Should this doll be banned?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=561519&in_page_i d=1770

Disgusting reminder, Collectors must have item, a mate at last for Barbie.

I personally think that this will be very offensive to those who were persecuted by the Nazis, but it will still be very much sort after, just as other Nazi memorability is.

[kempie]

Do you mean a mate for Klaus Barbie?

[anotheoldgit]

Very apt.

[RevFunk]

Dont really care.

He's been dead for 63 years and people have been collecting nazi memorabilia ever since. If people want to become nazis I doubt that a doll will be the thing to give them the final push towards doing so.

[GEEMAC]

I like the quote from the saleswoman "He has round glasses like the pacifist, John Lennon". That's OK then!

[dannyday5821]

hell yeah it should be banned! having said that...reading the article...this crazy dolls only available in ukraine, i dont think it will make its way to the UK personally.

besides...wouldnt you find it a little distubring to see a kid playing with the figure of a man who was responsible for the death of millions? i mean, how does it work?

"daddy - whos adolf hitler? the doll im playing with"

"oh nothing dear - he just helped kill off afew million people, but it was ages ago, gone and forgotten and no big deal now"

yeah....right....

what next? "world trade center" action scene - press the button and watch as the jumbo jet slams into the buildings! - also available to buy - seperate limbs for your kid to watch rain down on the streets.

[Kromovaracun]

If I weren't so stingy, I'd happily buy one...

I'd be absolutely amazed if this was the first doll of Hitler. In fact google 'Hitler Doll' and you'll find a couple others.

And I'd be very careful of believing that final paragraph. It's an unsupported assertion and as we know it's not entirely out of the question it's fabrication.

I also think it's very silly to think that a Nazi movement is growing among young people (not that anyone's said that, but there's ever-such-a-slight implication). It's true that there are a lot of people who insist on believing that Hitler saved the country in the years before 1939, but it's still an extreme long shot.

[Kromovaracun]

here's an example of a prior Hitler doll released in the USA a few years ago.

[IggyB]

banned you say... by who exactly?
banned by the government? that sounds a bit like a fascist dictatorship to me... are you trying to suppress me ... i think you might have one to many hitler or obama dolls in your collection quite frankly

[jno]

the idea of Ukrainians - who have the second-worst inflation rate in the western world -spending �100 on a doll for their kids seems highly implausible. I imagine it really sells to rich adult fascists. Now that the Mail has publicised it, perhaps someone will be moved to import it into Britain, but I can't see it selling well at all here.

[Ice.Maiden]

There'll always be a market for this sort of thing. Another horrible one is this....

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_ar ticle_id=32953&in_page_id=34

[Kromovaracun]

I have to admit, that did make me laugh....