Arbeit macht frei
April 27, 2010 8:01 AM Subscribe
Paul Schaefer, ex-nazi pedophile, founder of the Colonia Dignidad, Pinochet support, is dead at 89.
This probably means we'll never know what happened to Boris Weisfeiler and several dissidents.
This probably means we'll never know what happened to Boris Weisfeiler and several dissidents.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this already came up on Metatalk. -- cortex
Well good.
posted by dortmunder at 8:05 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by dortmunder at 8:05 AM on April 27, 2010
What, again?
posted by orange swan at 8:05 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by orange swan at 8:05 AM on April 27, 2010
I heard about this on the internet–Paul, do you get the internet where you are?
posted by Mister_A at 8:06 AM on April 27, 2010 [5 favorites]
posted by Mister_A at 8:06 AM on April 27, 2010 [5 favorites]
Are you sure? He's died before and it didn't stick.
posted by doctor_negative at 8:08 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by doctor_negative at 8:08 AM on April 27, 2010
Curious about "ex-Nazi" (did he renounce or what?) I looked it up.
Also, "denazification".
posted by DU at 8:11 AM on April 27, 2010
The list of former of members of the Nazi Party refers either to those few who were once Nazis and resigned from the party, or more often to those who belonged to the party at the time when it was declared illegal and was disbanded upon the victory of the Allies. Many of the latter group had to go through a process of denazification...It seems like there should be separate words for "resigned from Nazihood" and "are so evil, they continue being Nazis even when that itself is illegal".
Also, "denazification".
posted by DU at 8:11 AM on April 27, 2010
Well, if you only live twice, I guess it follows that you die twice.
posted by kaibutsu at 8:15 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by kaibutsu at 8:15 AM on April 27, 2010
And I always thought "World's Most Dangerous Band" was just a cool-sounding band name.
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:15 AM on April 27, 2010 [5 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:15 AM on April 27, 2010 [5 favorites]
Hmm. A Nazi and a pedophile.
Too bad he didn't die in a fire.
posted by TooFewShoes at 8:16 AM on April 27, 2010
Too bad he didn't die in a fire.
posted by TooFewShoes at 8:16 AM on April 27, 2010
(yes, it's two days old, but i didn't see it posted anywhere here, and since there *were* 2 related posts in the past..)
posted by vivelame at 8:18 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by vivelame at 8:18 AM on April 27, 2010
Oops. I guess this isn't technically a double. Sorry for my highly-original snark back there.
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:18 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:18 AM on April 27, 2010
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is turning over in his grave.
posted by iconomy at 8:19 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by iconomy at 8:19 AM on April 27, 2010
I read this and immediately thought of the other Paul Shaffer. Honest mistake, I guess.
posted by awenner at 8:22 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by awenner at 8:22 AM on April 27, 2010
Am I the only one who keeps thinking of the guy from letterman??
posted by delmoi at 8:22 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by delmoi at 8:22 AM on April 27, 2010
Arrrgh, iconomy, I am beaten to the punch. That's what I get for trying to find a decent copy of the SNL video clip, and grudgingly settling on the wikipedia entry.
posted by chambers at 8:24 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by chambers at 8:24 AM on April 27, 2010
PLEASE SEE PREVIOUS META THREAD FOR SNAPPY LETTERMAN JOKES
posted by klangklangston at 8:27 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by klangklangston at 8:27 AM on April 27, 2010
Paul Shaffer:
♫ ♫ Hey, man, don't wanna buy a frank!
Don't wanna buy a weiner!
Don't wanna buy a brat.
But, hey, Mister,
Can you sell me a hot, hot, hot, hot dog?
Yeah! ♫ ♫
[ cut to clip of Letterman on the street by a vendor cart ]
David Letterman: Can you sell me a hot dog? [ vendor hands him a hot dog, Letterman smiles to the camera ]
posted by crapmatic at 8:27 AM on April 27, 2010
♫ ♫ Hey, man, don't wanna buy a frank!
Don't wanna buy a weiner!
Don't wanna buy a brat.
