Hitlerite obsession

[the_historian]

getting back on topic...
Howl Hitler: German who taught dog to give Nazi salute with its paw is jailed | the Daily Mail

[plant-pilot]

Originally Posted by the_historian

getting back on topic...
Howl Hitler: German who taught dog to give Nazi salute with its paw is jailed | the Daily Mail

That's ON topic?

[Christos]

My lack of knowledge of the House of Stuart is not something I am proud of, but at least I DO acknowledge it...more than some would....I will tell you if I'm not sure, leaving myself wide open as usual....in your haste to condemn my thoughts, have a look at my OFFICIAL REPLY......that should just about close the book on the critics.....

[the_historian]

Originally Posted by plant-pilot

That's ON topic?

Well, the thread is called "Hitlerite Obsession"....

[T-34]

Originally Posted by the_historian

Howl Hitler: German who taught dog to give Nazi salute with its paw is jailed

overall - a funny story...
if only the authorities weren't so stupid in their attitude towards this guy.

[Christos]

You know, people like that Dog owner only make Neo-Nazis look all the more ridiculous......The Gay community have also contributed to this end, making SS caps and suspenders an extemely 'butch' part of their getup......I think if we marginalize people like this dog owner, he becomes a harmless fool, rather than someone whose political ideas are to be taken seriously.......

[jason taylor]

The word obsession obviously implies unhealthiness so by definition it is unhealthy.
That said I don't think an interest in World War II is unhealthy. There are so many interesting people and events then, and many things that were quite praiseworthy. Besides something like it will happen again sooner or latter and if we keep the memory we might not botch it up as bad. As T. E. Lawrence said, we have ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well. Furthermore, war is a discipline of knowledge, and knowledge is good in itself and so is taking pleasure in it.
As for taking an interest in Hitler, that is less healthy. We have to remember, I suppose simply because we need to be reminded at times how bad people can be. And of course some have relations who were his victims. But contemplating evil to much is not really healthy. Besides it would please Herr Schneckelgruber more then a little, which might be a good reason to think about him less.

[jason taylor]

The funny thing is, I am not all that interested in Hitler. He always seemed more like a street thug and doesn't seem to have much charisma in the way that Caesar or Ghenghis Khan had.
Mengele now, is the sort of fellow that makes your skin crawl. He is one of the few people that I really want to go to hell. By contrast, Eichmann is so, to use an old word, banal, that I don't want him to go to hell-exactly. I don't want any thing of him. I just want the old monster to go away and deprive you of the burden of thinking about him.
However Hitler, I always found a remarkably uninteresting person. And perhaps that is best. He wanted power over peoples' minds as well as their bodies and it is as well not to give him that power.

[Gotthard Heinrici]

Originally Posted by Owen

Right dodgey looking lot here, eh?
Think Hitler loks constipated. Maybe he dropped the soap in Prison.


Early life to his assumption of power on 30 January 1933: Hitler after his release from the Landsberg prison in the summer of 1924. Rudolph Hess, his companion in prison, is the second figure on the right.

Ooooh look Emil Maurice, Hitlers chauffeur has a little mandolin/bazouki style thingy and he looks like he's tuning up. Wonder what he's gonna play, Right lads on the count of 3!

[Panzerschreck]

Originally Posted by Warulfsdottyr

maybe his anti-semitism was caused due to :
I read that the doctor who combated the sickness/cancer or whatever of his mom which died when he was a youth
or
his officer in ww1 did not let him reach an higher rank because of "führungsuntauglichkeit"
they both were jews

Yes I have also read that, and as you might know Hitler was a painter in his early years. He even applied for the Painting school in Wien, but the headmaster of the school turned him down and said that he wasn't qualified enough to attend the school. Hitler got furious because he loved to paint. And very much indeed that headmaster was jewish. Whether this anything to do with his acts later in his career, I don't know. Anyway thought I would share this information with you guys.

Thanks, Michael