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kminta [OP]

2003-07-14 01:56 | User Profile

I found this at Overthrow. Pretty funny if I do say so myself. For any of you Hitler fans who might be offended by the below image, well...**TOUGH!!! ** :D

[img]http://www.overthrow.com/images/h1tler_dance.gif[/img]

NeoNietzsche

2003-07-14 02:39 | User Profile

Originally posted by kminta@Jul 13 2003, 19:56 * I found this at Overthrow. Pretty funny if I do say so myself. For any of you Hitler fans who might be offended by the below image, well...*TOUGH!!! ** :D

[img]http://www.overthrow.com/images/h1tler_dance.gif[/img]**

Sisyfos

2003-07-14 08:57 | User Profile

In fact, I would have to say that this 'dancing hitler' is infinitely preferable to the 'Hitler performs a little jig upon taking Paris' cobbled together by British intelligence fifty years ago.

In all my (past) years of watching the Hitler Channel I must have seen that two-step number a dozen times and always the first thing that comes to mind is: who the [expletive] was that supposed to fool? Crisp editing it isn’t.

Hitler’s aversion for dancing was noted in a biography penned by a boyhood friend, who recalled that the future Fuehrer sought the act ludicrous and told the author to observe the movements of (non-professional) dancers and imagine that there was no sound, in case the latter needed convincing. But, then again, he’s never had the privilege of watching “break-dancing,” so who knows what his reaction would be vis-à-vis the stick figure bearing his likeness.

You know, I always wondered what sort of propaganda value was expected from the masses seeing Hitler raise one of his knees in an exaggerated fashion and walk up the stairs with a little more gusto. I mean it's not like he ever put on a naval aviator’s garb, hitched a ride in a two-seater 109, landed on the Graf Zeppelin, and whopped it up for the sailors at the conclusion of operation “French Freedom.” How bland for the guy to settle for a mere parade in Berlin. Think of the missed propaganda value and added worship gained from furnishing an image which, presumably, in another time and place, had the effect -- quantifiable effect, as shown by subsequent polling -- of promoting neural connections between George-wannabe-wingman-of-anyone-anytime-stationed-out-of-harms-way-Bush and some fictional lad who felt “the need for speed.”

What serendipity, I’m nearing an answer to my earlier question.