Letter of Hitler’s First Anti-Semitic Writing May Be the Original

[alp227]

Source: The New York Times

FRANKFURT — In 1919, a soldier in Munich discovered that he could galvanize small groups of fellow trench warfare veterans with virulently anti-Semitic oratory. A superior officer, impressed with the soldier’s oral skills, asked him to commit his ideas to paper.

Thus came into existence the first written record of Adolf Hitler’s obsessive hostility toward Jews, an embryonic form of the worldview that would later lead to the Holocaust and millions of deaths.

Now, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles has acquired what it believes may be the original version of the document, known as the Gemlich letter. In July, the center plans to put it on public view for the first time, at its Museum of Tolerance, making the letter the centerpiece of its Holocaust exhibit.

The text of the letter is well known to scholars. It is considered significant because it demonstrates just how early in his career Hitler was formulating his anti-Semitic views.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/world/europe/03iht-hitler03.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

[RandomThoughts]

1. This song is also about some terrible suffering during that time.

As posted before, those treated wrongly, rejected wrongly.

answer Sarah Mclachlan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8B1ai25lUo



Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=407128

Dire Straits - Walk of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CknuCTRAW_I



As are many other songs, and stories about people wrongly treated, and those that are rejected unjustly.

This is a good song also.

Loreena McKennitt- Beneath a Phrygian Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siXe7bKt1q0


http://www.statueliberty.net/statue-of-liberty-poem.html

[The Second Stone]

2. Put it in a museum? Hell, burn it.

Don't glorify this stuff at all. Take a photo of it for historical purposes for scholars, and the burn the damn thing. This kind of crap shouldn't be fetishized.

[alp227]

5. not all pieces of history can be safely preserved, such as the bin laden death photos n/t

[meegbear]

8. Oh SNAP girlfriend!

[izquierdista]

7. Yes, in a museum

Right next to the first Rush Limbaugh tape. These right wingers try to disavow their past; don't give the Holocaust deniers any help.

[Bragi]

12. Sorry, really bad idea

You don't burn documents of historical importance, you preserve them so you and future generations can know about them, and learn from them.

[Posteritatis]

13. Because the Wiesenthal Center of all places plans to "glorify" it, right?

Oy.

[teabaghater]

3. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzN/T

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Please elaborate.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. An important part of history.

Given recent events, we could see more things like this in the future.

[EFerrari]

6. Agreed. The more complete the record, the more we can learn

from it.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, alp.

[BlueIris]

10. Creepy. nt