Holocaust survivor Roman Halter added: “It is terrible that people find this sort of thing appealing. Holocaust survivors felt the memory of Hitler was buried with his death, but nowadays fame is equated with infamy.”
Schools are perpetuating damaging stereotypes of Germans because of their "obsession" with Hitler and the Second World War, it was claimed yesterday.The vast numbers of pupils who choose to study the Nazi period in history is fuelling anti-German feeling, the Church of England said.
This undercurrent is reinforced by the large number of war films shown on television and the "drip feed" of anti-German comments in the media, a report said.
ts authors said that they had received letters from German Christians living in Britain who had experienced "shameful treatment".
"A teacher of German in a secondary school reported being repeatedly confronted with a 'Heil Hitler' and with swastikas on history books," said the report.
"The grandchild of another person found herself excluded, on a school trip to France, from visiting a British war cemetery 'as she was a Nazi' - this despite the fact that her grandfather came to Britain as a Jewish refugee."
It said that the role of Britain in defeating the Nazis had reinforced "a sense of moral righteousness" and inhibited "soul-searching" over our own history.
The Bishop of Croydon, the Rt Rev Nicholas Baines, said that the Church had written to the Department of Education urging schools to focus more on modern Germany.
"If you bring up children and their only images of Germany are of Fritz in a helmet, that is going to have an effect," he said.
The tech-columnist has been mouthing off about the iPhone being crap for as long as we can remember (our long-term memory is shot) - so it's no surprise to find that Dvorak is at it again. Apparently, Johnny-boy is done with all the iPhone fan-boys out there. Aside from claiming that Hitler's ability to whip up a frenzied mass of people was nothing compared to the Apple iPhone's hype, he has "verboten" his blog writers from mentioning the iPhone until the actual launchRead More
Rare movie footage of Adolf Hitler hanging out with his buddies has been discovered in a Staten Island basement - and investigators are probing why the film was made.
A reel of film plucked from the wartime rubble of a German opera house shows Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler enjoying a Richard Wagner music festival before the start of World War II.
The film, sent home by U.S. serviceman Walter Ladziak, was found 10 years ago after Ladziak's brother-in-law, who received the package, died.
But it had never been viewed - until Ladziak's nephew sent it to PBS' "History Detectives," who have been working to prove its authenticity.
"In the basement was a chest, and inside were films, one of which had a handwritten note stuck to it saying in German, "The Fuhrer in Bayreuth," said Ladziak's nephew, Francis Cardamone, 58, of Port Richmond.
"My uncle said, 'Oh, my gosh, the films.' He'd totally forgotten about them."
Ladziak, now 85 and still living on Staten Island, told Cardamone how he had found them in 1945 in the bombed ruins of the Old Opera House in Bayreuth, the Bavarian hometown of Wagner, who was idolized by Hitler.
He sent them to his brother-in-law because he had a film projector. But, by the time Ladziak returned to Staten Island, he had forgotten about them.
Contacted last week, Ladziak said he no longer had any interest in the films and had given them to his nephew.
But the reel was fragile and Cardamone didn't have a projector capable of showing it.
"I had no idea what was on it, but it's been at the back of my mind for 10 years now," said Cardamone.
"Eventually, I got in touch with the "History Detectives" to see if they would be interested."
Gwen Wright, a Columbia University professor and the show's host who investigated the film, confirmed it showed Hitler and his right-hand men arriving at the festival.
But she said its authenticity as a home movie made by the Fuhrer's entourage couldn't be confirmed until the show aired.
"The exciting thing about it was that it seemed to give a glimpse at Hitler in a social setting," she said.
"There's not much out there that shows that. He didn't really have a family, and we were excited to see if it showed something about the world that surrounded him."
Her study took the 16-mm. film reel to Nazi propaganda experts at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum, and film historians at the Library of Congress Film Archives.
"I can't tell you what we discovered, but I can say that it was surprising," she said.
"The History Detectives," which starts its fifth season on PBS today, is set to air the episode Sept. 3.
MILLARD, Wisconsin (AP) — A retired farmer who says he served in the German army during World War II is building a memorial on his farm to a leader he says is woefully misunderstood - Adolf Hitler."An encounter with a Jewish prostitute in Vienna in 1908 may have given Hitler neuro-syphilis and provided the 'deadly logic and blueprint for the Holocaust' as well as giving him a reason to attempt to eliminate the mentally retarded, according to evidence presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists." Read onOther possible causes that we've heard: seeing his parents having sex, getting his testicle bitten off by a goat as a boy, seeing a weird looking Jew in Vienna, his mother dying of breast cancer while in the care of a Jewish doctor, being Jewish, not getting into art college, his beloved niece falling in love with a Jewish musician, meth addiction and probably a couple of other notable conjectures.
“Political jokes weren't a form of active resistance but valves for pent-up public anger. They were told in pubs, on the street and this suited the Nazi regime which was deeply humourless. People who released their frustration through jokes didn't go out on the street and demonstrate.Some examples:
This is a detective story set in 1960's Nazi Germany. The author does a credible job of presenting a palatable and realistic vision of Hitler's Berlin, complete with Speer's architecture and the influence on world politics this would have had, such as America voting in their own anti-semitic leader, and bestowing hero status on the likes of Harry Ford and Lindberg.
Everyone knows that Hitler was an artist, before he had his mustard gas epiphany in WWI. I've always wondered what became of the postcards he painted in Munich. Well, someone managed to collect 19 of his watercolors and they went up for auction last September, fetching £118,000 (This is the equivalent of several billion dollars in the USA)The auction was disrupted by Frank Sanazi, a Hitler impersonator. Accompanied by Aaron Barschak, the stand-up comedian who gate-crashed Prince William’s 21st birthday party dressed as Osama bin Laden, he yelled: “Six million. These aren’t Hitlers, they’re Mussolinis!” before a security guard escorted both men from the room.
Outside he said: “On a serious note I think it’s disgusting. The proceeds of this auction should go to the victims of the Holocaust and their families.”
The 6 million number always perturbs me. Why don't the other 5 million people that died in the camps matter to anyone? Is it because gays, commies, gypsies, Jehovah's witness, etc are still marginalized and disliked? Food for thought.
" To many Hong Kongers, Nazis represent the epitome of desirability. Their tanks were made by Mercedes and Porsche; their uniforms were original Hugo Boss."
An SS general close to Adolf Hitler foiled a plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII during World War II and to put the Vatican and its treasures under Nazi control, according to a new book.
