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Adolf Hitler, the Irish folk music fan

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Published Thursday, January 28, 2010, 7:54 AM
Updated Saturday, February 20, 2010, 10:39 PM
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Newly released historical photographs reveal that famous Irish musician Sean Dempsey played for Adolf Hitler in 1936, and the Nazi dictator loved his music.

Dempsey, an uileann piper, was invited to play for Hitler and propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels during a visit to Berlin in 1936 after being told that Hitler was an Irish folk music fan.

When he arrived to play however, there was no room for him to sit, which he needed to do to play, and it looked like it would be canceled.

however, Hitler jumped up and demanded that an S.S. member get down on his hands and knees and that Dempsey sit astride him while he played.

Dempsey played what was described as a 'haunting air' as Hitler listened with rapt attention. After he performed, Hitler presented him with a gold fountain pen while Goebbels clapped wildly.

The bizarre scene was revealed for the first time in a new exhibition of Irish photographs from that era called 'Ceol na Cathra.' The exhibition opened in Dublin and was collected by legendary fiddle player Mick O’Connor.

Also in the exhibit are rare photographs from the early days of The Chieftains and Sean O'Riada, the father of modern Irish folk music.

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Posted by NathanLansford on Feb 22, 2010, 01:30 PM EST
The Final Solution is a term taken from early 20th century Zionist literature--it referred to Jewish emigration, which was also part of official Nazi policy. The Zionist Party collaborated with the Nazis via the Hava'ara (Hebrew for "transfer") Agreement, and this enabled many European Jews to emigrate elsewhere. The formation of a Jewish state was openly discussed by both the Nazis and the Zionists, in accordance with this policy. Madagascar was considered for this, in fact, as was Palestine. Again, these are things not typically brought up by Holocaust historians nor cited on TV documentaries on this subject. The tendency is to deny that this official policy was not the actual policy--that that is part of the "myth." Yet, they are facts that have been confirmed time and time again, even by Jewish sources!
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Posted by NathanLansford on Feb 22, 2010, 01:12 PM EST
You didn't comment on what I actually posted. I quoted what Yehuda Bauer, the former head of Yad Vashem, has gone on record as saying--and I cited how he and Dr. Franciszek Piper also brought the death count total down at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1989 and 1990. Incidentally, as late as 1979, the International Red Cross reported that less than 300, 000 people--both Jews and non-Jews--had died in all of the concentration camps combined. The causes of death were listed as typhus and malnutrition brought on by lack of food and medical supplies, due to the Allied bombing campaigns, which disrupted the delivery of these supplies via trains. NOT ONE cause of death at the camps was listed as from mass shootings or gassings. These facts are all on record! Yet they are almost never cited or brought up by Holocaust historians, or on TV documentaries...and I have to wonder exactly why?
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Posted by downinthebasement on Feb 22, 2010, 10:24 AM EST
nathan...lansford...I think there were more killed... Why do you deny the Final Solution's impact...the Reich was quite proud of what they thought was a divine plan...?
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Posted by NathanLansford on Feb 15, 2010, 01:51 PM EST
In response to Realist, what evidence do you have that the Wannsee Conference had anything to do with anyone being "ear-marked for extermination?" Even Yehuda Bauer, former head of Yad Vashem, dismissed the "code-phrase" aspect of that with the following words: "The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee, the extermination of the Jews was arrived at..." He said this and more in the Canadian Jewish News, January 30, 1992 issue. Bauer was, along with Dr. Franciszek Piper one of those who had brought down the death toll numbers at the Auschwitz State Museum & Archives from 4 million to 1.5 million, around 1989.
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Posted by downinthebasement on Feb 15, 2010, 10:54 AM EST
Hitler was more of a Joe Fudgepack...
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Posted by downinthebasement on Feb 15, 2010, 10:46 AM EST
siegheil... Hitler was most definately a fairy..."Hidden Hitler" Hitler's most trusted advisor was Ernst Rohm...a notorious twinkle-toes...Hitler loved the opera, wore leather pants, was never married, never had children, was an artist, and spend his years in Vienna in a gay flop house... Hitler was a gay...


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