We try to pick out the rare fantastic websites - every week a new website put on show. This week: How to come to terms with our past and still deal with present problems.
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pparently no one ended up being furiously enraged by me presenting blogs as webtips; alternatively, no one actually cared or read the last piece. Let's just not hope for the latter.
Being optimistic about our dear readers, I'll continue with yet another blog that came into my way. I just hope I won't scare any of you away if I mentioned the H-word. It seems that every society had its banned words, words that cause outrage, disgust or pity, words that everyone knows but no one would ever dare to speak out. Our fellows from the other side of the puddle which some people tend to call the Atlantic Ocean do have a couple of these words. There is the F-word, the N-word and the C-word to just mention a few. On the other hand, our society is much more relaxed concerning these expressions. However, Germany does have the H-word. Have you ever noticed that every time someone drops the H-word in a random context (i.e. outside a History class or a public discussion on politics) there is complete silence for about 2 seconds and only then people start arguing about it. I'd call these 2 seconds a shock period: "OMG, he really said it!" "Is he damned right-wing fascist?" "How could a guy who is so good looking be such an ignorant?" - All these and surely a couple of other ideas could come to the minds of people during the shock period. Why might that be?
The title reads: We are ready ... 60yrs of experience.
Didn't we, as Germans, come to terms with our past yet? Well, at least some of us did and this seems to be one good way to actually work up the evil deeds of WWII. A vast collections of absurditiesSince June 2006 Daniel Erk collects all the pieces he can find that actually deal with or at least appear to have any connection to Hitler (upps ... I mentioned it ... let's bridge the 2 seconds with a joke: Fortune Teller: "My Führer, you'll die on a Jewish holiday" - Führer: "Which one is that gonna be?" - Fortune Teller: "No matter what day you'll die, it will become a Jewish holiday anyways."). When browsing through the extended collection of realia, pictures and texts, one really gets Erks point. This is his personal way to work up history and it seems to be quite popular at least among the young, intellectual generation.
Don't we love the left-wing Americans?
Obviously, Erk is not only gathering funny, H-connected stuff but he is also warning against extending the 2seconds mentioned above. He is putting a halt to parties which try to be more Catholic than the Pope, pointing out disinformatory (i.e. wrong) news articles and giving us a warning if political parties of all sides of the spectrum appear to copy or resemble with the fatal decisions of the H-era. It is time!More that 60 years after the surely darkest period in German history, it is definitely time to come to terms with our past. It is time to reconcile and work the truth. After WWII Germany has done a lot to beg for pardon for the unforgivable crimes done by the Nazi regime. Although these cruelties can never be forgotten, Germany has become a strong nation in the fight for democracy and equality. We shall not abolish the 2second period but just use it a little differently in order to be able to discuss the matter even in more detail. I'm sure it was possible to write whole books about the German efforts of reconciliation or one just publishes a blog.
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