Posted on 08/11/2005 9:22:45 AM PDT by lizol
The scandal of Housewitz
Free showers in gas chambers, skinny-Jew dress code, dancing to the music played by DJs dressed as Nazi soldiers - are just some of the features of an internet advertisement conceived by a 22-year-old Dutch student.
The image of the non-existent site of Housewitz welcomes you with a huge sign Tanzen macht frei, dance will set you free, in the place where the Germans put out the slogan Arbeit macht frei, work will set you free, on the premises of the Auschwtiz camp.
If that was not enough, the dance party was advertised for... the national memorial day in Holland for victims of WW2. The appearance of the ad raised a wave of sharp reactions from various circles. A number of institutions have also officially complained about the ad. The Auschwitz Museum is just one of them. Using the image of a war-time death camp, where more than a million people perished, as a joke, as its author called it, may not only be taken as a sign of bad taste and lack of human feelings but also of a lack of basic knowledge about WW2.
After numerous sharp reactions the dance party advertisement disappeared from the Net. It is, however, said to be still available on one Dutch site, whose authors refused to remove it, adding a small note at the bottom of the screen instead saying that the owner of the site strongly disapproves of the tasteless video.
Ping!
I'm speechless........
unbelievable
idiot
Someone posted a thread telling people to google "housewitz" and didn't really make it very clear.
What is this crap? Is someone trying to link FR and this stuff on google or something?
Take it off this site.
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Sometimes we forget what a laff riot the Nazis were.
> Sometimes we forget what a laff riot the Nazis were...
...and how tolerant the Dutch are. Maybe not even the Dutch with crap like this.
This garbage is absolutely sickening.....Have the Dutch forgotten so soon?
Thanks for the ping. Another thread contained this information:
"Jaroslaw Mensfeld, a spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum, said he was "absolutely shocked." Some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, were killed at the Nazi camp during World War II."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1460944/posts
I also read that the Dutch student who created this as a "joke" has apologized and deleted the video. But it was already spread around and has now gone "cult.".
whose authors refused to remove it, adding a small note at the bottom of the screen instead saying that the owner of the site strongly disapproves of the tasteless video.
So they disapprove of their own ads?
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