Comments on: Sex Dolls für Schicklgruber: Hitler’s Non-Existent “Nazi Love Doll” Project

By: Thomas Roche

Thomas Roche — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:15:23 +0000

@morelenmir — Thanks for correcting me about Jersey; actually, I knew that, I don’t know why I wrote that Jersey was in Normandy. That was sehr dumm of me.

By: morelenmir

morelenmir — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:26:59 +0000

Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, the only British territory to suffer Nazi invasion and occupation during the second world war. It is not a part of Normandy, nor is it part of larger France – although geographically close.

You will find a lot of short paragraphs in the English daily tabloids – a format that is given over pretty much universally there to light entertainment rather than genuine current affairs.

By: Sarah Estrella

Sarah Estrella — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:18:21 +0000

I saw this crazy sex doll story mentioned by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times this morning, too, seemingly without skepticism: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/opinion/13dowd.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

It’s fascinating to see how these things play out in the echo chamber…

By: Andreas Fuchs

Andreas Fuchs — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:27:13 +0000

Nicely researched! One little minor nit, though: It would be spelled “Liebespuppen” – note the ie. Not sure if the Nazis were that big on euphemisms, though… Maybe they’d even have spelled it out as Geschlechtsverkehrspuppen… Not sure about that (-:

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:36:44 +0000

I think this wins the prize for “weirdest morning read.” You deserve some sort of prize for this.

One thing I find fascinating is how, after 60 some years, we’re still apparently fascinated by the Nazis (see Godwin’s Law). We come up with weird conspiracy theories about them, make movies about them, use them as an insult, etc. Just the other day, I was reading a thread on a forum; and it got bogged down in a bunch of nonsense about the Nazis and Hitler. At this point, I don’t really know what was said, because my eyes were too busy rolling in their sockets. I wonder: why should the Nazis have so captured our imagination when others have been forgotten?