[lbo-talk] Divide and Conquer (This time in English: Spiegel onGermany/Near East)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>
>
>--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >but
> > based on my experience you are fantasizing again.
>
>"Based on your experience"?  What kind of solipsism is
>this?
>
>The existence of your Porsche-driving uncle refutes
>the existence of pogroms against asylum seekers, the
>carving up of Yugoslavia and the bombing of Serbia,
>the national Dresden cult, the everyday fascism of the
>Eastern province, the dismantling of unemployment
>insurance under the Hartz IV reforms, the occupation
>of Afghanistan, the murder of African immigrants by
>police in Dessau, and the criminalization of leftist
>protest?
>
>Perhaps you needed to take a day trip outside of
>Schwaben during your stay.

I'm not sure what it signifies, but it seems strange to see Germans now 
mining WWII for laughs.  There was an interesting photo spread in Der 
Spiegel earlier this year of what I assume was the first "Nazi rally" to be 
staged in Berlin since the war; it was for what the magazine said was 
"Germany's first movie parody of Hitler."  See 
<http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTI4MzQmbnI9MQ_3_3,00.html>

I wonder if this production, ""Mein Führer - The Truly Truest Truth About 
Adolf Hitler," was as much a witless WWII chucklefest as US television's 
"Hogan's Heroes" or the UK's "'Allo, 'Allo!"

Carl