ADOLF HITLER MEETS CAPTAIN AMERICA AND GI JOE
Posted by mclassen on April 25, 2008
A toy company in the Ukraine has come up with an new idea, the Adolf Hitler doll. This 12” movable figure will be quite detailed and come with a variety of accessories. It will have several changes of clothes, you can have either the imposing Third Reich black with the swastika band on the arm or the “classic” brown-shirt early days of Adolf’s rise to power. Heck it’s even supposed to have his dog Blondi, the German Shepard available. Of course the Ukrainian company is causing a lot of controversy with their new product, but like most things it’s all in how you perceive it. You see, I collect action figures and my Captain America action figure could really use Adolf. These Marvel Action figures have 32 points of articulation, He can really kick Adolf’s butt. He’s tired of just chasing around the Red Skull. (For those of you that don’t know, the Red Skull is a perpetual Nazi WWII nemesis of Cap’s.) Now the Skull has someplace to get his orders from. This week’s episode, Can Captain America save Ken and Barbie from being tossed into the Easy-Bake Oven? I can even team him up with GI Joe. Can they stop Hitler from building his dreaded Atlantic Wall around my bathtub? I can even call in Indiana Jones, we all know he says “Nazis I hate those guys.” Yes, I have one of those too. Picture it, what a team-up. How about this, Hitler is resurrected in the future by the Red Skull. It’s now the 2000’s. What he fails to realize is Nick Fury, formerly, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, has all of SHIELD and Marvel’s Avengers working for him. Ben Grimm, the Thing,“It’s Clobberin’ Time” from the Fantastic Four, Ironman, the Hulk, Spiderman, the Human Torch, I have them all. I can even throw in the Silver Surfer for a cosmic power spanking. I’ll have Adolf crying like a baby by the time I’m done. My heroes need a new bad guy. Heck bring ‘em all on, Rommel, Himmler, I’ll even take a Panzer tank. “Hulk Smash.”
May 3, 2008 at 7:26 pm
The source information on which this post 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).
May 3, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Taz, Thank-you for updating this story. If you have further information please feel free to post.
May 13, 2008 at 12:10 am
The BBC, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail have all withdrawn their articles. The BBC have publicly admitted that the story was false:
http://www.khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1210550372
Further reading:
http://www.khpg.org.ua/en/index.php?id=1209570049
http://www.khpg.org.ua/en/index.php?id=1209570673
http://unian.net/eng/news/news-249363.html
http://thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5109.3384.0.0
http://www.mister-info.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=10568&format=html
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hitler_doll_story_found_to_be_hoaxed
http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/editorial/28935/
May 15, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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.
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3337110,00.html