Friday, March 09, 2007

Mountain of megalomania

Gee, I wonder why they'd want that changed:
The mayor of a small town in Germany on Thursday called on Google Earth to delete a reference to a nearby "Mount Hitler" from its geographic image service, saying it was misleading.

Andreas Wiedemann, mayor of Bad Toelz, south of Munich, said the peak near the Bavarian town had been known as Mount Hitler for a short time during the Third Reich but had been given back its original name of Heigelkopf after World War Two.
And they shaved off its mustache, too.

Interestingly enough, "Heiglkopf" is German for "Mount Hatred."*

*No, it isn't.

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