Bollywood y su gran osadía: estrena película sobre Hitler

NUEVA DELHI.- Tras un polémico rodaje, la gran pantalla india estrena hoy una esperada película sobre Adolf Hitler realizada íntegramente en este país, que sin embargo ha recibido críticas demoledoras por su visión ingenua del dictador nazi.

"Querido amigo Hitler" cuenta con un plantel de actores indios de pura cepa, y basa su guión en las dos cartas que el padre de la independencia india, "Mahatma" Gandhi, escribió a su coetáneo alemán para disuadirlo de sus ánimos bélicos durante la II Guerra Mundial.

"Queremos llevar un mensaje de paz desde la India al mundo, enseñar los fundamentos de que somos un país secular y amante de la paz. Cada indio sigue llevando dentro a Gandhi", dijo a EFE el guionista de la película y portavoz para la prensa, Nalin Singh.

El cine indio, el más prolífico del planeta con unas 1.000 cintas anuales, ya esquivó por los pelos la polémica en 2010 en su intento por tratar con humor la figura de Osama Bin Laden, pero en esta ocasión el proyecto ha causado suspicacias casi desde su inicio.

El director, Rajesh Ranjan Kumar, alabó el año pasado la contribución "indirecta" de Hitler a la independencia india, y Neha Dupia, la popular actriz que interpreta a la amante del dictador (Eva Braun), ha dicho ser una "gran fan" de la pareja.

Para evitar polémicas, Nalin Singh afirma que la película busca solo mostrar la superioridad del movimiento gandhiano sobre el nazismo, y de ningún modo presentar al dictador de forma idealizada, como teme, por ejemplo, la pequeña comunidad judía de la India.

"En muchas partes del mundo hay protestas estos días, y es un buen momento para definir un método: ¿qué es mejor, la no violencia o las pistolas?", se preguntó Singh, que también interpreta en el filme al ministro nazi de Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

Con un presupuesto de 150 millones de rupias (unos 3,4 millones de dólares), la productora recreó en la achicharrante Delhi el búnker en el que Hitler pasó sus últimos días, y optó por las montañosas regiones del norte como escenarios para los exteriores.

Por lo que puede verse en el tráiler, la película funciona como poco menos que una copia de "El hundimiento" (2004), un retrato de los últimos días de Hitler al término de la guerra mundial, aunque los mezcla con la sencilla vida de Gandhi en el campo indio.

Los oficiales rubicundos del Reich hitleriano son interpretados por actores de piel cobriza, y los horrores de la guerra mundial dan un bizarro paso a un rumboso baile punjabí durante la fiesta india de los colores, tan típica de la cinematografía de este país.

Las críticas hasta ahora han sido implacables -"directa al basurero de la historia del cine", apostaba hoy mismo un crítico de televisión-, pero los productores confían en conectar con la corriente del país que mira a Hitler como un "hombre de orden".

La autobiografía política del dictador nazi, "Mi lucha", es uno de los libros más visibles tanto en los estantes de las librerías indias como en los improvisados tenderetes callejeros de las principales ciudades, que venden baratas ediciones de bolsillo.

"Yo creo que el éxito del libro se debe a que los lectores sienten curiosidad por saber qué cuenta", dijo a Efe Sohin Lakhani, de Embassy Books, que es una de las docenas de compañías editoras que se han lanzado a la publicación del libro.

A los indios más nacionalistas les atraen las referencias de Adolf Hitler a la "raza aria", en parte porque los propios indios atribuyen a pueblos arios de Asia central los componentes fundacionales de la milenaria civilización hindú.

Además, los sectores más radicales de la India no tienen sonrojo en propugnar las políticas que Hitler aplicó a los judíos contra la propia minoría musulmana presente en el país asiático, y tomaron en el pasado al dictador alemán como uno de sus referentes.

