Posted on 08/21/2004 2:37:42 PM PDT by lizol
Thousands of Nazis march through German town to honour Rudolf Hess
BERLIN (AP) - Some 3,800 Nazis gathered Saturday for a march in memory of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, in the Bavarian town where he is buried, German police said.
The march in Wunsiedel was met by several hundred counter-demonstrators, who at one point halted it by staging a sit-down blockade. Although no clashes were reported, police said they detained 110 people -74 of them Nazis.
Marchers were detained for displaying outlawed Nazi symbols and carrying weapons or pepper spray, police spokeswoman Beate Weiss said. Some 1,000 officers were deployed to prevent trouble at the march.
Hess hanged himself at age 93 in Spandau Prison in West Berlin on Aug. 17, 1987 after nearly 41 years as a prisoner.
Nazis regularly troop to Wunsiedel to mark the day he died. Local authorities have tried to ban the march but in recent years a state court has ruled it can go ahead.
Wunsiedel's mayor, Karl-Willi Beck, was among the protesters who demonstrated against the Nazis on Saturday.
"It is our duty to make our voice heard," he said
The German nazis must be proud of the Kerry censor police.
Hard to believe that there are still Nazi admirers in Germany.
Probably all young folks with too much time on their hands.
Odd. The only thing Hess is famous for, as far as I know, is making a rather quixotic flight to Britain, in an early attempt at Jesse Jacksonist personal diplomacy.
It you're going to march in memory of a Nazi, there are much more appropriate individuals to commemorate.
Don't kid yourself, Hitler sent Hess on that mission to England. Hess didn't take a dump unless Hitler told him to.
I believe a lot of it steems from his seemingly singular punishment in Spandau. I believe that gave the Nazi a reason to believe that Hess was more then he really was...as you so well described.
I beg your pardon?
Maybe marching for a more standup Nazi like Von Ribbentrop or Himmler, or Hitler himself is more to your preference?
You're probably right. It does seem odd that he was kept locked up for so long in his own private prison, when all other prisoners had died or been released.
Isn't the Democratic convention old news yet, for heaven's sake...? :)
And so it starts. A few in Europe will stand and take notice. In most countries Nazis and Klan types are routinely outnumbered by counter protesters 10 to 1. In Germany, a few lone voices bother to resist.
The 'Ami Raus' has worked. NATO is dead. Most forget its 3 fold purpose...to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down.
The EU is only phase 1.
Look for German efforts at stabilizing and growing their population base in the near future. And I don't mean inviting more Turks.
I don't know whether Hitler sent him.
I do know the mission was a classic case of not having the slightest clue who your enemy really is. Churchill had been proclaiming his bellicose intentions towards the Nazis for over a decade, yet they apparently thought Rudi could talk him into switching sides at the drop of a hat?
The Soviets insisted on it. Even some Holocaust survivors said they had no objection to releasing Hess in his final years, but the Soviet government refused to allow it.
In Restorer's defense, I think he was insulting and demeaning Hess more than anything.
I didn't buy the many conspiracy theories, but at the same time I'm sure that his release would have been embarrassing to one of the nations making the decision to keep him there. It's a known fact that some of the English royal family were pro-Nazi.
Maybe the President had better leave those 70,000 troops over in germany , they may be needed to save the French's butts again.
If I were a Nazi, which I'm not, I would prefer to commemorate Hitler or Goering or even Speer.
The whole thing is like a group of Confederate revisionists parading in memory of Alex Stephens or even Bragg, rather than Lee or Davis.
(Not that I'm equating the two groups, other than in their presently highly unpopular status.)
I heard as soon as the wall came down the german people started picking out uniforms. Maybe this little march got our friends the french a little scared.
It is possible, perhaps even likely, that he was invited to come to Britain by someone high up, and whoever invited him chickened out when he got caught and gauged the public response.
One of the odder incidents of the Cold War.
He was best known, if that's the term, as an utterly colorless yes-man for AH, which is probably why he was Hitler's designated "heir." Nobody would bump AH off to bring Rudi to power.
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