At a press conference for the Cannes Film Festival, today 19 May 2011, film director Lars Von Trier answered questions about the Nazi aesthetic in his film Melancholia, by expressing open sympathy for Hitler and the Nazis. Whether you like it or not, one of the great things about the right to free speech is that it encourages Nazis to identify themselves to the the rest of the community, so that we can exercise our reciprocal right to defend ourselves against these people, their sympathizers and their apologists, if and when that might become necessary. Lars Von Trier stated "I really wanted to be a Jew, but then I found out I was really a Nazi... because my family was German... which also gave me some pleasure" - thereby defaming all Germans. He continued "I understand Hitler... I think he did some wrong things, but I can see him sitting in his bunker in the end... he's not what you would call a good guy but I understand much about him and I sympathize with him a little". Lars Von Trier went on to say "I am of course very much for Jews, no not too much" and say that "I am very much for (Nazi architect Albert) Speer, he was also one of God's best children" before finally saying "OK, I'm a Nazi". Hollywood actress Kirsten Dunst sat next to Lars Von Trier during this stream of bullshit and did... absolutely fucking nothing -

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LayW8aq4GLw

Lars Von Trier apologized, much later, although it's not clear whether this has to do with his real beliefs or whether he just wanted to try and rescue his career. Whether Lars Von Trier is a "real" Nazi or not, he deserves total contempt if "only" for the grotesque insensitivity he's shown to all victims of Nazism; but, not content with insulting the memory of the tens of millions of people imprisoned, tortured and murdered by Nazis, and all victims of modern race-violence and Nazi terrorism, the stupid bastard went on to insult all Danes by pleading "I do not think the international journalists understand my Danish humor".

Lars Von Trier's e-mail address is  lars.von.trier@filmbyen.com

His assistant is Emilie Spliid Clausen -  emilie.spliid@filmbyen.dk

His business partner is Peter Aalbaek Jensen

Jensen's assistant is Nina Rostock -  nina.rostock@filmbyen.com

Please do NOT insult or condemn Lars Von Trier's business associates for Von Trier's statements, but please do ask them to STOP working with him immediately. Use e-mail providers that don't reveal IP addresses and use IP shielding. If you want to support good Danish film-making, rent Flame and Citron, which is a film about killing Nazis -

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_and_citron

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_resistance