Posted on 06/10/2005 9:06:25 AM PDT by pookie18
A German lawyer is filing a lawsuit against American and British soldiers for treating captured German soldiers' copies of Mein Kampf "like a rented mule" during the Second World War. According to sources close to the case, the lawyer, a man named Wolfgang Kleinerschmidt, has become emboldened by recent reports of Americans abusing the Koran. Mr. Kleinschmidt sees "a potential goldmine" in legal compensation for soldiers who had their "guiding texts cruelly neglected."
Mein Kampf, presently a popular text in Turkish bazaars, was Adolf Hitler's foray into literature before he attempted world domination. The book describes the author's anguish over withered German nationalism, the "growing Jewish menace," and other assorted complaints. Many soldiers in the German Army carried the book with them into battle.
According the Kleinschmidt, captured Germans were forced to watch while American soldiers "looked at the book in a menacing manner" and also "threatened it with matches."
The Brits, meanwhile, "applied a variety sordid methods to Hitler's tome." Kleinschmidt said that Germans soldiers told of a particularly gruesome act that "involved peanut butter and scissors.and Mein Kampf didn't come out of it looking pretty."
"The British were savages with the book," one former German soldier said from his home in Rio de Janeiro. "Their toilet work puts these Guantanamo amateurs to shame."
But Kleinschmidt should meet stout resistance, and not just from defense attorneys. "Mein Kampf is a sorry piece of work," said one anonymous author. "For prose that bad, it deserved to be roughed up a little bit."
Whaddaya sayin'? Its a religous book for many Arabs and Islamofascists... Ranks up there with the Koran and The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
LOL! This is the best line: "looked at the book in a menancing manner." Oh, no!
I love satire.
Damn-nailed again! My sarc detector is in the shop.
I was waiting for someone to catch on...
I would suggest they allow the 8th Air Force to deliver it, from 35,000ft. They know the address.
They most certainly do. Lololol
Maybe, maybe not. But if the book is 'Das Kapital', 'Communist Manifesto', or 'Quotations of Chairman Mao', definitely.
Hilarious!
It is a best seller here as well
A sense of humor is one of the most valuable weapons we can have.
"From a literary standpoint, it is a piece of $h!+."
I just heard the other week that Hitler, once he was in power and famous, was embarrassed by the book and wish he had never written it.
A TRUE STORY I read in a book at a doctor's office "Medics at War" or something - with lots of photos and vets telling of their experiences. A medic from WWII told of how when they entered a camp and saw the horror, they rounded up all the guards and shot them on the spot. The MEDICS! (I guess Hawkeye Pierce wasn't there!).
ROFL
Will the LA times sue my bird because I use it in the bottom of my bird cage?
Malaysia and Singapore
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