Hitler influyó en teóricos del supremacismo hindú como Madhav Golwalkar y V. D. Savarkar, y también, como muestra la película, en el líder indio Subhas Chandra Bose, quien luchó junto a los japoneses para lograr la independencia de su país durante la guerra.

"Abres 'Mi Lucha' y retiras la palabra judío y pones en su lugar musulmán. En esto creo", llegó a decir en la década de 1990 el influyente líder de la formación hindú Shiv Sena, Bal Thakeray.

"Querido amigo Hitler" va a estrenarse también en Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido, y ya fue proyectada en mayo en el festival de cine de Cannes. "Resulta divertida sin querer -rezongó uno de los críticos que la vieron-. (...) Es un ente más allá de lo horrible". 

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Norway attack suspect had anti-Muslim, pro-Israel views

By BEN HARTMAN

1,500 page manifesto credited to Breivik, accused of killing spree, lays out worldview including extreme screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism.

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who killed nearly 100 people in a combined terror attack Friday that included car bombings in Oslo and a shooting rampage at an island summer camp, held fiercely anti-Islamic and pro-Israel views, according to a 1,500 page manifesto he uploaded before his killing spree Friday.

In the 1,500-page tome, which mentions Israel 359 times and “Jews” 324 times, Breivik lays out his worldview, which includes an extreme, bizarre and rambling screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism and venomous attacks on Marxism and multi-culturalism.

In one passage, he lashes out at the Western media, which he accuses of unfairly focusing on the wrongdoing of Jews.

“Western Journalists again and again systematically ignore serious Muslim attacks and rather focus on the Jews,” he wrote.

Breivik also took a jab at leftwing Jews.

“Jews that support multi-culturalism today are as much of a threat to Israel and Zionism as they are to us,” he continued.

“So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists.”

He also stated that Israel is the homeland for Jews largely due to the persecution suffered by Jews at the hands of Muslims, saying “if one acknowledges that Islam has always oppressed the Jews, one accepts that Israel was a necessary refuge for the Jews fleeing not only the European, but also the Islamic variety of anti- Judaism.”

The manifesto also serves as a call-to-arms, of sorts, in which Breivik lays out his reasons for launching the attack, focusing on what he described as the importance of nationalism and the growing scourge of Islam in Europe.

Entitled “2083 - A European Declaration of Independence,” the document states: “as we all know, the root of Europe’s problems is the lack of cultural self-confidence [nationalism] ...

this irrational fear of nationalistic doctrines is preventing us from stopping our own national/ cultural suicide as the Islamic colonization is increasing annually ...You cannot defeat Islamization or halt/reverse the Islamic colonization of Western Europe without first removing the political doctrines manifested through multiculturalism/ cultural Marxism.”

Breivik did, however, note that he doesn’t hate Muslims in any fashion and that “I have had several Muslim friends over the years, some of which I still respect.”

He also expressed his sympathy for the people of Serbia, and blasted Norway’s support of the 1999 NATO-bombing campaign on Serbia that stopped the expulsion of Kosovar Albanians by Serbian forces.

In addition, he expressed his disgust at his government’s awarding of “the Nobel peace prize to an Islamic terrorist [Arafat] and appeasers of Islam.”

Breivik sneers at those who would spare the lives of women, and in an especially chilling instruction writes, “once you decide to strike, it is better to kill too many than not enough, or you risk reducing the desired ideological impact of the strike. Explain what you have done [in an announcement distributed prior to operation] and make certain that everyone understands that we, the free peoples of Europe, are going to strike again and again.”

The JerusalemPost

Curiosidades: La extrema derecha europea pro-israelí

Extrême droite européenne, pro israélienne por Resistance_Identitaire

Jonas Gahr Store: - The occupation must end, the wall must be demolished and it must happen now

During the second day of Labour Youth League summer camp at Utøya got the Labour Party's young hopefuls visit by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store.

