Monday, September 22, 2003

[Gives new meaning to "house-frau"]
Magazine wants its Nazi-loving past burried. (Wired)

Even more strange, the uber-milquetoast rag "Homes and Gardens" is at the center of the controversy. Is this a legit copyright concern, or an attempt for H&G to hide its ugly, fascist-cozy past? Speaking of ultra-right, fascist villians who have no rightful place in public service, who are hell-bent on destroying basic civil liberties, and who shame their countries in the international community, I'd like to see one of these magazines do a piece on John Ashcroft's digs. What's a guy who thinks dancing is satanic and is petrified by a female breast do for a coffee table?

A fawning 1938 article by Homes & Gardens magazine about Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat remains widely available on the Web, even after the discoverer and original poster of the article took it off his site when the magazine demanded its removal.

(NYTimes article on the same)