Demonstrations are underway world-wide today in support of the German people and their aspirations to reclaim their rightful lands, which were stolen from them by France, Czechoslovakia, Russia and Poland at the end of World War II.
As everyone knows, when the Russians drove through Poland, hundreds of thousands of Germans were driven from their ancestral homes, only to end up in displaced persons camps in Germany at the end of the war. Similar actions occurred in the German Sudetenland in what became Czechoslovakia and Alsace-Lorraine in present-day France. And in those overcrowded displaced persons camps, they sit to this day living in squalor.
Overcrowded refugee camp in Munich
(Won't you help?)
The protesters are demanding that these lands be returned to Germany and that all refugees be granted the right of return. In some demonstrations, elderly Germans could be seen waving their house keys in their hands, which they have held onto all these years.
At one demonstration, hundreds of German protesters and their international supporters demanded that Russia return the city of Koenigsburg (Kalinengrad) to Germany, and that Poland return Stettin and Danzig to German control. In Berlin, thousands of Germans marched through the streets singing and chanting,
"From the Memel to the Maas,
Germany will be boss."
In Berlin, a surviving Army veteran was honored for his service during the war. He modestly told the crowd; "Shucks. It was nothing."
Meanwhile, the day was marked on university campuses all over the US with demonstrations in support of the German people. At UC Berkeley, Students for Justice in Germany, along with the German Students Association, held a demonstration, complete with a mock Berlin Wall. At UC Irvine, Norman Finkelstein accused Jewish organizations of using the Holocaust to gain power and support for the state of Israel. At Berkeley, Professor Hatem Bazian spoke out strongly against a wave of Germanophobia sweeping the country. He announced also that he was establishing an institute on the Berkeley campus to study and document Germanophobia in America.
"I'll drink to that."
On other campuses, seminars are being held where the grandchildren of persecuted German allies have spoken. At Columbia, the grandson of French freedom fighter Pierre Laval came all the way from France to educate the students about the actions of his grandfather during World War II and the unjust death sentence he suffered at the end of the war. At Yale, the grandson of Norwegian freedom fighter Vidkun Quisling also spoke about the wave of terror that swept up his father when the Allies occupied Norway in 1945. (Quisling, like Laval, was lynched by local Germanophobes and Zionists.) One Yale student, after listening to the speaker, said,
"I thought it was interesting to get a different perspective from that which we always hear."
In the UK, former British MP George Galloway spoke at Trafalgar Square, from whence he proceeded to a local cemetery and laid a wreath on the grave of William Joyce (aka Lord Haw Haw).
He then had a glass of warm milk.
Yvonne Ridley also spoke at Trafalgar Square and announced she was renouncing her British citizenship in favor of becoming a German citizen in solidarity with the struggles of the German people.
"Sausage?"In addition, Occupy protests all over the US have welcomed their German brothers and sisters in commemorating the unjust occupation of Germany by allied forces after World War II.
"No justice for Germany. No peace!"
"No justice for Germany. No peace!"
Not to be outdone, the UN is using this day to meet in their favorite watering hole of Durban, South Africa to demand justice for the German people, as well as the German diaspora.
" Thank God. I thought we had been forgotten."
Even Bill O'Reilly got into the act proclaiming a boycott against France until they return the city of Strasbourg to Germany.
"J'accuse!"
Even in the Middle East of all places, Arabs all over the region proclaimed their historical solidarity with the German people and waved placards with the below photos of the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was a true friend of Germany in her hour of greatest need.
Finally, and perhaps, most significantly, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton marked the day by insisting that Russia, Poland, France and the Czech Republic must stop their stalling, stop their new home construction, and come to the bargaining table to engage in serious negotiations with Germany.
Oh, by the way. In Liege, Belgium today, a gunman killed a bunch of people in a public sqaure before killing himself. It is not known if this was related to any of the above events. We will have to await the official investigation to determine if this was just an isolated event or an act of legitimite resistance in defense of the German people.
" Thank God. I thought we had been forgotten."
Even Bill O'Reilly got into the act proclaiming a boycott against France until they return the city of Strasbourg to Germany.
