Parents shocked after scout camp features Nazis chasing Jews

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[freepatriot32]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Parents of more than 100 Danish scouts were outraged over a game of tag at a scout camp in which children acted as Jews wearing yellow Stars of David and tried to escape from adults pretending to be Nazis.

The group of about 160 scouts, aged 11-14, included a dozen teenagers from the Danish-speaking minority in northern Germany. The school yard was turned into a concentration camp with swastikas on the windows.

"I was shocked," Johanna Christiansen, a German woman, told the Ekstra Bladet newspaper on Thursday.

"It's wrong to expose children to this," said Christiansen, whose two daughters took part.

The local branch of the Danish Christian FDF scout organization organized the game last weekend at the Kongeaadal school, 260 kilometers (160 miles) southwest of Copenhagen.

Jes Imer of the local FDF chapter told the tabloid B.T. that they "may have crossed the line this time with a night game where Nazis chase Jews."

The school yard included a sign with the German words "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work will set you free," the infamous inscription over the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

"I don't know whether I should apologize," Imer told B.T., adding "I didn't want the game to hurt anyone."

None of those involved could be reached for further comment

[dfwgator]

Sad, considering that the Danes bravely resisted Nazi attempts to deport Danish Jews to Auschwitz, most escaped to Sweden.

[Psalm 73]

"I was shocked," Johanna Christiansen, a German woman, told the Ekstra Bladet newspaper...

Shocked? Then she was surely the only European that is shocked over their anti-semitism, or perhaps has just awoken from a coma.
THIS is the elightened Euro-elite mindset that the Demoncrats in America think we should emulate.
And any American Jew that is a Democrat ought to be ashamed of themselves.
That Rabbi in DC yesterday had Lieberman down to a T.

[JeeperFreeper]

If the kids are doing this, they are mirroring their parents and culture. Weren't the Danes recently involved officially in some sort of Israeli boycott?
What is it? Scratch a scandinavian, get a Nazi?
Europe seems to be losing its collective grip on reality and sense again.

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[DoughtyOne]

The public persona is that Europe is a moral wasteland. I would hope that most private opinions differ from what we see in public. Sadly the hidden thoughts are probably worse than what you see in public.

I thought the leader would come up with some flimsey excuse. Instead he owns up to it and admits, "I may have made a mistake." MAY???

Is this a Darwin award candidate? He gets my vote.

[dfwgator]

The Rescue of Danish Jews.

[ConservativeConvert]

Fuck*ing sick. These Europeans are beyond disgusting. What planet are they on?

[RightOnline]

Somehow, the word "tasteless" just falls appallingly short.

[joesnuffy]

Earlier today we had freepers exclaming that femanazis "joking" about eating babies was just a "little sarcastic type levity" that we "all" engage in from time to time....
Here is some more of the same?
The downfall of sinfull man awaitng God's just punishment...a wretched race us-

[Nachum]

Well, turnabout is fair play. Let's start kids games called "Dresden", D-Day, Nuremburg, and Patton meets Rommell.

[dfwgator]

I'm sure the lefties would be more outraged at children playing "Cowboys and Indians."

[RoughDobermann]

Sad, considering that the Danes bravely resisted Nazi attempts to deport Danish Jews to Auschwitz, most escaped to Sweden.

10,000 Danes also volunteered to join the SS Freikorps Danmark...

[PaulJ]

It doesn't say as much, but what I'm wondering, could this have been an exercise to show the kids what it was like to be Jewish in the Nazi era? Perhaps the adults, being stronger and in charge,were illustrating what it must have been like to be hunted and imprisoned. It could have been quite frightening for the kids. Let me say that this is the only instance, though still in bad taste, that could be excused.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

If I remember correctly not only did the Danes smuggle over $7,500 Jews to Sweden, but everybody in Denmark wore the yellow Star Jews were ordered to wear by the Nazis. It was an act that saved many and was incredibly corageous.

[dfwgator]

As I also recall there was a German SS Officer based in Denmark who tipped off the Danish underground so that Rabbis could warn the Jews exactly when the Nazis were going to round up the Jews. As a result many of the Jews were able to hide and avoid the trip to the gas chambers.

[Nachum]

The Escape of the Danish Jews to Sweden during WW2

By Ole Kreiberg

The 50 anniversary of the of escape of the 7000 Danish Jews in October 1943 to Sweden was celebrated by the American Jews. According to the American Jews it was the whole Danish people and nation that out of some kind of "heroism" saved the Jews. As a Gentile Dane I find this embarrassing and nauseating.

When this event is mentioned it is often forgotten how much money "heroic" Danes received for their effort. An example from the book, October 1943 by the former anti-German resistance leader Aage Berthelsen page 67-69 shows that a skipper received 100,000 DKr (app. US$ 16,000) for sailing 230 Jews to Sweden the night between the 8th and 9th October 1943. Exactly how much this sum of money corresponds to today after 50 years of inflation I am not sure, but in 1943 a skilled worker in Denmark earned around 5,000DKR (app. US$ 800) per year. The skipper had bought the boat for 25,000 DKr (app. US$ 4,000). This means that he received 4 times the value of the boat for a single trip over the narrow sound between Denmark and Sweden. Because the engine of the boat was not able to start that night a "heroic" fishing boat skipper scored further 17,000 DKr (app. US$ 2,600) for towing the boat to Sweden.

http://www.patriot.dk/escape.html Beside the Jew transportations many Danes also earned well on deliveries of war material, provisions etc. to the Germans. In fact Denmark had the highest standard of living among all the countries in Europe involved in the war including Germany.

[DensaMensa]

10,000 Danes also volunteered to join the SS ...

So did Norwegians, Swedes and other Europeans.  But don't smear their motives.  They joined to fight against Russian Marxism which was a genuine threat to their borders, as it was to Germanys.