Word: buchenwalde
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...Lampoon argued in rebuttal that it stereotyped everyone and everything and gave as an example an advertisement about a Nazi concentration camp, Camp Buchenwald...
...easily dominated minority, the white individual seeks to be at home in the vast unknown world of America. Perhaps," Ellison concludes, "the object of the stereotypes is not so much to crush the Negro as to console the white man." The other material, the advertisement for Camp Buchenwald, is unbelievably offensive, especially since it is part of the most tragic event in recent human history. Its presence in the magazine suggests a serious absence of concern for others. In sum, I believe the use of this material is wrong and cannot be condoned...
...satirize or parody ethnic material, goes beyond simple fun in ways that stereotype and ridicule ethnic groups. This occurs because the experiences or images stereotyped carry such powerful connotations; one (for example) from the Jim Crow South, The Tar Baby Award, and the other from Nazi Germany, the Camp Buchenwald advertisement...
...Sachenhausen, Buchenwald, and various other Nazi death camps, the inmates were identified by several insignia: Jewish victims wore the tragic yellow star; political prisoners wore a red triangle; green triangles identified the infamous Kapo, criminal trustees who assisted the S.S. guards. Homosexuals wore pink triangles...
...Motorcycle gangs, too, have often embraced Hitlerian helmets and swastikas. All such artifacts are readily available through mail-order import houses, as well as some gun and specialty shops, and the catalogues are advertised in various gun and hunting magazines. Porn paperbacks like Gestapo Prison Brothel and Bitch of Buchenwald have their avid readers...