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| | | im not sure if anyone has posted any versions of hitler but i made hitler with 1: body of the gangster from adventurers 2: head from technition from the A-wing set 3: black hair peice and you have a hitler minifig to run around stealing from the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Greg Majewski
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| | | | | (...) Yeah: don't. Though *I* don't care if you do make these minifigs, please don't publicize them on LUGNET, and if you do, at least flatly call them "German." This is a rather touchy subject that I personally don't think should be brought up. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Richard Franks
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| | | | | | (...) Why not? (...) I'd be more concerned about that to be honest. Nazi's aren't German, although some Nazi's were German. It's an important difference, and one I'd imagine at least some German people would have feelings about. (...) As long as a (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Alexandria Husby
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| | | | | | | Thank you. (...) I am German (living in Canada since I was 6) and was teased relentlessly in public school because of my heritage. It's a shame people cannot see the difference between Germans and Nazis. Additionally, my father was in the Luftwaffe (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | | (...) don't (...) although (...) at (...) public (...) but he (...) drafted. (...) vice (...) The exact same thing happened to German kids at my school some 20 years ago, I still feel bad about some of the things which were said back then. Back then (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Alexandria Husby
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's about it, I'm afraid :-) By the way, you forgot sauerkraut and red cabbage. Xandria (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Bryan Hodges
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| | | | | | | (...) don't (...) Agreed. The rise and fall of Nazi Germany is historical fact, as are the attrocities commited by the Nazis. It may not be a happy, warm image to create in Lego, but it did happen and if someone wants to create something with Lego (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —James J. Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) As I understand it,the "Nazi" were a political party, and it's not safe to say that all Germans were members of the party. I would hate for someone to call me a Democrat (or Republican for that matter, "vote Libertarian") just (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Greg Majewski
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| | | | | | | | Alright.. it looks as though I am not going to win this one. I admit I shouldn't have stifled the original post, as it was relevant to Lego. I was just tired that night and didn't want a monstrous flame war to erupt like they do when someone posts (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Greg Majewski
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| | | | | | | | I hate replying to my own posts, but this is just too funny to resist. Directly from the anti travel guide "Don't Go: Eurpoe"'s German history section... "...Next came Hitler, the most universally hated man of all time next to that guitar player on (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | (...) And more importantly, Germans, as a whole, aren't Nazis. (...) As an (originally) polish Jew, who's grandparents were all afflicted by the Holocaust, I'm slightly offended by that statement (two posts ago). Not offended by Greg - just by the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Toki Barron
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| | | | | | | | (...) I think this is an important point. In a class I took a few years back here at the U of Pittsburgh (History of the Holocaust), it was pointed out that Hitler's Nazis only had ~33% of the vote in 1933, when Hitler became part of the German (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) don't (...) Ah, those wacky Germans. Personally, I just can't take Nazi soldiers with those Lego smiley faces seriously. I had to turn their name inside out - Johny Thunder is pursued by Zani soldiers. Bruce (hey, is that a wacky German last (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —René Hoffmeister
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| | | | | | (...) Maybe I don't have your sense of humour, but maybe you should think hard until you speak up. (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | | To All, This thread is drifting way off from LEGO directed questions and posts and the like. Please direct all further ramblings about Germans and the like to off-topic.debate or off.topic.fun. I am getting tired of reading this in these groups. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) I take it you didn't bother to read down to where I point out my own "wacky" name. Lighten up, and kindly don't pull a quote out of context. Bruce SCHLICKBERND (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | (...) Doesn't this end up looking like the "Well-Dressed Man" from Blue Velvet? Another option might be the following (not that I am a WW II expert or anything): 1. Brown Mini Legs and waist (from Flash Speeder) 2. Bi-Wing Baron's Torso (exchange (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | | | | | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers) —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Now *there's* a Lego movie licensing deal I'd like to see! Dave! (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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