Koreans Love Nazis

The Coreana Cosmetics Co. television ad for a skin lotion shows a young woman in a short skirt and military-style trench coat, holding a soldier's cap that appears to have the swastika-gripping eagle Nazi insignia. Background noises of an explosion and crowds cheering in response to a man's unintelligible speech are heard.

A version shown in previews and posted on the Web contained the slogan: "Even Hitler didn't have the East and West."

The commercial still features the same militaristic imagery, but Kim said Coreana was not aware of the Nazi-style logo on the model's cap. He said the costume was selected by a stylist affiliated with Korad, a Seoul-based firm that produced the commercial.

A Korad official, Seo Sang-hee, confirmed the ad was meant to invoke a Nazi soldier and Hitler, which she said symbolized "revolution" in keeping with the lotion's "revolutionary" moisturizing and calming effects.

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Walt Disney Presents: Hitler's Children

Hitler's vision of a super-city fit for the Reich takes shape - in minature

By: Roger Boyes in Berlin

Adolf Hitler called it Germania, his vision of Berlin as a city full of bloated marble architecture, capital of the Nazi-run world. “Berlin will only be comparable with the Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians or Romans,” the Nazi leader said. “What is London, what is Paris by comparison?”

For decades his plans were regarded as so crazed that they were confined to specialist books and institutes.

Yesterday the taboo was broken. Peer Steinbrück, the German Finance Minister, unveiled a scale model of Germania, the Führer’s supersized city. Centrepiece of the display was the domed Great Hall, planned by Albert Speer, Hitler’s master architect, to accommodate a crowd of 150,000.

“We wanted to avoid this exhibition being seen by the wrong people,” said Karl Dettmaer, deputy director of the regional picture archives, which first tried to deal with the sensitive Germania issue in the 1980s.

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DIY Lego Nazi

by Dunechaser
The new Indiana Jones LEGO sets won't include Nazi minifigs -- a decision I wholeheartedly agree with. If you really want them, you can make your own. These LEGO Nazis are wearing LEGO-compatible (i.e. not LEGO) BrickForge "Military Helmets" and the gray one is armed with a "Sturmgewehr."

Norwegian says he has cartoons drawn by Hitler

By Aasa Christine Stoltz

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian museum director says he has discovered cartoons which he believes were drawn by Adolf Hitler during World War Two. There was no independent confirmation that the drawings were the work of the Nazi leader, who tried to make a living as an artist before going into politics. William Hakvaag, director of a war museum in northern Norway, said on Thursday he had found the drawings hidden in a painting signed "A.Hitler" that he bought at a German auction for about $300.

He found three coloured cartoons of dwarfs from the 1937 Walt Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", signed A.H., and an unsigned sketch of "Pinocchio", a character in another Disney film, he said. He said he had done tests on the paintings and suggested they dated from 1940. In 1983, German news magazine Stern published what it said were extracts from Hitler's diaries. They were later exposed to be forgeries.

Hakvaag told Reuters: "I am 100 percent sure that these are drawings by Hitler...If one wanted to make a forgery, one would never hide it in the back of a picture, where it might never be discovered." The initials on the sketches, and the signature on the painting, matched other copies of Hitler's handwriting, he said. "Hitler had a copy of Snow White. He thought this was one of the best movies ever made," Hakvaag said about the animated classic, an adaptation of a German fairy tale.

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The Ductators

Another classic Warner Bros. WW2 propaganda piece.

Unlike McCain, Hitler 'Had a Coherent Tax Policy,' Coulter Says

Washington (CNSNews.com) - In a speech at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., Friday, just down the hall from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), author Ann Coulter said that the primary difference between Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Adolf Hitler was that Hitler "had a coherent tax policy."

Bank ad uses Hitler to sell loans

The bottom of the card reads: “Scratch the moustache and words and take back control.” This concept ties in with the radio ad, which features a teacher asking a couple of children to define the word “dictator” and ends with a child saying, “My father says his bank manager is a dick, a dick….” which the teacher completes by saying “dictator”. For some reason - I can’t quite put my finger on it - it’s not quite as funny as it could be.

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Holocaust Comic sets out to educate

"How do you inform increasingly history-weary teenagers about the Holocaust? An institute in the Netherlands has come up with an unconventional way to deal with Germany's dark past in the classroom -- a comic book."