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From: Hanka Malocka <>
Subject: Re: Silesia and Sudetenland, Reichsprotektor Heydrich vs Czech Communists
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:35:19 -0800


W. Fred Rump wrote:
>
> (Jerzy Pankiewicz) wrote:
>
> >In soc.culture.german W. Fred Rump <> wrote:
> >: record it as it happened and all would be well. Some people still
> >: would rather not face up to historical reality of 50 years ago and
> >: rather play with words.
> >E.g. Fred, whose family lived near Stutthof KZ, but they
> >didn't know about it.
> > Jerzy Pankiewicz
>
> That's right. Stutthof was a very small and insignificant village near
> the Baltic. As usual these isolated places were sought out by the
> NAZIS as detention camps for all kinds of people who opposed the
> regime including many Germans of course. A square mile off the beaten
> track and deep in the woods is easily kept off the local tourist map
> and from people living 30 miles away.
>
> Today that is different. Among the handful of German words left in
> Poland are those pointing to places where former German concentration
> camps existed. Even the tiniest other village received a new Polish
> name. It is quite a shock when driving along the highway one sees a
> German village name with signs pointing down the back road. Follow the
> road and one finds a very untypical huge parking lot deep in the
> woods. A continuous stream of busses filled with school children and
> military personnel pull during one's visit. And there it is - the
> barbed wire, the mountain of shoes, the exhibits of arrest warrants of
> people from all nations of Europe. Then there are pictures of the
> guards and their commanders. So very few people against the thousands
> of prisoners. One wonders how it was possible that they could do so
> much harm.
>
> I suppose Jerzy holds my mother and me responsible for this because we
> didn't know about the existence of this KZ or that I, as a 7 year old,
> didn't march off and raze the place with my little sand shovel in
> hand. Such is the logic of people impressed by propaganda from their
> earliest childhood and why somehow the myth of guilt by ethnic group
> has not moved on from that of 50 years ago. Nothing much has changed
> really. It is only that the government in power back then lent
> credence to such stupidity and gave some of those same kind of people
> the license to act out their prejudices. Today all they do is write
> such nonsense on the internet. Maybe that is a little progress for
> humankind.
>
> Fred
>
>
> W. Fred Rump
> 26 Warren St.
> Beverly, NJ
> 609-386-6846 http://www.k2nesoft.com/~fred

Could somebody explain to me why the Czechs have problems with
their lack of love for Germans while they have no problem with
their own Communists who have murdered much more of their own
countrymen than the 5000 Czechs who were executed as a retribution
for the assasination of the Reichsprotektor Reinhart Heydrich ?
Dont forget that those Czechs who were murdered by Czech Communists
have done no harm to anybody.

Hanka

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