I'm Hitler, You're Hitler, We're all Hitler !!

[Srrh]

Hello dudes and dudettes

I've got the following form BBCnews.com on thursday:

"The White House has condemned comments by German Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin likening US President George W Bush's political methods over Iraq to those of Adolf Hitler.
"This statement by the justice minister is outrageous and inexplicable," Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters.

The regional Schwaebisches Tagblatt newspaper quoted Ms Daeubler-Gmelin, as saying, "Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler used."

Throughout the current election campaign in Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has defied America by opposing US military action against Iraq.

The stance has proved popular with German voters."

Ok. So Saddam is Hitler (something already said in 91), Ben Ladden is Hitler, Sharon is Hitler, now Bush is also Hitler...

Is it just me or are the general philosophy of Nazism and the personality of Hitler in particular being used left and right a bit lightly in the recent past?

Anything ressembling restraints is considered nazism, and any little despot prick is becoming Hitler.
Isn't there a danger to forget the real nature of the III reich's beast when such terms are used without any focus?

I remain
Srrh

[RacerX]

Wuff, it does seem to have a "watering down" effect of the real Hitler and what he'd done.

It seems these days, EVERYTHING is a 30 second, made for TV, sound bite! Wuff, dram-queen central...

Your young Hitler in the making,
RacerX

[Srrh]

RacerX said:

It seems these days, EVERYTHING is a 30 second, made for TV, sound bite

Good point there Rx.
Plus in this era of "extremes" (X-box, x-sport etc...) a little shock value is always welcome.
I 'd hate to think future generation will define bieng a Hitler, as being "A little anal retentive Fuck"...I fear the twelve million dead will be forgotten...

PS Why is no one ever called a "Stalin"? Or a "Pol Pot"?

Srrh

[da_silva]

LOL,

I bet Adolf is spinning in his grave. Hehe.

[Wycco]

da_silva said:

I bet Adolf is spinning in his grave. Hehe.

Nah- I think the Russians are keeping him alive on a machine so they can torture him some more every single day- one extra day of torture for each Russian soldier who died during the 2 world wars.!

[da_silva]

LOL@Wick,

And here I thought he was in South America. LOL.

[Henrik]

But but but....

I received an account opening request from him the other day, where he put residence as Bagdad!

[Cine_Man]

LOL@ Henrik

Cine_...

PS it was an account he was underwriting for Mengele.

[Srrh]

Hitlerisation: Lessons from history


Hitlerisation • n 1. The trend for the dead Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to enter and even dominate part of a nation's cultural life, esp the school and college syllabuses. 2. The attempt to liken a person or figure to Adolf Hitler (To Hitlerise or to become Hitlerised). 3. The emulation of the political tactics of Hitler's Nazi regime, 1933-45.

CURRENT USAGE: "At the heart of the charges of 'Hitlerisation' in examination courses is that in many schools Nazi Germany is prominent in the GCSE... and it is then revisited at AS or A-level." Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, 05/02/03.

ROOT: school inspectors "observed more lessons on Hitler than on any other subject" in the history curriculum. However, "there is little evidence of over-emphasis" in the teaching of children 11-14.

DISPUTED USE: British history lessons have been Hitlerised, according to the German ambassador to the UK, Thomas Matussek.

"There is an obsession right through school with Hitler and Stalin." cf. Stalinisation.

APPLIED TO: "Slobodan the Terrible has, quite rightly, been demonised and Hitlerised." Tom Brown, Daily Record, 22/04/1999.

ALSO APPLIED TO: "Bush is the new Hitler." Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, Corriere della Sera, 14/02/2003.

Saddam Hussein is ''worse than Hitler''. President George Bush, Snr, 1990.

ALSO SEE: Hitlerism. "The ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the will of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of the United States of America." President G W Bush, State of the Union address, 28/01/03.

[dani]

Lol@ da-silva, maybe that's why everyone's being called a Hitler, the little buggers have finally grown up. (damb cloneing )

Seriously, there is some truth to that title. I was reading this book the other day called "Ordinary men" In it, this history dude called Christopher Browning attempts to explain what made ordinary people turn into such monsters during the third reich (ie. the enforcers of Hitler's will) his conclusion is that it is in human nature to behave in such a way, blindly listening to those who have authority. Thus we are all potential Hitlers.

as for why no one is ever called a "Stalin" people for some reason find it more interesting to read about people getting shot or tortured to death than people starving (fascination with the abomination) and also, a Jew can be any nationality, Ukrainians and Russians are just that.

[Chris]

Hey Srrh,

well I think that your point your made is right. Nowadays everthing and everybody is compared to the "biggest scenery former of the last century".
And if you ask me it's completely nuts. Of course the regime of Saddam Hussein is one of the worst along with the ones in Simbambwe or North-Corea (where ppl are starving yet they thrive for the bomb) and of course the USA.
BUT, ppl realy tend to forget what Hitler and his hunchmen were like. What can I say, you hit the nail on the head, good point man.