BRD Math: 70 deported Jews > 35,000+ Germans burned alive

Posted by Dan Dare on February 12, 2010, 02:34 PM | #

Jumping the gun a little, aren’t we Dasein. The ‘‘festivities’ should not be starting until tomorrow, the 13th.

But reading the rest of the article, I’m not sure what Aly is beefing about. It seems a most curious piece. The main issue bugging him seems to be that the Altmark cremation were supervised by SS troops who had been responsible for the elimination of mass graves in the USSR.

And who are the idiots in the photos? Is it a counter-demo against the annual NPD production in Dresden?

Posted by Dan Dare on February 12, 2010, 02:38 PM | #

Incidentally, I would also add that in Dresden itself there are far more commemorative reminders of the bombing than of its erstwhile Jewish population which was never very large anyway. The new synagogue is a curiously nondescript and anonymous affair which you would now know was there except it has a tram stop named for it.

Posted by Dasein on February 12, 2010, 04:06 PM | #

There could well be some fireworks tomorrow, or ‘Judenfürzchen,’ as Herr Aly would have it.

Those are the Antifa (Jew-allied dupes), in collaboration with the BRD’s democratic parties, though not all of them; they’re a a bit too much even for Merkel. 

Yes, the new synagogue is very nondescript when set against the prachtvolle Altstadt, though that didn’t prevent it from winning the EU award for contemporary architecture in 2003, or escaping the notice of Dresden’s imported enrichers.

Posted by Dan Dare on February 12, 2010, 08:00 PM | #

As inevitable and predictable as the first cuckoo of spring the annual Dresden thread has now kicked off more or less bang on schedule.

But this time round however, I’m going to take a radically different tack to usual. Rather than participating in the traditional Brit-Kraut slugfest, I intend to reflect instead a theme of remembrance and reconciliation. To assist in this spiritual journey I have found this short video on the website of the Goethe Institut.

Wiederaufbau der Dresdner Frauenkirche

The video recounts the quite recent reconstruction of the jewel in baroque Dresden’s crown, the magnificently opulent Frauenkirche, which was completely destroyed during the bombing and remained a forlorn pile of rubble until after reunification.

Completely destroyed is perhaps not quite true, since the crypt and portions of a few walls remained in situ, although 95% or more of the structure was in or under the rubble mountain.

The first section of the video – which is unfortunately in German recounts the technical challenges involved in reconstructing the church and restoring it to its former magnificence. Challenges that were met thanks in large part to the imagination, persistence and technical ingenuity with which Germans in general and Saxons in particular are so richly endowed. As much as could be salvaged from the original structure was re-incorporated into the new, as can be recognised by the presence of the darker stones scattered amongst the new.

Interesting as all that is, the real story, I believe, begins at about 10 minutes in, and can be followed with the help of this printed transcript. First mention is made there of the Dresden Trust, an English charity established to “… to help rebuild the Frauenkirche in Dresden as a memorial to all those who died in WWII air raids. The Trust has raised millions of Euros through public donations, and its most prominent contribution is featured in the video. This is the gilded orb and cross which was presented as a gift from the people of Britain and which now sits above the copper cupola at the very top of the church. As the video relates, the master silversmith who created the piece is himself the son of a Lancaster pilot who participated in the attack on Dresden.

The official raising of the cross and orb is also shown in the video, as is the appearance of the Queen’s cousin, the Duke of York, who reveals his Hanoverian lineage by delivering his speech in quite passable German. The remarks are not translated so I will do so here:

… Even as we build today a free, peaceful and united Europe, we should not attempt to forget our painful and difficult past. We must retain the memory, in order that such things will never be repeated.

I’d like to note that Dresden is the twin city of Coventry, the industrial city in the English Midlands which was the victim of the devastating air raid in November 1940. This carries personal resonance, since my paternal grandmother and her family were living in the city at the time and, had they not found shelter, would have been killed when their home was totally destroyed. Several hundred others were not so lucky, and the scale of the physical destruction was so large that a new word entered the propaganda lexicon: [/]koventrieren, meaning to eradicated by aerial bombing.

Just as the Frauenkirche and the Dresden Altstadt were destroyed in 1945, the medieval inner city of Coventry was also obliterated, including the 14th century Gothic cathedral of St. Michael. After the war salvage operations turned a large number of medival nails which had fallen to ground when the roof-timbers burned and collapsed. Many of these were fashioned into ‘Crosses of Remembrance and Reconciliation’ which were distributed across Europe to be displayed in churches in cities which had suffered the ravages of war. I came across this one in the Nicholaikirche in Leipzig recently.

