September 11, 2007

German TV star pays for hailing Nazi 'values'

She was Germany’s favourite newsreader - a blonde, blue-eyed television star who became a campaigner for old-fashioned feminity.

Now Eva Herman has fallen from her pedestal - she has been sacked for praising Hitler’s policies towards women, families and motherhood. The Nazi years, she said, while presenting her latest book, The Noah’s Ark Principle, were a cruel time. They had, though, a redeeming quality: they celebrated family values. “There were the good things too, that is to say the values, the children, the mothers, the families, the solidarity . . .”

Within hours Herman, 48, was dismissed from state television. She has lost her talk show with immediate effect and her position as the presenter of the cult quiz programme called Did You See . .?

Part of Herman’s appeal to viewers was her campaign for a return to old-fashioned feminity. In an earlier book she pleaded for motherhood to be respected by society. Feminists accused her of trying to recreate the traditional German values of Children, Kitchen and Church.

The far Right seemed to agree. An organisation run by the Austrian nationalist Freedom Party invited her as a speaker - she cancelled at the last minute - and she is celebrated by far-right blogs.

This time she seems to have gone too far in blurring the boundaries between traditional German virtues and Nazi policies. “This is the worst I have heard in a long time,” the German Jewish novelist Ralph Giordano said. “Frau Herman should realise that the distinguishing feature of the Third Reich was not the way it treated mothers who were supposed to produce cannon fodder. The distinguishing feature was the use of the gas chambers.”

Herman said: “You have to see my remarks in context. This is not about Hitler’s values but about basic human values which were abused in the Third Reich.”

Under the Nazis, mothers who bore four healthy children were awarded a medal, the Mother Cross. Pregnant Aryan mothers were given generous maternity leave in the 1930s but primarily to free up work for the male unemployed. Children were encouraged in order to create the army of the future and to populate the captured territories in Eastern Europe.

“Whoever knows me and reads the book will be aware how deeply I reject left and right-wing extremism,” Herman said.

Her central thesis is that women have been forced to deny their true nurturing nature by the social pressure to succeed in the workplace. This in turn has robbed men of their sense of manhood and is contributing to Germany’s very low birthrate.

Times Online

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Feminists accused her of trying to recreate the traditional German values of Children, Kitchen and Church."

What is wrong with "Children, Kitchen and Church"?

Raising children properly creates a better, safer society. Being able to prepare decent food as opposed to E number laden micro wave crap IS A MUST, and what is wrong with having faith, everyone else is allowed one?

Regards

Sharon Ebanks

Anonymous said...

Sharon Ebanks should realise that nobody is interested in her, except for her claims to have evidence of theft/corruption that will destroy Nick Griffin.

Tragic but true.

So stop posting your rather obvious and boring opinions and actually carry out your threats...that is...if you can.

Better still, get a job, get a life and live to the full.

fat bugger at the bar ! said...

Family Values....
Now there's something we should all strive to get back to.
The yob culture of today is caused by lack of discipline and respect, because their parents have "brought them up" (cough cough!) that way!
This woman should be applauded!!

Anonymous said...

"Anonymous said...
Sharon Ebanks should realise that nobody is interested in her, except for her claims to have evidence of theft/corruption that will destroy Nick Griffin.

Tragic but true.

So stop posting your rather obvious and boring opinions and actually carry out your threats...that is...if you can.

Better still, get a job, get a life and live to the full.

5:42 AM, September 12, 2007"

When young adults who have no direction, no jobs and no faith in the system they are born into turn around and mug you for what you have because they can't get it for themselves, you'll be very interested in "Children, Kitchen and Church".

If you find my opinions boring don't bother responding to them and I do have a full time job, thank you. I'm a carer.

Zero Regards

Sharon Ebanks

Anonymous said...

The spiegel.de pseudo citation for instance:

"Instead, she said: "If one isn't allowed to discuss Nazi family values, then neither can one talk about the German autobahns, which were built during the Third Reich.""

is simply a fake.

Eva Herman was accused using Nazi terminology for using the term "Gleichschaltung" (bringing into a line) in her critic on the behaviour of the german media in her case. She argued also german newspapers would use this term (of cause they do in the case of climate debate). Then she really said:

"Natürlich ist er da benutzt worden. Aber es sind auch Autobahnen damals gebaut worden und wir fahren heute drauf."

"Of cause, this (term "Gleichschaltung") has been used there (in the third reich). But in these times also autobahns (highways) have been build and we still drive on them."

Not more, not less.

You find a transscript at www.welt.de.


The whole discussion is about conservative family values that are promoted by Eva Herman, values you will also find in every chistian community in the world. Its just another leftist media pc witch hunt. There are many of these in germany.