Some of history is agonizing, & so what? It fucking happened & because it did, reminders are never unnecessary or provocative. Krauts really shouldn't attempt to shove it all down the memory hole. (We've another hole we'd could suggest where they can shove a few things ...)A controversial Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser has been cancelled after it caused some audience members to seek medical help and prompted others to walk out in anger.
The Rheinoper in Düsseldorf said it was in a state of shock after being deluged with complaints by members of the public who called the opera tasteless and unnecessarily provocative.
The production, which opened last Saturday and was expected to be one of the highlights of the celebrations for the bicentenary of Wagner's birth later this month, has a Nazi storyline, and includes scenes of people dying in gas chambers, being shot and raped, and of members of a family having their heads shaved before their execution.
And what a bunch of sissified weaklings. Where is the Germany of yesterday that could start a war & mean it? Look at this crap:
Where were the sensitive/vomiting Wagner-lovers when the real Holocaust was happening? Compare your suffering while watching a damn opera to the agony, torture, slavery & death your parents & grandparents inflicted on their fellow citizens just a few yrs. ago.Some opera goers were said to be so traumatised they had to receive medical assistance. The director of the opera house, Christoph Meyer, said his company had not meant to offend, and its purpose had been to "mourn, not mock" victims of the Holocaust. The production, by director Burkhard C Kosminski, is said to have bombarded the audience with shocking Holocaust imagery from the start.
The opening scene depicts singers inside glass containers dropping to the floor as they are enveloped in a white fog – a clear allusion to the gas chambers that killed millions in Nazi death camps.
Even ignoring Nazis who came to these United Snakes to establish the anti-communist national security state, the Nazis' ideological descendants are actually in charge of everything (all in the name of free markets & anti-communism) on both sides of the Atlantic.
Sheer sloth-like inertia had us ignoring our Nazis, but our Puritan sense of duty forced us to perform a cursory search, which for once was worth the effort. First item returned is a perfect illustation.He had also found vindication for his controversial subject of inquiry. Back in 2007, when Herwig began publishing articles in Der Spiegel about the public figures he unearthed in the Karteikarten, he provoked an angry backlash, which continued over time as he revealed the Nazi Party membership of more than a dozen prominent German politicians, intellectuals, and artists. “Whenever I wrote that I’d discovered a pillar of society who had a stain, people would say, ‘Oh god, he’s muckraking, he’s throwing dirt at these people, it cannot be true.’” He paused. “But sorry, it is: here’s the file.”
If you aren't hatin' on America, you aren't paying attention.Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés. Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.’s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.
The Justice Department report, describing what it calls “the government’s collaboration with persecutors,” says that O.S.I investigators learned that some of the Nazis “were indeed knowingly granted entry” to the United States, even though government officials were aware of their pasts. “America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became — in some small measure — a safe haven for persecutors as well,” it said.
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This is up there on the list of "Hardest Posts MB has ever Posted". Feel free to rock out with your cock out.
Please note that the text and music of the opera at this point refer quite clearly to group sex inside a Thuringian mountain under the supervision of the goddess Venus, with whom the tenor breaks up in the course of the ensuing scene. If that is represented by a Nazi death camp, does that mean that the opera's finale, when the tenor dies and the prayers of his true love, St. Elisabeth of Hungary, get him into heaven, is the Nuremberg trials? I hate to be the conservative about this shit and I definitely wouldn't vomit and faint but I really fail to see how the production is supposed to, um, work.
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