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Skybird · 01-27-14, 08:28 AM

In German:

http://www.welt.de/kultur/article124...des-Todes.html

The author is of Polish-Jewish descent himself. Good to keep this on mind when reading this.

He has said on an earlier occasion two of three years ago that the museum at Auschwitz is so normal a tourist attraction by now and that so good money is made with selling souvenirs in the nearby city, that the facility should be closed and the whole perimeter should be plowed under. He also questioned whether we have any right to expect the young to feel responsible in that we expect them to show the same ammount of heavy burden and sadness over things that ended more than half a century before they even were born, when these young people are not linked to these events at all and have their very own contemporary problems that really give them their very own share to shoulder.

But, he pointed out, in case of shutting down Auschwitz, he would miss the good food they serve in the museum's restaurant.

In this article now he points out that even those visitors who are impressed by the sights in the museum, usually completely fail to get the link to modern, contemporary events of massacres and genocides, next: that demanding that Auschwitz should neve rhappen again is as meaningful a statement like that the Titanic should never sink again, and finally that the unique status attributed to the holocaust helps today's massacres to get away with their bloddshed becasue evertyhing below the levbel of the holocaust by that reduced progfile holds the danger of being taken for something slightly more acceptable. He closes with the philosopher Thomas Lessing's remark that "history is nothing else than attributing a meaning to the meaningless."

This Knesset trip to Poland will do nothing to make Western nations reconsider their marshmallow-soft approach to the Iranian challenge, and it will not chnage anything in the European and American anti-Israeli bias on the issue of the Palestinian Arabs.

01-27-14, 08:28 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,615 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	In German: http://www.welt.de/kultur/article124...des-Todes.html The author is of Polish-Jewish descent himself. Good to keep this on mind when reading this. He has said on an earlier occasion two of three years ago that the museum at Auschwitz is so normal a tourist attraction by now and that so good money is made with selling souvenirs in the nearby city, that the facility should be closed and the whole perimeter should be plowed under. He also questioned whether we have any right to expect the young to feel responsible in that we expect them to show the same ammount of heavy burden and sadness over things that ended more than half a century before they even were born, when these young people are not linked to these events at all and have their very own contemporary problems that really give them their very own share to shoulder. But, he pointed out, in case of shutting down Auschwitz, he would miss the good food they serve in the museum's restaurant. In this article now he points out that even those visitors who are impressed by the sights in the museum, usually completely fail to get the link to modern, contemporary events of massacres and genocides, next: that demanding that Auschwitz should neve rhappen again is as meaningful a statement like that the Titanic should never sink again, and finally that the unique status attributed to the holocaust helps today's massacres to get away with their bloddshed becasue evertyhing below the levbel of the holocaust by that reduced progfile holds the danger of being taken for something slightly more acceptable. He closes with the philosopher Thomas Lessing's remark that "history is nothing else than attributing a meaning to the meaningless." This Knesset trip to Poland will do nothing to make Western nations reconsider their marshmallow-soft approach to the Iranian challenge, and it will not chnage anything in the European and American anti-Israeli bias on the issue of the Palestinian Arabs. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.