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September 27, 2003
Fascist Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens of November 1938 showed off Hitler's fashionable home. Homes & Gardens of 2003 would rather kill the story than apologize (via plasticbag). The memory-hole will not work this time as there are already mirror sites preserving this fashion crime.
It is frankly sickening that Homes & Gardens should display concern for its copyrighted material rather than contrition for its endorsement of a monster. This is a great story for the blogosphere. If anyone in the London dialing area would like to run with it here is the magazine's contact page. Please keep me posted. I wonder how they would respond to requests for November 1938 back issues?
BACK ISSUES PO Box 666, London E15 1DW,
(020) 8532 3628 (24-hour service)
www.mags-uk.com/ipc
PO Box 666, indeed. Hitler's home continues to attract attention from rubber-neckers of history. It is a small vengeance to learn he would not have been happy about it.
Adolf Hitler once said he would prefer his Alpine home, the "Berghof," to go up in flames after his death rather than have tourists flock to see where he had breakfast.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 27, 2003 09:58 AM
Comments
I think that if I were the Home and Gardens people, I would want to get out in front of this, rather than let people like David Irving make hay out of it...
Posted by: Dr_Funk at September 28, 2003 05:21 PM
Of course the bastards want to get out of it. But should they be allowed to use the copyright laws to do it? I see this leading to the worst sort of media tyranny: where media critics are shut down because they are not allowed to talk about what they want to criticize -- and no one else is allowed to see it! If big media get their way, they will stop bloggers from citing news stories, thus shutting down a major reason for the blogosphere.
Posted by: Eric Scheie at September 29, 2003 09:49 AM
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