“You talk about a dress that doesn’t fit . . . imagine my problems.”
Posted on 11/26/2006 3:33:14 PM PST by SkyPilot
THEY are the unheard comments which have intrigued the world for decades — the hidden musings of a madman.
Silent home movies of Adolf Hitler casually chatting to his lover Eva Braun have consistently fascinated and frustrated historians.
For 60 years they have been desperate to decipher exactly what history’s most notorious figure is saying.
Now they know.
Computer technology has been developed that can lip-read people who have been filmed at almost any angle.
The breakthrough means the dictator’s statements can finally be revealed — word for word.
In a bizarre, calculated manner, Hitler can be seen chatting to his girlfriend about the same things that couples talk about today.
“I understand you didn’t like the movie last night,” he says, grinning. “I know what you want. You want Gone With The Wind.”
If you did not know who was saying them, the words would be unremarkable — boring even.
But the fact that this is the man who waged war across the world and tortured and killed six million Jews gives his mundane, cosy chats with Eva a chilling dimension.
“You talk about a dress that doesn’t fit . . . imagine my problems.”
His tone is calm and measured, his body language is unassuming.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
“You talk about a dress that doesn’t fit . . . imagine my problems.”
"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
"As soon as we've developed nuclear weapons, we can give The Bomb to the Syrians, to al-Qaeda, and to Hamas - then launch on Israel and attack the United States."
Whoops. Sorry - wrong madman.
"Computers that can now lip-read at any angle" just like HAL from "2001".
"But the fact that this is the man who waged war across the world and tortured and killed six million Jews.."
It is not a small fact that Hitler's machine tortured and killed many others besides just Jews, including a fair number of Germans.
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Darn. I thought this was going to be a thread about Hillary...
Does he say anything to Eva aboput her pregnancy with (what later is going to turn out an orphan named) Hillary?
If true, quite a bizarre story.
Click the link for the pictures and the rest of the article. It really is amazing that they can decipher these statements after all these years.
Don't you mean HITlery?
Hitler unmarried? That's maybe the least abnormal fact about him. In any event, part of the Hitler mystique was that he was unmarried, that he was some sort of ascetic who was devoting his life to Greater Germany. What the actual reasons for Hitler's bachelorhood were, which may have been homosexuality or him actually buying into his own grandiose propaganda, I really don't think matter, and are ultimately pretty uninteresting.
Yes, I thought maybe the title was a typo - Hitler instead of Hitlery.
Hitler killed a lot of everybody, but it is not inaccurate to set apart the extermination of the Jews from everything else. The reason? Because Hitler put a bizarre and incredible effort into killing the Jews. In fact, according to some historical analyses, Nazi Germany used as many resources -- cash, men and infrastructure -- building the death camps and exterminating the Jews as they did fighting all the Allies in the West put together. The Jewish Holocaust wasn't just another barbaric act the Germans committed, it was in all respects a full third front of the War for Nazi Germany.
And Mao......
Frank Hubner, a voice recognition expert, developed the computer program called ALR — automated lip-reading.
It records the shape of the mouth and works out the word that is being spoken.
It'd be fun to run C-Span through a capture card and work it over with this software, to see what certain Congresscritters are saying amongst themselves, when they think no one can hear them.
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