"J'accuse!"
Even in the Middle East of all places, Arabs all over the region proclaimed their historical solidarity with the German people and waved placards with the below photos of the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was a true friend of Germany in her hour of greatest need.
Finally, and perhaps, most significantly, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton marked the day by insisting that Russia, Poland, France and the Czech Republic must stop their stalling, stop their new home construction, and come to the bargaining table to engage in serious negotiations with Germany.
Oh, by the way. In Liege, Belgium today, a gunman killed a bunch of people in a public sqaure before killing himself. It is not known if this was related to any of the above events. We will have to await the official investigation to determine if this was just an isolated event or an act of legitimite resistance in defense of the German people.
9 comments:
Out of curiosity, Gary, what percentage of your readers do you believe will understand what your piece is about? It will be higher than the general public and higher than the university students but my guess is that it will still be tragically low.
I, for one, appreciate the history reminder and your ability to make the connections.
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Miggie,
To be honest, I guess most college students will be totally confused by the post. Who knows, maybe some will start Googling to find further news.
Nicely done Gary. I would have to slice and dice all the implications to sort out what I do and don't agree with by way of analogy, but we've been through all that before. This was a finely honed piece of humor, and very effective.
(You can call 911 now).
Well done. Satire is your best forte.
Now, let's put some serious comment into this giddy whirl of entertainment:
"As for Newt, well, let’s see: If the 2.5 million West Bank Palestinians are not a real people entitled to their own state, that must mean Israel is entitled to permanently occupy the West Bank and that must mean — as far as Newt is concerned — that Israel’s choices are: 1) to permanently deprive the West Bank Palestinians of Israeli citizenship and put Israel on the road to apartheid; 2) to evict the West Bank Palestinians through ethnic cleansing and put Israel on the road to the International Criminal Court in the Hague; or 3) to treat the Palestinians in the West Bank as citizens, just like Israeli Arabs, and lay the foundation for Israel to become a binational state. And this is called being “pro-Israel”?"
Of course since Thomas Friedman wrote that, it CAN'T be true!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/opinion/friedman-newt-mitt-bibi-and-vladimir.html?_r=1&hp
But, rather than stutter in giddy denial, why don't you knee-jerk conservatives offer a fourth option...
How about this one:
In 1924 Great Britain created the Kingdom of TransJordan out of 2/3rds of the Palestinian Mandate given to them by the League of Nations to create a Jewish Nation. The current King of Jordan's ancestor was nothing more than an Bedouin chieftain who claims to be descendent from Muhammad.
The UN partitioned the rest of the mandate. The Arab rejected the deal, the Jews agreed to it.
Why don't the Arabs go to Jordan since that is 2/3rds of the original mandate, thus their "historical" land.
Problem solved!
Several problems Findalis.
First, the League of Nations offered NO mandate to create a home for the Jewish people. Zionist settlers were a quirky minority of the world's Jewish population at the time. Recognizing Jewish immigration was (briefly) a policy introduced by Britain, at the instigation of British subjects of the Jewish persuasion.
Second, there was an overwhelming Arabic majority in the ENTIRE mandate, including what was left after carving out Jordan, and they weren't particularly favorable to being under Hashemite rule anyway. Arabs are no more monolithic than Jews or blacks or Anglos or any other people. There is no practical entity that fits the bill of "The Arabs."
I will note, however, that you are doing a fine job of pushing the Arabist ideology of Nasser, Hussein al-Takriti, and King Abdullah himself.
Finally, you are buying into what amounts to "ethnic cleansing." I was wondering if you could more empirically prove Friedman wrong by offering a fourth alternative. You haven't.
So, Gary, when are you going to post my answer to Findalis? I know I got a "your comment will appear after..." message on it.
"From the Memel to the Maas,
Germany will be boss."
In an effort to get this back on topic, and atone for any contribution I have made to driving the thread off on a tangent, I would like to note that the above verse should spell the last word
"baass"
That's how the Afrikaners taught their slaves to say it. It makes a better rhyme in this context.
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