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Discussion in 'Prelude to War & Poland 1939' started by Alilrebelchick, Apr 18, 2010.

  1. Alilrebelchick

    Alilrebelchick Member

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    Here's an interesting blurb on an embarrassment to the German people after the war. These trees stood for quite a while after the war ended when someone noticed what it really was.

    EMBARRASSING SWASTIKA TREES
    In 1937, a local businessman, an ardent follower of Adolf Hitler, planted a 60 by 60 metre area of Larch trees in a forest near the town of Zernikow about 110 km north of Berlin. The trees were planted in the shape and format of a Swastika and could only be seen from the air. During Autumn, when the Larch trees changed their colour to orange and yellow they stood out strikingly against a green forest of surrounding pine trees. Discovered many years after the war, this long-forgotten symbol of the Nazi era was finally removed by cutting down 27 of the 57 trees that made up the Swastika design. This was done in 2001 by the Brandenburg State Forest authorities. Local farmer, Joachim Schultz, remarked "It was quite embarrassing, we were afraid that it would become a pilgrimage site". Displaying the Swastika symbol is forbidden in Germany today. Owning a copy of Hitler's book 'Mein Kampf' a copy of which was presented to all newly married couples, is permitted but with certain reservations, i.e. it is illegal to buy or sell it.




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  2. USMC

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    well its good someone finally noticed.
     
  3. Mussolini

    Mussolini Gaming Guru WW2|ORG Editor

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    Slightly off topic, but what does the above quoted mean? It seems almost out of place in regards to 'trees'...and the wording might be confusing me.
     
  4. efestos

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    Clarification: My definition of Adolf Hitler: He Was an IDIOT and CRIMINAL.

    It’s impossible to forbid a book nowadays.

    Just two google searchs:

    In english:

    - Buscar con Google

    In German:

    - Buscar con Google

    Almost in free countries. Not in China, obviously.
     
  5. Mussolini

    Mussolini Gaming Guru WW2|ORG Editor

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    Right, obviously he was a bad guy. But 'who' gets a copy of his book on their wedding day?

    I intrperted that sentence to mean modern german couples get the book on their wedding day, though no one is allowed to buy or sell it (which doesnt make sense either...how can you get the book if you can't buy/sell it?).
     
  6. efestos

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    I guess in Hitler´s time the nazis gave the book as a (compulsory) wedding gift. TODAY is forbiden to buy or shell the book.
     
  7. Mussolini

    Mussolini Gaming Guru WW2|ORG Editor

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    Ah, that makes much more sense, lol. Talk about a rather 'dry' wedding gift though - I doubt many people even read it!

    Also interesting how long it took them to get rid of the trees. I assume something around 2000 caused them to finally do something about them.
     
  8. efestos

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    "Nation and Race" first time I read anything of "Mein Kampf" : The stupid Adolph miss race with spicies. And failed to achive an obvious fact: fertile specimens were obtained from the mixture of races. The results improve with dissimilar individuals.

    If you mix cousins with cousins the result is an abnormal like Charles II of Spain. Charles II son of Philip IV and his cousin Ana de Austria... Son of Philp III and his cousin. Just clik the links to see the decadence of a family.

    All of us have the same 10.000 ancestors since the Toba supereruption.
     
  9. USMC

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    I have read bits and pieces of it. It is just one giant rant about how Germany rules and everyone else sucks..
     
  10. whodunit

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    hahahahaha, this is ridiculuous!
     
  11. Spaniard

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    Well it took long enough but this is not the only case, It must be remembered that the Germans don't have the monopoly on the "Swastika," it is an ancient symbol of the "Sun god".

    The Naval base in San Diego also has one

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    Google Earth reveals swastika water feature


    Belgian town scrambles to dismantle fountain

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  12. Skipper

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    what does the building look like inside?

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    and the neigbours?... this is actually a good luck building in Chicago

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  13. efestos

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    Buddhist temples?
     
  14. Tomcat

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    haha, and the Germans wonder why they lost the war. while they wasted there time and money on this sort of thing,
     
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    yea well they even went so far as to celebrate christmas the Nazi way...



    Even the nazi trees got Iron crosses!
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    best part of this ornament is if a soldier lost his iron cross he can always pick a new one off the tree

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    Swastikas and Tinsel: How the Nazis Stole Christmas - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International


    those crazy nazis.
     
  16. Skipper

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    Don't be fooled, actually the Christmas balls were handgrenades :D
     
  17. Volga Boatman

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    What a lot of PC hoo-ha over a symbol....

    Lets make the swastika the symbol of the followers of the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" and see if we can plug in any Nazi links.

    It is not symbology that makes people undertake evil acts....

    "Swastikas do not kill people....people kill people."

    God-damnit...If I wish to, I could be offended by the Allied "V" for Victory symbol.

    Does my organizational use of the "V" presuppose that I will one day conduct a Strategic Bomber Campaign?
     
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  18. efestos

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    From SPIEGEL ONLINE:

    Almost nothing of Hitler's mythology is historically correct:

    Often cited various pagan celebrations related to the winter solstice, obviously before Christmas as the source of it: The holidays of Celtic Yule and the roman Saturnalia. However, the December 25 is NOT the day that the winter solstice occurs even before the reforms of our calendar.
    The closer pagan holding is "Sol Invictus" established by Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, Known as Aurelian in english: Roman Emperor (270-275) AD.
    However, on 25 December was taken as the date of the birth of Christ in the work of Sextus Julius Africanus "Chronographiai", in 221 AD.
     
  19. Skipper

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    If I wish to, I could be offended by the Allied "V" for Victory symbol.

    Not to mention that the "V" was also used by the Axis. I have a pin with a "V" it with the eplicit mention "Deutschland Siegt".

    As to the Nazi Swastika used on a Christmas tree ( symbol of peace) it seems a bit anachronic to say the least, but I'm sure that those days too, some were ready to sit on their principles for money and others silly enough to waste money on buying gadgets.

    I was going to say were were going off topic, but we are still talking aobut trees...
     
  20. surfersami

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    And to think if you had a box of those ornaments today, you could sell them on ebay for lots of $$$.
     

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