But, hey, Mister,
Can you sell me a hot, hot, hot, hot dog?
Yeah! ♫ ♫
[ cut to clip of Letterman on the street by a vendor cart ]
David Letterman: Can you sell me a hot dog? [ vendor hands him a hot dog, Letterman smiles to the camera ]
posted by crapmatic at 8:27 AM on April 27, 2010
After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on Saturday Night Live's comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: "General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States. He earned worldwide respect for Spain through firmness and fairness";[2] as an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco alongside Adolf Hitler.lolwhat mine
posted by DU at 8:28 AM on April 27, 2010
lolwhat mine
US foreign policy from 1942-1990 is hilarious. First we team up with the communists to defeat fascism, then we team up with the fascists to defeat communism. It's like World War Round Robin.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:30 AM on April 27, 2010 [2 favorites]
US foreign policy from 1942-1990 is hilarious. First we team up with the communists to defeat fascism, then we team up with the fascists to defeat communism. It's like World War Round Robin.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:30 AM on April 27, 2010 [2 favorites]
He had a glass eye, having accidentally gouged out his right eye while trying to untie a shoelace knot with a fork.
posted by Burhanistan
Like none of us has ever done this? Glass houses and all that.
posted by marxchivist at 8:31 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by Burhanistan
Like none of us has ever done this? Glass houses and all that.
posted by marxchivist at 8:31 AM on April 27, 2010
Whereas US foreign policy from 1990-2010 has been marked largely by sanity.
posted by DU at 8:32 AM on April 27, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by DU at 8:32 AM on April 27, 2010 [2 favorites]
I couldn't think of an entertaining way to describe it that related to the thread.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:33 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:33 AM on April 27, 2010
First we team up with the religious extremists to defeat communism in Afghanistan, then, er.
posted by WPW at 8:37 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by WPW at 8:37 AM on April 27, 2010
from the bbc
So, as an ex-NAZI, you could put Schaeffer's Hitler number at 1. Pinochet then has a Hitler number of 2. Friedman thus has a Hitler number of at least 3. How many degrees of Adolph Hitler do you need before you are considered evil too?
posted by ennui.bz at 8:40 AM on April 27, 2010
You can see why Milton Friedman worked so hard to distance himself from the Pinochet regime. What is shocking isn't necessarily the existence of a NAZI pedophile with a glass-eye and a taste for genital torture, but that he was A-OK as long he was torturing leftists.
It goes right to the heart of the Chilean state during the iron rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s - a period with which Chileans are still struggling to come to terms today.
The son of Manuel Contreras - the head of Dina, Chile's now-disbanded notorious secret police - has told the Los Angeles Times his father first visited Colonia Dignidad with Gen Pinochet in 1974.
He has spoken of the warm relationship that grew between his father and Mr Schaefer.
Former political prisoners of Gen Pinochet have testified to a warren of stone-walled tunnels under the colony, where they were taken to be tortured with electric shocks to the strains of Wagner and Mozart.
The Truth and Justice Commission, which investigated human rights abuses during Gen Pinochet's rule, backs such allegations.
So, as an ex-NAZI, you could put Schaeffer's Hitler number at 1. Pinochet then has a Hitler number of 2. Friedman thus has a Hitler number of at least 3. How many degrees of Adolph Hitler do you need before you are considered evil too?
posted by ennui.bz at 8:40 AM on April 27, 2010
Heh, chambers. I know, there's no decent video of it. Only crap videos.
posted by iconomy at 8:43 AM on April 27, 2010
posted by iconomy at 8:43 AM on April 27, 2010
So, as an ex-NAZI, you could put Schaeffer's Hitler number at 1.
I disagree with your methodology. Did the guy ever meet Hitler? I doubt it. My guess is his Hitler number is 2 or 3.
posted by Meatbomb at 8:47 AM on April 27, 2010
I disagree with your methodology. Did the guy ever meet Hitler? I doubt it. My guess is his Hitler number is 2 or 3.
posted by Meatbomb at 8:47 AM on April 27, 2010
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