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General Reinhard Gunzel was the commander of Germany's fabled Special Ops force, the KSK. No more. Last Tuesday, he was sacked for writing a letter to an obscure backbencher named Martin Hohmann. Normally, penning a letter to a parliamentarian hardly qualifies as high crime and misdemeanor. Germany is different, and for good reason. In his missive, the general praised the deputy for an "excellent speech" and assured him that "the majority of our people shares your thoughts." What had Herr Hohmann said? He'd called the Jews not a nation of victims but a "nation of perpetrators," responsible...
...Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex: "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," meaning that Germans (and all of Europe that let it happen) do not want to live under the burden of the Holocaust forever. Hence the projection of a guilt - as most recently executed by Martin Hohmann - that evens the score and lightens the burden of moral responsibility. If this is the bad news, what is the good news? It is obvious: the demise of "classical" anti-Semitism in Europe - of persecution, expulsion and murder. These fires have burned out. After a millennium of bloodshed, that...
...think the residents love us," Hohmann says. "A lot of people come here on bike or foot just to take walks and visit the greenhouse and look at plants...
...Hohmann hopes this will not end because of Harvard development...
...hope Harvard extends our lease forever," Hohmann says. "We add a lot to this spot, and we don't want to leave...