 

Together with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Sidsel Wold and Norwegian People's Aid Kirsten Belck-Olsen, discussed the Foreign Minister of the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

 

As foreign minister arrived Utøya he was met with a demand from the AUF that Norway must recognize a Palestinian state.

 

- The Palestinians must have their own state, the occupation must end, the wall must be demolished and it must happen now, said the Foreign Minister to cheers from the audience.

 

AUF WANT BOYCOTT: Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store was met by demands that Norway must recognize a Palestinian state when he visited the Labour Youth League summer camp at Utøya Thursday. Here the Minister ushered around in the camp of the AUF leader Eskil Pedersen. (Reuters)

  
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Destruyen la tumba de Rudolf Hess y exhuman sus restos

Ich hab's Gewagt - Yo me atreví

Los restos del antiguo brazo derecho de Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, han sido exhumados y su tumba destruida en el cementerio de Baviera donde descansaban, según el diario Süddeutsche Zeitung.

La parroquia protestante de Wunsiedel, un municipio con menos de 10.000 habitantes próximo a la frontera checa, decidió no renovar la concesión familiar donde reposaba el responsable nazi, para evitar la reunión neonazis por el aniversario de su suicidio, que tuvo lugar el 17 de agosto de 1987.

Los herederos de Hess decidieron que sus restos se incinerarían y sus cenizas serían dispersadas en el mar, según la misma fuente. Considerado como un mártir en los medios neonazis, el antiguo delfín de Hitler es objeto de culto de los ultraderechistas extremistas en Alemania, que se reúnen ante su tumba, todos los años, el 17 de agosto.

El municipio de Wunsiedel llegó a prohibir estas reuniones tras varios años de batalla judicial. En 2004, aproximadamente 5.000 neonazis se dieron cita en la localidad, ante el malestar de sus habitantes.

Antiguo número dos del partido nacionalsocialista (NSDAP), Rudolf Hess fue condenado a cadena durante los juicios a los dignatarios nazis en Nuremberg. Tras 41 años de encierro se suicidó en su celda de la prisión de Spandau, en Berlín Oeste, de la que era el único preso.

Hess había indicado en su testamento querer enterrarse en el cementerio protestante de Wunsiedel dónde sus padres tenían su segunda residencia secundaria. La parroquia aceptó para respetar sus últimas voluntades, pero ante la afluencia anual de extremistas decidió no renovar la concesión que expira el próximo 5 de octubre. Los herederos, encabezados por la nieta de Hess, no han respondido a esta controvertida decisión.

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Israel pide a Chile no apoyar reconocimiento de Palestina ante la ONU

El ministro de Infraestructura, Uzi Landau, se reunió esta mañana con el canciller Alfredo Moreno, donde formalizó la solicitud.

Landau, solicitó hoy al gobierno de Chile que no entregue su respaldo al reconocimiento del Estado Palestino por parte de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU).

El ministro israelí, de visita en el país, se reunió hoy con el canciller Alfredo Moreno, según confirmaron fuentes del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, en una cita que fue de carácter reservado.

Allí, Landau "entregó un mensaje (al canciller) en nombre del primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu", en que se solicita al gobierno chileno que no apoye la declaración de Palestina como un estado soberano en Naciones Unidas, confirmaron hoy fuentes de la embajada israelí en Santiago.

La visita que realiza el ministro Landau se produce a dos meses de que se vote en Naciones Unidas una moción a favor del reconocimiento de un Estado palestino, algo a lo que se opone el gobierno de Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Queremos tratar de convencer de que una decisión unilateral en la ONU es un error muy grave, que puede complicar la situación en Medio Oriente. Todo el esfuerzo de los palestinos, de presentar en la ONU una resolución para que se imponga una solución al conflicto, tiene como meta ahorrarse el proceso de paz", dijo Landau, en entrevista con La Tercera, publicada hoy.

Cabe consignar que el pasado 7 de enero de este año, Chile anunció que reconocía formalmente a Palestina como Estado independiente, luego de que lo hicieran otros países de América Latina.

