Firestorm Over German TV Presenter's Nazi Remarks Grows

[Nomad559]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,510846,00.html

Author and former German TV presenter Eva Herman got kicked off a major talk show this week for refusing to apologize for statements she made that allegedly glorified Nazi-era family policies. Herman is now at the center of a growing culture war.

In Germany, portraying any aspect of the Nazi era in a positive light is a great way to quickly destroy a career. Just ask Eva Herman, the controversial TV presenter and author sacked by the public television station that employed her for 19 years last month.

The commotion began in September when, at a press conference to promote her new book, Herman said that life under Hitler wasn't all that bad -- at least not every aspect. "It was a gruesome time with a totally crazy and highly dangerous leader who led the Germans into ruin as we all know," Herman said. "But there was at the time also something good, and that is the values, that is the children, that is the families, that is a togetherness -- it was all abolished, there was nothing left."

The statement led to Herman's termination. Rather than apologize or distance herself from her comments, though, she has fought back with missionary zeal in the past month, granting interviews and appearing on talk shows -- the latest being Johannes B. Kerner's show on German public broadcaster ZDF on Tuesday night.

[Bicoastal]

1. Not many people know it...

....but ze Fuhrer vas a TERRIFIC dancer!

[MilesColtrane]

2. Now THERE was a painter!

He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon--two coats!

[Az]

6. Baby! Baby!... Why does he say this "baby"? The Führer has never said "baby".

[Hekate]

3. And he loved his doggies!

[Spinzonner]

4. Well, except for maybe

the Jewish children and families, and the gypsy children and families, and Communist children and families, and Polish, and Russian and Ukrainian, and ...

[sandnsea]

5. There's those family values again

That ought to be a clue to future generations, look out when a political party starts getting obsessed with religiosity and your morals and values.