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Hitler Card Game Raises Eyebrows in Germany
A publishing house in Berlin has released a card game featuring 32 dictators, including Adolf Hitler. The creators wanted to make an ironic statement about the tyrants but not everyone appreciates the joke. A publishing house in Berlin has released a card game featuring 32 dictators, including Adolf Hitler. The creators wanted to make an ... more
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Crying Wolf: Are we all fascists now?
Book review of Naomi Wolf's The End of America and Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism.
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Wax On, Wax Off
Madame Tussauds has opened a new museum in Berlin. Alongside Clooney, Timberlake and Depp theres also a wax Hitler. Dont worry though, they made him look depressed. Madame Tussauds has opened a new museum in Berlin. Alongside Clooney, Timberlake and Depp theres also a wax Hitler. Dont worry thoug... more
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Hitler waxwork decapitated will be repaired,
Madame Tussauds today said it would repair a waxwork of Adolf Hitler that was decapitated by a visitor to its Berlin attraction less than three minutes after going on public display.
The beheading of the figure, which happened on Saturday, was welcomed by commentators and critics who said the exhibition was in poor taste.
However, the museum today announced that the €200,000 (£158,000) waxwork would be repaired and "reintegrated into the display as quickly as possible".
A 41-year-old leftwing activist identified only as Frank L, who was second in the queue for the opening of the new Tussauds, pushed two employees aside and ripped off the waxwork's head, shouting: "No more war!"
He faces charges of vandalism and causing bodily harm after a guard was slightly injured in the incident.
Tussauds said today that Hitler represented a "definitive part of Berlin's history that cannot be denied".
The Hitler waxwork had provoked controversy even before the attack.
Michael Braun, of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), had called it "distasteful beyond comparison".
A fellow MP, the Social Democrat Frank Zimmermann, described the decapitation of the waxwork as "of much more artistic value than putting [it] on display in the first place".
The exhibit showed a downtrodden Hitler sitting in his bunker beneath a map of Europe, monitoring the advance of allied troops from the east and west.
A plaque warned visitors to refrain for posing for photos alongside the figure. It was the only one of 75 on display to be accompanied by such a warning.
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Man rips head off of wax Hitler
A 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security guards and tore off the head of a wax Hitler figurine in Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum. He ripped off the head in protest, police said. The man, a Berlin resident, faces charges of causing damage to property and bodily harm, said a police spokesperson.
The solemn, gloomy wax Hitler has received criticism as being in bad taste. Critics say it was inappropriate to include such a figure side-by-side next to wax pop stars, celebrities, athletes, etc....
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Man beheads Adolf Hitler
True story.. thought this was funny and yet interesting news...
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Man rips off Hitler's head
A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.
The 41-year-old man was arrested, the police added in a statement. A police spokesman said that the man ripped off the head in protest at the exhibit.
Only one ball and now headless. A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Satur... more -
Hitler sits back in his bunker ... waxy-looking
The unveiling of the ex-Nazi dictator wax figure statue arouses criticism and sensation, as he's on exhibition along with popstars and other outstanding political figures. These look set to be overshadowed now by the controversial new installation. Yet he looks miserable and in his most sombre moment of decay ... The unveiling of the ex-Nazi dictator wax figure statue arouses criticism and sensation, as he's on exhibition along with popstars and... more
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Cera a forma di Hitler, polemiche.
Statua in cera di Hitler nel museo di Madame Tussauds a Berlino. Il museo aprirà tra due giorni ma le polemiche per la presenza del dittatore del Terzo Reich sono già scoppiate. Il Furher "è posizionato" tra Nicolas Sarkozy e Karl Marx. Statua in cera di Hitler nel museo di Madame Tussauds a Berlino. Il museo aprirà tra due giorni ma le polemiche per la presenza del di... more
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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
The Guardian, Saturday September 25 2004
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.
Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.
While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.
Tantalising
Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.
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Christian Group openly reveres Hitler
Worse Than Fascists? Christian Political Group has been revealed in 'The Family', a new book from author Jeff Sharlet.
The Family was founded 70 years ago by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant evangelist based in Seattle. In 1935, Vereide said, God appeared to him in a vision and revealed where Christianity had gone wrong: preoccupation with the poor, the weak and the suffering.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has been involved with the Family since 1993 when, as first lady, she joined a White House prayer circle for political wives.
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Getting to know the Hitlers
For 50 years, under the nose of many journalists and historians, the relatives of Adolph Hitler have been living in Long Island New York. The Liverpool born William Patrick Hitler is the son of Adolf's half brother, and was known affectionately to Adolf as "my loathsome nephew", he dropped off the radar in 1946 and dropped the burden of having "Hitler" as his last name.
Knocking on the door of the un-extraordinary home his investigations have led him to, David Gardner knows that William won't be answering, instead a widow comes to greet him.
"So, are you Mrs Hitler?"
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Madame Tussauds Defends Its Plan For Wax Hitler Statue In Berlin
Madame Tussauds is defending its decision to include a wax likeness of Adolf Hitler at its new Berlin museum, arguing that it doesn't make any sense to ignore his role in German history.
