Sleeping with Hitler in a Serbian hotel
The President Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia, is offering guests the unique opportunity(?) to spend the night with some of the most famous-- and most notorious-- world leaders of all time. Each room in the hotel is designed around a different president, prime minister, or dictator.
The most controversial is Room 501, the "Hitler room," outfitted with a portrait of Adolf Hitler wearing a swastika patch. The hotel's owner, Dusan Zabunovic, claims this room, at roughly $200 a night, is his most requested.
Despite drawing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League over the Hitler room, Zabunovic claims that he hasn't designed the rooms to glorify the dictator, but to remind people of his brutality:
"All his victims would turn in their graves if nowhere it is reminded what a monstrous criminal he was," he told ABC news.
Hitler is not the only former autocrat with a room devoted to him. Josef Stalin has his own room, and so does former Yugoslavian dictator Josip Broz Tito, incidentally, the world's second least popular "Tito."
Other rooms are dedicated to Fidel Castro, Margaret Thatcher, George Bush Sr. and George W. No word on whether a "Nicolas Sarkozy Honeymoon Suite" will be unveiled.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jan 24th 2008 @ 8:52AM
Virginia said...
WOW!!!...WHAT PEOPLE WON'T DO TO MAKE MONEY,..TO SLEEP UNDER A MASS MURDERER, NO WAY,..SHAME ON THEM!!!!
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Jan 25th 2008 @ 8:15PM
sv said...
I absolutely don't get it. What pleasure you could derive from sleeping (or not) is such a room? That would just creep me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 25th 2008 @ 8:21PM
tara said...
If the intent of the room is to remind people of Hitler's brutality.
Perhaps instead of that large heinous picture of him, the room might
feature pictures, or names of his innocent victims.
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Jan 25th 2008 @ 9:48PM
Marilyn said...
Why are none of my comments shown on the screen? I have tried many times to join in with my opinions and it comes back that you have sent an e-mail and I need to click on, etc...There is Never an e-mail that you send to click on to...?????????????
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Jan 25th 2008 @ 10:20PM
Kevin said...
i would definitly stay in that room...
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Jan 25th 2008 @ 10:30PM
Chris said...
I like taras idea. Those he murdered should be honored. I know all the names of the victims would be a bit unreasonable, but maybe some pictures, or something similar.
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Jan 25th 2008 @ 10:37PM
J said...
Not that i believe anything he did was right in any way, this was one of the worlds greatest leaders. He led his people, he just happened to do horrible things at the same time. I did a paper on him in highschool. the assignment was Greatest leaders. we had to choose who we thought was the greatest leader in this century. i chose Hitler my paper recieved an A, was a very controvercial subject, but the man was a brilliant leader, we all must admit this.
don't think i liked him enough as a leader or a person to stay in that room though....
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Jan 26th 2008 @ 12:36AM
Diane said...
I don't see anything great about Hitler. He was crazy and a murderer of so many innocent people. The story about Ann Frank will stay embedded in my mind forever. He was NOT a great leader and anyone who thinks he was is as crazy as he was.
Jan 26th 2008 @ 1:40AM
tanya said...
i am not hitler lover, but the man was doing what he believed was right in his own twisted brain. i am not saying that he was right or that he should be glorified in anyway. i just think that people make a big deal out of too much now a days. LET IT GO!!
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Jan 26th 2008 @ 2:57AM
Nanny said...
It is a big deal when atrocities occur,when so many lives are destroyed by a maniac...may we please not
ever forget it. Roll your eyes,say,"Whatever" and now,
"let's move on." help!Save your impatient intolerance
for other issues,THIS one needs to be remembered so
it will never be repeated.Your age is showing.
Jan 26th 2008 @ 5:50AM
sjw said...
Thats just wrong.
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Jan 28th 2008 @ 9:22PM
Maurice said...
I don't have a problem with them having a hotel room themed after Hitler. One of the best movies I have ever seen was "Downfall", about the last days of Hitler. It gave a view of Hitler a human being, (a flawed - mentally affected human being - but none the less a human being). If we don't look at him as a human then we will end up having another one like him. There is no way that a monster will take over a country of resonable people if he was not a "leader". Think of how he started "leading", his country into hatred. Imigration was one of the first things he concentrated on. Most of the problems was due to "them", was his attitude. Those imigrating or those outside the country. Think of how this is being pushed in our country. One half of imigrants are not hispanic in our country, but every discussion is usually concerning hispanics. It does not distinguish between Puerto Ricans - South Americans - Cubans - or Mexicans. Even Spanairds. The main point is skin color. How can we condem the hotel when we praise leaders from our past that held slaves, or the millions that were killed in the middle passage. Or the millions of Native Americans that were killed in the coloninzation of our country. We fired bombed Tokyo, and killed hundreds of thousands, as well as the WMDs that we used in Japan in two cities that killed civilians. No other country has used massive distructive WMDs except us. We are a great country, regardless of our past, but we must remember that so was Germany, (in their minds), at that time. They were a very technically advanced country, but went with a man that pushed hatred against many people to explain every problem with the country. We must remember so that we do not allow this horror to repeat itself.
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Jan 31st 2008 @ 8:41PM
Schunard said...
THANK YOU, Maurice!
To all the people decrying Hitler, I agree with J and Tara. Do you think someone like Bush W would've incited that much hatred into people? Hitler WAS a great leader BUT A FLAWED HUMAN BEING as we all are. Just like the republicans of today are too focused on immigration, Hitler was too which is why he mostly targeted Jews and gypsies(who came from Iberia). He was a great orator and Germany was a great country at the time. So despite whatever atrocity he did,he was a great leader. Let's not begrudge him that.
And speaking of atrocities, what of the USA? Like Maurice said,no country in the world has destroyed another quite like the USA. The Atomic Bome that was dropped 60 odd yrs ago still has its effect on Nagasaki: radiation is taking its toll on the people there.
No country in the 20th century has waged more war than the USA and in the course of those wars, people have been killed too.
So if we have to rag on Hitler for killing 6 million people, we sure as heck have to get on the USA for killing more than that: Native Americans,Blacks,Puerto Ricans,Hispanics,Iraqis,Iranians,Palestinians and wherever else we've "brought democracy" to.
So to all you self righteous hypocrites, there are CURRENTLY LIVING leaders commiting worse atrocities; go pick on them and fix the world NOW! Oh and the USA is not that saintly so we are not good enough to point fingers. The US government at the time also contributed to that massacre because they disregarded intel and brushed aside the cry for help they got from Jewish Poles at the time.
Get off your high pedestals
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