En América Latina, Brasil primero, y luego Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile y finalmente Perú reconocieron el Estado palestino. Uruguay se espera que lo haga durante este año.

LaTercera

Norway to support Palestinians – Norwegian FM

Norway will support Palestinians who are set to press for recognition of the independence of their state by the United Nations, says the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

He was speaking following his talks in Oslo with the Palestinian National Administration Head Mahmoud Abbas. 

Støre said he saw a likely recognition of Palestine’s independence by the United Nations as no hindrance to a peaceful settlement in the Middle East. He said the Palestinian-Israeli talks should continue irrespectively of the UN voting results. 

Voice of Russia

Himmler's daughter aged 81: She works with neo-Nazis and helps SS officers evade justice

By Allan Hall 

Waving goodbye to her grandchildren, Gudrun Burwitz has the look of a woman ready to live the rest of her days in peace and quiet. Instead, the 81-year-old daughter of Heinrich Himmler still works at a ruthless pace to keep the Nazi flame alive. Mrs Burwitz has always nurtured the memory of her father, believing the man who ran the Gestapo, the SS and the extermination programme which murdered six million Jews, to be good and worthy. And despite her advanced years, she continues to help the ageing remnants of the Nazi regime to evade justice.

As the leading figure in the shadowy and sinister support group Stille Hilfe –Silent Help – she helps bring succour and financial help to those still at large. Said to have been formed in 1951 by a clique of high-ranking SS officers and right-wing clergy in Germany, it exists ‘to provide quiet but active assistance to those who lost their freedom during or after the war by capture, internment or similar circumstance and who need help to this day’. Now it is in the hands of Mrs Burwitz. And her work has taken an even more sinister turn. She has become ‘grandmother’ to a new breed of female Nazis on the radical right. These disciples of Hitler wear the traditional dirndl dresses of Bavaria and their hair in plaits. 

Andrea Roepke, an expert on Mrs Burwitz, said: ‘The Silent Help is not only about former National Socialists. It collects money too for the neo-Nazi movement.’ The Dutchman served with the SS in Holland where he murdered defenceless Jews in cold blood.

And her latest client is Soren Kamm, a Danish SS officer wanted in his homeland for murder in wartime. Kamm, 90, is wanted in conjunction with several murders, including the execution of newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen. In 1946, a Danish court sentenced one of Kamm’s associates, Flemming Helweg-Larsen, to death in the same case and citing the same evidence material. Helweg-Larsen was executed the same year. Germany has refused to act on an EU extradition warrant although Kamm has admitted his guilt in a TV interview. 

Mrs Burwitz, the ‘Princess of Nazism,’ as one historian called her, lives in a maisonette in the Munich suburb of Furstenried with her husband Wolf-Dieter. ‘I never talk about my work,’ she told the Mail. ‘I just do what I can when I can.’ An intelligence official said: ‘She is over 80 but pin sharp. She likes it if you think of her as some Mrs Doubtfire figure but that is not the case.’

Dailymail

Egypt party leader: Holocaust is "a lie"

BUDAPEST — A leader of Egypt’s top secular party says the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were “made in the USA,” the Holocaust is “a lie” and Anne Frank’s memoir is “a fake” — comments sure to roil the post-revolution political debate in the Arab world’s most populous country.

Ahmed Ezz El-Arab, a vice chairman of Egypt's Wafd Party, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with The Washington Times last week while in the Hungarian capital attending the Conference on Democracy and Human Rights.

He denied that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II.

“The Holocaust is a lie” Mr. Ezz El-Arab said. “The Jews under German occupation were 2.4 million. So if they were all exterminated, where does the remaining 3.6 million come from?”

Mr. Ezz El-Arab said he accepted that the Nazis killed “hundreds of thousands” of Jews. “But gas chambers and skinning them alive and all this? Fanciful stories,” he added.

