This Week in Dead Dictators
Ananova - Guards to protect Milosevic's body from vampire hunters
Slobodan Milosevic's daughter Marija Milosevic has hired security guards to protect her father's body from vampire hunters.
The self-styled vampire hunters have already made one attempt at driving a wooden stake through the former dictator's heart to 'stop him returning from the dead'.
Milosevic is buried in the front garden of his former home in the northern Serbian town of Pozarevac.
His daughter Marija said local police had refused to act to protect the grave even though they knew it was being targeted.
The vampire hunters' first attempt failed after they drove the stake into the ground without digging up the coffin, and missed the heart.
Vampire hunter Miroslav Milosevic said they believed the spirit of the former dictator could return to haunt the country if the ritual was not performed.
Meanwhile in Germany...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,471168,00.html
Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship
By Per Hinrichs
Almost 62 years after his death, Adolf Hitler could lose his German citizenship. A German politician from Braunschweig wants to revoke the Nazi leader's 1932 naturalization -- as a "symbolic step."
Adolf Hitler became a German citizen in 1932. Now a German politician from Braunschweig -- a former stronghold of the Nazi party -- wants to strip him of his citizenship.
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Adolf Hitler became a German citizen in 1932. Now a German politician from Braunschweig -- a former stronghold of the Nazi party -- wants to strip him of his citizenship.
When Adolf Hitler was awarded German citizenship, he abruptly brushed off the congratulations: "You should congratulate Germany, not me!"
It was Feb. 25, 1932 and Hitler had just been naturalized after being appointed as a civil servant in the then-free state of Braunschweig -- a crucial step for the continuation of his political career.
Three quarters of a century later, Isolde Saalmann, a Social Democratic member of Lower Saxony's regional parliament, would like nothing better than to rescind this momentous bureaucratic act. The Austrian-born Führer, who has been dead for almost 62 years, should no longer be a German, in her view. Stripping him of his citizenship would be a "symbolic step," Saalmann believes. She has already proposed her idea to the leadership of the SPD faction in the regional parliament.
Saalmann is chairwoman of the party's local association in Braunschweig's Gliesmarode neighborhood -- and she's rankled by her city's historical connection to Hitler.
Ananova - Guards to protect Milosevic's body from vampire hunters
Slobodan Milosevic's daughter Marija Milosevic has hired security guards to protect her father's body from vampire hunters.
The self-styled vampire hunters have already made one attempt at driving a wooden stake through the former dictator's heart to 'stop him returning from the dead'.
Milosevic is buried in the front garden of his former home in the northern Serbian town of Pozarevac.
His daughter Marija said local police had refused to act to protect the grave even though they knew it was being targeted.
The vampire hunters' first attempt failed after they drove the stake into the ground without digging up the coffin, and missed the heart.
Vampire hunter Miroslav Milosevic said they believed the spirit of the former dictator could return to haunt the country if the ritual was not performed.
Meanwhile in Germany...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,471168,00.html
Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship
By Per Hinrichs
Almost 62 years after his death, Adolf Hitler could lose his German citizenship. A German politician from Braunschweig wants to revoke the Nazi leader's 1932 naturalization -- as a "symbolic step."
Adolf Hitler became a German citizen in 1932. Now a German politician from Braunschweig -- a former stronghold of the Nazi party -- wants to strip him of his citizenship.
Zoom
DPA
Adolf Hitler became a German citizen in 1932. Now a German politician from Braunschweig -- a former stronghold of the Nazi party -- wants to strip him of his citizenship.
When Adolf Hitler was awarded German citizenship, he abruptly brushed off the congratulations: "You should congratulate Germany, not me!"
It was Feb. 25, 1932 and Hitler had just been naturalized after being appointed as a civil servant in the then-free state of Braunschweig -- a crucial step for the continuation of his political career.
Three quarters of a century later, Isolde Saalmann, a Social Democratic member of Lower Saxony's regional parliament, would like nothing better than to rescind this momentous bureaucratic act. The Austrian-born Führer, who has been dead for almost 62 years, should no longer be a German, in her view. Stripping him of his citizenship would be a "symbolic step," Saalmann believes. She has already proposed her idea to the leadership of the SPD faction in the regional parliament.
Saalmann is chairwoman of the party's local association in Braunschweig's Gliesmarode neighborhood -- and she's rankled by her city's historical connection to Hitler.
posted 3/16/2007
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