[niteowl77]

"In this world, several conflicts are being carried out in a warlike manner and human rights are being trampled on," said Dresden Mayor Dirk Hilbert.

"This suffering affects us directly in a globalized world," he added, placing a white rose on a memorial of the controversial attack.

If Herr Hilbert has any roses left, he can take them to Auschwitz or Belsen, Oradour-sur-Glane or Lidice, Baugnetz or Wormhoudt… lots of human rights were getting trampled on in a warlike manner back then, with the most direct kind of globalized suffering.

[dfwgator]

If Herr Hilbert has any roses left, he can take them to Auschwitz or Belsen, Oradour-sur-Glane or Lidice

Down this road, on a summer day in 1944. . . The soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community which had lived for a thousand years. . . was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the people were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road . . . and they were driven. . . into this church. Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot. Then. . . they were killed too. A few weeks later, many of those who had done the killing were themselves dead, in battle. They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial. Its martyrdom stands for thousands upon thousands of other martyrdoms in Poland, in Russia, in Burma, in China, in a World at War...

At the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, the day the soldiers came, they killed more than six hundred men, women . . . and children.

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