In the history of secret weapons programs and government cover-ups, none is so chilling as Germany’s Volkswaffe program. It was begun sometime before the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, under the guise of producing a cheap, reliable automobile for the common man. Instead, Ferdinand Porsche’s bulbous design was used in an effort to produce an agile, lightweight fighter car for use as an elite airborne unit in Hitler’s plans to bring Europe under his control; a squadron of death-dealing Herbies emblazoned with the Balkenkreuz.
Seen here for the first time are documents, declassified footage, and eyewitness accounts of an unknown chapter in German aerospace history, and a testament to the extent of Nazi ambition and hubris. For the first time, the story of those madmen who attempted to build a car that would touch the sky will be told; and hopefully those who would attempt the same will take note, lest history be repeated.
“She’s tough. She’s dangerous. She’s all woman. She’s Leroy’s mama; and as long as she’s alive the Surf Nazis Must Die!”
The trailer for this 80s-era Troma production doesn’t really explain who Leroy is but his mama is on a mission; a mission to take down members of the Surf Nazis whose leaders have historical, Nazi names like Adolf, Mengele, and Hook. I would be lying if I said that the most realistic post-apocalyptic scenario was one in which Nazis took over California’s beaches and waged war on gangs of Asian stereotypes and blond-haired preppies in DayGlo Jams, however, this trailer seems to paint a fairly believable picture of just such a future. I can’t help but feel that I should prepare in some way, perhaps by attaching blades to the edges of my long-board.
In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back.
Two sentences was all it took to get me more interested in a film than I’ve been in years. Hopefully this — in concert with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow — is the beginning of a new golden age in the pulp scifi of yesteryear being brought to the theater.
Amazon has a whole book of these fantastic lurid magazine covers, It’s A Man’s World.
They run the gamut from Man attacked by Animals, Man attacked by Fish, Man attacked by Nazis, and Man attacked by Hippies.
The greatest, however, is an image of a mad Nazi doktor sawing off a girl’s arm, his “special” assistant is bringing him the freshly removed (and bandaged!) arm of a gorilla, which is seen sulking morosely in a cage in the background.
Comment by Haux — April 24, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
Too right you are friend Haux. This is quite possibly the best image I’ve seen a while which, considering the madness I deposit here on a regular basis, is no mean feat. It’s A Man’s World is currently available for ridiculously cheap; having just purchased a copy I suggest you do the same. A high res version of the above image is available upon request.
These pictures are from a small town in Estonia. There seems to be some debate in the link’s comments section as to the cause of the ice’s brownish tinge, with some saying pollution and some saying naturally occurring minerals in the water. Others, it seems, blame Nazis which, when all else fails, is always worth a shot.
I have a hard time understanding the thought process behind creating a show like Captain Planet. It almost seems as if someone, at some time, thought that kids’s favorite part of G.I. Joe was the Public Service Announcement at the end. Here, then, is what the kiddies really wanted, a bland, cliché ridden multi-cultural group of young environmentalists, wearing the latest in fashionable Earth Day apparel, who possess magic rings that, when combined, form a flamboyant super hero in a half shirt.
In this particular segment our heroes go back in time to chase after Bea Arthur and her less wrinkly twin sister/daughter who have come to sell a nuclear bomb to…Hitler! Or at least someone who is supposed to represent Hitler. While the swastikas have been removed the side-swept and greasy grade-school-class-photo-meets-
deranged-pedophile haircut remains but, more inexplicable, is the replacement of his now infamous ’stache with a Ming The Merciless Fu Manchu. Worth watching just for the uncomfortable moment were he makes the Captain become all sweaty with his piercing eyes.
Sometimes, sports teams just pick the wrong mascot, and other times, they pick the wrong mascot a good thirty years when it would have been in vogue. “The Swastikas,” a women’s hockey team from Edmonton, Alberta in 1918, is just such a team. Such a fine set of frauleins — their perky Aryan breasts expertly accentuated by the cross-knit Nazi emblem on their bosoms — would have blossomed a mere three decades later and six thousand miles to the West.
As it is? Exiled to ignominy along with other untimely sports dynasties like the Flaming Goatsexes [1953, Bowling, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Scotland] and The Queerbashers [1899, Women’s Basketball, Mooseknuckle, Ontario]
Saturday May 26th the VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK group attempted to host a hate rally to try to take advantage of the brutal murder of a white couple for media and recruitment purposes. http://www.volunteertv.com/special
Unfortunately for them the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were.
Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns.
“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.
The trailer for the bizarre 70’s mash-up between archival World War II newsreel footage, 20th Century Fox Films and Beatles cover songs, All This And World War II.
In a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed Thursday afternoon (August 2) in Los Angeles Superior Court, former Marilyn Manson keyboardist Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. - known to fans by his stage name, Madonna Wayne Gacy - claims the shock rocker has been using the band’s money to fund his lavish lifestyle, drug habit and the production of his upcoming film, “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll,” among other things. The suit further alleges Manson took assets belonging to the rest of the band (money generated through touring, and album and merchandise sales) to purchase Nazi paraphernalia, African masks made of human skin and the full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl, all of which he has on display in his mansion at Chatsworth, California mansion.
Marirlyn disavows only the skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl. Rather, it’’s the leering yellowed skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese boy. I wonder if Manson would consider subletting.
An excellent find: a scan of a poster produced in Germany in 1941 detailing future transportation technology in a world where they won World War 2. Note the senescence of the city streets below. Once you eradicate the subhuman mensch of a “Master Race” dominant world, you have empty streets populated entirely by blond, genetically in-bred Mongoloids. I wouldn’t like to live in this paleo-futuristic vision of the 1950s: I like my streets to bustle with gypsies, Jews and homosexuals more than I like the overhead hoverings of gyrocopters. I might give up the French for this underground “Diving Torpedo” train though.
Another fine masterpiece of consecutive non-linear art by the fabled Al Hartley, Christian comics pioneer and author of “The Cross and the Switchblade.” The lesson is stark and simple: ignore your Bible and watch in horror as Hitler rises to power, gets his ass-kicked by gum-chewing American gangster, then leaves you as prey to roving Communist rape gangs.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
