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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:09 AM Original message |
If you're fluent in German, have you ever listened to Hitler's speeches on |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. I really hope this isn't an Obama-is-like-Hitler thread, |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:43 AM Response to Reply #1 |
27. Obama once wore khaki pants and Hitler wore them ALL the time! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:32 PM Response to Reply #27 |
41. You know who else used to say coincidence? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 09:25 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. oh...MY...GAWD! I eat watermelon too. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
2. GD the place to haul out 70 year old bullshit just to distract people from anything productive. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. You think I should've posted to the Lounge, maybe? SHEESH....nt |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:17 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Thank you for this important reminder that the study of history is irrelevant |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
36. lol |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 03:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
49. What did you learn about WWII that hasn't been gone over? |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
38. are books by Naomi Wolf irrelevant distractions too??? |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 09:39 AM Response to Reply #38 |
46. Nope. They deal with actions of government. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #38 |
50. Did Naomi Wolf write a book about WW2 ? |
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Bob Dobbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
3. In content, the parallells to busholini are striking. |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
4. Wow - hit the Godwin's Law wall right out of the gate! |
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hendo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Im glad |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
33. Flamed for Godwin's Law!? |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
6. I can get a little bit of what he says. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. I can think of a handful of people who meet such criteria. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:43 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Actually, if you get some people talking about 9/11, you can see loony is bipartisan |
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Bob Dobbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. The closest American equivilent would be busholini and his minons. |
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PM7nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. Why? |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
9. My impression is that his speeches are like glen beck, hanity, and limbaugh /nt |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:47 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Not Hannity so much--he has a "cool" style. But Beck isn't a bad analogy. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
10. I majored in German in college, and I find him hard to understand |
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hendo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
13. I have seen a few with English subtitles |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:52 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Leni was such a talent, too bad she went to the dark side. |
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hendo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Unfortunately, if she had not gone to the darkside |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
35. There's some things worse than death. |
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hendo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:05 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. ah, but she was a master in her trade |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:27 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Peer pressure. Maybe she really wanted to fit in with the in crowd. |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:43 PM Response to Reply #18 |
43. eh, she could have come to America |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
19. He veiled his evil and hatered in Passion. |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
20. I've often wondered what he was saying |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:14 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. You have to take the context of how Germany was devastated post WWI. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #20 |
30. I don't know exactly |
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yellowdogintexas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
31. knowing what he said and how he phrased it is excellent ammunition |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
22. when I was very young, my dad was stationed in Austria . . . |
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texasleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
23. "I hate Jews - pass the cabbage" pretty much sums it up. |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Actually he coated it with religion and love of country. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
25. Hitler had a speaking style much like an evangelical preacher. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
26. I use translations of his speeches to teach my college classes about propaganda |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Wish I could sit in on your classes! nt |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. I give them an excerpt of Hitler on race, ask if they think he's nuts, then give them |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
28. like Hannity. |
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BelleCarolinaPeridot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
29. Sehr stark ... |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
39. Here's a translated version: |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 09:43 AM Response to Reply #39 |
47. I understand enough German to get the jest of a lot of his speeches |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 12:04 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. My history teacher said the best time in his life was Hitler Youth. |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
42. His Austrian accent is almost unintelligible to those of us trained in HochDeutsch. |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
44. Yes, I am fluent in German (or what passes for it in Rheinland-Pfalz). |
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