What happend to free speech ?

O' sorry i forgot, we live in Europe.

Shane, Clitheroe, Lancs

Let's face it no matter what the slant on the any portion of culture from 1933-45 Jewish spokesman will rise up to denounce it.

Apparently they don't beleive in free speech and co-incidently she was accurate in her comments.

Their current actions while not on the scale of Nazism certainly seems like watered down Zionist fascism

Dennis LaBounty, Grafton, Mass/USA

Herman's statement in context ought not to have evoked such reactions. The punitive actions taken against her were extreme and irrational at best.
Herman's nuanced remarks would have us recognize the irony that our society which considers itself enlightened and socially righteous and the very antithesis of nazism actually has also harmed society at its core by undermining true manhood and womanhood and consequently the family itself.

Pastor DEnis C. Gray, Niagara Falls Ontario, Canada

I propose to purchase two of all of her publications in protest of her being fired.

Is it not ironic that nowadays we have so much to do with sex-offenders, stabbings, shootings, politicians pleading for mercy when caught drunk driving. Here we have a lady who is credible to me. I don't have to know much about her family values any more than to suggest that out of everything bad comes something, something good.

Only this year we have Pope Benedict promote the Tradentine Rite Mass - The EU is allowing the Republic of Ireland and the UK retain their Imperial measurements system.

After the lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, I'm not accepting the Jewish propaganda. I'm tired of the Jewish violence - just look at the Middle East, look at what they did in Lebanon.I'm equally tired of their promotion of crudity in their better interest of promoting greed.

Patrick Flannery, San Francisco, California

It doesn't matter if you agree with her or not, she should be aloud to have an opinion........

O' sorry i forgot, we don't have freedom of speech anymore.

Shane, Clitheroe, Lancs

The traditional values of children, kitchen and church are more obvious in German: Kinder, Kueche und Kirche.

Perhaps I am being naive, but just because someone does something despicable, does this write off the whole of their life? (A similar question applies to a nation). It seems perfectly reasonable to me to say that the Nazis did some things well, and that this in no way detracts from the monstrosity of the Holocaust. Many commentators have noted that the Nazis were elected, because they promised to sort out the mess caused by the post WW1 arrangements. So part of the reason the Nazis came to power can be blamed on the Allies at the time.

Charlie Vivian, Cheltenham,

I think this is another case of German over-reaction to Nazism.
Nazism did indeed have a good side, its just that its warmongering & genocidal side hugely overshadows any good points.
I mean, the Tory party oversaw the construction of British concentration camps that resulted in 30,000 women and children dying in South Africa, yet the Tories are a respected party today.
Even the Nazi's werent 100% evil 100% of the time.

Phill Barlow, Wirral, England

I would feel sorry for Eva about losing her job but she must have known, especially working in the public eye, that any praise for Hitler would have got her fired. Especially as it was in a BOOK for crying out loud she could have removed or altered it months before it was published and was properly asked to by her editor.

Claire Taylor, Hatfield, England

Eva Herman was sacked because she said she believes in family values of Nazis. I think if she had simply said she believe in old family values which are now lost in Europe, then she would not have lost her job. But to praise Hitler is clearly wrong. He is responsible for so many deaths, not to mention gassing 6 million Jews. When they burned millions of girls, it was outrageous that Eva Herman believes that that Nazis knew how to treat women well.

Z Hussain, Rochdale, UK

I am so tired of the world instantly conemming any comment relating in any way to Nazi Germany as evil. OF COURSE this was a horrible regime, a terrible blot on the history of Germany, and absolutely devastating for millions of families. However, this is also a huge, muli-faceted political policy, and I find it difficult to believe that NOT ONE aspect, however small, can even be discussed. Whatever happened to free speech?

Marianne, London,

Roger, try "femininity", it means something.

Amin Aswet, Gibraltar,

The Nazi years celebrated family values. Yes... “There were the good things too, that is to say the values, the children, the mothers, the families, the solidarity...”

She forgot to mention the first european antobahn networks, and animal protection laws, naturparks, the Kraft Durch Freude program (about "the values, the children, the mothers, the families, the solidarity..."), the Lebensborn project (which was also about "the values, the children, the mothers, the families, the solidarity..."), the ODESSA escape network (for "the values, the children, the mothers, the families, the solidarity..."), the industrial scale destruction of entire communities across Europe ("the values, the children, the mothers, the families"), first ever intercontinental rockets (targets: the children, the mothers, the families), deathcamps for "the children, the mothers, the families", the 101 Police Btn (children, mothers, families).

Aaahh... Those were the days, when family values were respected.

Ronnie, PARIS, FRANCE