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2008-10-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Today in History: Julius Streicher gets his just deserts

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Posted by Mike 2008-10-16 10:03|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 He pissed off the executioner. Bad move.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-10-16 10:51|| 2008-10-16 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Bad move.

Just when you think things can't get no worse...

Posted by SteveS 2008-10-16 11:25|| 2008-10-16 11:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Streicher's Der Stürmer was still more violent and antisemitic than Nazy Party's official
paper "Volkisher Beobachter".

As a side note in "The great Escape" one of the escaped, who is passing for a German reads the Volkisker Beobachter in the train.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-16 11:33|| 2008-10-16 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 On a vaguely related note, the Nazi 'Signal' magazine, the German equivalent of the US 'Life' magazine, makes for some interesting reading. Mostly in how normal it tried to make Germany look.

Some years ago, a book was published that was "The Best of Signal". It included pictures of Hitler doing ordinary politician stuff, including one of him presenting a happy middle-aged housewife with a blue ribbon for her award winning meatloaf and another of him at the grand opening of some business building, looking like a small town mayor.

In other words, it was "soft" propaganda, and it points out one of the startling differences in the war.

In England and America, the philosophy of "total war" was in effect, in which "everything effects the war effort, one way or another."

But Hitler never adopted that idea for Germany, going to great lengths to keep consumer goods in the market and to keep up the appearance of normality. Women could still buy lipstick, perfume and silk stockings until late in the war. War rationing was pretty much limited to imported goods.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-16 14:38|| 2008-10-16 14:38|| Front Page Top

#5 A sad day for activist media....

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-10-16 15:03|| 2008-10-16 15:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Today he'd probably win some kinda Nobel prize...

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-16 15:06|| 2008-10-16 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Or get accepted into one of our "elite" colleges, tu.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-10-16 19:29|| 2008-10-16 19:29|| Front Page Top

#8 "Or get accepted into one of our "elite" colleges, tu."

To teach, CB. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-16 19:52|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-16 19:52|| Front Page Top

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