Posted on 05/22/2008 10:14:54 AM PDT by indcons
German mail company Deutsche Post has inadvertently issued stamps bearing the image of Adolf Hitler's former deputy, Rudolf Hess, the company said on Wednesday.
Deutsche Post printed 20 stamps with Hess next to a bouquet of flowers as part of a service which allows clients to order custom-made envelopes, a company spokesman said.
"It is very unfortunate. But it happened," the spokesman said. "I presume it came from the far-right scene. But those 20 envelopes won't shake up German democracy."
The stamps would be offensive to Jewish groups and embarrassing to Germans anxious to live down the country's Nazi past.
The company said it would make every effort to avoid a repeat of the incident.
The Hess blunder was not the first time customers had tried to order stamps commemorating Nazi leaders, the spokesman said.
Earlier this year, the company intercepted a request to have stamps printed featuring Hitler as a small child, he said.
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The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany, otherwise known as the Nazi Party, was indeed socialist, and it had a lot in common with the modern left. Hitler preached class warfare, agitating the working class to resist "exploitation" by capitalists -- particularly Jewish capitalists, of course. Their program called for the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, and other major industries. They instituted and vigorously enforced a strict gun control regimen. They encouraged pornography, illegitimacy, and abortion, and they denounced Christians as right-wing fanatics. Yet a popular myth persists that the Nazis themselves were right-wing extremists. This insidious lie biases the entire political landscape, and the time has come to expose it.
You’re absolutely right. I had a similar argument with an acquaintance the other day.
Ich bin ein Blunderer
Communist Party USA protested going to war against Nazi Germany until Hitler betrayed their beloved Stalin. Communists don’t oppose fascism and did not see Nazism as a polar opposite.
Well, economics isn't the determining factor for people who make such classifications:
> The Nazis were ferociously nationalistic and militaristic.
> Right-wingers are always ferociously nationalistic and usually militaristic.
> Socialists and Communists are strong internationalists and their militarism is usually directed inward at their own people.
> Therefore Nazis were right-wingers...
...regardless of how many of their domestic policies look just like what modern American Democrats are advocating. ;)
A company that issues personalized postage stamps (in cooperation with the US Postal Service) had a problem like that -- the merry pranksters at The Smoking Gun ordered and recieved batches of stamps with pictures of Ted Kaczynski, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Linda Tripp.
who offered to meet the Brits without an preconditions? Gotta luv that nObama, he's everywhere... 
meeting for peace!
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