[pinochet]

Thank goodness that American and European youth do not honor mass murderers as superheros. Asian youth need to take down those images of Hitler, and replace them with images of a preacher of peace and non-violence like Che Guevarra.....oooops (sarcasm)

[P.O.E.]

"Oh, no, they took out the Hitler building!"

[Buckeye McFrog]

No doubt the same bunch that finds My Little Pony sexually arousing.

[Robert DeLong]

a clickable link

[pinochet]

An image of the mural: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/hitler-in-a-giant-mural-alongside-batman-and-captain-america

[AD from SpringBay]

Why should we expect the history courses in Thailand to be superior to ours? Hitler schmidtler... Kate’s gonna pop a cub and I got Facebook to update before the Trayvon demonstration.

[MEGoody]

Do these idiots in Thailand not realize that they would have been on Hitler’s list to eliminate?

[GeronL]

there is a British royal who liked to play NAZI... and one who likes to hold cocaine sex parties with hookers

such upstanding people

[lowbridge]

” A couple of year ago, the Telegraph, a British newspaper, had a story about how Hitler, Nazi clothing, and Nazi memorabilia were very fashionable among youth in Asia.”

Well Hitler was a huge supporter of youth in Asia, wasn’t he?

[Billthedrill]

I don't think "superhero" is exactly a sound translation, but we do have to recall a few things - first, that the incoming freshman class was born 50 years after the war ended, second, that the European Theater of Operations barely registered in Asia even while the war was still active, and third, that Hitler's public persona was grotesque, overblown, and bizarre, which was picked up by the likes of Charlie Chaplin (his Adenoid Hynkel still cracks me up and it got Chaplin on Hitler's Kill List) and Bugs Bunny. So much so that certain of his contemporaries didn't take him seriously enough, and it cost them in blood.

This is ancient history to these kids, like dressing up as Julius Caesar. It shouldn't be, but it is. And Santayana was right - we who forget history are prone to repeating it. Could a flamboyant, well-funded, radical figurehead with all the latest media techniques backing him ever take power in the United States? Sorry, rhetorical question.

[GOPJ]

Notice the story talks about teenagers - not the adults of the country. Teenagers like to get a rise out of their parents. We have teenagers here in the US who think the Boston Bomber is sexy - not many grown-ups feel the same way... (Well maybe the folks at the FBI who want to ‘reach out’ to radical Muslims.)