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How Adolf Hitler and Nazi signs stormed the marketing world
A taboo on using Adolf Hitler and Nazi signs to sell products is weakening. Is it just ad-land's love of shock value? In a South Korean tv, a woman in a military trenchcoat holds a soldier's cap bearing a motif of an eagle gripping a swastika: "Even Hitler could not take over the East and West at the same time." A Ukrainian energy company used the image of Hitler to threaten customers who fail to pay their gas bills. A hotel in Belgrade had a very popular Adolf Hitler-themed suite. In New Zealand, the Hell Pizza chain had Hitler delivering a sieg-heil salute while holding a slice of pizza.     [ thejc :: 2008-04-26 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Restaurant honours genocidal WWII Croatian leader Ante Pavelic
Melbourne restaurant Katarina Zrinski has sparked outrage for paying homage to a fascist warlord. The place has been branded "disgusting" for its celebration of Croatian leader Ante Pavelic, responsible for the deaths of 500,000 persons. Pavelic has been depicted as the Croatian Heinrich Himmler. "This would be the equivalent to the German community honouring Himmler," said Bob Miller. The T-shirts for sale showed two commanders of the Ustashe's notorious Black Legion. The restaurant commemorated Adolf Hitler's establishment of the puppet state of Croatia on April 10, 1941.     [ news.com.au :: 2008-04-13 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Ukrainian gas firm uses image of Adolf Hitler to get tough with non payers
A utility company in Donetsk is using the picture of Adolf Hitler in billboard ads to target their customers who fail to pay bills on time. The slogan "Those who don't pay for their heating will be punished!" with the image of the Nazi leader pierced on the bayonet of a Soviet soldier is being used to "encourage" people to clear their debts. "This image shows citizens that debtors are like an enemy... And the image of a defeated and crushed enemy reminds all non payers that the punishment for failing to pay their gas payments is inevitable," said Oleksandr Semchenko, of the utility company Donetskgorteploset.     [ rian :: 2008-03-27 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Obersalzberg Sketch - Segments of German TV-series Switch Reloaded
A comic version of Adolf Hitler who hasn't time to attend a book-burning? A manager (out of The Office) who complains to his super-efficient secretary: "Do we really have to plan everything a thousand years in advance, Erika?" The TV show Switch Reloaded has been satirizing Hitler, yet the parody has raised hardly a murmur of protest, even though it flaunts the swastika - like when the lumpen Ernie complains that his Hakenkreuztaste (swastika key) is broken in typewriter. Sketch Obersalzberg, named after Hitler's mountain-top retreat at Berchtesgaden, is popular in YouTube. [one part in Youtube with English subs]     [ thefirstpost :: 2008-03-21 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Soccer player in military uniform and moustache to resemble Hitler
Australian professional soccer player Andre Gumprecht, who went to a club "Mad Monday" celebration dressed as Adolf Hitler, will be disciplined after complaints. Gumprecht attended a post-Grand Final ceremony dressed in a khaki military uniform and moustache to resemble the German dictator Adolf Hitler. "Hitler was such a monster and for a lot of people, it's a very sensitive thing to be confronted with," said Ernie Friedlander. "Even if it was done in jest, he is a role model and he should consider the impact of his actions," explained Allon Lee.     [ guardian :: 2008-02-26 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Samba team barred from parading Holocaust float with a Hitler dancer
Viradouro samba club was blocked from parading a Holocaust float with a dancer dressed as Adolf Hitler, after complaints from Jewish groups. The club planned to have a tableau portraying a pile of dead bodies. Judge Juliana Kalichszteim ruled the group would be fined $110,000 for the float and $28,000 for the Hitler impersonation if it went ahead with its program. "Carnival should not be used as an instrument of hatred, any kind of racism and clear trivialisation or barbaric and unjustified acts against minorities." Club officials have said the float was "extremely respectful" and was intended as a warning about the horrors of the past.     [ heraldsun :: 2008-02-02 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Hotel offers room with Adolf Hitler`s portrait, and it's the most popular room
Belgrade hotel "Mr President" has set up a portrait of Adolf Hitler in suite number 501 - guided by the policy that every guest has a right to choose their accommodation in accordance with their preferences. Therefore, Hitler`s room was thus furnished. A German woman is staying there at the moment, said she disagrees with Hilter`s policy, but she chose the room to brag she had spent the night with Hitler. Guests are happy wit this choice and can select a certain suite with the portrait of their favourite person, like Stalin, Castro, Ceausescu or Tito. Still, Hitler`s suite is most desired.     [ javno :: 2007-12-23 ]

