favorite meal: A Belgian public television station canceled its planned airing this week of a show about Adolf Hitler’s favorite meal. The Flemish broadcaster VRT was going to feature Hitler on an episode of its popular show Favorite Dish, which profiles the food choices of such notables as singer Freddie Mercury and artist Salvador Dalí. But after Jewish groups protested, VRT pulled the Hitler episode. “There is a wrong perception that the show would humanize or, worse, glorify Hitler,” the station said. The episode would have showed a chef traveling to southern Germany to prepare trout in butter sauce, a meal the Führer often requested.

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