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Offline Sal Atticum

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Ralph Engelstad and Hitler?
« on: August 13, 2007, 06:26:11 PM »
So, this was odd to read.  Has anyone else heard tell of this connection?

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. . . Ralph Engelstad, an alumnus who owned a Las Vegas casino where he staged Third Reich dress-up parties on Hitler's birthday.

From http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/travel/escapes/10hour.html (may need a free account to read).

I am intrigued.
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Re: Ralph Engelstad and Hitler?
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2008, 03:31:31 PM »
From A Las Vegas Sun Article:

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Peccole, a former member of the Nevada Gaming Commission, was close to Engelstad in the months following the controversy over Engelstad's Nazi memorabilia collection in the Imperial Palace in the 1980s.

He came aboard in June 1989, five months after the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Engelstad's other attorneys had reached a settlement to levy a $1.5 million fine against Engelstad for embarrassing the industry. It allowed him to keep his gaming license.

Engelstad had held parties in the resort's secret multimillion-dollar Nazi memorabilia room allegedly to observe Adolf Hitler's birthdays in 1986 and 1988. Engelstad later denounced Hitler, apologized for his error in judgement and emptied the room of nazi memorabilia.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/nov/27/imperial-palace-owner-engelstad-dies/
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Re: Ralph Engelstad and Hitler?
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2008, 03:48:04 PM »
Yeah, I had heard about that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Engelstad (its wikipedia, but hey) http://www.kamm.org/ralph.html
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Re: Ralph Engelstad and Hitler?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2008, 11:38:04 AM »
John Hoff (random alumnus who posts on DS articles a lot) has a theory that the statue in front of the Ralph came from Nazi Germany.  Does that hold water?
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Re: Ralph Engelstad and Hitler?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2008, 02:27:06 AM »
John Hoff (random alumnus who posts on DS articles a lot) has a theory that the statue in front of the Ralph came from Nazi Germany.  Does that hold water?

Would a UND historian know, share the info?
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Re: Ralph Engelstad and Hitler?
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2008, 08:27:34 PM »
John Hoff (random alumnus who posts on DS articles a lot) has a theory that the statue in front of the Ralph came from Nazi Germany.  Does that hold water?

I would doubt it, there is no way it is true it would have been vetted already. If you know anything about Hoff that he tends to exaggerate quite a bit. Hoff also has an axe to grind against Englestad.

 

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