Monument for Sinti and Roma victims of Nazis highlights German government hypocrisy

[jettakd]

By Bernd Reinhardt
29 October 2012

On October 24, a central memorial for the 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis was unveiled in Berlin. The monument is sited immediately next to the Bundestag (parliament) building. It is also close to the Holocaust memorial for the Jews murdered during Nazi rule

Comments

[suwiel]

Thank you for posting this.

[pleasure_past]

they had not been persecuted in the Third Reich on racist grounds, but because they displayed criminal tendencies.

Unlike, you know, the Germans who killed 6 million people. Yes. Clearly it is the Roma and the Sinti who lack moral instinct here.

Even though they eventually admitted it was racism, it's still obviously too little too late. This is obviously just another political ploy to seem ~enlightened~ without really sacrificing anything or changing any behavior/policies.

...If you need me, I'll be despairing for humanity.

[eldvno]

Fuck you, the Germans did NOT kill ANYONE, the people responsible for the atrocities were Nazis.

[pleasure_past]

... I was afraid that would happen. Yes. Let's please make this post all about how hard it is to be German. The important thing here is clearly that people are still have not forgotten about that tiny little genocide thing.

Nazis were German (and Austrian). Deal with it. German judges in the goddamn 1950s did not have a leg to stand on when they called other ethnic groups immoral. Especially not ethnic groups that they'd barely finished raping, starving, enslaving, and slaughtering, and were and are still in the process of denying basic rights and generally treating like shit.

[eldvno]

Is it really that hard to say Nazis instead of Germans? it is fewer letters for god sakes. When people use the word 'German' they are condemning innocent people from history and today who are not culpable for the crimes of the Nazis. When you use the term Nazi, you are only condemning those who deserve to be condemned.