Went there two years ago, it is beautiful. Guess I can't run for office in Germany.
Have to admit it was a strange feeling walking through the tunnel to the elevators, knowing that it was slave labor that built it.
Posted on 10/21/2018 4:56:29 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
An Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician got himself in hot water over photos of his “pilgrimage” to Hitler-related sites.
The politician was reportedly pictured with a candle in front of Hitler’s birthplace in the Austrian town of Brannau am Inn. He was also pictured near the Berchtesgaden Alpine retreat of the Fuhrer, as well as posing near swastikas and SS rune-bearing banners.
While the scandalous pictures have not been released, the AfD acknowledged their existence. “The person concerned was clearly reminded by the state board that such incidents are unacceptable and incompatible with AfD membership,” Torben Braga, a party spokesman, said. He added that the politician resigned from the AfD in September.
The politician has not been named, although he’s reportedly closely associated with Bjoern Hoecke, the AfD leader in Thuringia...Back in 2017, the politician told the Wall Street Journal that the main problem with the figure of Adolf Hitler was that “one presents Hitler as absolutely evil,” while in fact there was “no black and no white in history.”
Hoecke has also called the Holocaust monument in Berlin a “monument of shame in the heart of the capital.”
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A. Whenever a European politician is described as ‘Right Wing’, I never know what extreme to expect. They have different interpretations of what ‘left and right’ mean compared to Americans.
B. One can get in trouble for all kinds of things in Germany.
Some would just call it a gesture done in bad taste.
Went there two years ago, it is beautiful. Guess I can't run for office in Germany.
Have to admit it was a strange feeling walking through the tunnel to the elevators, knowing that it was slave labor that built it.
I wonder if the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth is on their no go list. I went there several tears ago.
If you could travel back in time and show to our boys in the landing craft what post D-Day Europe would be like in 65 years:
How many would run up Omaha Beach..?
This is the way you do it.,
Why don’t people who subscribe to a “Nazi religion” religion that advocates killing, raping, and enslaving others are ever forced or shamed into resigning?
In a similar but more somber vein:
I had an uncle who served in Patton's Third Army and was part if the group that came in after the Mauthausen Concentration camp was liberated. He was part of the group that was going through the files and packing them for further study.
In one drawer they found a bottle of Johnnie Walker and as he told the story, he and the guys all drank a toast in memory of the deceased.
Johnnie Walker was one scotch he never touched after that he said, many years later.
Nice holster souvenir on the 4th guy from left...
Nice holster souvenir on the 4th guy from left...
Great pic, and choice of pic.
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