Rare footage of Berlin and nazi madness.

Interessante Parallelen zur Gegenwart.....

Aber dann kam Jesse Owens (Video with rare footage)

Jesse Owens in his autobiography (The Jesse Owens Story, 1970): "When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."

NetzeitungSein Werk ist eine Entdeckung: Jacob Kjeldgaard veröffentlichte in den 30er Jahren viele Fotomontagen, die mit satirischem Witz gegen die Nazis agitierten. Unter Pseudonym zeigte er den «Führer» als King Kong, Anstreicher und Blinden.

MONS, Belgium — On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a narrow street in the northeast corner of town. It feels like a fittingly secluded home for the legacy of one of technology’s lost pioneers: Paul Otlet.

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.” Read the whole story in the New York Times

Telegraph about the Nazi version of Indiana Jones.

Channel4.com: "Jasper Maskelyne is no longer a household name, but in 1930s' Britain, he was a star magician. When the Second World War broke out, his sleight-of-hand techniques came in useful in the campaign to beat Rommel's German army in north Africa."

Great story I found on metafilter.com. Tom Cruise and Peter Weir worked on a biopic about Maskelyne for a while.

More: maskelynemagic.com

Great collection at Freeinfosociety. Remix a speech by Che Guevara and mash it up with "Hey Companero"!

Forget about "War of the Worlds"! Read this incredible story in "Manitoba History", Number 13 "The idea was to stage a fake Nazi invasion of Manitoba. The “Nazis” were to occupy and administer the province for the rest of the day. The key was realism. One couldn’t ignore these Nazis any more than real ones.
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It was an incredibly realistic invasion, yet, aside from a soldier who sprained his ankle and a Miss Gorin who cut her thumb in her blacked-out apartment, there were no casualties.
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Official 'laughing classes' were to be set up as soon as possible to better instruct the population in German humour. "

Found in "The Ex-Berliner"

A banned cartoon...

Interesting AP-Story at "Wired": " MOSCOW (AP) -- When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph.

But 50 years later, it emerges that the momentous launch was far from being part of a well-planned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over the West. Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spur-of-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one scientist, whose team scrounged a rocket, slapped together a satellite and persuaded a dubious Kremlin to open the space age."
Read on...

Really interesting story: "Boris Kobe (1905 - 1981) – Slovenian architect and painter was a political prisoner at the concentration camp of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau."

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Boingboing.net

A school for superkillers... Sounds like a Batman-story....

Also: This Superman is leading the Soviet Union to Cold War victory - Jeet Heer, National Post, May 12, 2003

The Goons met in the 1940s before going on to create the most influential comedy show of their era. Like many of the post war entertainers, they all began performing whilst serving in the forces.

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Einige Bilder des Postkartenmalers Hitler sind im Netz aufgetaucht.

Paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler