German Police Cadets Tell "holohoiax
survivor,"
We're Tired of Hearing about the Damn holocaust!
Looks like the Jews overplayed their hand again.
From the London
Times
Fears that the German police force
contains neo-Nazi sympathisers have been sparked after
disdainful cadets delivered an extraordinary rebuff to a
Holocaust survivor. Students at the Berlin police
academy refused to listen to the harrowing testimony of
Isaak Behar, 83, who had been invited to lecture them on
his experiences as a Jew in the Third Reich. Mr Behar
lost his parents and his two sisters in the Auschwitz
concentration camp. The cadets shouted that they did not
want to hear about the Holocaust any more, and said that
the Jewish community was emotionally blackmailing
Germany, according to German press reports.
Dieter Glietsch [Traitor],
Berlin’s police commissioner, has opened an
investigation. German police officers are given
compulsory Holocaust-awareness training. Visits to sites
where Nazis murdered or deported Jews are part of the
curriculum [Brainwashing].
Mr Behar and other Jewish survivors frequently lecture
at police and army colleges.
“There have always been anti Semitic incidents in the
army as well as the police,” said Mr Behar. “But senior
officers take action when they hear of them.” This
episode, though, which occurred on Feb 27, is seen as
part of a broader and more menacing trend. Last month it
was revealed that at least three police bodyguards
assigned to protect Michael Friedman, a leading Jewish
activist [Zionist by
any other name], were
neo-Nazi sympathisers. One
dressed in his free time in a black SS uniform and put
photographs of himself on the internet. Another printed
out a fake certificate declaring himself to be a member
of the SS “M.F” Division — M.F. being the intitals of
Michael Friedman [Now
come on, that's funny!],
who was for many years the deputy chairman of the German
Jewish community. The wording of the certificate began:
“In the Name of the Föhrer . . .” mimicking a genuine SS
document. Yet another police guard stored the Nazi
anthem, the Horst Wessel song, on his computer and
played it out loud [Out
Loud? Oi Vey No!]when
colleagues were in the room.
The policemen claimed that they were no more than
harmless pranks. But Mr Friedman, who has received many
death threats because of his vociferous support for
Jewish causes, is taking the case seriously. He has
demanded a parliamentary inquiry from the state of Hesse,
which is responsible for protecting him. According to
the mass circulation newspaper Bild, one of the
investigated bodguards threatened “to spill the beans
about far-right activity at Frankfurt police
headquarters” if charges were pressed against him.
March 23, 2007
German neo-Nazi
fear over police cadets
Roger Boyes in Berlin
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1555768.ece
Fears that the German police force
contains neo-Nazi sympathisers have been sparked after disdainful cadets
delivered an extraordinary rebuff to a Holocaust survivor.
Students at the Berlin police academy
refused to listen to the harrowing testimony of Isaak Behar, 83, who had been
invited to lecture them on his experiences as a Jew in the Third Reich. Mr Behar
lost his parents and his two sisters in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The cadets shouted that they did not
want to hear about the Holocaust any more, and said that the Jewish community
was emotionally blackmailing Germany, according to German press reports. Dieter
Glietsch, Berlin’s police commissioner, has opened an investigation.
German police officers are given
compulsory Holocaust-awareness training. Visits to sites where Nazis murdered or
deported Jews are part of the curriculum.
Mr Behar and other Jewish survivors
frequently lecture at police and army colleges. “There have always been
antiSemitic incidents in the army as well as the police,” said Mr Behar. “But
senior officers take action when they hear of them.”
This episode, though, which occurred on
Feb 27, is seen as part of a broader and more menacing trend. Last month it was
revealed that at least three police bodyguards assigned to protect Michael
Friedman, a leading Jewish activist, were neo-Nazi sympathisers.
One dressed in his free time in a black
SS uniform and put photographs of himself on the internet. Another printed out a
fake certificate declaring himself to be a member of the SS “M.F” Division — M.F.
being the intitals of Michael Friedman, who was for many years the deputy
chairman of the German Jewish community. The wording of the certificate began:
“In the Name of the Föhrer . . .” mimicking a genuine SS document.
Yet another police guard stored the Nazi
anthem, the Horst Wessel song, on his computer and played it out loud when
colleagues were in the room. The policemen claimed that they were no more than
harmless pranks.
But Mr Friedman, who has received many
death threats because of his vociferous support for Jewish causes, is taking the
case seriously.
He has demanded a parliamentary inquiry
from the state of Hesse, which is responsible for protecting him. According to
the mass circulation newspaper Bild, one of the investigated bodguards
threatened “to spill the beans about far-right activity at Frankfurt police
headquarters” if charges were pressed against him.
The bodyguards have been suspended from
duty. The German press and Police Workers’ Association have called for their
dismissal from the force.
“These incidents show that far-right
thinking is now anchored in the mainstream of German society,” said Mr Friedman,
“and it is increasingly obvious in the police force”.
That sentiment was echoed by Andreas
Nachama, a leading rabbi. “This antisemitism is appearing everywhere and it is
as threatening as it is reprehensible.”
Insiders say that police antisemitism is
usually more discreet, confined to comments at the police station after a stint
of duty.
