[Leica] Hitler Street

[Douglas Barry]

Interesting bit of persistance by the burghers of Kimmel. I would not like 
to live on a Hitler St.

However, similiar stuff here in Ireland - my parents had their weekly 
laundry collected, cleaned and delivered back by a man in a black uniform, 
with a black military style peaked cap, driving a red van emblazoned with 
the Swastika. The Swastika laundry in Dublin was founded back in 1912.
http://theinquisition.eu/wordpress/2011/culture/swastika-laundry/

Strangely enough, there is the "possibility" that those laundry vans 
inspired Adolf Hitler to use the same colours. His brother Alois who had 
worked in Dublin, had married an Irish woman Bridget Dowling and moved to 
live in Liverpool. She subsequently claimed in her book that Hitler had 
visited her there, and also visited her family home in Dublin c1912-1913 
when dodging conscription. One can only speculate that the more or less 
brand new laundry vans whizzing around in their bright colours close to the 
Dowling family home - only a kilometre away from the laundry - influenced 
the failed Austrian artist and future mass murderer....

Douglas



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Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 2:19 AM
Subject: [Leica] Hitler Street


> Wandering around the small town of Kimmell, Indiana, I was surprised to
> discover that the town has a road called Hitler Street. Yes, HITLER 
> Street!
> I think that may be the most shocking thing that I have ever seen in my
> travels, and I have seen some pretty strange things.
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