Der Vorsitzende der Niagara-Region, Bob Gale, tritt wegen Vorwürfen zurück, er besitze ein signiertes Adolf-Hitler-Buch
Niagara Region chair Bob Gale resigns over allegations he owns signed Adolf Hitler book
Der Vorsitzende der Niagara-Region, Bob Gale, tritt wegen Vorwürfen zurück, er besitze ein signiertes Adolf-Hitler-Buch
Niagara Region chair Bob Gale resigns over allegations he owns signed Adolf Hitler book
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Is owning that book illegal? Is it sitting in a collection or is it prominently displayed in his home Altar to Hate?
This seems like a desperate hit piece by his adversaries.
I dunno. Let me be clear that hitler was a huge piece of shit to put it mildly but owning this item wouldn’t necessarily mean you feel differently about him. You can condemn his actions and still appreciate the historical significance of such an item. Or am I missing something here?
“Bob Gale resigns over allegations he owns signed Adolf Hitler book” is a weird way of saying he’d rather keep the book.
Unless he’s a Na.zi I don’t got an issue with owning a piece of history doesn’t mean you have to agree with it
Might make me sound terrible but I’d probably want to own something like that too. Would be a super unique piece of history. Not that I’d pay more than a few hundred bucks for it lol.
I don’t know the guy and what his story is. Maybe he is far right and believes in that ideology, but the simple fact of owning an historic artefact should not be the reason for the drama unless he made it clear and was outspoken about what that book meant to him.
I own a 1939 copy of the wedding edition
Inherited it a few years ago
If the guys is not crazy white supremacist I don’t see what the issue is.
If you want portray yourself as a History Buff in your resignation letter, don’t end it with a fake Churchill quote.
>The Churchill piece in my collection states the following: „Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.“
[https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/](https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/)
Normal people don’t own a signed copy of Mein Kampf. Most surprising that he actually resigned this quickly.
As I said elsewhere: SIGNED?!
I did Nazi all the people rushing in here to defend this guy coming…
Op certainly seems really mad in these comments…
Having a signed copy of Mein Kampf, is like the gold medal Olympics of neo nazi items that are sought after. Nazis are willing to harm people when chasing this memorabilia.
Only a few dozen of these books exist that are signed.
This isn’t like owning a single piece of Nazi memorabilia, like a flag. This is owning the most coveted item by modern day Nazis.
If you have free will and money, what on Earth are you even thinking, outbidding Nazis for this, because you want it more.
If Nazis learned you had this, as they now have, would you not be fearful of them if you didn’t belong with them?
The first act of a rational person would be to announce selling it or getting rid of it, so you didn’t become a target of Nazis, unless you belonged with them.
Owning ww2 ‚memorabilia‘ has been a white supremacist cover story for decades.
He shouldn’t have resigned; owning a piece of historical memorabilia is not a crime. Don’t let the outrage crowd keep winning.
It’s kinda cool to have a signed copy of a book like that. I imagine having a book signed by Joseph Stalin or related is similar. Not my taste per say, but people have hobbies. It’s not like he JUST has that book and nothing else
I can’t decide if it belongs in a museum/archive or a fire pit.
I mean, if you want a translated and annotated copy of the book so you can read it and learn what was going on during your preferred era of history study, you can just go out and buy the paperback – nobody’s gonna stop you. But deliberately seeking out a personally autographed German copy for thousands of dollars and then spending thousands more to have it authenticated? that says you intend to eventually sell this to another Nazi aficionado, and that’s the line right there. That’s not being an amateur historian – that’s profiting off genocide, horror, and misery. And we’re not even going to get into boasting about owning it, and what that says about such a person’s moral values and ethics, and whether that makes them suitable for holding public office.
tl;dr: being an amateur historian is one thing, being a Nazi memorabilia collector for fun and profit is another.
> In a letter to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Rob Flack, Gale does not apologize nor directly address the accusations, saying that a member of the communist party circulated a dated document that listed his name as the owner of a historical book “found in many libraries.”
If it’s a genuine collection assembled in good faith, why would Gale need to blame this news on the communist party?
Owning a signed copy of mien kampf is maybe the single most impactful contemporary thing a historian could own.
Glad he kept it, the pearl clutching is exhausting.
He just seems like a collector honestly. He owns a wide array of memorabilia
As someone who also collects historical artifacts and is well aware of the nazi rot in that community, you generally get a sense of the type of people who are nazi fans by what they actually collect
But he co-wrote BTTF too😅
Should he burn it like the Nazis or keep it as a reminder of the tragedy of the past? It’s a book and a piece of history, it’s not illegal to own it.
I’m sure lots of people would love to get OJ’s gloves, but that doesn’t mean they will kill their wives or support murdering people.
Genuinely curious here. I am not german, nor do I agree with what happened in the war, but.. hypothetically speaking, if someone of german decent, had a german grandfather in the war, and collected items because of this, does that make him a bad person for having collected said items? Even though they strongly disagreed with what hitler did in the war? Or should all nazi and hitler stuff be burned and forgotten about? Cheers
I guess I’ll have to get signed Anne Frank’s diary next to my signed meik Kampf
Now if he worships the book naked and flagellates Himself in front of it whilst draped in a swastika flag …. Well… resignation is probably the best case scenario 😂
otherwise if he’s just a collector of historic artifacts … its really a non issue. (Though I would pass b/c the bad voodoo and evil vibes radiating off that book would be hard to keep around)
Why? Having the item does mean endorsement of the item’s ideology. I hope he reverses his decision.
I’d like to own stuff from all the famous and infamous people through out history. Would owning something that Ghengis Khan or Stalin elicit the same response?
If I had the money I’d buy things that Jack the Ripper or even Charles Manson had owned.
Nobody has to like what I do… But why can’t I do it?
This crap about other people telling me what to do in Canada is getting insane
Was there really any speculation and anger about this before this article? At all, of any significance?
Because the Niagara amalgamation plan from my understanding was extremely unpopular and he was the face of it. But all of a sudden he resigns over an issue that I have only heard about today and like many others in here, just kind of bewildered that what seems like a non-issue is apparently why he’s resigning. The non-issue being that it’s just a collector’s item, in a collection of other signed objects from varying political views, many opposite to others.
Seems suspicious but like I’ve been saying, I really don’t know if this was even a controversy to begin with until the article. I might be missing some bits here.
Blaming communists as the cause of his downfall would suggest he’s learnt a few things from the book but the fake Churchill quote would suggest he’s not much of a historian.
Context is everything, being a historical aficionado is entirely different than somone who builds an altar to a particular ideology.
People jumping onto the „ah ha“ bandwagon are just looking for any opportunity to make fault of others.
Ridiculous he was pushed into resignation. The people mad about a person owning a book are the same people who freak out about book bans.
Seriously? It’s an historical item. If I had a copy of mein Kempf signed by Hitler it would be very cool!
Damn, I have Adolf’s signature from an item my Opa had 😬 could I lose my job
What’s the issue with this?
Ok but having a signed book is crazy 💀
I have paintings from a famous Canadian military painter. He was friends with my father in law who passed. 3 of the 4 paintings are axis, and 1 is the allies. I have the allies hanging up but that’s it. :p Its even signed by Canadian pilots from WW2!
Bob Gale is an embarrassment to Niagara in almost every administrative role he has held in the region. He was a member of the regional police service board as well and no one was a fan of his work. He also owns gales gas stations in the region and during his time in the police board he had mandated all police vehicles to use Gales gas stations exclusively for gas and diesel. So this outrage is not necessarily about him owning a controversial book but rather the locals trying to keep him out of regional governance any way possible.