The guarding of Jewish sites, from
synagogues to the Jewish Museum in Berlin, is particularly unpopular among the
police rank-and-file. Their task is to head off neo-Nazi attacks or report
antisemitic symbols daubed on buildings overnight.
Hate crimes
— Displaying Nazi symbols and the
production of pro-Nazi materials is illegal in Germany
— Overt support for neo-Nazi groups rose
after reunification of East and West Germany, with attacks on immigrant
communities
— Four men linked to neo-Nazi groups
firebombed a house of Turkish immigrants in Solingen in 1993, killing five
— Marius Schoeberl, 16, was murdered in
2002 by three youths in East Germany because he looked Jewish
— Support is growing for the German
far-right National Democratic Party
Source: Times Archives
Comments to Time:
Rohan is right, young Germans are fed up
with having the Holocaust shoved down
their throats. I too have a half German
son and I wouldn't dream of lecturing
him about national guilt. After all for
any kid today in his teens it would be
possible that it was his great
grandfather who fought in the war. The
German guilt about Nazis is equalled by
the British obession with Hitler. At his
boarding school in England my son was
dubbed 'Nazi' and continually taunted by
English boys. He had to ask me what on
earth Nazi meant. And as for Friedman,
well wasn't this the same man involved
in a sex and drugs scandal a short while
ago? And has Friedman complained that
these men, who should have known better,
called him a despicable Jew? Did
Friedman ever complain about them? Yes,
Rohan has my support, linking the
Neo-Nazi scene to this incident is
superficial journalese.
John Walter, Bonn, Germany
At this point in their history, Germans
are not being "beaten with the stick of
the holocaust" (an ironic image) -- it
is just a matter of continuing
education. And this education is alive
and available in most of the Western
democracies. The German people have
worked hard to overcome their history,
probably harder than we in the U.S. have
worked to overcome the stain of slavery
and racism. But when this strain of
Anti-Semitism is in the ranks of people
who are entrusted with protecting
everybody, it should raise alarm bells.
I understand Mr. Davies' point --
sometimes repeating a lesson over and
over makes the learner tired and
irritable. But as Cambodia, Darfur, and
the Balkans show, the lesson really has
not been learned and the 'education'
must go on.
G Cinnamon, San Clemente, California,
USA
As an ex-pat living in Germany, I can
only concur with what Rohan of Brisbane
said.
Holocaust education is on every school
curriculum in Germany. There are
frequent TV programmes covering the
topic of Nazi Germany and a lot of
publicly-funded activity for other
educational, etc purposes.
If I were a young German, I too would
probably be absolutely sick of being
made to feel responsible for something
which happened at least 2 generations
ago. This can only play into the hands
of a distinct minority of local racists.
How would young Britons feel to be
reminded every day that they are tainted
by the murky history of Empire? Tony
Blair is only the latest PM to avoid
giving an apology for Britain's
historical role in the slave trade
whereas even young Germans are still
being made to pay for the sins of their
fathers. At what point does it stop?
Ad, Hamburg, Germany
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Rohan is right, young Germans are fed up with having the Holocaust shoved down their throats. I too have a half German son and I wouldn't dream of lecturing him about national guilt. After all for any kid today in his teens it would be possible that it was his great grandfather who fought in the war. The German guilt about Nazis is equalled by the British obession with Hitler. At his boarding school in England my son was dubbed 'Nazi' and continually taunted by English boys. He had to ask me what on earth Nazi meant. And as for Friedman, well wasn't this the same man involved in a sex and drugs scandal a short while ago? And has Friedman complained that these men, who should have known better, called him a despicable Jew? Did Friedman ever complain about them? Yes, Rohan has my support, linking the Neo-Nazi scene to this incident is superficial journalese.
John Walter, Bonn, Germany
At this point in their history, Germans are not being "beaten with the stick of the holocaust" (an ironic image) -- it is just a matter of continuing education. And this education is alive and available in most of the Western democracies. The German people have worked hard to overcome their history, probably harder than we in the U.S. have worked to overcome the stain of slavery and racism. But when this strain of Anti-Semitism is in the ranks of people who are entrusted with protecting everybody, it should raise alarm bells. I understand Mr. Davies' point -- sometimes repeating a lesson over and over makes the learner tired and irritable. But as Cambodia, Darfur, and the Balkans show, the lesson really has not been learned and the 'education' must go on.
G Cinnamon, San Clemente, California, USA
As an ex-pat living in Germany, I can only concur with what Rohan of Brisbane said.
Holocaust education is on every school curriculum in Germany. There are frequent TV programmes covering the topic of Nazi Germany and a lot of publicly-funded activity for other educational, etc purposes.
If I were a young German, I too would probably be absolutely sick of being made to feel responsible for something which happened at least 2 generations ago. This can only play into the hands of a distinct minority of local racists.
How would young Britons feel to be reminded every day that they are tainted by the murky history of Empire? Tony Blair is only the latest PM to avoid giving an apology for Britain's historical role in the slave trade whereas even young Germans are still being made to pay for the sins of their fathers. At what point does it stop?
Ad, Hamburg, Germany