Israeli anger at India clothing shop called Hitler

[faithfulguy]

Atleast 30% india is not educated and rest of the ppl have more or less information about hitler...so 90% is false..

Many posters claiming that 95% of Indians do not know Adolf Hitler. And that Hitler means a strict person.

 

[Paan Singh]

Israelis should not loosen up when it comes to another country revering adolf hitler. I'm shocked that "logical" Indian members like you do not totally condemn naming a store after Adolf Hilter. No wonder indians in this forum are so belligerent as you guys have not learned from the lesson of Adolf hitler. And those who do not know the history are more likely to repeat them.

You are taking it in wrong count,even my relative who is very strict used to be called as hitler,so m not surprised by the thread opening post..Shopkeeper too gave same reason..

I have seen 2 guys who are still called as hitler smtimes due to their strictness..

Many posters claiming that 95% of Indians do not know Adolf Hitler. And that Hitler means a strict person.

yes,Strictness means hitler smtimes in india,have seen in family too

95% is false...

 

[Joe Shearer]

Hitler is really big in South Asia.

I remember my dad having lots of books on Hitler and World War II.

There is a great fascination with Hitler. I abhor his crimes but I do admire the German Military and the way it was able to fight the Americans, British and Russians at the same time.

That was nothing to do with Hitler. The Germans have had a military tradition since they were first identified by the Romans, which was their earliest trace in history. They maintained that tradition with no breaks.

 

[Holmes]

Fantastic-- Even M.K. Gandhi was an admirer.
Afterall Swastika had always been a part of our daily cultural life, which he got inspiration from.

 

[danger007]

Many posters claiming that 95% of Indians do not know Adolf Hitler. And that Hitler means a strict person.

Even i heard name of hitler and had seen some movies related to him... apart that, i don't know about Hitler exactly...... we have No interest on Hitler...

 

[Joe Shearer]

Fantastic-- Even M.K. Gandhi was an admirer.
Afterall Swastika had always been a part of our daily cultural life, which he got inspiration from.

Gandhi was full of very peculiar notions, including the totally whacky idea that the Jews should adopt satyagraha tactics and surrender to all the Nazi oppression (nobody knew about the gas chambers at that time).

The swastika was a different thing altogether. It was a symbol in many cultures, not just in India, and represented the sun. It seems to have gotten into the Nazi regalia due to the nineteenth century identification of a mythical Aryan race, and the adoption of this by Gobineau, Houston Chamberlain and racist ideologues of that sort, from whom the Nazis picked up the entire Aryan race nonsense.

For those Indians who displayed such exemplary bad taste expressing admiration for him, the Nazis killed many more other than the Jews. The Jews were perhaps the largest in absolute number. In terms of percentage of the original population killed, the Nazis killed many more Roma, the gypsies of Europe, who were ironically probably closer in ethnic terms to the Indo-Aryan speaking immigrants than the Germans themselves. They exist as a marginalized people, still brutally oppressed by Europeans of all countries, who now call them 'travelers'. Their language is comprehensible to those speaking Indo-Aryan languages from western India.

To a true Hitler-lover, these small details should not be any serious bar to their bigotry.

PS: I hasten to add that this is without prejudice to the clashing theories of AIT and OOI. Bang Galore and I have agreed to disagree on this after serious and bloody clashes, and the incidental mention in the note above is not to be taken as a violation of the cease-fire agreement.

 

[KS]

Israelis should not loosen up when it comes to another country revering adolf hitler. I'm shocked that "logical" Indian members like you do not totally condemn naming a store after Adolf Hilter. No wonder indians in this forum are so belligerent as you guys have not learned from the lesson of Adolf hitler. And those who do not know the history are more likely to repeat them.

Look how many of you Taiwanese know who Aurangazeb was or Bal Gangadhar Tilak was ? That is the same in India. Most people know a person called Hitler existed. But not many know the true extent of his crimes. In Indian colloquial language if you refer to a person as Hitler, that means he is strict. That is all. I personally dont think he did this intentionally. Anyway last I heard he has agreed to change the name and thats it. Lets not read too much into this.

 

[Joe Shearer]

A slow or stupid TamBram is an oxymoron.

 

[KS]

If that was at me, I am no TamBram...

 

[Joe Shearer]

If that was at me, I am no TamBram...

Generic, generic. Just talking to myself. Can you blame me for finding the most intelligent audience available?

 

[Bang Galore]

If that was at me, I am no TamBram...

Quite possible that is what JS is getting at.... If you are no TamBram, then..........

 

[SQ8]

Calm down ladies.. I am not dealing out infractions due to your senior status here.. try to live up to it.

On topic

Why the hulabullo..
Its a shop named hitler.. Now the Nazis aren't just symbols of jewish oppression. the Third Reich did have a pop culture following and still has. I agree that it would be hurtful to those whose families were effected by a madman, but at the same time .. I would agree that Mein Kampf or the gas chambers figure into the minds of 99.98% of those Indians that would visit this shop.
Rather, the idea of "looking cool" in the swastika would come into their heads.
Doesnt anybody remember Shehzada Harrys costume scandal?

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Regardless of his heinous mass war crimes which a reasonable person can't accept, I think he is one of the very few people in history of the mankind that deserve to be called "leader". I admire how he turned Germany into a legendary nation in less than one decade. Most of today most developed and sophisticated weapons are based on German invented arms and prototypes.

 

[Paan Singh]

'Hitler' clothing store stirs anger in India - Yahoo! News


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jews have huge support...

 

[KS]

Quite possible that is what JS is getting at.... If you are no TamBram, then........

I fully understood the negative implications of my post and then only posted it.. . Risk worth taking..

I may become a target for the anti-bharmin lynch mob out here..