Berlin, Germany – Jews Protest Munich Plan for Parade on Day of Holocaust Remembrance

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    Berlin, Germany – Jewish groups are protesting the Bavarian city of Munich's plans to hold a Carnival parade on the same day the UN has established as an annual day of Holocaust remembrance.

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    The International Auschwitz Committee called the idea of holding the jovial parade on such a day an "absurd signal."
    "The fact that Munich on this day plans and is going ahead with a Carnival celebration shows the thoughtlessness and ignorance of the officials," the organization said.

    The parade is set for Sunday, the same day used for annual Holocaust remembrance ceremonies around the world. The day commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland by the Red Army on January 27, 1945. [AP]


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    froylein
    froylein
    16 years ago

    Get a history book, please. I have not stated the Holocaust was not initiated by Germany, but believing that other states / people did not contribute to it either actively or passively is somewhat romanticizing. And asking or claiming current Germans to be proud of the Holocaust? There are neo-Nazis in Germany as well as left-wing anti-Semites, but racism of any breed is just plain stupid. Alas, stupidity is not confined by borders.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Give credit where credit is due!

    The country that got the Holocaust rolling was Germany, the country that financed it was Germany, the country that is more responsible for the Holocaust than any other was Germany.

    Let them be proud of thier success. Why do you hate them so much that you want to take away thier pride and joy?

    froylein
    froylein
    16 years ago

    Large parts of then-German Reich that were supportive and voted in support of the Nazis turned Polish or initially Communist in the GDR. The remaining parts, that made up the later FRG, that many people today consider symptomatic of Germany, was not by far as supportive to the Nazis as the aforementioned parts. Granted, there were Nazis there, too, but things were not as homogenous as some people try to make them out to be. However, there is no excuse whatsoever for people not trying to take a more forceful stance against the Nazis.
    There indeed has been a change in generations in addition to a lot of political efforts to fight back racism. If you want to detest people that supported the Nazis in killing Jews, you’ll have to add Polish, Czech, Austrian, Ukrainian and Hungarian people to the list, in addition to Switzerland, which made border guards shoot at Jewish refugees but willingly accepted the Nazis depositing the gold stolen from Jews at their banks. Ford had the ‘Protocols’ published and distributed in the US; being anti-Semite was not only socially tolerable, but apparently common enough practice in those days for not a single one of the WW2 allies joining the war with the distinct intention of saving Jewish lives…
    If you care, read my post over at Jewlicious on what’s going on in Munich.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Anon January 25, 2008 4:02 PM
    said……….

    And no, the vast majority of Germans is not proud of the Holocaust.

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Why not? With the exception of a tiny portion of the population they all supported the Nazis and supported thier efforts to wipe us out. Considering how much closer they came than anyone else in modern times to doing just that they should be very proud of themselves. And they did it all according to the the highest value of German culture, keeping the trains on schedule.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    The Carnival date is determined by the Easter date, which is the first Sunday after the first full moon in spring. I don’t think the organizer of the Carnival parade meant to offend anybody. They may not have initially been aware of the clash in dates. Further procedures will show whether they actually qualify as tactless. And no, the vast majority of Germans is not proud of the Holocaust. The ‘Final Solution’ was established at the Wannsee Conference (Berlin), the racial profiling and harassing laws were passed in Nuremberg. Hitler attempted at rioting in Munich in 1923, but was arrested. I will not downplay the role of Munich in Nazi Germany (I don’t even like Munich per se), but the Nazis found way more approval in the more Protestant northern and eastern parts of the country. Anti-Semitism is going strong again in Europe, but at least in Germany people are and can be made aware of it while in other countries discrimination against Jews is still taken for granted.