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like i said. start a thread where you will be challenged on
everything you say.
and your pictures of heaps of bodies of poor souls who died of
typhus and starvation.
don't believe it? we'll document it. on your new thread where you rationally and reasonably go through the subject point by point and we determine what happened, and what did not happen.
and guess what - we end up agreeing with today's Historians.
we also end up antagonizing people who have lied.
but since we are Christians, and we care about TRUTH, and we hate lies, it won't matter if people who have an interest in lying are outraged.
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what's this - do you know?
do you see anything wrong with the content of this article?
we'll discuss it on your new thread.
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German ruling says Dresden was a holocaust
By Hannah Cleaver in Berlin
12:01AM BST 12 Apr
2005
German prosecutors have
provoked outrage by ruling that the 1945 RAF bombing of Dresden
can legally be termed a "holocaust".
The decision follows the refusal by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office to press charges against a Right-wing politician who compared the bombing raids to "the extermination of the Jews".
German law forbids the denial or playing down of the Holocaust as an incitement to hatred.
So delicate is the subject of the slaughter of Jews under Hitler that any use of the word "holocaust", or comparison with it, faces intense scrutiny and sometimes legal action.
But prosecutors have declined to pursue further the case of Udo Voigt, the chairman of the far-Right NPD, who likened the RAF's raids to the Nazis' "final solution".
Rudigger Bagger, a spokesman for the Hamburg public prosecutor, said the decision took into account only the criminal, not the moral, aspects of the case.
But he cited as a legal precedent a ruling by the federal constitutional court that favoured free speech in political exchanges, if defamation was not the prime aim of the argument.
Holger Apfel, the NPD's leader in the Saxon regional parliament, caused a scandal in January when he shouted down a commemoration of the Dresden bombing, prompting many others to walk out in disgust.
His outburst was covered by parliamentary privilege but Mr Voigt applauded and repeated the statements elsewhere.
Paul Spiegel, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, criticised the decision by prosecutors not to take action. He said the statements were incitement and allowing them to stand opened the door to further such comments.
"Morally, I have no understanding of this," he said. "One can ban such remarks if you use the law consistently. It is questionable whether statements that are clearly incitement come under freedom of expression."
Although the NPD is despised by other parties, German politicians reluctantly accepted the ruling.
Dieter Wiefelspüetz, the interior spokesman for the Social Democrat Party described the phrase "holocaust" in the context of Dresden as an "exploitation of the victims". But he supported the decision not to prosecute.
Attitudes towards the Allied bombing campaign, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, are changing. Estimates of the death toll in Dresden in February 1945 hover at about 35,000.
All the same, some historians claim that as many as 500,000 people were killed in the raids.
Strictly speaking, the word "holocaust," which comes from the ancient Greek for "burnt", might seem apt for Dresden, much of it immolated by the fires started by the RAF's incendiary bombs.
But its primary meaning is now so closely linked to the Nazis' treatment of the Jews that such etymology appears to be in bad taste.
German ruling says Dresden was a holocaust - Telegraph < click
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
Bombing of Dresden in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE (for starters - it's hardly unbiased as it is). look at the pictures.
then tell me what this means:
"Paul Spiegel, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany,
criticised the decision by prosecutors not to take action. He said the statements were incitement and allowing them to stand opened the door to further such comments."
what action? PRISON? for what? what incitement?
"Dresden was a holocaust"
hol·o·caust
/ˈhäləˌkôst/
Noun
Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust".
was it or wasn't it?
"So delicate is the subject of the slaughter of Jews under Hitler that
any use of the word "holocaust", or comparison with it, faces intense scrutiny and sometimes legal action."
REALLY? WHY?
anyway....start a new thread.