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Debbie Schlussel finally has her own website! Her most recent column is about Hollyweird Left's honoring a Nazi with a Lifetime Achievement Award. You know - Adolf Hitler's favorite filmmaker - Leni Riefenstahl. To its credit, even the ADL found it offensive. Mind you, this award is from the same people who took umbrage at the alleged anti-semitism of The Passion. And yes, the irony of their awarding an Oscar to a devotee of one of the ugliest totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century seems to escape their notice.

Yeah, Riefenstahl wasn't a good person - she even used forced labourers in her film-projects, so I never believed her claims of "I was a naive tool used by the Nazis".

But forced labourers also worked on the construction site of the V2-rocket (which bombed London) where Wernher von Braun (also a Hitler-favourite for his skills) worked - and Wernher von Braun later got a big career working for NASA and the US-rocket-programs.

So perhaps: If you have outstanding skills, things might be forgotten? It ain't a fair world.

"Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we ever thank you?" (1940 telegram from Riefenstahl congratulating Hitler on conquering Paris)

As Susan Sontag (vile witch of postmodernism that she may be) pointed out, Riefenstahl continued to be obsessed about racial grandeur and purity after the war, as was demonstrated by her photography and film making in Africa.

By the way, the Masai are interesting, so it's hard to fault her too much for her pictures. It's just such a coincidence...

Her most recent column is about Hollyweird Left's honoring a Nazi with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

They did not do any such thing. All they did was acknowledge her passing, just as they do for everyone of name in the world of motion pictures that has passed on during the previous year.

As I said during the Official Oscars thread, instead of putting her name up, they should have simply said, "A Nazi." And no further comment is needed.

This PC rewriting of history is getting on my nerves. We aren't allowed to mention achievements of a person if that person was associated with the Nazis in any way. No one seems to be able to look at things objectively anymore, in an academic fashion, and maybe pull lessons -- removed from their evil original context of course. So I'll say it:

Leni was a pretty good filmmaker
Hitler was an excellent public speaker capable of arousing passion in his audience (yes, I know German)
Speer was a good architect and event organizer, and an unparalleled industrial manager, capable of increasing production during a time of increased bombardment by the allies (killing him would have cut two years off the war)
Goebbels was the pioneer in true propaganda, practically putting it down to a science -- principles followed by everyone pushing a cause, especially those with no real merit (Walters must sleep with Goebbels' bio under his pillow)
von Braun was a brilliant scientist

The only exception seems to be that we can admire the military men of the Nazi powers, such as Heinz Guderian and Irwin Rommel, separating them from those they served. Why only them? Okay, Rommel tried to kill Hitler, so maybe we give him a break on that, although he did it to save his country, not necessarily to save any Jews or Gypsies.

If we keep going in this attitude, a later generation that maybe abhors nuclear weapons may never allow the accomplishments of Oppenheimer, Teller and Einstein to be mentioned. We don't turn people into "non-persons" Soviet-style anymore, we just put a "Nazi animal" label on them and don't look any further.

No such outrage from the entertainment industry’s liberal elite for the Nazi filmmaker who glorified the genocide of six million Jews and the murder of five million others.

Leni was far from the innocent she always claimed, but none of her film glorified the Holocaust. Now, I don't think anyone can read Mein Kampf and believe Hitler had anything but evil intentions. But, the fact is, the above statement is unfair and untrue.