Lijkplechtigheden van Adolf Hitler
- CA MRUASC C0017-0270-08-01
- Item
- [between 1939 and 1945]
Part of Airborne leaflets collection
Item is a mock funeral card for Adolf Hitler. The leaflet begins by inviting the reader on behalf of Hitler's lieutenants and allies to attend their beloved Führer's funeral. The leaflet then mocks the (fictional) death of Hitler. In Dutch, Hitler dies from fever after a failed blitzkrieg, and in French, Hitler dies from failing to cross the English Channel. It explains that the funeral mass will be performed by the Italians under the direction Benito Mussolini (in Dutch, it states that the Italians will sing under his leadership until they themselves pray to be dead as well!). In French, it is stated that Mussolini will conduct the requiem followed by The Flight from Africa and the Retreat from Albania. After the mass, a grand funeral parade will pass under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris with Winston Churchill and General de Gaulle in the entourage, seated in a specially made railway carriage created by Goebbels, the minister for Nazi propaganda. The funeral will have neither flowers or wreaths, only dance music. Afterwards, the English, Americans, Russians, French, Belgians, Dutch and Norwegians celebrate, as the Italians become the victims of history and the Germans remain "dasselbe Schwein", or the "same pigs".