Let's review facts concerning German restitutions, taken from reliable sources instead of your obfuscations:
GERMAN EMBASSY in Israel:
http://www.germanemb.org.il/affairs/bil ... ations.htm
Bilateral Relations in the Legal Field
"The first bilateral agreement between Israel and Germany was signed by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the then Israeli Foreign Minister and later Prime Minister Moshe Sharet on 10 September 1952 in Luxemburg. This was only seven years after the end of the war and the Nazi regime that brought unmeasurable suffering upon the Jewish people and 13 years before the establishment of diplomatic relations.
This first agreement was of course about German reparations. Germany - still struggling to recover from its almost total destruction after the war - pledged to pay 3.45 billion DM over a period of 11 years.
(German reparations to Israel in the meantime have amounted to some $30 billion DM)." ( MM:
TO ISRAEL - not to other WWII nazi victims - as your stooge, Roberto, tries to diverge.)
(contd)" This was a concrete German gesture to alleviate the consequences of the immense suffering caused to the Jewish people and to support the newly established Israeli State. It was the first step towards rebuilding the shattered relationship between Germans and Jews and an expression of Germany’s historical responsibility (MM:
responsibility ??? - ) for the
Jewish people and Israel." (MM: In the meantime you may add to the restitutions two Dolphin submarines, worth $700 millions, that the German cash cow "DONATED" only recently to Israel - not to mention other toys that flow from Germany via diverse "partnerships".)
And I REITERATE my earlier statement: GERMANS are the first in all history to commit themselves to restitutions for past injustice. For this reason MODERN Germans can hold their head high among the rest of the World Community - as no other people. And the continuing German-Bashing by the Jewish Media and Hollywood is racist, greedy, exploitive, $elfserving and repugnant!
schroedinger
In the first decades following World War II, Americans rarely discussed the Holocaust.
...Because they would have been the only ones in the world. In fact Europeans were the last to undergo Holocaust "teachings" - the copyright was in the USA.
Considering their own millions of losses through airraids, the destruction of their cities, schools, museums, bridges, libraries, landmarks, universities, hospitals, and following the forced displacement of 15 million of their own people, millions of their own missing and dead, loved ones who had fought the bolsheviks from overrunning all of Europe in a war against Stalin and his gulag system, the violence Europeans had suffered themselves, compounded by famine - in 1945 Jewish Nazi victims were of no interest to them.-
Besides, nobody even knew the word "HOLOCAUST" at the time nor what it was -- until Elie Wiesel, the novelist, coined the term "holocaust" in his book "NIGHT." It took a few years to get the wheels rolling, to write the books, to assemble the material, to build mandatory school curricula, to "teach" the Holocaust - at first only in American schools however, and to get Hollywood into gear to crank out docu-drama$. Finally by the late 70s the "holocaust" snowballed. However, still only in the US and only in parts of Western Europe. That's why Bronfman had a tissy and was quite upset when the Berlin Wall came down so suddenly. He scrambled to call an emergency meeting of the World Jewish Congress - gathered in Berlin to put into gear immediately the neccessary education of the Holocaust for East German schools, to get the unwashed, the uninitiated masses that had languished for generations behind the Iron Curtain, caught up on Western Holocaust Culture. After all, East Germans had not yet paid restitutions to Holocaust victims,(45 years later!) and the West Germans had to immediately re-new their pledge of restitutions, this time also in behalf of East Germans, who lacked the sheckels to catch up ...
Those who read international press during those days watched the scramble with considerable "interest."
[schroedinger]
Now, remembering the Holocaust has become a fundamental part of Jewish identity; gentiles, too, view the Holocaust as a touchstone of moral solemnity.
This has got to be the most outrageously arrogant presumption. It is Two Thousand Years of Christianity, ie Western Civilization that set the moral standards of civilized man, NOT "Jewish Identity" nor the crimes of a holocaust!
[schroedinger]
In The Holocaust and American Life, Peter Novick asks why, and his answers are both sensible and shocking. He explains the immediate postwar silence about the Holocaust by reviewing the basics of cold war politics: just after the liberation of the concentration camps, Americans were called upon to sympathize with "gallant Berliners" who resisted the Soviets and built a wall against Communism--an "enormous shift from one set of alignments to another," Novick notes. Novick then leads readers through the series of events that brought the Holocaust to the forefront of American consciousness--the trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Six-Day War, the Carter administration's Israel policy, and the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Among Novick's most controversial ideas is his assertion that American Jews spoke softly of the Holocaust at first because they didn't want to be seen as victims; later, Jews decided that victim status would work in their best political interest. Or, as Novick puts it, "Jews were intent on permanent possession of the gold medal in the Victimization Olympics." The Holocaust in American Life is as carefully researched and argued as it is polemical and probing. Novick does not suffer Holocaust deniers lightly, and he is empathic toward victims and survivors, but he has no tolerance for false sentiment. One wishes that more people would ask, as Novick does, what kind of a country would spend millions of dollars on a museum honoring European Jewish Holocaust victims instead of a monument to its own shameful history of black slavery.
Yeah I know all that, and I already explained the "silence" (above ).-
As to the million dollar Holocaust museum, I consider such a landmark an obscene violation of the sovereignty of our capital, Washington DC, and an insult to our taxpayers ($167 Million!) After all, the holocaust happened in a foreign country and the museum commemorates a crime perpetrated by foreigners upon another groups of foreigners. There is NO connection with American history nor American society what's so ever!
The rest of your note is just some more of the same holocaust propaganda - "blah blah blah...."
And I REITERATE my earlier statement: Modern GERMANS are the first in all history to commit themselves to restitutions for past injustices. For this reason new generations of Germans can hold their head high among the rest of the World Community as no other people. And the conitinuing German Bashing by the Jewish Media and Hollywood is racist, greedy, exploitive, $elfserving and repugnant!
Concerning German reparations, let me close with comments by Nahum Goldman, former President of the World Jewish Congress:
"These reparations constitute an extraordinary innovation in terms of international law. Until then, when a country lost a war, it paid damages to the victor, but it was a matter between states, between governments. Now for the first time a nation was to give reparations either to ordinary individuals or to Israel, which did not legally exist at the time of Hitler's crimes.
PS: Roberto, ask your headquarters to up-date your blather, your denial that the State of Israel profiteers from the tragedy of holocaust victims !)
