“When the Nazis took power in 1933, Christmas was one of their first targets.
Not even Santa was safe.” >full text (c) FAST CO. DESIGN, 2013
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The Vienna of 1913
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Austria, Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Stalin, Tito, Vienna on 20 April 2013 by delclem
A century ago, the city of Vienna played host to Hitler,
Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin.”
>full text with more photos & a map (c) BBC, 2013
>audio file (interview with Charles Emmerson & Dardis McNamee)
(the same facts are also mentioned in the German 1913 book by Florian Illies)
Incisive Anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Anschluss, Austria, cultural memory, Germany, Hitler, memory politics, National Socialism on 13 March 2013 by delclem
Austria commemorates again its – less forced than desired – “Anschluss” to Nazi Germany. Continue reading
Nazi merchandising?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Australia, Austria, branding, Germany, Hitler, India, media, men's wear, merchandising, UK on 31 August 2012 by delclem
“A MEN’S clothes store in India is being asked to change its name after the chosen ‘Hitler’ upsets the local community.”
Summer canard, naïveté or evil business – taking the vile merchandising & ‘branding’ of Nazi history a step further…?
And what is the Gandhi-Tshirt suupposed to mean?
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From Ghandi to Hitler with Love?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Gandhi, Germany, history, Hitler, India, letters on 23 July 2012 by delclem
This letter was allegedly written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler on 23 July 1939: is it authentic or fabricated? There were letters written indeed, it seems; but this one? >more Btw., a controversial movie on this topic was shot in 2011.
“The Suffering Olympics”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, genocide, Hitler, Holocaust, memory politics, Soviet Union, Stalin on 2 February 2012 by delclem
“The ‘double genocide’ wars that pit Stalin’s crimes against Hitler’s are raging in wide swathes of Europe and every now and again along comes a gust from the past to stoke them.” Commentary by Robert Cohen (c) NYT, 2012; illustration by Gianpaolo Pagni.
delirium clemens 