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How do we keep the memory of the Holocost surviors | by Garrinka | 2006-01-24 17:42:47 |
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one way would be to have a Jewish movement | by shminux | 2006-01-24 17:50:16 |
| Very interesting comment. |
by run.dll |
2006-01-24 18:29:48 |
I recall once during a discussion about the WW2 Jewish Holocaust that the (Jewish) guy who brought it up considered the mention of the "Armenian Holocaust" following the expulsion of the British (ANZACs, actually) from Gallipoli to be an irrelevant digression and historically unimportant.
Jewish support for an NGO such as you describe would go a long way towards countering the impression felt by some that the large volume of writing about the Holocaust is primarily driven by a pro-Israeli political agenda.
As for Holocaust denial, there is no cure for ignorance. As a boy I visited Dachau (early 1960s, when things weren't much different from the late 40s). I remember it to this day - it was pretty ugly. You may as well deny the existance of the Roman Empire.
As for being insulting towards modern day Germans, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Germany has bent over backwards to make amends - certainly much more than Japan has for its atrocities. Such a thing could happen anywhere, given the right (wrong) historical and social background. That is why voting and upholding the rights of free speech, etc. is so important. It's the gradual erosion of these in the name of suppressing "undesirables" that leads to such a society, not any intrinsic character of the people born into it. |
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Agrees ^^^ | by NemoHac | 2006-01-24 18:59:27 |
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About Israel | by run.dll | 2006-01-24 19:13:36 |
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"Oh it was the biggest mixup, that you have | by adiplomat | 2006-01-24 19:17:48 |
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Yep, c'est moi. | by run.dll | 2006-01-24 19:27:44 |
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