Word: nazi
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Remember. But Keep Out Sixty years after the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Germany still seeks atonement. Berlin's astonishing Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, an undulating graveyard of 2,711 concrete slabs, opens in May. But just as the government prepares to mark the Jan. 27 Auschwitz anniversary with a ceremony in the Reichstag, it is also drafting plans to curb immigration of East European Jews. Germany opened its doors to them in 1991 as a gesture of reparation. At the time, fewer than 30,000 Jews lived in the country and many...
There has been widespread, and justified, outrage over Prince Harry’s recent decision to attend a “Native and Colonial” party wearing a Nazi Afrika Corps uniform. The photograph of the oblivious Prince calmly holding a drink while sporting a blood-red, swastika-embellished armband has now become an icon of royal idiocy and cluelessness...
...ideology to be taken seriously. What would have happened, though, if Harry had not sported the swastika but opted for the hammer and the sickle instead? Would the public outcry have been as vocal and immediate, and as monolithically damning, if Harry had worn a Soviet instead of Nazi uniform? No, it most certainly would not have been. In our society communist paraphernalia is considered to be humorous or ironic; it is almost never viewed with the outright revulsion we reserve for the Nazis...
...prepared to say it, the Russia that Lenin and Stalin forged in the blood of millions of nameless peasants was as evil a system as humans have yet constructed: it would behoove us to remember what happened in Soviet Russia as assuredly as we remember what happened in Nazi Germany...
True, there are some differences between the two pinnacles of totalitarianism; but the similarities, especially in terms of human suffering and misery, are overwhelming enough for them to be judged in the same vein. We would never consider putting mock-Nazi propaganda on a House Committee t-shirt; nor would we ever think of making a swastika out of a beer-bong and a keg tap. We probably wouldn’t wear a t-shirt saying “give me some lebenstraum,” and we would never think of sporting a t-shirt with Hitler?...