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s the countdown nears
for the April 26 dedi-
cation of Washing-
ton's Holocaust Memo-
rial. Museum, the Washington
Post reports that the German
government offered the mu-
seum several million dollars
two years ago to include an
exhibit on postwar Germany.
German officials were con-
cerned that the museum,
whose exhibits depict events
in that nation during the Nazi
era, would impart a myopic
view of German history. Most
of all, they were worried that
visitors, especially young-
sters, would not learn that
Germany has made painful
efforts to rehabilitate itself
since the war.
As Leo Wieland, Washing-
ton correspondent for the
Frankfurter Allgemeine, said,
"half a century after the war's
end, is it advisable to lead
millions of visitors through
a museum that ends in 1945
and thereby may leave the
last impression: These are the

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Germans and this is Ger-
many?"
But the museum's director,
Jeshajahu Weinberg, called
the Nazi period "the worst
chapter of German and world
history" and said, "we cannot
change that. That is unfortu-
nate for Germany today. But
that's how it is."
In an editorial, the Post
harshly chided German ef-
forts to skew the museum
their way.
"Surely," said the Post, "af-
ter all these years of painful
and often exemplary self-ex-
amination, German leaders
should accept that the Holo-
caust cannot be treated as a
German international image
problem.
"...Remembering great evil
is hard for any society, and
particularly for a society in
which the atrocity actually
happened. But that's because
evil, once done, isn't undone
or even touched by subse-
quent history. Public relations
won't change that."

First J. Edgar Hoover
Now Hitler

Was World War II nothing
more than a lover's quarrel
between Adolf Hitler and
Franklin Roosevelt?
The Sun, a supermarket
tabloid, reports that Hitler,
the father of the Third Reich,
was a gay cross-dresser who
had a "major crush" on FDR
starting in 1932 and even
covered a wall in his quarters
with pictures of the U.S. pres-
ident.
The Nazi "had his spies get
as many pictures of Roosevelt
in his bathing trunks as they
could," the Sun says it was
told by Brent Kerr, whom it
claims was a British secret
agent who posed as Hitler's
valet from 1936 to 1943.
Mr. Kerr — whom we can
assume is as mythical as the
"Hitler was gay" story — says
the Third Reich's leader was
"a real swish. He had a clos-
et full of women's clothes, lin-
gerie, high-heeled shoes and
silk stockings."
Hitler, Hermann Goering
and Adolf Eichmann had
"wild, dress-up parties." and
Eichmann once snowed up
"wearing high heels, black

net stockings, a garter belt, a
bra — and nothing else."
When Hitler attended a re-
ception for Mussolini and
Stalin wearing a women's
tennis dress, the Italian "al-
most fainted from the em-
barrassment and Stalin
started choking on his vodka

Reports are that
Hitler was a gay
cross-dresser with
a crush on FOR.

and had to run from the
room," the Sun reported.
Later, when Russia was
fighting Germany, Stalin al-
ways referred to Hitler as
"that Nazi faggot."
Allied leaders, claims the
Sun, kept Hitler's homosex-
uality from the public "be-
cause they wanted the people
Lo hate Hitler, not laugh al
anfi
joke."

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