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Titolo: German TV Presenter Sacked for Praising Hitler's Family Policies

Eva Herman, a prominent talk show host and author, has been courting
controversy over the last year by saying women should stay at home and
bear children. Now she has been fired by the country's premier TV
network for praising Adolf Hitler's family policy.
German public broadcaster ARD has fired prominent TV presenter Eva
Herman for praising Adolf Hitler's policies on promoting motherhood.
Herman, 48, who has stirred controversy over the last year (more...)by
calling on women to have children rather than focus on their careers,
had referred to the Nazi era during a news conference last week to
promote her new book on child-rearing:
"It was a gruesome time with a totally crazy and highly dangerous
leader who led the Germans into ruin as we all know. But there was at
the time also something good, and that is the values, that is the
children, that is the families, that is a togetherness -- it was all
abolished, there was nothing left," Herman said.
The program director for ARD's northern division Norddeutscher
Rundfunk (NDR), Volker Herres, said Herman had been sacked with
immediate effect. "Frau Herman is free to carry on her 'motherhood
crusade', but this is no longer compatible with her role as an NDR TV
presenter."
He said guests had been cancelling their appearances on Herman's talk
show in response to her public statements on motherhood.
Herman was a newsreader for the network's flagship "Tagesschau"
program for 18 years until last year. She has also hosted several
other regional talk shows and incensed feminists with her 2006
bestseller "The Eva Principle" in which she argued that Germans would
die out if the nation's women don't change their ways.
While presenting her new book "The Noah's Ark Principle -- Why We Must
Save the Family") last week, she was quoted as saying: "Values such as
family, children and motherhood, which were also promoted in the Third
Reich, were subsequently abandoned by the 1968 generation."
Back to the Kitchen
Her comments provoked outrage in Germany. "In Eva Herman's case, even
women's rights activists want her to return home to her kitchen
stove," said Renate Künast, a prominent member of the opposition Green
Party.
Herman told Bild newspaper on Monday that she couldn't understand what
the fuss was about. "I expressly distanced myself from the 'Third
Reich' at several points. One has to put my statement into its overall
context. This isn't about Hitler's values, but about basic human
values, which were abused in the 'Third Reich' and later abolished."
"Those who know me and read the book know that I fundamentally reject
far-left and far-right parties. It's a sub-clause that has led to this
misunderstanding."
The far-right National Democratic Party (more...) (NPD) embraced her
comments and even invited her to advise the party on family policy.
"Frau Herman has now experienced first-hand what passes for freedom of
speech in this country," NPD member Andreas Mohlau said in a statement
on the party's Web site. "Why doesn't NDR approve of Frau Herman
praising the protection of mothers in the Third Reich? Are laws to
protect pregnant mothers bad just because they were decided by
National Socialists?"
The Nazis offered incentives to German women to bear many children and
introduced the "Lebensborn" (more...)program to create a master race
of blond, blue-eyed kids.
Mothers with three and more children under 10 years old got "honorary
cards" allowing them to jump shopping queues and get discounts on
their rent payments. Cheap state loans were offered for parents, and
there was the "Mother's Cross" medal: bronze for four children, silver
for six and gold for eight.
Author Ralph Giordano, a Holocaust survivor, said Herman's comments
"are the worst thing I've heard in a long time." He told Bild: "Frau
Herman should know that what characterized the Third Reich wasn't how
mothers were treated, because they were just meant to produce cannon
fodder. What characterized it was the gas chambers."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,504790,00.html

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Hanno fatto benissimo.
-Stefano