Bernie Ecclestone Formula One auto racing chief likes Hitler
Mussolini got the trains moving on time and Hitler was good at mobilizing people to get things done. These are the deep insights of Bernie Ecclestone, the ugly man who hold the commercial rights to Formula One racing. One should not get distracted by little things, like the murder of a few million Jews, according to Bernie. That would be so parochial. What matters is that Der Fuhrer made a weak country strong again. Bernie has evidently not heard that Adolf LOST a really big war. Bernie must have forgotten that his hero caused the destruction of Germany, of his own people. What precisely did he get done?
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(IsraelNN.com) Bernie Ecclestone, who holds the commercial rights to Formula One auto racing, said Monday he regrets the upset caused by his praise of Adolf Hitler’s leadership, but insisted he would not be forced to resign. In a telephone interview with the Associated Press, Ecclestone said he had not intended to invoke Hitler’s name in the interview with London’s Times on Saturday.
In the Times article, Ecclestone was quoted as saying, “In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done.”
Denis MacShane, a Labour member of Parliament who chairs an all-party inquiry into anti-Semitism in Britain, told ITV News on Sunday, “If Mr. Ecclestone seriously thinks Hitler had to be persuaded to kill six million Jews, invade every European country and bomb London, then he knows neither history and shows a complete lack of judgment.”
In the AP interview, Ecclestone said, “He brought a country that was bankrupt into a country that was very strong and that was really demonstrating what someone could do if they had the power and didn’t have to keep back and referring every five minutes. The trouble with politicians and democracy is they all the time have to compromise, they can’t do what they want to do because there is somebody in opposition. It certainly takes a lot longer to do something. I regret that it didn’t come out like that, upsetting people is the last thing I wanted to do, obviously.”