"Guerrilla' film-makers: Hitler rages in the Berlin bunker as Spurs lose
It was a film showing Hitler in the last days of the Third Reich as his generals arrived with news of another crushing defeat. But in this version the Führer erupts with rage when he hears that Arsenal have beaten his beloved Tottenham 3-1. "Everyone associated with the club is a total moron. I might as well go [and] f****** support Chelsea." This video of Hitler is getting 1,000 hits an hour and is just one of a number of skits on Downfall. The most popular, by Chris Bowley, has attracted 1.7m hits: Hitler flips when he finds out that Microsoft has removed his Xbox account. He screams at his generals when they suggest he might play with Wii instead.     [ timesonline :: 2007-12-09 ]

Adolf Hitler star of radio show: Heroically staged with WWI medals
"His golden year was 1940, when his armies invaded Denmark, Norway... Holland and defeated France ... He refused to surrender and continued to fight for 2 more years, but, his bitter end came in the spring of 1945 when he took his own life... Who is he?" This was the $150 question of the "Voice of Palestine" radio contest. You won't find a single mention of the Holocaust. But this is by no means an isolated case, a study by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook offers an overview of the Palestinian Authority's admiration for Hitler. "The full broadcast presents Hitler heroically, detailing his two Medals' of Honor in WWI... His victories in 1940 are coined 'his golden year'..."     [ ynetnews :: 2007-12-07 ]

Nazi-themed parade: 200 Thai students in red outfits with swastikas
A Thai school has apologized for a celebration that involved a Nazi-themed parade. Photos from the event showed 200 students dressed in red outfits with swastikas on their baseball caps behind a large sign with "NAZI". Some students at the school wore stylized stormtrooper uniforms, carried fake rifles or performed the "sieg heil" salute. Nazi regalia and symbols surface in Thailand and other parts of Asia, often treated as chic design elements for unrelated products. In 1988 a Nazi-themed bar in a Bangkok mall drew protests because of its glamorization of the Third Reich. And Hong Kong and Japan have witnessed a growth in the casual wearing of SS uniforms.     [ iht :: 2007-10-18 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Nazi chess sets on sale: Third Reich soldiers, Adolf Hitler as the king
The figures of Third Reich soldiers - Adolf Hitler as the king - were found in the Grand Bizarre of Istanbul by the holidaymaker, who told: "I was shocked, angry and outraged. ... much more sensitivity to the realities of the Holocaust and the evil symbolism of the swastika should be appreciated."     [ TJ :: 2007-10-12 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Hitler advert fury - Using Führer's image to attract attention: bad taste
An advert featuring a picture of German dictator Adolf Hitler has sparked outrage across the UAE. Conqueror Real Estate used an image of the Führer alongside the line: "The World Is Yours". The firm's general manager admitted he authorised use of the image to attract attention. But his choice has been criticised: "I have been here for 27 years and heard several positive comments towards Hitler, but these comments and the publication of such an ad show nothing but ignorance," said Hink Huisman. Recently a home furnishing firm in India withdrew the "The Nazi Collection" bedspreads. And fashion chain Zara withdrew a handbag featuring swastikas.     [ zawya :: 2007-10-03 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Wine labels with Adolf Hitler's image seized in Italy
Italy: A prosecutor in Bolzano seized wine bottle labels bearing a portrait of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis from a winery near the Austrian border. The 20 labels from the "Der Fuehrer" line show Hitler raising the Nazi salute and his generals, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and the head of the Gestapo Heinrich Himmler. The labels are imprinted with the mottoes "Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" and "Sieg heil". The Lunardelli company said it had sold 20,000 bottles featuring the Hitler labels per year. It also sold wine with images of Mussolini, which were not seized.     [ afp :: 2007-09-20 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

