Time Magazine: Hitler is Man of the Year!... Oops, we mean Betrayer!

In 1938, after Hitler managed to redraw the map of Europe in his favor, bringing 10,500,000 more people (7,000,000 Austrians, 3,500,000 Sudetens) under his absolute rule. These facts helped Time make the decision to name him Man of the Year, a dubious honor that is not an endoresement or a rejection: It simply shows who, of all the newsworthy people, made the biggest impact on humanity that year, according to Time Magazine. Even so, the article is something of a dichotomy with its title that seems to echo reverence and its prose that condemns him for his acts:

"Civil rights and liberties have disappeared. Opposition to the Nazi regime has become tantamount to suicide or worse. Free speech and free assembly are anachronisms. The reputations of the once-vaunted German centres of learning have vanished. Education has been reduced to a National Socialist catechism."

"The genius of free wills has been so stifled by the oppression of dictatorship that Germany's output of poetry, prose, music, philosophy,art has been meagre indeed."

By the time he'd finally killed himself on April 30th, 1945, America had been openly at war with Germany long enough to have lost 200,000 at the hands of German soldiers. Time issued a different cover for that story: Hitler's face with a blood-red X across it and a title "The Betrayer." No dichotomy between the title and the text here. The test drips with hatred for Germany and Hitler.

"Judging by present appearances, it does not seem likely that Adolf Hitler will go down in German history as a martyred leader. . . . Hitler, if he were still able to wonder what his historical function had been as everything crumbled, might say with Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust: I am Ein Teil -von jener Kraft, Die stets das Base will und stets das Gute schafft.(Part of that force, That is forever willing evil, continually produces good.)"

They Saved Hitler's Brain

They Saved Hitler’s Brain is a film you and your family need to see. It’s far from mere entertainment – in fact, it’s not entertaining at all. It’s just a cold, hard look at what happened after the war.

Y’see, when the jig was finally up, these Nazi dudes in the bunker sawed off the Fuhrer’s head and kept it in a jar, where – thanks to surprisingly advanced medical techniques – it continued issuing orders and consulting them on the creation of a Fourth Reich. Fortunately, the good guys found out and chased the Nazi dudes around and, like, somebody threw a Molotov cocktail at the car with the head in it and it melted like a scented candle in a bong shop. There are some facts in between, but the cough medicine I’d ingested to help me “understand” this cinematic milestone was unexpectedly potent. KEEP READING...

Jodie Foster to Play Riefenstahl in upcoming film

by Monika Bartyzel

For seven years there have been efforts to get a biopic on Leni Riefenstahl up and running. The German director, who died a few years ago at the age of 101, was of course, infamous for her friendship with Hitler and her propaganda films for the Third Reich. She filmed rallies, the 1936 Olympics and even the German victory parade in Warsaw after the fall of the city. While she maintained throughout her years that she was naive about the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis, she's been accused of using concentration camp captives in her films and sent a note to Hitler after the fall of France: "Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we ever thank you?" The reality of her knowledge probably fell somewhere in the middle.

Her actions made her shunned by most after the end of the war, and it's no surprise that she refused to sign a contract for Jodie Foster to make the project. The actress would not give Leni the right to axe aspects of the film she didn't agree with, and Riefenstahl actually preferred Sharon Stone over Foster to play herself. (Perhaps she would have had a change of heart after Basic Instinct 2?) With the director/photographer having passed away, the Guardian reports that the project is once again gearing up, with Foster set to star and Rupert Walters currently writing the script. With a director planned to be attached in the next few months, producer Gabriele Bacher hopes to get the film into production by the end of the year with the help of Foster's production company. There will, of course, be controversy over spotlighting Riefenstahl, but it should be intriguing. Considering the technical advancements she made in the film medium, I wonder if they will use her artistic vision and eye for imagery when filming her story.

Hitler and Jesus: Second Coming

I suppose the historical irony here is that Hitler may have actually believed he WAS Jesus, according to some historians.

Carpooling is for Patriots!

Student hassled by school officials over ceramic Hitler mask project.

"A Stonington mother is concerned the personal beliefs of a teacher and school superintendent are why her son initially received a failing grade on an art project depicting the face of Adolph Hitler. School officials changed their stand on the issue immediately following an inquiry by the Daily Press Wednesday." READ MORE

Stories like this are always amusing. People get so worked up over political correctness that nobody even knows the definition of offensive anymore. It seems like schools, in particular, are the worst. Americans are so sensitive to things that might offend someone, somewhere that everything winds up on the hit-list. I'm glad the student stood up for himself and his first amendment rights.

Hitler's Little Helper

Abandoned in Germany at the age of five this English boy joined the Hitler Youth, helping attack Jews. Only when he came to Britain did he confront his guilt - and discover his mother's was even greater

What did you do in the war, Mr Briscoe? Ask this gentle, 73-year-old Englishman, a former woodwork teacher, father and grandfather, living out his retirement in the peaceful Suffolk countryside, and the answer is shocking: "I joined the Hitler Youth.

"I was the proudest boy alive when I first put on my black shorts and brown shirt and made a solemn oath that dedicated the rest of my life to the Fuhrer."

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This just in: Ahmadinejad NOT Hilter... He's worse

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 in News, Iran by Laurence Vance|

He is worse than Hitler, at least according to Victor Davis Hanson and the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry.

We already knew that Hanson was a crazed warmonger, but in a speech earlier this year at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar (as reported in Hillsdale’s April 2007 Imprimis), he stated (after he said that Ahmadinejad wants to destroy Israel):

Let no one doubt that a nuclear Iran would end the entire notion of peaceful global adjudication of nuclear proliferation and pose an unending threat to civilization itself.

And from the March/April 2007 issue of Israel My Glory, published by the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, we read:

But annihilating the Jewish state is merely a warm-up. Although the lynchpin of Ahmadinejad’s crusade is a first-strike success against his near neighbor Israel, the next move is westward to Europe and then on to finish off the hated United States.

Another piece in Israel My Glory quotes Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that “unless the United States stops Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, America has only two to five years left.”

So basically, unless the United States attacks Iran now, Iran will destroy the entire world. Right.

4-20 roundup

Looks like Hitler's birthday was newsworthy for much of the world. Here's what I scrounged up on Google:

White supremacists are holding a rock concert in Wellington tonight to commemorate Adolf Hitler's birthday. LINK

Hitler's birthday, a date of terror... but some high schoolers see April 20 as a day to smoke marijuana LINK

Students locked in over Hitler birthday LINK

Man honours Hitler - naked LINK

Man honours Hitler - naked

Vancouver - A Canadian man was arrested after he was found walking around naked with a swastika taped to his body to mark Adolf Hitler's birthday, police said on Friday.

Police officers in Nanaimo, British Columbia, said they were called to the scene by concerned residents.

The man told them he was "honouring Hitler's birthday".

He was detained and would undergo a psychiatric assessment.

Hitler was born April 20, 1889.

"Although the swastika symbol causes some concern and is usually associated with hate and the Nazi regime, in this instance this male posed no threat to the community," said police.