MetaFilter posts tagged with ss

The hermit of the Wolverhampton Ring Road

low_horrible_immoral — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:05:00 -0800

Joseph Stawinoga, tramp, hermit, holy man, Facebook celebrity and (alleged) former member of the SS, has died, aged 86.

"They gave me a uniform, a little gun and little pistol"

orthogonality — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:38:52 -0800

"Before you kill me, can you give me a bit of bread?" How a Jew, orphaned by Nazi atrocity, became a mascot -- to the Schutzstaffel.

Wal-Mart Sells T-Shirt with Nazi SS Logo

paulinsanjuan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:04:28 -0800

Blogger goes to Wal-Mart and finds t-shirt with Nazi SS logo. Wal-Mart apologizes and promises to pull the shirts. But have they been doing a good job? [via] the consumerist

Nazi home movies

bobbyelliott — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:56:02 -0800

A 10 minute home movie taken by an SS officer has been discovered in an English church. It shows SS officers and secretaries relaxing in the summer of 1942 in southern Russia. The last couple of minutes shows footage from a slave labor camp in that area. The footage was taken at the height of the German success in Russia, a few months before the turning point in the Russian campaign - and probably the turning point in the Second World War.

Lost In Reformation.

Effigy2000 — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:58:50 -0800

As of today, the German language has changed, ending a 10 year state of flux which has seen new spelling rules mixed with the old ones. Under the new system, "extremely long compound words have been broken up, comma rules have been simplified, and in many cases a double-S replaces the old letter sign for the sound, which resembles a capital B." But given the strong resistance to the new rules from some in the German community, it may be a little premature to add the old German language to to the list of lost languages (previously discußed here) just yet. Anyway, for Mefite linguaphiles interested in this significant and now seemingly permanent change to the German language, check out the German spelling reform timeline.