Re: Hilter a pall-bearer to a Jewish Communist leader
- From: "Rhino" <no.offline.contact.please@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:28:23 -0500
"SolomonW" <SolomonW@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If anyone has a link to the photo, I would love to see it.
In 1919, Eisner, was the head of state in Bavaria, who was assassinated on
February 21 by a would-be member of the proto-fascist Thule Society. At
Eisner¢s funeral in Munich, Hitler actually walked behind the coffin in
his
role as head of a military unit, the Ersatz Battalion of the 2nd Infantry
Regiment. Surviving film footage shows Hitler wearing two armbands at
Eisner¢s funeral: one the black band of mourning, the other a red armband
of the socialist revolution. There are also still photographs of Hitler so
attired (taken, ironically enough, by the man who was to become his court
photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann). Hitler chose publicly to side with the
fallen Jewish Communist leader rather than with the Thule Society, among
whose members were several future Nazi leaders, and continued to serve as
deputy battalion representative after the Bavarian Soviet Republic was
declared in the wake of the riots following Eisner¢s death. It came to an
end three months later, in May.
http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-First-War-Hitler-Regiment/dp/0199233209/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294320655&sr=8-1-fkmr0
I'm not sure how you could hope to see the colours of the armbands even if
you did have the picture in front of you. Colour photography was very rare
in those days so any photographs of the funeral would almost certainly be
black and white. Perhaps you can distingush red from other colours in black
and white photographs but I certainly can't.....
Also, despite Hitler's notorious animosity towards Jews, he did make at
least one exception. A friend sent me an article he saw in the Toronto Globe
and Mail on Friday January 30, 1998. (Source: Facts and Arguments column by
Michael Kesterton). Unfortunately, the URL no longer works but I have an
HTML version of the page which says:
==
On this date in 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. A Jewish
doctor in Austria, says The Sunday Times of London, warned Hitler's mother
of the dangerous flaws in her son's psychological makeup when he was still a
six-year-old. But an opportunity to have him treated may have been rejected
by his authoritarian father, contend TV writer Laurence Marks and Freud
expert John Forrester. Ernest Bloch, the Hitlers' family doctor, was so
alarmed by Adolf's disturbed state and frequent nightmares that he
recommended he be sent to a children's mental hospital. "Hitler did not
forget his debt to him. In 1938, when German troops poured into Austria, he
instructed Martin Bormann to grant Bloch safe passage to Switzerland.
[British historian Alan] Bullock said: 'It is possibly the only case of
Hitler saving a Jew.' "
==
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Rhino
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