Hitler's Christmas party: Rare photographs capture leading Nazis celebrating in 1941

Daily Mail Online ^ | 24 Dec 10 | Allan Hall

[SkyPilot]

A less festive bunch it

[Tijeras_Slim]

Never underestimate the power of a snazzy uniform.

[ryderann]

Never forget that Soros suckled at the Nazi teat. His DNA is swastika-shaped.

[SkyPilot]

A pagan, made up "holiday" that is based on torture and racism.

Par for the course for liberals.

[magellan]

How would not displaying something make an event "more inclusive"?

I would be tempted to say this is what passes for logic in the Dim's Planet Bizarro world, where up is down and down is up.

However, during Hanukkah in December 2009, the White House displayed a large Menorah on the White House lawn. I assume they also displayed a Menorah inside the White House as well. Earlier, on 1 September 2009, Obama held a Ramadan dinner in the White House.

Obama simply has something against Christianity. Maybe this goes to D'Souza's thesis Obama is driven by anti-colonialism, somehow sees the United States as colonial, and sees Christianity as the religion of colonialists.

[Riley]

[MeganC]

“He doesn’t want to offend his fellow Mooselimbs.”

Fixed that for ya’. (-;

[traderrob6]

The real story...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2008/12/that-kwazy-kwanzaa.html

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL

[alstewartfan]

PLEASE, keep these phony “Christians” away! Talk about casting a pall upon the Christmas spirit if the Obamas walked in. The proceedings would look about as cheery as the above photos.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Check out 25.

[max americana]

with a strong tradition of Christianity, rich, smart, forward thinking. How did they fall so low?
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Reminds me of certain people who voted in 08’.

[radiohead]

<If the president were merely agnostic (or even atheist), being a politician he wouldn’t have a problem with a nativity scene.

That’s how we know he isn’t a politician, but a socialist revolutionary who wants to change the entire American landscape. You don’t worry about politics when you want to destroy a country.

[John123]

How did they fall so low?

Simple explanation: Sociopaths tend to gravitate to strong governments. People tend to follow orders and rationalize away things which conflicts with their beliefs and values. The mass killing of the Jewish people began almost ten years after the Nazis took power. I guess it took that long to make it "alright" to commit genocide.

[smokingfrog]

Creepy pictures.

Links:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/23/article-0-0C91D896000005DC-220_634x396.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/23/article-0-0C91D892000005DC-366_306x446.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/23/article-0-0C91D8A2000005DC-166_634x485.jpg

[Inyo-Mono]

Your first post was deleted? Anyway, amazing photos taken just a week before my parents married.

[Tailback]

These are pictures of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi party and not regular army or Luftwaffe.

The Waffen SS were the elite fighting units of the military forces. They got the best officers, best recruits, and best equipment. They were used as the spearhead during attacks and were rushed to allied breakthroughs to block advances.

The security forces were the GESTAPO (Geheim Stadt Polizei), General SS, and SS Polizei units.

The pictures from the article are confusing because everyone is in the brownshirt SA (Sturm Abteilung) uniform. The SA was eradicated in "the night of the long knives" prior to 1941. Anyone left that was felt to be loyal enough was rolled into the SS. Anyone not trusted went to the concentration camps.

[Colonel_Flagg]

The pictures from the article are confusing because everyone is in the brownshirt SA (Sturm Abteilung) uniform. The SA was eradicated in "the night of the long knives" prior to 1941. Anyone left that was felt to be loyal enough was rolled into the SS. Anyone not trusted went to the concentration camps.

Not true. The SA existed until the end of the war and had its own armed detachments, known as Feldherrenhalle. They existed in regimental form through 1940 and comprised a Panzerkorps of the same name in 1945. It is quite true, however, that the influence of the SA declined sharply after the purge of 1934.

[dfwgator]

The SA ranks before the NOTLK was made up of a lot of former Communist street brawlers, and Rohm still envisioned the National Socialist movement as primarily a “Socialist” movement, a belief that Hitler did not share.

Hitler knew he needed the industrialists on his side to build the war machine, and the industrialists would not support Hitler unless the SA was eliminated, or at least their influence was greatly reduced.

[Tailback]

Not true. The SA existed until the end of the war and had its own armed detachments, known as Feldherrenhalle. They existed in regimental form through 1940 and comprised a Panzerkorps of the same name in 1945.

That's very interesting, I had always read that they were eradicated. Do you know of any books that talk about their Panzerkorps and/or other regiments?

[Gen.Blather]

“One just does not understand the evil that is Naziism. One of the most cultured countries of Europe, with a strong tradition of Christianity, rich, smart, forward thinking. How did they fall so low?”

Before November 2008, I occasionally attended parties in my “university town” with people who considered themselves the intellectual elite. These were always in VERY nice houses. On more than on occasion one of university types would pontificate that it was time to lock up all the crazy conservatives in reeducation camps.

My final ever party was just after Obama got elected. Several effete, gay professors where laughing it up about how the time had come to lock up all the conservatives. They were quite jovial. As I recall somebody threw out, “Hell, gas ‘em all. Hitler had the right idea.” I nodded at the host and slipped out the door. He called me on the way to my car and asked why I was leaving. I told him. He said, “They can’t hurt you!” I said, “They voted.”