Madison, WI - Hitler Memorial Won't Open
Madison, WI - A retired farmer who claims he was a Nazi SS officer has agreed not to open a memorial to Adolf Hitler he built in southeastern Wisconsin, county officials said.
Ted Junker, 87, had planned a June 25 grand opening for the shrine on his farm near Millard, about 50 miles southeast of Madison as was reported on VOS IZ NEIAS, but word of the opening generated waves of outrage.
Walworth County officials met with Junker, and persuaded him to keep the shrine closed, said Mike Cotter, county deputy corporation counsel.
Cotter said Junker would need permits to operate what amounts to an assembly hall or museum. Junker showed no interest in getting those permits, he added. And he also warned Junker the shrine could provoke retaliation, and that his farm, which has parking for less than 10 vehicles, couldn't handle the hundreds of visitors the shrine would draw.
Cotter said he planned to have Junker sign a legal document ensuring he won't change his mind and open the shrine anyway. Sheriff David Graves said deputies still would step up patrols in the area June 25 to stop any trespassers.
Ted Junker, 87, had planned a June 25 grand opening for the shrine on his farm near Millard, about 50 miles southeast of Madison as was reported on VOS IZ NEIAS, but word of the opening generated waves of outrage.
Walworth County officials met with Junker, and persuaded him to keep the shrine closed, said Mike Cotter, county deputy corporation counsel.
Cotter said Junker would need permits to operate what amounts to an assembly hall or museum. Junker showed no interest in getting those permits, he added. And he also warned Junker the shrine could provoke retaliation, and that his farm, which has parking for less than 10 vehicles, couldn't handle the hundreds of visitors the shrine would draw.
Cotter said he planned to have Junker sign a legal document ensuring he won't change his mind and open the shrine anyway. Sheriff David Graves said deputies still would step up patrols in the area June 25 to stop any trespassers.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 6/15/2006 07:04:00 PM
4 Comments:
At 7:08 PM,
Anonymous said…
Junker told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he volunteered to join the German Waffen-SS, Hitler's feared special police, in 1940 and served in Russia. He came to the United States in 1955 and worked as a janitor in Chicago. He bought 120 acres in Walworth County 43 years ago to farm.
He set up the shrine to correct what he called inaccuracies about the war and Hitler's role in it. He told the newspaper he doesn't believe Hitler was to blame for starting the global conflict, in which 50 million people died, including some 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
At 8:17 PM,
Anonymous said…
if they know he was a nazi so why dont they put him in his place?
At 12:37 PM,
Anonymous said…
After WWII, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now part of DHS)
At 12:49 PM,
Anonymous said…
As I started to say (@12:37) after WWII, the Immigration & Naturalization Service (now part of DHS) laid down strict guidelines to keep Nazis out of the U.S. They asked if someone had been a Nazi, and if he said "yes," he was rejected. If he lied and said "no," and it was later discovered, he could be stripped of his citizenship and deported (this was done with a number of revealed old Nazis, including John Demjanjuk).
I hope that now that this idiotic Hitler-lover has brought attention to himself with this hare-brained scheme that has kicked up such a "furor" (ha ha), someone looks into how he got into this country (probably by lying about being in the Waffen SS)and they boot the old bazzterd out -- SCHNELL!!!!!!!
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