Mr. Ezz El-Arab also attacked the authenticity of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” which he said he studied as a doctoral student in Stockholm. “I could swear to God it’s a fake,” the Wafd leader said. “The girl was there, but the memoirs are a fake.”

Established in 1919 and disbanded in 1952, the Wafd Party was refounded in 1983 under reforms instituted by then-President Hosni Mubarak to allow token opposition to his dominant National Democratic Party.

After Mr. Mubarak’s ouster in February, Wafd emerged as arguably the second-most powerful political party to the Muslim Brotherhood, a formerly banned Islamist group.

Last month, Wafd announced it would run jointly with the Brotherhood and 16 other blocs in September’s parliamentary elections to present a united front as Egypt forges a new government.

“For four years, in alliance, we can build a constitution based on certain principles that guarantee human rights, citizenship, no religious trend whatsoever,” Mr. Ezz El-Arab said. “Once this is established, everybody can go to the ballot box and try his luck.”

Many in Israel have expressed concern that a democratic Egypt might cancel its 1979 peace treaty with Israel.

But Mr. Ezz El-Arab, who chairs Wafd’s foreign-relations committee, said there is “no chance at all” that would happen. “Egypt will not go to war unless it’s attacked,” he said.

As for Iran, with whom Egypt is normalizing relations, Mr. Ezz El-Arab assailed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who also has denied the Holocaust.

“He’s a hateful character, so whatever he says can be criticized,” the Wafd leader said. “What he says about the Holocaust is true, but he doesn’t say it because it’s true. He says it out of hatred to the Israeli state.”

Mr. Ahmadinejad hosted a Holocaust-denial conference in 2006 to protest the ban in many European countries on questioning the Nazi genocide — laws that Mr. Ezz El-Arab criticized.

“It’s a shame that the West — the cradle of liberalism — should have a criminal law incriminating any discussion of any historical fact,” Mr. Ezz El-Arab said. “It’s a sacred cow. The ‘6 million’ is a sacred cow.”

Amr Bargisi, a former Wafd youth leader, said that while Mr. Ezz El-Arab himself does not have a major constituency in Egypt or within the party itself, his views on the Holocaust do.

“The vast majority of Egyptians think the Holocaust never happened,” Mr. Bargisi told The Times. “The fact that his presence in the party hierarchy hasn’t caused any objections tells you something about the farcical nature of Egyptian politics.”

In the interview, Mr. Ezz El-Arab also said that Osama bin Laden was not behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“He could not have the know-how or the ability to do it,” he said, even though he called the dead al Qaeda leader “an American agent.”

“If he had the ability, one plane only landing on the Knesset would give more effect,” Mr. Ezz El-Arab said.

Asked who was responsible for the attacks, Mr. Ezz El-Arab identified the CIA, Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, and the “military-industrial complex.”

Mr. Ezz El-Arab spoke of “the intelligent American elite that is ruling” and said it had responded to the “disaster” of President George W. Bush by electing Barack Obama president: “Obama is a nice face that has been brought up, the black rabbit taken out of the American hat when it was needed.”

Mr. Ezz El-Arab also claimed that, during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, “American soldiers with double Israeli nationality and Jewish religion” stole Jewish antiquities from the Babylonian exile period and had them reburied in Jerusalem to cement the Jewish historical claim on the city.

“It’s not a kind of monument robbery for selling in the black market,” he said. “The things they took from Babel, they took with the intention — to my judgment — of digging it under the Aqsa mosque [site of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount] so that when it’s discovered, they say, ‘Here was the temple.’”

Despite the claim, Mr. Ezz El-Arab said he thinks that there once was a Jewish temple in Jerusalem and that Israeli Jews deserve to stay put.

“The Jews are there,” he said. “Good or bad, they are there. You cannot as a human being think of exterminating 6 million or 5 million or whatever. That’s crazy.”

The Washington Times