You're not there because you believe in what Hitler stood for -- you're there to educate people about history, and a lot of that is so people don't forget.
Everyone knows that you can't learn about genocide and totalitarian horror without dressing up like a goddamned SS guard. I'm assuming they made some people dress like concentration camp prisoners to complete the educational experience. Jesus Christ, Spiff, does Walter Mondale know about this?
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 9:49am
by Dr. Medulla
Given that this is the only Hitler-dedicated thread here (and, I venture to say, the best on the Internet outside of Stormfront), I'll throw out a request. I'm hoping by fall or early winter to start on my next research project. I'm interested in the cultural significance of the myth of Hitler surviving the end of the war, whether ending up in Argentina or a head in a jar or a massive robot, but somehow escaping justice and living on to plague mankind. This isn't about whether he actually faked his own death (spoiler: he didn't), but why this possibility has endured as a premise or facet of postwar entertainment (tho in the dozen or so years after the war, it was less entertainment and more dread). If any of you know some good examples, I'd appreciate you offering up titles of books and movies, fiction and non-, with that premise that I can look at later on this year.
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 10:32am
by biopunk
The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad, or the anthology, Hitler Victorious, might be a good start.
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 10:48am
by Dr. Medulla
biopunk wrote:The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad, or the anthology, Hitler Victorious, might be a good start.
"Doctor" Hoy...
...who's not really a doctor but more like an 'engineer' of quack treatments that didn't work but cost a fortune...
...took a time machine back to 1936...
...bonded with Hitler over prodigious farting...
...began poisoning him with a high-fiber diet and Bulgarian peasant poop...
...was found to be profoundly disgusting and/or irritating by all of Hitler's inner circle, but that had so bonded over common interests of gastrointestinal malady:
......
...that he froze out his inner circle for the Doctor, even though he knew it was slowly killing him...
...allowing him to isolate the Führer further from competent medical care...
...and up the dose of poison...
...destabilizing Hitler to the point where his clouded, addled mind dramatically hastened both Germany's and his own's collapse:
...(reenactment) . . .
. . .thus defeating Hitler, winning the war for the Allies, and causing Wolter's head to do this:
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 25 Mar 2014, 2:12pm
by Dr. Medulla
All of which raises the question: if Eva Braun had been a ginger, would that have provided Adolph with the necessary protection and we'd all be (literally) singing from the Rammstein hymn book? Is this dystopian or utopian?
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 25 Mar 2014, 3:06pm
by Marky Dread
Rochus Misch claims he saw both the bodies of Adolf and Eva moments after they killed themselves on April 30, 1945.
Mind he also thinks Wire are punk rock and claims to have a copy of the London SS tape.
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 25 Mar 2014, 3:23pm
by Dr. Medulla
Marky Dread wrote:Rochus Misch claims he saw both the bodies of Adolf and Eva moments after they killed themselves on April 30, 1945.
Mind he also thinks Wire are punk rock and claims to have a copy of the London SS tape.
Everyone knows that Hitler died in a giant robot suit in Castle Wolfenstein. Never believe the official story, people.
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 09 Apr 2014, 8:33am
by Rat Patrol
One more year and this thread officially enters M.A.S.H. territory lasting longer than the War Over Punching Hitler itself.
Re: Help me defeat Hitler...
Posted: 09 Apr 2014, 9:16am
by Dr. Medulla
Rat Patrol wrote:One more year and this thread officially enters M.A.S.H. territory lasting longer than the War Over Punching Hitler itself.
But what if Hitler survived? Then his availability for punchacating gets extended. Thank you, tinfoil hats!