The Mystery of Adolf Hitler's Globe Goes Round and Round
Hitler's globe is missing. Cartographer Wolfram Pobanz is sure that it's not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Nazi Germany. Neither is it the one in the Märkisches Museum, the Berlin history museum, nor the one in a geographical institute. Manufactured in 2 limited editions in Berlin during the mid-1930s (the second edition changed Abyssinia to Italian East Africa), the real Columbus globe was the size of a Volkswagen, and more expensive. A wood base was designed to support it, but custom furniture stands were made for Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Pobanz has been tracking them down. "We called it the Führer globe."     [ nytimes :: 2007-09-18 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

TV presenter Eva Herman sacked for praising Hitler's family policies
Eva Herman, a prominent talk show host, has been courting controversy over the last year by saying women should stay at home and bear children. Now she has been fired by the TV network for praising Adolf Hitler's policies on promoting motherhood. Herman had referred to the Nazi era during a news conference to promote her new book on child-rearing: "It was a gruesome time with a totally crazy and highly dangerous leader who led the Germans into ruin as we all know. But there was at the time also something good, and that is the values, that is the children, that is the families, that is a togetherness - it was all abolished, there was nothing left."     [ spiegel :: 2007-09-11 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

NZ Hell Pizza Chain halts Hitler Poster Ad Campaign
A New Zealand-based Hell Pizza chain is under fire for an ad campaign that showed Adolf Hitler making a nazi salute with a slice of the cheese pie. Hell Pizza is under fire for placing posters featuring the man who triggered the Second World War and was responsible for the genocide of millions on billboards in 4 cities. The ad features Hitler sieg-heiling with a slice in his hands and the slogan: "It is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell," a quote attributed to Hitler. The company has abandoned the Hitler campaign - its new poster boy is Pope Benedict XVI, who is shown with a slice of pizza along with the quote: "Hell is real and eternal."     [ spiegel :: 2007-08-25 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Adolf Hitler's Olympic oak gift to British Harold Whitlock axed
Along with gold medals, the champions of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin were each presented with an oak sapling by Führer Adolf Hitler. Many of the 130 oaks disappeared, but others were planted in the athletes' home towns. Among them was the tree won by the British walker Harold Whitlock which took root at his old school in London. For 70 years it stood giving shade to children as 'Hitler Oak' - until last month the tree was chopped down. Ross Whitlock said: "Apparently Hitler was in the stadium when my father came in at the end of the race, and apparently Hitler jumped up and applauded... I say to people sometimes, 'Hitler applauded my father'. It's a conversation stopper."     [ guardian :: 2007-08-20 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Showman Hitler - Iron Cross, panzer tanks, swastika banners
So Bryan Ferry has got embroiled in a Nazi outcry because he admired Nazi style. He's had to apologise. What for? He didn't say he admired what Nazis did. Ferry is the epitome of style. So, he reckons, were the Nazis. Atrocities were committed in Hitler's name - But he was a hell of a showman. He was a hypnotic orator whose speeches mesmerised a nation. Winston Churchill (my all-time hero, possibly because he was always drunk on the job), delivered his speeches in a dull monotone. Nuremberg rally was like the circus: Iron Cross, panzers, swastika flags. Hitler equipped german army with stylish uniforms, while British generals looked like a bag of brown washing.     [ yorkpress :: 2007-04-25 :: Nazi Propaganda ]

