[NYTr] "Nazi Family Model" Controversy Sinks German TV Star

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BBC - Sep 10, 2007 via rick kissell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/6986687.stm

'Nazi' row sinks German TV star

The German television network NDR has sacked a prominent talk show host 
after she praised the family model promoted by the Nazis.

NDR said Eva Herman, 48, was fired after confirming quotes printed by 
the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag."

She said "values like the family, children and motherhood, which were 
promoted in the Third Reich too, were later scrapped by the 68ers".

She was referring to the radicalism that swept the West in the 1960s.

She made the remarks at the launch of her latest book on Friday, called 
"The Noah's Ark Principle - Why we must save the Family."

NDR's programme director, Volker Herres, issued a statement saying that 
"Herman's authorial activities are, in our view, no longer compatible 
with her role as a television moderator and talk show host".

Herman had previously appeared as a newsreader on the Tagesschau 
bulletin, but stood down last year before the publication of "The Eve 
Principle" to protect the neutrality of the programme.