In a statement, the museum said Hitler's rule "stands for an important, though also appalling, turning point in the development of modern Europe. To ignore Hitler's role in this era would allow a strange gap to develop in the German and Berlin history that we show from chancellor Otto von Bismarck to the present day." Madame Tussauds is defending its decision to include a wax likeness of Adolf Hitler at its new Berlin museum, arguing that it doesn't... more -
Hitler statue to be featured in Berlin?
A new branch of Madame Tussauds in Berlin is to include in its display of German historical figures the most notorious one of all -- Adolf Hitler, a spokeswoman for the world-famous museum said on Friday.
But in order not to give the impression that Hitler was in any way a figure to be revered, the Nazi leader appears as a "broken man" in a mock-up of his bunker just before the end of World War II, spokeswoman Natalie Ruoss said.
The Fuehrer will be depicted as a defeated, shabbily dressed shadow of his former self -- in London the waxwork is more youthful -- as the Red Army entered Berlin shortly before his suicide on April 30, 1945.
"We did surveys while we were planning the exhibition on the street with Berliners and with tourists, and the result was quite clear that Hitler is one of the figures that they want to see," Ruoss said.
"Seeing as we are portraying the history of Germany we could hardly have left him out ... we want to show the reality," she said.
The figure will be behind a table, which will prevent visitors to the museum in central Berlin, which opens in July, from posing for photos next to him, Ruoss added.
Stephen Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said some Holocaust survivors might find the exhibition offensive but that he was not opposed as long as it was done properly.
"Hitler should not become a tourist attraction but if this exhibition helps to some extent normalise the way of dealing with Hitler, as a kind of a demystification, let's try it," Kramer told AFP.
"Erasing him from history is not going to bring the perished ones back, it's not going to heal the damage that he did, the crimes that he did. That would be counter-productive," he said.
A spokesman for Berlin city meanwhile said that the city's mayor Klaus Wowereit had sent a letter to Madame Tussauds in London on Thursday expressing Germans' "particular sensitivities" and asking to be shown the figure.
Coming to terms with the Nazi period has entered a new phase in recent years, most notably with the 2004 Oscar-nominated drama "Downfall" which gave the man behind the Holocaust more of a human face.
Comedy has even got in on the act, with a slapstick film by a Jewish director about Hitler released in 2007 and filming currently underway of "Mein Kampf", a film about his early life that also cocks a snook at the dictator.
Other waxworks in Berlin's Madame Tussauds are less controversial, although with a focus overwhelmingly on around 70 famous figures from Germany, the tour is in danger of becoming for foreign visitors a "name that German" contest.
Albert Einstein needs no introduction, nor does probably the current pope, and most people will have heard of Angela Merkel, Otto von Bismarck and Oliver Kahn.
But non-Germans will perhaps have to consult their programmes when they come face to face with Erich Honecker, the former leader of communist East Germany, TV presenter Thomas Gottschalk and rock star Herbert Groenemeyer.
It is not all Germans (or those born Austrian in the case of Hitler) though. Also staring back at you will be the likes of the Dalai Lama, Winston Churchill, J-Lo and Will Smith.
You can also see if your IQ is higher than Einstein's, play a duet on the piano with Johann Sebastian Bach and face Boris Becker on a tennis court, the organisers say.
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Adolf Hitler's paintings
"In 1907 Adolf Hitler moved to Vienna, the capital of Austria, where the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts was located. The author William L. Shirer tells in his monumental bestseller The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich how Hitler tried to take the entrance examination as the first practical step in fulfilling his dream of becoming a painter. Hitler was eighteen years old, full of high hopes - but to his own surprise he failed to get admission. An entry in the Vienna Academy's classification list tells the story:
"The following took the test with insufficient results, or were not admitted ... Adolf Hitler, Braunau a. Inn, April 20, 1889, German, Catholic. Father civil servant. 4 classes in High School. Few Heads. Test drawing unsatisfactory"." "In 1907 Adolf Hitler moved to Vienna, the capital of Austria, where the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts was located. The author William L... more -
Defacing Hitler
"When the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman bought a series of paintings by Adolf Hitler for £115,000, many questioned the morality of paying for works produced by one of history’s most brutal dictators.
Yesterday, the brothers unveiled 13 of the watercolours, on which they had added psychedelic rainbows, stars and love hearts, and placed them back on the market for £685,000..." "When the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman bought a series of paintings by Adolf Hitler for £115,000, many questioned the morality of pa... more -
Hitler rises from the ashes
The Piece is entitled If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, and the artists take delight in what the tyrant's reaction might have been.
But does such art exploring themes of redemption? The Piece is entitled If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, and the artists take delight in what the tyrant's reaction mig... more -
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
Do you know this book? The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military ...
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Hitler plans trip to Burning Man
"No bistros on the the playa?"
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Tempelhof Airport: Memories of The Berlin Airlift Fade Away
For years, one of Berlin's major cultural landmarks has been Tempelhof Airport, which symbolizes the 1948-49 American-led airlift to deliver food and other essential supplies to the besieged capital. Berlin's Tempelhof Airport is a reminder that American valor has had its better days. Sadly, now there are plans to close the airport by year's end.
This article includes photographs, a video about the Berlin Airlift, and a photo-gallery. For years, one of Berlin's major cultural landmarks has been Tempelhof Airport, which symbolizes the 1948-49 American-led airlift to d... more
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