Posted on 04/25/2015 8:11:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier insisted on Friday that calling Armenian massacres genocide risks belittling the Holocaust, after President Joachim Gauck broke a taboo by using the word on Thursday.
Steinmeier stuck to his guns on Friday, arguing in an interview with Spiegel that We in Germany need to be careful not to give justification to those who follow their own political agenda and say the Holocaust started before 1933. [ ]
Steinmeier has come in for fierce criticism this week, with one high profile politician comparing him to Germanys First World War leadership.
Both Gauck and Bundestag (German parliament) president Norbert Lammert condemned the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman forces a century ago as a genocide, the first time Germany has officially used the term.
Gaucks speech at an event commemorating the centenary marked the first time that Berlin has officially used the word genocide to describe the killings in Armenia, and an unusually strong acknowledgement of the then German Empires role.
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I think there is plenty of evidence that higher-ups (maybe not Clinton personally) certainly knew there was a problem in Benghazi and failed to act; Clinton herself isn’t going to take the fall for anyone else.
The Turks after the war, when “westernizing” their alphabet (from Arabic-like script to the Latin alphabet) even used German as a model; they use the umlauts and such. Throughout the Cold War West Germany imported a lot of Turk labor (though they often wouldn’t confer citizenship); East Germany simultaneously imported Vietnamese (and paid them to leave as their country/economy crumbled).
Covering your tracks by deleting files shows your own guilt
Not by German standards, I guess ...
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How many files do you think the Turks kept? Have you seen the area where this occurred? I’d be shocked if even 10% of the populations involved were literate.
Schickelgruber would have disagreed with him.
thought we were talking about Clinton sorry
Oh you’re definitely right about that; my biggest concern with her candidacy is that the enemdia, while trying to deflect the attacks on her financial corruption, also pushes the idea that “All politicians do it” (and convince enough low-information voters that this is sufficient to vote for her).
I’m hoping that the same younger, darker Dems that derailed her in 2008 do it again (it seems some in the media already are doing that); she is a nothing more than a dishonest old rich white lady.
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