europaeum » honorary http://www.europaeum.eu Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Embarrassing news, part II http://www.europaeum.eu/blog/embarrassing-news-part-ii/ http://www.europaeum.eu/blog/embarrassing-news-part-ii/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:36:20 +0000 Martin http://europolit.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/embarrassing-news-part-ii/ Continue reading →]]> And news just don’t seem to stop. I just found out that the city hosting the G8 summit this sommer in Germany has – let’s say – a special honorary citizen: Adolf Hitler. According the to the press the town’s civil servants just hadn’t got any capacity left to browse through the ancient documents solving whether his honours have been revoked already. Officials thought being made honorary citizen only lasts until dead one’s death. Sad story and once again embarrassing for the whole nation. Now the city council is discussing the deprivation at the beginning of April.

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