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G8 venue revokes Hitler's honorary citizenship
Today's bit of meaningless symbolism...Germanys Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, which will host the G8 summit in June, has revoked the honorary citizenship it awarded to Adolf Hitler in 1932. The local council voted late on Monday to formally strip the Nazi dictators name from the roll of honorary citizens even though it felt the honour had lapsed when Hitler, a regular summer guest, killed himself. Weve taken this formal step now before the G8 meeting because it was causing such a stir even though in our view the honorary citizenship lapsed with his death, Gerhard Kukla, head of the towns administration, told Reuters. Hitler spent several summer holidays in Germanys oldest Baltic resort, 250 km (150 miles) north of Berlin. Posted by: Fred 2007-04-04 |
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