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| G8 venue revokes Hitler's honorary citizenship |
| 2007-04-04 |
| Today's bit of meaningless symbolism... Germany’s Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, which will host the G8 summit in June, has revoked the honorary citizenship it awarded to Adolf Hitler in 1932. The local council voted late on Monday to formally strip the Nazi dictator’s name from the roll of honorary citizens even though it felt the honour had lapsed when Hitler, a regular summer guest, killed himself. “We’ve taken this formal step now before the G8 meeting because it was causing such a stir even though in our view the honorary citizenship lapsed with his death,” Gerhard Kukla, head of the town’s administration, told Reuters. Hitler spent several summer holidays in Germany’s oldest Baltic resort, 250 km (150 miles) north of Berlin. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 "The local council voted late on Monday to formally strip the Nazi dictatorÂ’s name from the roll of honorary citizens... Gerhard Kukla, head of the townÂ’s administration, told Reuters." Fran and Ollie had no comment |
| Posted by: Larry Everett 2007-04-04 15:27 |
| #2 Of course; he didn't do anything so bad. Hey, like my Pulitzer? Pretty, isn't it? |
| Posted by: Walter Duranty 2007-04-04 08:00 |
| #1 Wel-l-l, does STALIN, whose pogroms various Euro-journals now argue may had killed btwn 50-80 Milyuhn Soviet citizens before WW2, before BARBAROSSA + GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, and SEVERAL TIMES THAT OF HITLER, get to keep his honors??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-04 02:26 |