Remains of Rudolf Hess exhumed21st July 2011During the years...

Remains of Rudolf Hess exhumed

21st July 2011

During the years since his burial in 1987, the grave of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, in the small town of Wunsiedel in southern Germany, became a shrine for neo-Nazis. Between 4 and 6 o’clock, in the early hours of Wednesday 20th July, the grave was reopened, his remains were removed, and the grave was destroyed.

Arrested in Scotland in 1941, where he flew solo in an attempt to negotiate a peace settlement with the United Kingdom, Rudolf Hess was detained by the British for the remainder of the Second World War. In 1946 at the Nuremberg Trials, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/07/remains-rudolf-hess-exhumed


Yet there is no 'Problem' in Italy... ???

A Dead Dictator Who Draws Tens of Thousands in Italy


Giulio Tam, a traditionalist Catholic priest, recited the rosary at the tomb of former Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in Predappio, Italy.


PREDAPPIO, Italy — The dress code was rigorously black. The chants nostalgic, a medley of Fascist truisms peppered with clipped bursts of “Duce, Duce, Duce” that was sharply shushed when the straggly parade entered the cemetery in this central Italian town late last month to arrive at its mecca: the tomb of the former Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.

“Why, why do you come here, who is this man Mussolini?” asked the celebrant, Giulio Tam, a traditionalist Catholic priest.

“We come to thank this man for the most European, most Mediterranean, most original of ideas,” answered Father Tam, a familiar figure in right-wing circles, before he began reciting the rosary.

So it goes in Predappio, three times a year, to commemorate the day of Mussolini’s birth (on July 29, 1883, in a house not far from the cemetery), his death (at the hands of partisans on April, 28, 1945) and the so-called March on Rome, which brought Mussolini’s party to power in Italy in October 1922.

“I’ve been coming here, at least once or twice a year, since Aug. 31, 1957, the day they brought the corpse of the Duce here,” said Marcello, a personable 85-year-old veteran who asked that his last name not be used. “My faith in him has remained intact.”

They came in busloads, from Turin to Palermo, on a pilgrimage of sorts.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/world/europe/tourists-still-drawn-to-tomb-of-mussolini-il-duce-in-italy.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/world/europe/tourists-still-drawn-to-tomb-of-mussolini-il-duce-in-italy.html?_r=0