Melanias purse wrote on Jul 5
th, 2010 at 4:57pm:
I like a good, crisp salute. The Nazis knew how to salute. I like that off-the-cuff, "from one officer to another" salute they used to do, very casual. I often use this to greet well wishers.
I agree that the Fascist salute is excellent, as well as the more casual "heil five" that you mentioned. I think Nazi aesthetics were in general superb; they had incredibly cool emblems, uniforms and architecture**. Being Hitler must have been a lot of fun in all honesty. He was the Walt Disney of National Socialism.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania
One of my deepest fantasies is being the visionary in charge of a design force instructed on replanning the internal structure of the city of Canberra. Canberra is a hideous national capital with so much wasted potential; the principles employed there; zoning, sprawl, street hierachies, and bland, faceless architecture with buildings of prominence mostly serving as an exercise in egotism or money-saving for their creators and not to aesthetically enhance the urban space around them, almost all violate what I consider integral and ideal to the structuring of urban space. I would like to create something akin to Welthauptstadt Germania, and maybe even a whole new city that would serve as a point by point, detail by detail recreation of Speer and Hitler's original plan for Berlin. It would be the National Socialist version of that Kevin Coster film
Field of Dreams, where the spectre of Adolf Hitler would visit me on my farm and whisper to me softly that if I built it, they will come.
I do like the War Memorial, Old Parliament House and the American monument. I don't like New Parliament House but it's too much of a landmark to get rid of. The embassies are cute but tacky, like something you would see at Disney World and not a serious national capital.
I dream.
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