New technology catches Hitler off guard

The Daily Telegraph ^ | November 22, 2006 | Staff

[MadIvan]

Well, that's creepy.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[decal]

"When actors voice the script that this generates, the result is home movies all the more chilling for their apparent happy domesticity."

Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil."

[Southack]

It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that ALR has been used this year to read the lips of coaches calling college football (U.S) plays.

...as for reading the lips of dead Nazis...useless. Pointless. They lost. They're dead. Only a few boys confused about their sexual identity want to grow up to be like them.

[GSlob]

creepy? - not at all. He simply demonstrated some of the common human potentialities. Not everyone [happily, rather few] develops them to a similar degree, but the potential is right there. So as not to search for the examples too far, look at the rwandans, darfureans, milosevicites, khmer rouge, gulag and laogai personnel...

[nickcarraway]

He is scathing about Himmler's enthusiasm for archaeological digs

He was very angry when he saw what happened in Raider's of the Lost Ark?

[Tzimisce]

Hitler wanted to create a master race, but he had the genetic disorder of Parkinson's disease. Interesting.

[radiohead]

"You talk about a dress that does not fit

How's this for weirdness - I once dreamt that I was Eve Braun, modeling dresses for Hitler. I cannot imagine where that came from.

[nickcarraway]

Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

Daddy by Sylvia Plath (1962)

(sorry, I was an English major)

[Vroomfondel]

I once dreamt that I was Eve Braun, modeling dresses for Hitler. I cannot imagine where that came from.

TMI, Radiohead. TMI.

[Bonaparte]

It's creepy, but you have to give Schickelgrubber credit -- he put on a good show of being heterosexual.

[Eragon]

Woah! Now that IS freaky!

[goldstategop]

I think Allan Bullock would say the home movies don't tell us anything about Hitler's private life and as he remarks in biography, what comes across is how impoverished and devoid of human warmth and interest was Hitler's personal existence. The private man is singularly unimpressive and small compared to the public figure. Hitler had outstanding gifts as a politician and public speaker and it has been noted that his rapport with a mass audience was truly exceptional. On the other hand, his ability to relate to human beings as individuals was quite limited. The man was intolerant of differing viewpoints, was lacking in humor, ice-cold in demeanor and had no use for small talk and mutual conversation. Hitler dominated his retinue with endless monologues. New technology doesn't really add much to our insight of a truly evil man.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[PAR35]

I didn't even know Hitler could speak English.

Seriously, I would have thought the writer would have indicated something about the translation from a German dialect into English.

[goldstategop]

As far we know, Hitler spoke only German. He had a charismatic appeal to German speakers since in translation, something is lost when one reads Mein Kampf. It has few rivals for sheer repulsiveness of expression and violence of tone and imagery. It was all put down on paper and the rest of the world ignored it until it was nearly too late. As we think about Mahmoud Ahmedinejad today, it would be a good idea indeed to take people at their word.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[chudogg]

i thought the tremors were from the methamphetamines???

[StoneWall Brigade]

Have they ever made a movie about Hitler?

[Miss Marple]

"You be a brave boy," he says to a small Aryan child. "You will be a fine soldier one day."

I am curious, Ivan. Why would the writer refer to this child as "Aryan," rather than German? In the United States, the use of that word would indicate acceptance of an Aryan race and is only used by neo-Nazis.

[tiger-one]

I think we should use this software to read the lips of the Liberals. Teddy would be interesting, but slurred?

[Charlespg]

very creepy