Bryan Ferry: Nazis were 'just amazing', calls his studio Fuhrerbunker
Bryan Ferry's career as a model could be in jeopardy after he spoke of his admiration for the Nazis. In an interview, he described the Nazis as "just amazing" and admitted calling his recording studio the "Fuhrerbunker" - a title associated with Adolf Hitler's headquarters. "My dear gentlemen, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves. Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags -- just amazing. Really beautiful."     [ dailymail :: 2007-04-16 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Myth of Adolf Hitler's Antarctic bunker and Nazi-resurgence debunked
Story of Adolf Hitler's Antarctic ice bunker might have started with the claim of Admiral Karl Donitz, who said in 1943, "The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Fuhrer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-La on land, an impregnable fortress." As far back as 1945, Toronto Daily Star reported that Hitler had not committed suicide in his bunker, but was "on ice in Antarctica," having escaped by u-boat. In 2005, a conspiracy magazine published the first eyewitness account of Hitler's ice bunker. "It's part of the Nazi mythology," said Colin Summerhayes, who has published the most complete debunking yet of a Nazi-resurgence myth.     [ canada :: 2007-03-30 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Thousands of German cities awarded Hitler honorary citizenship
Thousands of German cities awarded Adolf Hitler honorary citizenship. Most were quick to revoke it after 1945, but some forgot to do so. "When Hitler came to power in 1933... Everybody wanted to give him an honorary citizenship and nobody wanted to be the last one," said Rüdiger Schulz. Over 4,000 cities awarded him the title on his 44th birthday on April 20, 1933. Such was the run that Nazi Party imposed a ban: It was lifted again 5 years later when Austria and Sudetenland were annexed. For Jürgen Langowsi, the issue shows how Germany deals with its past: a national "culture of denial" in which controversial topics are forgotten.     [ spiegel :: 2007-03-17 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Taiwanese students inspired by Adolf Hitler launch Nazi movement
A group of Taiwanese students has set up a Nazi political movement advocating national unity, strength and curbing immigration. The group's site is emblazoned with a Nazi swastika and says the group's ranks are reserved for people "who do not dislike (Adolf) Hitler." While courses do cover the European experience during World War II, relatively few Taiwanese understand the revulsion, and the reasons for it, that Nazism conjures up in the West. Hitler images and iconography have been used to promote commercial products in Taiwan, on the grounds that the German leader symbolized strength.     [ canoe :: 2007-03-14 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Adolf Hitler is still honorary citizen of Bad Doberan
A German town has been forced to make the embarrassing admission that Adolf Hitler is still one of its honorary citizens just 3 months before it is due to host the G8 summit. Bad Doberan on Germany's Baltic coast is under pressure from leftwing campaign groups to revoke the honour given to the Nazi leader. The small spa town will host many of the meetings of the G8. Hitler was awarded the honour in 1932, a year before the Nazi takeover of Germany, because NSDAP had secured an absolute majority. Bad Doberan was the first municipality in Germany to award Hitler this honour. It later became standard practice.     [ guardian :: 2007-03-13 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Adolf Hitler in Kosovo
First, India brought you the Hitler cafe, then Croatia brought you Hitler sugar. Now, America's Kosovo brings you Adolf Hitler himself. The text below is from a travelblog of a British tourist and Balkan enthusiast named Ed Alexander. --- When I was in Belgrade earlier, my host Sasa had recounted a story about a man who owns a restaurant, used to be in the Kosova Liberation Army and believes he is Adolf Hitler incarnate... As we payed up for the taxi we looked through our window and our glances were met by the stern glare of Adolf Hitler looking through the restaurant's window as he pulled back the net curtains.     [ huffingtonpost :: 2007-03-08 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Adolf Hitler likeness, extermination jokes on sugar packets
Small packets of sugar bearing the likeness of Adolf Hitler and carrying Holocaust jokes have been found in some cafes in Croatia, prompting an investigation. The incident will embarrass the govt which has been keen to play down the country's past links with Nazism. Croatia's Ustasha regime sided with the Nazis in World War II and enforced ethnic laws under which thousands were killed in local concentration camps in 1941-1945. "If nothing else, this is a disgusting expression of nostalgia for the Third Reich," said Efraim Zuroff.     [ balkanpeace :: 2007-02-20 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Adolf Hitler's Plundering Helped Germans Live the Good Life
How was it that "the majority of Germans bore virtually none of the costs" of "the most expensive war in world history"? According to the German historian Gotz Aly, "The Holocaust will never be properly understood until it is seen as the most single-mindedly pursued campaign of murderous larceny..." For Aly, the key word is "larceny." The mechanics and motives of Nazi plunder, he maintains in his study "Hitler's Beneficiaries," have never been sufficiently examined. His emphasis is on the socialism in National Socialism, and historians have been arguing about it since 2005, when the book came out in Germany.     [ bloomberg :: 2007-01-06 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Adolf Hitler a cool hero to many Indians
When an Adolf Hitler-themed restaurant opened in Mumbai in August, many were horrified. The restaurant, Hitlers Cross, changed its name to the Cross Cafe, but it is not the only example of how favourably some Indians view Hitler and his legacy. Hindu fundamentalist groups praise Hitler's leadership skills. A poll some years ago showed he was seen as an ideal leader. Most patrons still call the Cross Cafe by its previous name. Plates and cups bear the Hitlers Cross logo, with a Nazi swastika in place of the "O". "We call it 'Hitler' only," said Ashish Anant, "We say, 'Let's go to Hitler'. It's a trendy name. It's different."     [ theaustralian :: 2006-12-28 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Nazi salute from Adolf Hitler's birthplace: Austrians acquitted
Five Austrians who were photographed performing the Nazi salute at Mauthausen camp walk free despite strict laws banning such acts. The young men were members of the football fan club "Braunauer Bulldogs" in Braunau am Inn, where Adolf Hitler was born. The youngest one, only 15yo, stood in front of one of the Mauthausen prison huts and raised his arm in a Nazi salute. His four friends raised their arms in reply and a photo was taken and posted on the group's site, where it was spotted and the five were charged under the law against National Socialist revivals, which forbids public display of Nazi salutes.     [ ejpress :: 2006-11-24 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

