"Open Letter to Hitler" (1932): Just change the names and date

AIPNEWS.com ^ | January 16, 2009 | Michael Walsh

[Chickensoup]

Bump

[HollyB]

Amazing letter. Makes us think. I’d like to know of his fate.

[the invisib1e hand]

Anyway, history can't be repeating because Hitler obviously never had an icon dedicated to songs about him on iTunes.

[HollyB]

I went back and read of his fate.

[TET1968]

........and Adolf's “White house” dog was a German Shepherd, not a Lapsadoodle.

[spacejunkie01]

So is the letter real or what? I can’t figure out what the back and forth in the thread is about.

[EternalVigilance]

Yes, it’s real.

[Gritty]

Comparing Hitler and 0bama is silly.

Hitler had a mustache and wasn't even a German! Oh, wait...

[Wilhelm Tell]

Wow. The more things “Change,” the more they stay the same.

[EternalVigilance]

Personally, I think Obama's more like Mussolini.

[EternalVigilance]

Let’s hope America has more Ingbert Naabs than Germany did.

[sionnsar]

Whatever became of Fr. Ingbert Naab?

[EternalVigilance]

From the article:

Fr. Naab fled Germany via Switzerland and died at the monastery in France where he had entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin years earlier.

[sionnsar]

Thanks. Suppose I should have read the article, but all this excerpting...

[deannadurbin]

Did Hitler ever receive the letter?

[EternalVigilance]

From the article:

Dr. Fritz Gerlich, prominent German journalist, took full responsibility for the article when he was arrested and died from being beaten to death at the Dachau concentration camp in July 1934.

I'm thinking he did.

[deannadurbin]

Shudder.

I visited Dachau in 1976. It was very creepy. The place was leveled after the war and there are stone pathways you walk around while looking at frames where the buildings used to stand, there’s a museum, a chapel, and one old building / crematoria. What’s the most creepy about it is the train to go out there from Munich is such a pleasant trip, scenic, you look at pretty cottages with flower boxes in the windows. Then you turn a corner, and there’s a death camp.

There was also a nunnery behind it. I’m not sure if it is still there.

[EternalVigilance]

I visited Dachau in 1976...the train to go out there from Munich is such a pleasant trip, scenic, you look at pretty cottages with flower boxes in the windows. Then you turn a corner, and there’s a death camp.

The story of humanity.

[DuncanWaring]

This-is-just-plain-creepy Ping.

[Mike Darancette]

I so want to re-post this elsewhere but even though the players can be documented there seems no other reference to the letter. My comment as of now is that megalomania is timeless.