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Thread ID: 17537 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-03-26
2005-03-26 23:58 | User Profile
The ââ¬ÅNaziââ¬Â as a whipping boy
Using the ââ¬Ånazisââ¬Â as a whipping boy is prue laziness. But one must remember the NSDAP was in good part bad, one does something times forget this given the use of the ââ¬Ånaziââ¬Â a whipping boy and the Liberals attacks on Right as being called ââ¬Ånazis.ââ¬Â The Sad fact is every thing bad about the NSDAP is going on in Europe today, but none of their good points. The government in Europe are today socialist do not have free speech and do have euthanasia, and are more anti-Christian than the NSDAP ever thought about being. But one must remember NSDAP was not homogenous. Some were Catholic, some were atheists, some Lutherans, and few were Wodenists. Some such as Alfred Rosenberg were admirable people in many ways others were not. Europe today has all of the evils of the NSDAP but none of their virtues. In Europe today Blood and Soil Nationalism is called a "great evil" but euthanasia is "virtueous." A sad state.
2005-03-27 02:35 | User Profile
**Hitler books "show new obsession gripping Germans" ** By Kate Connolly in Berlin
The intimate details of Hitler's life - from his fear that his lavatory might be poisoned to his habit of scratching his neck until it bled - are obsessing Germans once again amid a huge revival of interest in the Nazi era.
New titles about Hitler are flooding the bookshops to satisfy the hunger for revelations about the period in time for the 60th anniversary of the end of the 1939-45 war.
One columnist has likened the plethora of publications to a "garish circus of commemoration".
"Sixty years ago the Third Reich perished," wrote Jens Jessen in Die Zeit. "Now one gets the impression it is being resurrected on a daily basis."
One new book, A Strawberry for Hitler, is based on the true story of a horticulturalist who wants to name one of the fruits after the Nazi leader.
The books are, on one level, a parable of Nazi domination of everyday life under Hitler. But their grip on today's publishing industry sometimes seems just as tight.
From Hitler's Berlin to Death in the Bunker, from private diaries to coffee-table books with shocking and previously unseen pictures of bombed-out German cities, the craving for new material is enormous.
One visitor despaired that it was hard to find any other offerings at the recent Leipzig Book Fair among all the "Nazi shockers" on display.
Highbrow critics claim that many of the books are "unserious" and "sensationalist".
While few would argue that the fascination amounts to admiration for the Nazis, historians say the frequency with which Hitler's image appears in the media is harmful.
"Television, cinema and illustrated magazines are bringing the forms of brown-uniformed soldiers or SS officers into our living rooms with an intensity that's never been known before... the heroes of the crimes against humanity are laughing in our faces," wrote Jessen.
A poll published yesterday showed huge sympathy for Right-wing extremists among Germans from the capital and the surrounding region.
National Socialism "had its positive sides", thought 15 per cent of Berliners and 20 per cent of people living in the neighbouring state of Brandenburg.
At the same time 12 per cent of Berliners and 24 per cent of Brandenburgers said they wanted a "Fuhrer who would rule with a firm hand".
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