As per Cecil it’s “Adolph”;
O.K., not a direct answer but a reliable example.
Of course, I would never accuse Cecil of making an error. I would like to point out, though, that Little Ed is between The Master and us peons, and therefore it is probably Little Ed who doesn’t know how to spell Hitler’s first name.
I noted before that historically it has been common for U.S. publications to Anglicize the spelling of European names. Here’s a more specific example – Time magazine’s man of the year in 1939 was Adolph Hitler – according to the Time site – http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/0,16641,1101390102,00.html
Lobsang -
My bolding.
It’s still a touchy subject in Germany. The governemnt has refused to mark the place where the bunker, which Hitler dies in, was. They don’t want neonazis to make it a landmark. While it’s been 60 years, there are people alive who fought in the war. A dad of a friend of mine was part of Hitler Jugend. It’s old history, but it’s not ancient history.
The Gaspode, Understood. (rather a co-incidence that the last post in this thread was adressed to me and I didn’t even vanity search it)
Maybe it’s a cultural thing. In my culture it seems odd to want to hide the unpleasant past of even one’s own country. No effort seems to be made to hide or hush up such things as Bloody Sunday* (for instance) in Britain.
[sub]*Not that I have great knowledge of that either, all I know is it is an event that puts Britain in an ill light.[/sub]
Sorry, I can’t agree with that. I don’t mean to offend you, but do you know anything about the way our past is handled in Germany? Trust me, it is not hidden. There were millions of copies of this book, many (most?) of them are still around. If you really want to, reading that book legally is not a problem. It’s just that the copyright holder for all countries except the US - the state of Bavaria - only licenses certain commented editions. It is not even a matter of law, just ordinary use of their copyright. This measure not totally uncontroversial in Germany, but it is not intended as an attempt at hiding anything. It is supposed to avoid taking part in the distribution of nazi propaganda (or even profiting from it.)
kellner I’m not saying Germany does hide it’s past. I am saying it seems odd if a democratised country hid it’s unpleasant past. If Germany doesn’t, as you say, then that is what I would expect.
Some earlier in this thread expressed surprise that it is possible to obtain results for ‘Mein Kampf’ on Germany’s google. Germany being a western democratised country, this surprise seemed odd to me at the time.
I’m guessing the surprise was occasioned by knowledge that German law prohibits the commercial trade of Nazi memorabilia.
Tough!
We won the war. We’ll pronounce it any way we darn well please!
Hah! Amateurs! You should hear how we pronounce George Bush. And we didn’t even win the war.
Denmark has some thriving publishing houses, nearly exclusively making their money serving the German market with Nazi material. There is some concern that under the new international anti-terror extraditions laws, Germany can demand those people engaged in such production extradited to prosecution in Germany, even though it’s not against the law in Denmark.
When I bought Mein Kampf on Amazon some years back, I had to order it in the US since the English branch didn’t carry it or wouldn’t ship to European countries – I forget which. It now ranks 1,708 on amazon.co.uk, which is quite high.
The amazing thing about Nazis, Fascist, Communists, Islamists, and all those swell people, is that they never seem to try to hide what they intent to do. They go right up front and say: these are the people we’re gonna kill, and this is how we’re gonna do it. Alas! Would that, Chamberlain had read Mein Kampf in 1930. Many millions of lives could have been saved.
More Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade trivia:
I saw an interview with Harrison Ford and he said that they had initially planned to hire a forger to actually copy Hitler’s signature for that scene, but Hitler’s handwring was so awful they decided to not to. Even though it was obvious that the character was Hitler, they didn’t want people to look at the signature and say “I thought that was supposed to be Hitler - who’s the hell’s Adelf Hilster?”
Go right ahead – that’s fine with me! I have a few choice words for him myself.