Word: junkerism
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...This is Theodore Junker?s life?s dream - a temple of sorts that reaches up a high hill, with brick steps leading to a large landing where visitors can admire - or be repulsed by - Junker?s proclamations about ?those German and other European heroes? who perished under the tyranny of ?Allied persecution and genocide...
...Erecting a monument to one of history?s most reviled figures is only part of Junker's dream. In doing so, he also wants to teach the truth as he sees it: that Hitler did not start World War II and did not despise other races; that the Nazi regime was not a stifling dictatorship; and that there was no extermination of the Jews. If anyone suffered, Junker says, it was the Germans and the rest of Nazi Europe...
...that in America, today, when you can get papers, everything, just like that - how can it be that people don?t know the truth?? says Junker, who grew up in a German enclave of Romania and served in the Waffen-SS during the war, then came to the U.S. in 1955, worked as a janitor and handyman in Chicago and became a citizen some five years later. ?I?d wake up in the middle of the night and it would hit me. Because for 60 years it was taught one way. I said a long time ago I would...
...took Junker three years and $200,000 of his own money to erect the memorial, which was completed rather quietly until it was noticed recently by the local papers. Not surprisingly, it has elicited a storm of outrage, so much so that the grand opening set for June 25 was canceled on Thursday after police warned that Junker, and his shrine, could be targeted. Sugar Creek Township Chairman Loren Waite calls Junker ?a mixed-up old man ... I hope he?s just confused.? Jewish and anti-hate groups warn that Nazi sympathizers have been known to populate the heavily German...
...Hitler was so right, then why did [Junker] have to come over here to do this?? said Eileen Dempsey, 65, who lives just down the road from Junker. " We knew he had leanings and that he was putting up something back there. But we didn?t know the extreme. If Hitler was in control now, Ted wouldn?t be able to do what he?s doing now, to have the freedom...