THE TELEGRAPH: Adolf Hitler's favourite dish of trout in butter sauce is off the menu for a popular Belgian television cooking show after an outcry from Belgium's Jewish community and victims of Nazi concentration camps.
The banned footage shows Jeroen Meus, a 30-year-old Flemish TV chef, catching trout before cooking up the "favourite meal of an atrocious man" at Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus, Eagle's Nest, hideaway in the Bavarian Alps.
Belgium's VRT broadcaster has cancelled the programme after deeming it "too sensitive" to air as part of the popular Plat Préféré, or Favourite Dish, series profiling the menu choices of famous people.
"There was a wrong perception that the show about Hitler would humanise or, worse, glorify Hitler," said a statement by the broadcaster.
Contrary to popular belief, Hitler was not a strict vegetarian and enjoyed some meat and fish dishes including squab, liver dumplings, caviar and, his supposed favourite, succulent trout in butter sauce.
Michael Freilich, editor of Joods Actueel, a Jewish weekly based in Antwerp, joined with associations of Belgians deported to concentration camps to condemn the programme as "presenting Hitler as a simple man of the people". >>> By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels | October 28, 2008
MAIL Online: Outcry over Belgian TV Cookery Show that Teaches Viewers How to Cook Hitler's Favourite Meals
A TV show re-creating Adolf Hitler's favourite meal has come under fire from Jewish and political prisoner organisations.
In a programme for the Belgian series 'Plat Prefere' [sic], or 'Favourite Dish', cook Jeroen Meus goes to Hitler's haunts in southern Germany to prepare trout with butter sauce, 'a succulent festive meal'. It is due to be shown next week.
Criticism was led yesterday by Michael Freilich, the editor of Joods Actueel magazine, who said it was worrying that Hitler is being turned into a banal figure, thus sending 'the wrong signal' to a younger generation. >>> | October 25, 2008
HAARETZ: Belgian TV Scraps Show on Hitler's Favorite Meal
Amid widespread criticism, a Belgian public broadcaster on Monday scrapped a television show on Adolf Hitler's favorite meal.
Belgium's Flemish broadcaster VRT said the episode on Hitler's culinary tastes was too sensitive to air and did not fit the series Plat Prefere [sic], or Favorite Dish, which profiles the favorite foods of famous people.
Other episodes have featured more positively viewed subjects, including British singer Freddie Mercury, opera legend Maria Callas and artist Salvador Dali.
"There was a wrong perception that the show about Hitler would humanize or, worse, glorify Hitler," VRT said on its Web site.
A preview of the Hitler episode showed professional cook Jeroen Meus going to Hitler's haunts in southern Germany to prepare trout with butter sauce, which is believed to have been one of Hitler's favorite meals. >>> AP | October 27, 2008
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