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    MP for Darlington, Jewish Nazi, and Buddhist Abbot

    Some of the roles taken on by Ignác Trebitsch-Lincoln in his varied life. Just been reading about him. Incredible story and one I thought I'd share, albeit in this its necessarily foreshortened wikipedia version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Trebitsch-Lincoln

    (He added the Lincoln as a homage to Abe, by the way)

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    MP for Darlington, Jewish Nazi, and Buddhist Abbot

    Is there a book about him? Where were you reading about him?

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      MP for Darlington, Jewish Nazi, and Buddhist Abbot

      There's a book by this guy Wasserstein http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1DD1638F93BA35756C0A96E9482 60&sec=&pagewanted=all

      but I was reading about him in Lendvai's "The Hungarians" and later wanted to follow up a bit, so I've been scouring the net.

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        MP for Darlington, Jewish Nazi, and Buddhist Abbot

        He comes across as a sort of real life Leonard Zelig

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          MP for Darlington, Jewish Nazi, and Buddhist Abbot

          "As a child, Leonard Zelig was often bullied by anti-semites. His parents never took his side."

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            MP for Darlington, Jewish Nazi, and Buddhist Abbot

            Love this bit "after this, Hitler put an end to crackpot, pseudo-mystical schemes". Apart from the one, it would seem.

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              MP for Darlington, Jewish Nazi, and Buddhist Abbot

              The mystical, pagan end of Nazism has been talked up by Christian propagandists, really, anxious to skate over the fact that most participants in the Holocaust were respectable churchgoing types. It was only a minor strand, and of the senior chaps, only Himmler (and to some extent Hess) was into all that. Goering in particular thought was ridiculous. Hitler said any revival of paganism would be "inexpressibly stupid".

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