Posted on 12/23/2007 8:05:09 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl
I repeat that the authorities are like children. Trying to redress things by banal prohibitions. There are some brave souls that see it for what it is. Again, what was done in that war, was done. Nothing that they do in these cases mitigates it. It cannot be mitigated.
I know that even a few bars of the Horst Wessell Lied is enough to have the police out. This in Germany. Verboten. Yet it is a soldiers song. Funny thing though, the Deutchsland Uber Alles, "Germany Above All" is verboten, if the words are used. Yet the anthem to which they sang it, was sung in English schools in WW2. This as a hymn. I believe the tune is still the German anthem.
Yes, "Glorious things of thee are spoken" etc. One could continue in this vein.
Teaching his dog to do nazi salutes..........
I don’t care who you are thats funny right there.
LOL. What an image.
For the affected individual victim it was irrelevant if its murderers were Americans or Germans. Nevertheless you are right, that the Holocaust was indeed unique because this was the first time that factories were used to exterminate people. A nameless perfidy. In difference to the incidents in America (north and south) the extermination of the Jews was planned as a complete extermination (in German “Endloesung”). This does not change the fact that the Holocaust was not the first murder in large scale. One of those genocides was indeed the extermination of Indians who claimed their inherited land that was needed by American settlers to survive in that time. A reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
The thing is that neither you as a American born in the 20th century (and therefore free from any guilt for the expulsion and genocides on American Indians) nor I as a German that was born in 1967 (and therefore free from any guilt for the Holocaust) can be hold responsible for occurrences that were caused by criminal countrymen a long time ago.
This is indeed true. He was weak.
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