American soldier searched for Adolf Hitler in Iceland
A history book reveals that an American soldier searched for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in Iceland shortly before the end of WWII. Hitler was believed to be in hiding in the home of author Gunnar Gunnarsson - known for his connections to the Nazis during WW2 and, on 20 March 1940, he was the only Icelander to ever meet Hitler. His house was searched twice by allied forces during the war. On the second occasion, 6 May 1945, an American soldier knocked on his door. He later learned that the soldier had been looking for Adolf Hitler. A week earlier a German plane had been spotted flying over the area, dropping something off near his house.     [ icelandreview :: 2006-11-16 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Walter Petryk faced a blitzkrieg when he arrived as Adolf Hitler
A student faced a blitzkrieg of trouble when he arrived dressed as Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Walter Petryk, who grew a moustache for the occasion, was pulled out of his class and told to remove his beige uniform bearing a red swastika armband. "Excuse me, fuhrer, can I talk to you for a minute?" is how the dean summoned him, and then ordered him to the office with, "Consider yourself my prisoner of war." He maintained the costume was a parody and refused to take it off. His mother, who lost ancestors in the Nazi genocide, said "The dean is offended by a parody of Hitler - and he's acting like Hitler."     [ nypost :: 2006-11-01 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Hitler painting by German forger Konrad Kujau for sale
Konrad Kujau fooled the world in the early 1980s by forging Adolf Hitler diaries. After being discredited by historians and implicated as the mastermind behind the hoax, he spent years in a prison. But the peddler of Nazi paraphernalia continued his career behind bars, copying paintings, including a number of paintings of Hitler. Those paintings have made it to Central Illinois and will be sold. The bidding will take place on gunbroker site, where a rare German gun that belonged to Hitler sold for about $140,000. Also being auctioned will be a ribbon dedicated to the crew of the German warship Graf Spree.     [ pantagraph :: 2006-10-18 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