This seems to me to be a more appropriate frame in which to remember the tragedy of Dresden than the nauseating exhibition presented in the OP. It is perhaps ironic that the raising of the cupola took place in 2004, only weeks after the demonstration depicted above.

Posted by jamesUK on February 13, 2010, 12:06 AM | #

NATO WAR CRIMES

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/nato.htm

Posted by Dasein on February 13, 2010, 12:07 AM | #

Dan, thanks for putting the story into a more positive perspective.  My intention with the OP, in case anyone thought otherwise, was not to reignite Brit-Kraut hatred (sometimes it seems very little is necessary to set such off), but to highlight the unhealthy state of the German psyche.  That such editorials can be written, and such slogans be carried, by people who can expect praise from the political class (and a very disturbed section of the population) is clear proof that our cause is just.  I’m also interested in how the planned march will work out tomorrow, and will be updating the thread as events dictate.  I believe they are expecting upwards of 6,000 members of the far-right from across Europe to be there.  The Antifa and a coalition of anti-Germans will be there to oppose them.  I’m going to move the last picture and commentary below the fold so that casual visitors do not get the wrong impression about the intention of the post.

One lesser known detail about the destruction of the Frauenkirche is that it survived the bombing relatively intact.  It only collapsed on the 15th, due to the expansion of the sandstone in the extreme temperatures following the bombing (which had reached 1200 degrees Celsius in the Altstadt).  People who survived the bombing described being devastated when the Jewel in the city’s crown disappeared.

Several years back I visited the Dresden Altstadt and Coventry in quick succession.  Dresden is one of the more impressive cities in Germany, well worth a visit.  One getst the impression that the city is a major source of pride for its residents (who are overwhelmingly native German).  After taking a tour through the ruins of the old cathedral in Coventry, I had a walk around the city centre.  It seemed almost every other face was non-White, and I had the impression that the city is on its way to being lost.  What the Luftwaffe couldn’t do, the English political establishment has.

Posted by jamesUK on February 13, 2010, 12:08 AM | #

Didn’t German participate in the aggression and genocide of the Serbs in Kosovo?

NATO WAR CRIMES

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/nato.htm

Delete my above comment I posted it by accident.

Posted by Dasein on February 13, 2010, 04:15 PM | #

So it turns out that the Antifa and the anti-German coalition were able to block the planned march.  The police said they were unable to clear the protestors’ blockade, and thus banned the march.

Here is some footage from BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8514246.stm

Their coverage is a bit misleading, as they don’t make it clear that those attacking the bus and burning garbage bins are the left-wing activists.  Same with the Drudge Report, which shows a masked Antifa goon standing in front a street fire along with a headline about neo-Nazis marching.

According to the BBC, there were 1,300 neo-Nazis assembled at the train station in the Neustadt part of the city, whereas Spiegel and Welt said there were 5,000, with some buses that were prevented from getting to the assembly area.  The organizers spoke of 8,000 people who were to attend, which is the figure cited by Altermedia (http://de.altermedia.info/).  Last year there were ~6,000 who took part in the march, the largest of its kind in the postwar era.  I would not be surprised if this year, on the 65th anniversary, there were even more.  Maybe once the dust settles from the day, there will be a general consensus on the number who were prepared to march.

Posted by Dasein on February 13, 2010, 04:17 PM | #

That Germans are second class citizens could be demonstrated easily enough, were one to try carrying a banner saying ‘Eichmann do it again’, though you’d have to bribe a wino to carry it if you wanted to avoid a fine and jail time.

Posted by Dasein on February 13, 2010, 04:22 PM | #

The situation, though, is a good illustration of the complexity of the JQ, especially in Europe.  There is no obvious reason that Germans should be passing such laws, or allowing double standards that reveal genocidal contempt for the natives.  Germany is still an occupied country, so it’s not entirely free.  But much of this is to blame on the depravity of the German political class, and the cowardice of those who vote for them.

Posted by Dasein on February 13, 2010, 04:28 PM | #

I was debating whether to remove that last picture entirely from the post, as I did not intend it to be bait for denouncing atrocities committed in European wars.  But I think it’s important as a means to highlight the degeneracy of the German political class, who cannot honour their war victimes without trying to score political points pandering to the left.

Posted by Dan Dare on February 13, 2010, 04:47 PM | #

Dasein I agree, there is only so much Greuelpropaganda that can be tolerated, whether it is from the Tribunes for the Standard Account or from the NPD.

Posted by Andrew Yeoman on February 18, 2010, 07:03 PM | #

True scum bags.