Posted on 04/28/2008 3:46:24 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
[Some color pics from Der Spiegel Online. Click the URL below]
http://www.spiegel.de/flash/0,5532,10269,00.html
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Hurl.
Color or black and white, they are photos of one of the most maniacal humans to ever inhabit this planet.
Headline sounds like a Mel Brooks joke.
Didn’t any Germans notice that Adolph didn’t look anything like his nordic ideal?
Cute! (Weren’t those uniforms shiny!)
The face of evil.
Actually there was a joke that went around among cynical Berliners that the average German was as blond as Hitler, as slim as Goering, and as physically strong as Goebbels.
Didn’t any Americans notice that their first black president didn’t look anything like an African-American ideal?
Duh....color film was a lot more expensive.
Most intriguing.
Nazism was not a rational ideology. An analogy that seemed most appropriate was that it seduced like the giddy terror of a carnival funhouse and the mortal terror of an avatior. Hitler encouraged irrational thought through crafted brand image of a romanticized post-industrial culture including image, typography and aryan/nordic myth. Even the uniforms, designed by Hugo Boss, had a sado-masochistic design, with the death head and knee high polished leather boots.
lol
C: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
D: Sure they did. In fact, those photographs are in color. It's just that the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930's, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
C: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
D: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
C: But..but how could they have painted color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of grey back then?
D: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s
C: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
D: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
AmaZingly, you are the first person I’ve ever heard point that out! In Hitler’s example , his ideal Nordic-racial type was history’s most massive case of overcompensation/
It sounds like the playbook for liberalism. Seriously.
Don’t leave out Joe Stalin and Pol Pot. Sad to say, there have been a few.....
And Chairman Mao
Very true, as liberalism is really the face of a self-loathing person who wishes to be destroyed or a intellectual bully who wants complete control or a member of a gender/identity politic who despises western civ as it has demonstrated that it is superior in the areas of science, production, personal freedom and the arts.
Well, Nazism was a socialist ideology and our modern day libs are socialists so it stands to reason their ideologies would be in lock step
(gee, I miss Bill Waterson and "Calvin and Hobbes.")
Duh, I was mocking the article. Jeez.
thanks for posting; the slide show was something to see.
Nothin’ like Kodachrome.
The same page had a link with a picture of Hillary!
Coincidence? I think not.
The veneer of civilzation is a thin and fragile one.
A technologically advanced, educated nation like Germany descended into moral chaos with very little effort, it seems.
And history often repeats itself.
Freedom must be guarded continually. Those who lost it in WW2 only regained it when a greater miltary prevailed.
If America loses it liberty, no one will come to our rescue.
I was colored! Does this mean... 
I am one of Rev Wight's bros? I hope so 'cause his tune is sooooo stirring!
That swastikas on the beach thing is just too surreal.
Wright and Adolph have some views in common...
Flaming, no doubt
Don’t discount that Germany was driven to bankrupcy, hyper-inflation and massive unemployment due to the reparations of WW2.
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