Adolf Hitler Figure

[Stonefish]

As a German and history student:

No sign painter from Braunau in my shelf! Never! Ever!

I'm collecting stuff from movies and TV shows, that inspired and fascinated me - things I really like and "enjoy" to remember - can't imagine having this criminal among them.

We must not shut everything away from our dark past, because to my mind it's very important to discuss those things and learn from them, but creating new ones and puting them on display without any comment ist an absolute no-no!

 

[lerath666]

As a German and history student:

No sign painter from Braunau in my shelf! Never! Ever!

I'm collecting stuff from movies and TV shows, that inspired and fascinated me - things I really like and "enjoy" to remember - can't imagine having this criminal among them.

We must not shut everything away from our dark past, because to my mind it's very important to discuss those things and learn from them, but creating new ones and puting them on display without any comment ist an absolute no-no!

just gonna reiterate what i said before with a image.

Recreating that in 1/6th would make for a kinda cool shelf display/ Dio.

 

[ProgMatinee]

Who's closer to being a James Holmes or Dylan Kleebold. Someone collecting Hitler merch and seemingly enjoying being in dark, cruel and sick frames of mind...or those who aren't?

People who take an interest in the subject, from an academic standpoint, to better understand and express to others how filthy and ignorant and evil these types were are different from people who sit in awe and worship of it.

The people who think stuff like, "He was really great, but went too far" sicken me.

The same goes for any sickos out there who like John Wayne Gacy or other seriel killers. 25 years from now there will be sickos like them worshipping the Boston marathon bombers or James Holmes.

I'd feel sick to my own stomach seeing a Hitler or other Nazi glorification swag in my home let alone wonder what my friends and family would think.

 

[Hollywood]

Some may call me kinda crazy for this but IMO I believe this would be an amazing idea...I think Sideshow or Hot Toys should put out an "Adolf Hitler" PF or even just a 1/6 collectible.

I mean they have made movies about this notorious leader as well as numerous documentaries.

I am not a Nazi or racist in any way I just have a fascination with Adolf Hitler and think it would be pretty cool to have a nice PF statue or even a 1/6 figure of him in my collection.
Any thoughts?

I don't support the purchase of Nazi figures, as I wouldn't condone the purchase of figures based on serial killers. That being said DID puts out high end 1/6 figures of Nazi leaders, including Hitler.

 

[Hollywood]

As a student of history, especially that of World War II with a degree in history specializing in European Studies, I have focused a large portion of my studies towards World War II's European theater.

I can say this unequivocally the excuse that people use about the Nazis beautiful tailored uniforms and that Hitler must've been highly intelligent to be able to pull off his master plan is a farce.

Hitler as a man and a leader was nothing more than lucky. He used the conditions of the times and the general political paranoia to exploit his personal ideas once he came into power through manipulation and violence.

Contrary to popular belief German citizens were not "forced" to join the Nazi party. In reality a large majority of well-to-do German citizens such as doctors and lawyers didn't fact join the political party as a way to advance their careers through the political system.

When people voluntarily join these groups only to find out after the fact that that organization committed crimes that were atrocious you cannot deny responsibility in the act simply by saying you didn't pull the trigger. In fact you're joining the organization is what allowed the organization itself to gain power. There are no true historical documented instances or stories that show a person declining to join the Nazi party was imprisoned by the mere fact of not joining.

As a former United States Marine I also understand military. People who joined the German forces out of pride did so from tradition and that is good. However as the atrocities began to build up those soldiers had a moral responsibility to decline orders. It is not true that by declining an order German soldiers were shot in the field. These excuses are mostly false, and in the rare situation when it occurred was carried out by extremist. Through my studies and through interviewing former members of the SS the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe I've come to learn that most of the soldiers had a sense of honor however because of the political pressure that they were under even in the field they simply carried out orders as a means to an end. That in itself makes them murderers, and not soldiers. By herding civilians onto trains, or mass executions makes the murders. I have yet to meet a German soldier that actually excepts any responsibility for what the Nazi party had done or what they had done in war. I also have yet to meet a German soldier who actually admits to participating in roundups mass shootings or even working in a concentration camp. At the end of the day they were lying then and they are still lying today.

Anyone who would want to see manufactured or even purchase a figure of a political organization proven to have committed such horrific crimes is something I cannot support. Any person who wishes to buy one feel free however if you didn't buy one there would be no market and that ultimately is the right thing to do.

 

[TheFiend]

I'd blame the Weimar Revolution before I'd blame the Treaty of Versailles.



There sure wasn't. If you want the evil genius behind the Third Reich, this is who you're looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

His successors (primarily Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger) worked out the details.

The idiocy in the German populace that I'm referring to was the state of the Weimar Republic prior to Hitler gaining the Chancellorship. It's written all over that constitution, and the political fracturing in the Reichstag: the envy and resentment of the capitalist West, the paranoia in the form of anti-Semitism, the superstitious reverence for both the Prussian and Protestant traditions, and the egalitarian current that brought them all to fascism in the form of a nationalistic socialism. Hitler was the face of the common denominator that transcended party lines, and that face belonged to a spiteful, delusional mediocrity.

This guy knows what he's talking about. Thanks, devil.

Yeah, I think he missed my point.

He did.


Close this thread up. Hitler doesn't deserve any sort of glorifying memorabilia, plain and simple. And anyone who is fascinated with him to the mm point they want a PF of him has watched too many Nazi documentaries and has aloud themselves tocome under that all too powerful Nazi propaganda.

Over 70 years later and it still works its dark influence.


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[Hollywood]

As The Fiend said

Close this thread up. Hitler doesn't deserve any sort of glorifying memorabilia, plain and simple. And anyone who is fascinated with him to the mm point they want a PF of him has watched too many Nazi documentaries and has aloud themselves tocome under that all too powerful Nazi propaganda.

Over 70 years later and it still works its dark influence.

 

[Hollywood]

Close this thread. It's a worthless subject.

 

[FLOSI]

I am... all hell will just break loose otherwise.