And now those Gay Nazi dolls have a Fuhrer. . .
At the old blog, years ago, we were stunned by the story of an apparent gay Nazi doll collector — both the collector and the Nazi dolls (or at least some of them, anyway) were gay. Here’s a pic and some text from his craigslisting:
here’s Marius the SS officer and Fritz the panzer cadet.
they are gay.
a lot of people in the ‘action figure community’ are mean to me because some of my dolls are gay.
i have around 65 action figures, but only 5 or 6 are gay.
but meanwhile, the people in this hobby act like all my guys are gay.
they are mean to me.
Now, courtesy of “growing extreme right political sentiment in Ukraine” comes the perfect complement to Fritz and Marius — the Hitler doll:
From the Daily Mail:
An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine, with saleswomen comparing the doll to Barbie.
Supermarkets in the capital Kiev are stocking the 40 centimetre high figure of the fuhrer, complete with jackboots, leather trench-coat and swastika armband.
The £100 figure has a spare head “with a kind expression on it,” glasses and several changes of clothes.
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One saleswoman said: “It is like Barbie. Kids can undress fuhrer, pin on medals and there’s a spare head in the kit to give him a kinder expression on his face.
“He has glasses that are round, in the manner of pacifist Jon [sic] Lennon“.
Upon hearing of this clear link between Lennon and Hitler, liberal and fascist, Jonah Goldberg reportedly exclaimed “I knew it!” and burst the waistband on his stretch Dockers.
You had an old blog?
“Mein Kleine Kampf”?
The source information on which your article is based is inaccurate anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
The doll is manufactured in Taiwan, not Ukraine. They are not being “stocked in supermarkets”; *one* was found in a specialty shop. The saleswoman quoted in the article said nothing of the sort of things she was attributed with having said in your story. The idea of a further line of Nazi souvenirs was the imaginings of the original author of the
story uncovering the doll’s existence in Ukraine, as in a horrific, “what next?” scenario (http://www.dt.ua/1000/1550/62775/ - Dzerkalo
Tyzhdnia, in Ukrainian.)
In fact, this exact same Taiwanese doll is for sale in the UK (http://www.modellersloft.co.uk/showitem.ihtml?id=22831) and in America (http://www.pzg.biz/figure_hitler.htm).
There is detailed information about how this story came to be twisted into a slander against Ukraine, one posted by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (http://www.khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1209570049) and a more detailed analysis by the Ukrainian Archive
(http://www.ukar.ca/shevchenko/buzyna/hitler.html).
This “story” has already been retracted by the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and most recently by The Philadelphia Trumpet (http://thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5109.3384.0.0).
[...] * Cf. and cf. [...]
Prominent European media outlets recently circulated false reports of an Adolf Hitler doll being made in Ukraine. Ukrainian journalist Yevgeny Minko said he was disappointed with how the erroneous story was handled.
DW-WORLD.DE was among the European media sources to publish the falsified report on its English site in April 2008. It has since been removed from the Web site. The editors apologize to those readers who were offended by the publication of the article.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3337110,00.html