He did have a sense of humor, though you would never know it:
"You know who else made jokes about Hitler?; Historian Gavriel Rosenfeld believes it’s dangerous to normalize the Nazis" by Rebecca Onion, Globe Correspondent February 15, 2015
In recent years, Adolf Hitler’s name and image have become omnipresent, deployed to make all kinds of points. President Obama’s opponents have compared him to the Fuhrer in so many ways that the juxtaposition has lost its shock value. Movies like “Inglorious Basterds” and “Iron Sky” imagine alternate histories in which Hitler pays for his crimes, or a group of Nazis escape to live on the moon. In 2005, Britain’s Prince Harry wore a swastika armband to a costume party (a move he later publicly regretted); in 2014, singer Nicki Minaj used the trappings of Nazism as window dressing for a music video.
While these flippant invocations of the Third Reich tend to meet with public outrage (or at least eye-rolling), the flood of Nazi references seems unstoppable.
They do seem to make my paper an awful lot.
In a new book, “Hi Hitler!: How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture” (Cambridge University Press), historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld argues that this trend should give us pause. Rosenfeld gathers hundreds of examples of Hitler “normalization” from intellectual and popular culture, from novels to movies to Internet memes.
Then stop bringing him up.
Rosenfeld, a professor at Fairfield University, writes that in the decades right after the end of the war, Americans took a moralistic attitude in remembering the Reich. But since the turn of the 21st century, he says, we have developed new ways of referencing that history that diminish the horrific actualities of the Holocaust.
Sigh.
Maybe it is because we have had so many since, usually initiated by the EUSraeli Empire against brown-skinned people sitting on resources.
“I think the drift these days is toward cynicism, tongue-in-cheek, satire,” Rosenfeld says, “and it’s leading a lot of people to throw the baby out with the bath water, saying ‘Screw history, it’s too complicated...there may be some real substance somewhere, but I don’t want to cut through all of this stuff to get to it, so I’ll just kind of dwell on the surface.’ ” This, Rosenfeld says, can be dangerous: “We can’t be complacent about the past.”
The book’s striking title comes from Web culture and Hitler’s weird afterlife on the Web....
Maybe people are searching back through history to discover what else they were lied to about. That's what happened to me when I knew Iraq was a lie before it happened. Then I went back through history to 9/11, first Iraq war (already knew about those lies), Vietnam, etc, etc. there is a progression there, and once you know someone has lied to you how can you believe them again?
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Case in point right there in the link.
Honestly, folks, I don't need more $elf-centered whining about the Holocaust™ when the official version and story of the man are a pack of distortions at best, outright lies at worse. That's not an endorsement of the man or his long-dead movement I'm tired of hearing about. It is simply an acknowledgment that some of his ideas were worthy (that getting rid of private central banks was a real thorn for some), others not so much (torture and prison camps).
Look, I wouldn't exactly consider the guy a friend, but I'm on the bubble as to what really happened and certainly doubt the version I have been taught and told my whole life. Sorry.
At the risk of proving the point, I admit that I do admire the man for one reason: he was the only one in history to call out the Jew World Order and their international banking cartel -- and has been savagely demonized by them ever since.
That's not really funny when you think about it.
NDU: Nazi-looted Rothschild art goes to MFA
That reminds me of another reason: he booted that criminal family that somehow remains unmentioned in my history books.
Artifact to be returned
