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Hitler's Anti-Tobacco Campaign
Hitler was a smoker in his youth but at some stage he became aware of its health hazards and, when in power (perhaps with the zeal of a convert), appeared to detest tobacco, which he called "the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor." But the antismoking campaign reflected "a national political climate stressing the virtues of racial hygiene and bodily purity" as well as the Fuhrer's personal prejudices. The same could be said of Nazi efforts to discourage drinking and encourage a better diet.
The state performer in antismoking propaganda was Adolf Hitler. As one magazine put it: "brother national socialist, do you know that our Führer is against smoking and think that every German is responsible to the whole people for all his deeds and emissions, and does not have the right to damage his body with drugs?"
Originally posted by Pakd-on-mystery
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Now first of all the word "NAZI" does not come from every language or so on, it is german, and simply abreviates National Socialist.
In the Second place....what exactly are you trying to say with this?
No matter what Hitler may have said, we do not live in the 30's or 40's, and what Ronald Mcdonald says counts more than what Hitler may have said....and noone ants to understand him anyways due to the fact that he was an extremist-Nimrod, who's only Talent was being able to hold speeches in front of people.
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Originally posted by Pakd-on-mystery
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Now first of all the word "NAZI" does not come from every language or so on, it is german, and simply abreviates National Socialist.
Thanks for educating me. As far as I can tell, when someone is called "A Nazi", they are being called, "A Dickweed". Can you clarify for me if I am wrong? The word Nazi now means, "Ass____." is my point. Is that the legacy he wanted to leave, linguistically?
In the Second place....what exactly are you trying to say with this?
What are YOU trying to say with your saying what am I saying? Really now, what are you saying by asking what I am saying? I hope you are not saying what I am not saying because I'm not sayin that.
No matter what Hitler may have said, we do not live in the 30's or 40's, and what Ronald Mcdonald says counts more than what Hitler may have said....and noone ants to understand him anyways due to the fact that he was an extremist-Nimrod, who's only Talent was being able to hold speeches in front of people.
Oh, that's what you are saying. Okay, yeah I agree.
Hitler was a loser. I'm with ya. But he did take over his nation and receive their National soul and he clearly is wrong in his understandings of America and also the last part where he claims party-ownership of every Nazi's body, is quite good.
Come on now, read it again and I think you'll see what I'm gettin at.
[edit on 21-4-2009 by smallpeeps]
Wagener had used his business contacts to persuade a cigarette firm to produce "Sturm" cigarettes for SA men -- a "sponsorship" deal benefiting both the firm and SA coffers. Stormtroopers were strongly encouraged to smoke only these cigarettes. A cut from the profit went to the SA -though after Pfeffer's resignation, the Reich Party Treasurer made sure that control over the funds was exercised by the party itself, not by the SA
Originally posted by uk today
reply to post by Pakd-on-mystery
i think the point being put across is the dictatorship angle.
We are in a similar situation today with having our liberties stripped away by a dictatorship and the threat of this is far, far greater than the possible dangers of smoking.
I may be wrong but this is my interpretation.
Raleigh was born around 1552. In 1498, one of Columbus's sailors was arrested in Barcelona for smoking in the street, and sentenced to ten years in prison for "consorting with the devil". The first report of a smoking Englishman is of a sailor in Bristol in 1556, seen "emitting smoke from his nostrils". Raleigh never personally visited Virginia or any other part of North America; it was a Frenchman named Jean Nicot, from whose name the word nicotine is derived, who introduced tobacco to France in 1560, and it was from France, not the New World, that tobacco reached England. However, it is true to say that Raleigh, a leader of fashion, was influential in popularising the tobacco habit after he was introduced to it by Francis Drake, and also that he had a pipe shortly before being executed - the prototype of the condemned man and his last smoke.
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The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military
Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November
1944.
The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany 's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'.
In other words: the Fourth Reich.
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The Vatican today announced that the Mohawk-Algonquin woman born in 1656 and known as Kateri Tekakwitha has been deemed worthy of sainthood by the Pope.
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Also according to Wikipedia, the process of Kateri’s canonization began in 1884; Pope Pius XII declared her venerable in 1943, and Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1980. She was at that time the first American Indian to be beatified.