Old Hitler Article Stirs Debate

Wired News ^ | 9-20-03 | Chris Ulbrich

[jordan8]

A fawning 1938 article by Homes & Gardens magazine about Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat remains widely available on the Web, even after the discoverer and original poster of the article took it off his site when the magazine demanded its removal.

[jordan8]

Here is an interesting example of how powerful media uses copyright laws to bury an embarrassing past. Politicians are green with envy.

[TXnMA]

t's only when you see it in this almost comically fawning form that you realise how someone who can seem utterly abhorrent with hindsight can appeal to people at the time

65 years from now, that sentence will have the footnote, "See the initials, 'W.J.C."...

[Dialup Llama]

Hopefully there will be a time when major figures today will have to be accountable for their support of Castro and the like.

[Jack Black]

55 years is way too long for copywrite to last. This is absurd. What is the current time limit for copywrite now, 75 years?

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

55 years is way too long for copywrite to last. This is absurd. What is the current time limit for copywrite now, 75 years?

I believe it is 70 years past the death of the author. It was recently raised by the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act at the behest of Disney, because the clock was running out on Mickey Mouse. When our Republic was born, I believe a copyright was for 13 years. Can any legal historians give us the actual figure?

[omega4412]

If you want a fawning article about Hitler, see the National Geographic, February 1937, "Changing Berlin"

Picture: "May Day masses jam the Berlin Lustgarten to hear Adolf Hitler speak... The Maypole, decorated with bunting and swastikas, represents a revival of an old folk custom formerly observed chiefly in the rural districts."

Picture: "To develop boys and girls in body and mind, and thus insure a sturdy race to defend Germany in the future, is a policy of the present government."

Picture: "Boy Scouts make a last march along Unter den Linden. As a substitute for Scout training, German youngsters now join in an institution known as the Hitler Youth organization. Its emblem is the swastika, and its wide activities and political training are enormously popular with all classes."

Text: "Across the bridge, returning from an outing, marches a group of small boys wearing the uniform of the Hitler Youth... They are singing in accurately pitched, youthul treble that moving modern national song, the 'Horst Wessel Lied.'"

[Prodigal Son]

Personally, I don't think we should be hiding things like this.
One day the complaint will be that we don't have enough information from the past.

[waterstraat]

Lots of people liked, and envied, Hitler in the 1930's, esp the globalists and free traders. The Germman economy was booming while the rest of the world was in a major depression. President Bush's father lent money to him, the auto companies showed him how to make factories, everyone wanted to trade with Germany which had zero unemployment. Germany was building the worlds first expressways, allowing women into the workplace, established a social security system, designed the beetle, a car that anyone could afford, etc.

The only people that did not like Hitler, were the few who dont like anybody who do not agree with the American Bill of Rights. What this means, is that no matter how good someone appears to be, if he wants to get rid of any of the Bill of Rights, then he is still bad.