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Title: 70 Years Since Nazi 'Final Solution' Meeting
Source:
Haaretz
URL Source: http://www.forward.com/articles/149 ... Newsletter_Friday%202012-01-21
Published: Jan 20, 2012
Author: Haaretz
Post Date: 2012-01-20 13:09:17 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 3139
Comments: 5
Over 70 parliamentarians from across Europe will gather in Brussels on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, a pivotal moment in Holocaust history. Seventy years after a group of Nazi officials gathered at a lakeside villa on the Wannsee near Berlin to deliberate on the “final solution,” the statesmen will issue a special declaration to commemorate the event at which various other “final solutions” –such as exile to Madagascar and deportation eastward – were taken off the table in favor of the plan to exterminate European Jewry. In addition to commemorating Wannsee’s Final Solution plan with “humility and sadness”, the declaration also explicitly rejects the notion of “double genocide” a direction advocated by some East European states, particularly the Baltics, which argues that Europe experienced two equal genocides – a Nazi and a Soviet one. The concept of such a “Double Genocide” was formalized in the 2008 Prague Declaration and resulted, among other things, in a 2009 European Parliament vote in favor of an all-European unitary day of commemoration for the victims of Nazi and Soviet crimes, of different kinds. British parliamentarian Lord Janner of Braunstone, one of those behind the declaration explained the reason for the additional emphasis of the Friday initiative. “Seventy years on from the decision that more than any other defined the Holocaust, the memory of the Holocaust is under unprecedented attack from member states of the European Union, particularly Lithuania. This initiative is about preserving the historical truth for the benefit of all Europeans. If we lose the true meaning of one genocide we lose the meaning of all genocides. If everything is genocide then nothing is genocide,” he said in a statement. The signatories to the declaration are from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
There have been many genocides. Don't forget the chinks!
. But as you can see from the article, only one 'really counts'... Wish I had been on the planning committee of that 'final solution' meeting.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
I bet you do. If you were I wish I was too. I'd try and shoot you with the rest of those sick fucks. lol
. Considering they botched the task, that may have actually been helpful. {{{chuckle}}}
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Lol, i think you're a poser.
.which argues that Europe experienced two equal genocides – a Nazi and a Soviet one.
for the victims of Nazi and Soviet crimes
Say hello to your grandma for me.
#2. To: Biff Tannen (#1)
There have been many genocides.
#3. To: Brian S (#2)
Say hello to your grandma for me.
#4. To: Biff Tannen (#3)
(Edited)
with the rest of those sick fucks.
#5. To: Brian S (#4)
Say hello to your grandma for me.
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