Dagens Hitler: publiceringar om nazismen i svensk media

Hitler was no big fan of Christmas – but still went to Christmas parties

On December 18, 1937, at the Christmas party for the employees of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler receives a gingerbread gift from two Santa Clauses.

Christmas with Hitler: Children enjoy a festive lunch with the Fuhrer while Göring and Goebbels hand out presents before carols are sung beneath a giant Swastika in Nazi propaganda

* The remarkable propaganda footage shows Adolf Hitler celebrating Christmas

* Nazi dictator is seen sitting down for Christmas lunch, surrounded by children

* His ministers Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering also handed out presents

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/RxAdmA/professorn-det-finns-bevis-for-att-hitler-var-homosexuell/promo

Professorn: Hitler sålde sex till män Tysklands diktator Adolf Hitler var själv homosexuell.

”Det finns mängder av bevis”, säger professor Lothar Machtan till Washington Post

The hard evidence that Machtan presents is a number of documents that, he contends, have been unjustifiably dismissed or ignored. The main such document is the so-called Mend Protocol, a statement made in 1939 by Hans Mend, a dispatch rider who had served with Hitler during World War I. Mend testified that during the war he had seen Hitler ''bedded down at night with 'Schmidl' '' -- Ernst Schmidt -- his male whore.''

Machtan also cites notes left by Eugen Dollmann, Hitler's interpreter. Dollmann wrote that he had heard Otto von Lossow, a Reichswehr general in Munich after World War I, read from what Lossow claimed was a police file containing statements by young boys in Munich. Those boys, according to Lossow, said that Hitler had paid them to spend the night with him.

But the circumstantial evidence Machtan offers is just that -- circumstantial. And the hard evidence seems far less reliable than he would have us believe. Hans Mend was a habitual liar and blackmailer. And General Lossow had participated in crushing Hitler's 1923 putsch. As a result, his life had been threatened by Hitler's supporters, and he was desperate to convince them that he had incriminating evidence against their leader.

But the biggest problem with Machtan's book (which has been translated by John Brownjohn) isn't the reliability of his sources but his mode of argumentation. He accepts what fits his thesis and rejects what doesn't. One feels, at times, that one is reading an internal F.B.I. report from the J. Edgar Hoover era rather than an evenhanded work of scholarship in which the author is ready to be led by the facts.

To interpret evidence his way, Machtan employs innuendo and insinuation. He asks rhetorical questions designed to lead the reader to answer them in a manner that supports his argument, even when alternative explanations are at least as plausible. He introduces possibilities that are then assumed to be probabilities and, indeed, certitudes. By the use of quotation marks, he highlights what are probably innocuous comments so that they seem loaded with homoerotic meaning. In short, he has written a tendentious book that is more a brief for the prosecution than a work of balanced history.

Storföretag som samarbetade med Nazityskland
När de handlar om mycket stora pengar, brukar storföretag titta åt andra hållet vad gäller till exempel krigsförbrytelser? Det kan verka otroligt att så många företag inte slutade att sälja till Tyskland under det andra världskriget, men det kan verka ännu mer osannolikt när man på detta sätt stöttade ett krig mot det egna landets armé!
Amerikanska företag fortsatte att göra affärer med Tyskland även efter att USA gått med i kriget och även när man började förstå vad som hände med den judiska befolkningen och oliktänkande. Här är exempel på multinationella företag som var en viktig del av det tyska krigsmaskineriet.