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A Nazi Little Christmas

We dare not forget those times.

The squareheads had a board game called ''Juden Raus!'', a sort of chase game, like ''Snakes and Ladders'' I'm sure those ornaments hung over many copies of that one.

I wonder what the toy trains were like?(shudder).

No, never forget.
 
Thought this must be a hoax but it appears not. The photos of the baubles show them as finely-worked in stunning colours.
You wish they had almost any other decoration instead of the swastika. :(

That board game rings a bell, did I see it in a high school textbook? I can almost picture it.

Went to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam at the weekend and saw mention of a board game there. It was a present to the teenage boy who was in hiding and was based on a sort of business theme. Like Monopoly.

I'm thinking now, those swastika baubles were probably hung on a xmas tree somewhere while the Frank family and group were already living in their Secret Annexe, afraid to make a sound...
 
I should imagine that these items are extremely rare. It's history, folks, even though some may find it distasteful.
 
These swastika baubles were pictured in an older issue of FT magazine along with a photo of Hitler and his SS tucking into a Christmas dinner under a huge Christmas tree and pictures of Nazi Christmas cards from memory .... I think the article was called 'How the Nazis stole Christmas' but that would involve me going up into my loft to find out.
 
Swifty said:
These swastika baubles were pictured in an older issue of FT magazine along with a photo of Hitler and his SS tucking into a Christmas dinner under a huge Christmas tree and pictures of Nazi Christmas cards from memory .... I think the article was called 'How the Nazis stole Christmas' but that would involve me going up into my loft to find out.
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Go on up.

Time you left the mad relatives out for a run arund the garden.
 
ramonmercado said:
Swifty said:
These swastika baubles were pictured in an older issue of FT magazine along with a photo of Hitler and his SS tucking into a Christmas dinner under a huge Christmas tree and pictures of Nazi Christmas cards from memory .... I think the article was called 'How the Nazis stole Christmas' but that would involve me going up into my loft to find out.
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Go on up.

Time you left the mad relatives out for a run arund the garden.
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I'm covered in dust now but I've found it! ...... FT218 JAN 2007, front cover shows a black leather gloved hand placing one of these baubles on a Christmas tree, the article runs between page 32 and 39 and is subtitled a seasonal tale of politics, propaganda and paganism in Hitler's third Reich ...

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/ar ... stmas.html

I also found a photo of me and some mates I used to be in a band with posing with Rolf Harris in '91 which my girlfriend finds hilarious and has insisted on making a copy of to show her work mates. I think that one will be going back up in the loft. :shock: ..... the relatives are back in the house now ;)
 
:roll:

Get the Rolf snap up, then. We don't have all day.
 
I've still got the pic from the FT article on my drive from way back.



I remember Pietro saying before that issue came out that he hoped they sent it in a plain wrapper.
 
God it's been a long day....I couldn't work out for the life of me why you had it on your drive.

Then I realised you meant hard drive.

:lol:
 
escargot1 said:
:roll:

Get the Rolf snap up, then. We don't have all day.
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:lol: .. I'll have a go tomorrow. Our scanner and printer's wireless connected to my girlfriends tablet only so she's going to scan it at work then email it to me ... then all I have to work out is how to post it on this thread. What's the best photo storing/sharing site I can sign up to on Windows 8? .. this may take some time I warn you :roll:
 
escargot1 said:
Thought this must be a hoax but it appears not. The photos of the baubles show them as finely-worked in stunning colours.
You wish they had almost any other decoration instead of the swastika. :(

That board game rings a bell, did I see it in a high school textbook? I can almost picture it.

Went to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam at the weekend and saw mention of a board game there. It was a present to the teenage boy who was in hiding and was based on a sort of business theme. Like Monopoly.

I'm thinking now, those swastika baubles were probably hung on a xmas tree somewhere while the Frank family and group were already living in their Secret Annexe, afraid to make a sound...
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Might this game in the Secret Annexe, in fact truly have been Monopoly? from what I remember, the game -- devised by an American in the earlier 1930s -- caught on like wildfire in much of the world during that decade.

At the risk of being thought to trivialise the hideousness of Nazism (but IMO, almost nothing in human history is without a comical side) -- I gather that a German edition of Monopoly, featuring Berlin, was produced in the later 1930s, and was initially popular and sold well. Problems arose, though, with the game's having as one of the top-end properties (analogous to Park Lane and Mayfair), Insel Schwanenwerder: an up-market part of the city where a fair number of high-ranking Nazis had their lavish and desirable residences. The powers-that-were, seemingly were sensitive about suggestions that circulated, to the effect that at least some of the bigwigs were corruptible, and that money which had come their way in non-ethical fashion, had enabled them to purchase their Insel Schwanenwerder dwellings. The makers and sellers of the game were leaned-on, with a strong recommendation that they should stop making it, and withdraw it from the market -- hint duly taken and acted on.
 
Look at him pointing - you can't help thinking, where has that finger been...

:shock:
 
Makes me wonder what he did with the kangeroo after it was tied down...
 
krakenten said:
Makes me wonder what he did with the kangeroo after it was tied down...
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What happens in the bush stays in the bush.

Accordng to this link, the earliest found swastika so far is 12,000 years old and was found in Mezine, Ukraine :shock: .... makes you wonder how the Hindu's came to adopt it?. Scroll down on this link and you also get a half hour BBC documentary on the history of the Swastika:

http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-le ... ory-001312
 
Note if you will that the Nazi swastika rotates t the left.

The Swastika is a sun-wheel.

Hitler chose it, perhaps because it would be easy to chalk or paint on walls. He also chose the red,white and black color scheme.

The Nazis used so many swastikas in insignias that they used up many forms, some turned left, some right, some were straight, others curved.

For all the nit-pickers, the Natinal Socialist emblem was a black swastika, rotating to the left, on a white circle and with a red field.

Sun wheels occur in almost every art fo along with the three legged version, the triskelion., which has become a symbol for S/M(the "Story of O" made that popular.

Symbols have only the power we give them.
 
It's a fairly simple design, after all (the swastka itself, not the whole Nazi flag) . I dare-say most cultures stumble across some version of it soon after they learn do draw or carve ordinary crosses.

I think it's rather silly banning the swastika per se - it's a bit like banning circles.

Banning actual Nazi emblems - well, again it depends on what you mean by them. As a kid I had model Messerschmitts as well as Spitfires - didn't make me a Nazi. You need something for the Spits to shoot down, after all. However, if you're going to go to the effort of making the model you want it to be accurate, including the swastikas.
 
Giant swastika found in Brazil swimming pool
Brazilian police release photograph of Nazi symbol but say owner will not be prosecuted
By Nick Allen, Los Angeles
12:51AM GMT 06 Dec 2014

A giant swastika has been discovered emblazoned on the floor of a swimming pool in Brazil.
Police discovered it by chance as they were flying overhead in a helicopter during an anti-kidnapping operation.
They later investigated and found the Nazi symbol had been there for 13 years.

Because it is on private land they are not able to file any charges against the owner of the house where the pool sits in the garden.
The owner told police he was not promoting Nazi views and has not been publicly identified.

etc...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -pool.html
 
He probably paddles around in an inflatable U-Boat.
 
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