hehe I jsut had an idea.

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/Per...onalisedStamps/

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= fun with stamps

worth a try though

The trick is to have 9 stamps which are each a part of Hitlers face, and only reveal Hitler when put together.

Being a stamp collector myself, one of my collection goals is to have a genuine Nazi German stamp with Hitler on it! I've only seen examples in museums.

You think that's a good pic of Hitler? This is the best pic of Hitler I know:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...tler_Bigger.jpg

No other dictator has had an image this powerful!

I think thats the first pic of Hitler that google image search turned up :P

9 diferent books of stamps would cost $180 :'(

im sure if adolf spends all his time on these forums and google then he'll have money to spend on that crap that helps him get his jolly's...aka phalatoly...

Adolf, you have a healthy wide range of interests and hobbies, but they all seem somehow to connect back to Nazism...

Have you noticed that just about everything on this forum has connected back to Nazism lately?


Now why is that? :hmm:

you are now officially the scariest person I have ever encountered

Was it the stamp collecting or the obsession with Hitler did it for you?

Genuine Hitler cock ring.

I've been collecting stamps since the age of 6. I have no shame about collecting the stamps of dictators, currently I've got Mao, Saddam and Franco. Sadly, no Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin or Hitler yet.

I like WWII era stamps a lot, since I like the history of that period.

Oh, the most valued items in my collection would be the PRC stamps with tanks, missiles, ships and fighter jets. That's got to be the most kick ass issue to date!

When the US did this a while back, people tried similar, and some were smarter by putting childhood pictures of hitler, stalin, the oklahoma bomber, etc... on instead.

It would be cool. Imagine sending Happy Hanuka(sp?) cards to all your jewish friends and having a picture of a young hitler as the image.

Not sure about Stalin, Hitler's face and eyes resembled his mother considerably.

Have you read Ian Kershaw's two volume biography of Hitler? In the first volume there's a photo of Hitler's school class from when he's about 9 or 10. Young Adie sticks out like a sore thumb. Looking at it, you can instantly tell which one he is, out of the twenty or so kinder in it.

I don't recall reading about how he looked of acted differently, he was also a bright student, but when high school came, Hitler was all washed up (except for doing well in history class).

He complains in Mein Kampf that history is taught with too much emphasis on dates and other miniscule facts. Fortunately my own history teachers did not get too bogged down with such trivial matters.

Back in his day, yes that's how history was mostly taught. One thing Hitler has in common with Mao is the absolute fascination with history.

Hitler's got what some scholars call the Napoleon complex. Not being an actual Frenchman (he was Corsican), Napoleon looked up towards France and became a chauvinist despite being a foreigner. Stalin wasn't an actual Russian (his Russian was spoken with a distinct Georgian accent), but he became a Russian chauvinist and even adopted the racist persecution of ethnic minorities and making false claims in propaganda about how every bloody thing from gunpowder to the aeroplane was invented by Russians.

Hitler is a similar case. Living on the border of two countries that share the same language, similar customs and even hints of potential unification, Hitler was undoubtedly became an adherent of 'Germanism'. In his childhood in the imperial era of European history, where school kids collected royalist memorabilia, Hitler's life in the border rendered him to be amongst the camp of Austrian boys that collected memorabilia of Bismarck and the Kaiser as opposed to the Austrian Franz Ferdinand.

He grew up in a time where Austria was in decline and he felt more German, it was very natural for him to wander into Germany, set up life there and fight for the Kaiser in WWI.

Peoples living on borders of nations with such cultural similarities tend to have divided loyalties, like how Hitler got pissed off at some early Nazi members for suggesting the seccession of Bavaria to join with Austria. Elsewhere in the world, you sometimes see borderland minorities helping an aggressive neighbore, like the Ethiopian Somalis on the border aiding the Somali invasion.

Overall, after living here for so long, I think I'm becoming an NZ chauvinist. "If you burn our beloved flag in front of me, you will be burnt!" That's the attitude I have for our fine country. Hail!

Chiang you give me hope for the youth of today

Who the hell is Chinag? How did he give you hope?

Was Hitler an especially pedantic person?

If you've read Bormman's 'Hitler's Table Talk' which documents the crap he said at dinner time for many years, you'll realise no matter how eloquent the bastards is, he's still full of shit. He was brilliant conversationalist, and liked to talk about a number of things, often appearing to be the expert but if you look up his claims with real experts, he's obviously not so accurate.

What Hitler and Mao had in common was that they're both obsessed with history. History was one of Hitler's major conversational topics. He also admired the ancient Greeks to a certain extent (ironically).

Surprisingly enough, Uncle Dolf/Alf (as he was known to the children of his Party colleagues in the 1920s) get along well with children and they thought he was a nice man!




Speaking of stamps, I obtained some from Russia (not the Soviet Union, although I do have a whole album page dedicated to that), one featured the MiG-29 in the aerial acrobatic or testbed paiting scheme. It was brilliant! The total face value of the stamps on the envelope was over 50 Rubles (N.Z.$1 = ~20 Rubles). I may not be a big fan of Ivan's weapons and stamps but some faraway country and the appearance of a fighter jet adds uniqueness and value to my collection.

I'm taking a paper on "Mao's China", and the lecturer is forever pointing me out in class - as a low-level library worker fascinated by history... :blink: Not sure quite how to take that!

Mao may have not received a formal university education (one reason why he purged so many intellectuals due to his jealousy), but he was bloody obsessed (more than fascinated) with history. He may have been rejected from Beijing University for a BA in history, but he worked as a librarian there and he read up on Chinese history (he also had access to some rare original works) whenever he could. He knew all the plots and political intrigues (an endless theme of Chinese history) like the back of his hand, which is why he his political survival was remarkable. He also used such knowledge to his advantage in his call to power. Mao knew about Lin Biao's plots all along and even survived an attempted bombing!