A meal commemorating Adolf Hitler's birthday
The leader of the Republican National Alliance, Martin Degiorgio, sued Arlette Baldacchino, editor of the Far Right forum Viva Malta, in connection with allegations that he had attended a meal commemorating Adolf Hitler's birthday. DeGiorgio admitted he was in the same place where the Hitler dinner is said to have taken place, but denied attending specifically for that dinner. Degiorgio was together with members of the historical re-enactment group of Malta for a dinner in honour of a re-enactor. At the end of the meal he went over to another table, which was "apparently" commemorating Hitler's birthday, to "say hello."     [ timesofmalta :: 2006-10-15 :: Hitler's birthday: Birth date of Adolf Hitler ]

Pictures of a smiling Adolf Hitler promote Brazilian dentists
Pictures of a smiling Hitler plastered on billboards across Brazil to promote chain of dental clinics. The Nazi leader was chosen from a list of figures well-known throughout the world in order to advertise for the dental clinics under the slogan, "A smile can change the world."     [ ynetnews :: 2006-10-08 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Hitler cartoon short film "Der Bonker" causes storm in Germany
A satirical cartoon about Adolf Hitler, where he sits on the toilet complaining about Winston Churchill, is causing controversy. Walter Moers is famous for his comic books depicting the dictator as a frustrated little man. But with the release of the short film "Der Bonker", Germans seem to feel he has gone too far. Despite thousands of fans making the clip one of this week's most shown, many have complained at the comic portryal of the mass-murdering dictator. A caricatured version of Hitler is shown in the bathroom of his bunker in 1945, singing angrily to himself about the way the war is going.     [ guardian :: 2006-09-21 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Hitler T-shirt angers
A group has called a Mambo brand T-shirt that depicts Adolf Hitler deeply offensive and has called for it to be withdrawn from sale. The T-shirt features an image of Adolf Hitler making a "Heil Hitler" salute next to a photo of Winston Churchill with his fingers forming a V for Victory. The words underneath, "paper v scissors", relate to the game Scissors, Paper, Rock in which the symbol for scissors - V-shaped fingers - beats the flat-handed symbol for paper.     [ news--au :: 2006-09-20 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Restaurant named after Adolf Hitler - Posters with Swastikas
A new restaurant in India is named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters featuring the Nazi leader and swastikas. The owner of Hitler's Cross says he chose the name to stand out among hundreds of Mumbai eateries. "We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different." A huge portrait of a stern-looking Führer greets visitors and the interior is done out in the Nazi colours. The cross in the restaurant's name refers to the swastika that symbolised the Nazi regime. The emblem has its roots in ancient India and remains a sacred symbol for Hindus.     [ scotsman :: 2006-08-22 :: Swastika: Nazi Sign, Symbol & Emblem ]

Nazi memorabilia Collectors push Führer to brink of extinction
A rare beetle named after Adolf Hitler is in danger of extinction because of its popularity as a neo-Nazi collector's item. The tiny, brown, eyeless beetle, Anophthalmus hitleri, was found in 1933 by Oscar Scheibel, a German entomologist and Hitler fan, and is found in only 15 caves. Now the "Hitler beetle" is so sought-after that it could disappear altogether, which would mean the demise of the only creature on the planet currently named after the Nazi dictator. Rochlingia hitleri, a flying insect fossil named after Hitler in 1934 was already extinct at its naming. Some thieves just want to cash in on the Nazi memorabilia market.     [ independent :: 2006-08-20 :: Relic Hunters: Hidden Nazi & War treasures ]

Hitler's hometown park to be named for Wehrmacht objector
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A park in Adolf Hitler's hometown, Braunau, is to be named after a man executed by the Nazis during World War II for refusing to serve in the German Wehrmacht. Franz Jaegerstaetter from St. Radegund, near Braunau, refused to co-operate with the Nazi regime and was executed on August 9, 1943 in Brandenburg. Now a park on the grounds of St. Josef hospital in Braunau will bear his name. His ashes were brought back to his hometown after World War II by two Franciscan nuns, whose order now runs the hospital.     [ newsinfo :: 2006-08-03 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

