Thursday, September 9, 2010

Germans Rewriting History

From Deutsche Welle:
"Expellee head to leave party role after Polish war comments"

This and other similar current news stories prove that their are many, influential Germans who are trying to rewrite their nation's history to better serve their own agendas. I know that it is illegal to deny the Holocaust in Germany, but I think they need to also make it illegal to rewrite German history regarding the years under the Nazis as well as in East Germany.
The woman who said this is also head of a group that represents Germans expelled from Eastern Europe after World War 2. I don't have any remorse for how the Germans were treated right after the war when the Allies liberated the ghettos, concentration camps, labor camps, POW camps, death camps and other areas the Germans occupied. In most cases (especially in Eastern Europe) the ethnic Germans worked to ethnically cleanse the newly occupied areas during the war and treated thousands upon thousands of Poles and other groups the same way the Soviets and other countries treated the ethnic Germans after the war.
More needs to be done in Germany and around the world to make sure people can not try to rewrite facts. I know that in some cases it is hard to determine what is fact versus what is propaganda, but in the case of World War 2 the facts are known and accepted by the majority of members of the UN.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5989586,00.html

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