No problems at Waffen-SS soldier's Adolf Hitler memorial
A handful of people came to see Ted Junker's memorial to Adolf Hitler during the week, but nobody came Sunday, which was supposed to be the public grand opening of Junker's homemade shrine to the infamous German fuehrer, but authorities asked him to cancel the event and monitored Internet trying to gauge any activity that might arise. The former Nazi Waffen-SS soldier still is allowed to invite people to see his creation. He agreed to keep the property closed to the public until his land is rezoned.     [ gazetteextra :: 2006-06-27 :: Adolf Hitler Memorial by Waffen-SS Ted Junker ]

Yearbook Führer quote: Strength lies not in defense but attack
Officials will remove quotations from Adolf Hitler that were chosen by two seniors to appear under their high school yearbook pictures, saying they regret that the Nazi leader's words were published. Christopher Koulermos and Philip Compton, both 18, chose to quote Hitler - sparking angry calls from parents who found the quotations offensive. Both quotes were attributed to Hitler. They come from Hitler's 1925 "Mein Kampf." Koulermos chose "Strength lies not in defense but attack," while Compton picked "The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."     [ newsday :: 2006-06-14 :: Lighter side ]

Hitler's last relatives lead quiet life in a New York suburb
Three brothers living an uneventful life on Long Island, New York, have decided to write a book about their family. Their famous relative: Adolf Hitler. Alexander, Louis and Brian Hitler are direct descendants of the Nazi German leader's paternal side. A fourth brother, Howard, died in a car accident in 1989. The three are also childless, suggesting that Hitler's bloodline may die with them. Their father, William Patrick Hitler, is the subject of a play called 'Little Willy'. William is the son of Alois Hitler Jr, half-brother of the Nazi dictator because they shared the same father.     [ monstersandcritics :: 2006-04-25 :: Hitler family & Last living relatives ]

Whatever you do, don't mention the birthday of the dictator
For as long as I can remember, the date April 20 has been a millstone around my neck: not because it's my birthday but because one name dominates famous people's birthdays on April 20. Adolf Hitler. In the midst of the WWII mayhem, my mother was pregnant and hoping for a royal birth - The Princess Elizabeth was due to turn 16 on April 21, and I was due that day. But no, in true Aryan (oops, Freudian slip, Arian) style, I showed all the traits of my star sign by turning up one day early. When I came to live in Australia I thought it was all behind me. But my mother-in-law, on learning the date of my birthday, said: "How marvellous, that's Hitler's birthday. We'll never forget that." And she never did.     [ theage-Denise Gadd :: 2006-04-20 :: Opinions and Views of World War II ]

Nazi salute scandal hits Hitler's birthplace
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A scandal rocked Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's birthplace Braunau with a picture of local football fans making Nazi salutes during a visit to a nearby concentration camp memorial site. Reports said the picture had until recently been on the homepage of the Braunau football fan club. It showed club members stretching their right arms in the Hitler salute. The picture had been taken at the memorial site of the notorious Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen, where more than 100,000 people were murdered up till the camp's liberation by the U.S. Army in 1945.     [ expatica :: 2006-01-10 :: Springtime for Hitler ]

Nominees for a Nobel Peace Prize: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini
Past nominees for Nobel Peace Prize include Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Fidel Castro. According to Nobel Prize nominating rules, any "professor of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology" and any judge or national legislator in any country, among others, can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize.     [ latimes :: 2005-12-05 :: Opinions and Views of World War II ]

Spitzy: Hitler was charming, humoristic and a very good mimic
Reinhard Spitzy, who deserted the Nazis to become a member of the German resistance, worked with Hitler in Austria. "Nobody is bad all their life. Hitler was charming, humoristic, and a very good mimic." Hitler enjoyed telling jokes about the British. "He particularly liked Colonel Blimp jokes, not sex or political ones. He always talked nicely about England - he never wanted to endanger it." Hitler was handsome, particularly in the morning. "In the morning his eyes were big and wonderful deep blue." Before the war Spitzy was right-hand man to the Reich's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and during it worked for the head of the Abwehr, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.     [ telegraph :: 1996-06-18 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

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'Upsetting Nazi Uniforms'

'Collectibles, Militaria'

'Waffen-SS: controversy'

'American, Nazi Flags'.

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