Dresden on 02/15/1945, Source: Wikipedia Commons
The demonstrations yesterday in Dresden on the 65th Anniversary of the utter destruction of this city of art at the same show with a huge number of deaths:
Germany is sick mentally and emotionally disturbed.
Because there is obviously no longer the lowest common denominator: mourning. Dead to mourn, mourn war, mourn the demise of a city.
In Germany it is seen to be impossible, and civilized together to celebrate with dignity the anniversary commemorating the destruction but also the resurrection of a city. Without exception, all cooked on this day some soup.
The right wing wanted to show presence, as always, swing flags, knock pithy sayings, and to do important, "no remedy - no forgetting." The leftists and anarchists, as always for the right to prevent Nazism claiming wanted, either for or against trash cans set on fire and overturning cars of rights. The Germans were anti-Israel banners waving call "Bomber Harris do it again," Never again Germany "and" no victims, but perpetrators "and the officials wanted to be do-gooders. But they made a human chain with prayers for peace and put a "character": "For equal rights of all people," "for tolerance and justice" and "against anti-Semitism and extremism".
The mayor thought of some 25,000 victims, which again a few thousand less than in previous years, and described the human chain as a "sign against intolerance and stupidity," and Prime Minister thought Tillich, especially the war that came from German soil, as This would not be able to hear the other 364 days of the year.
A memorial or mourning. This is not meant to simply mourn and to remember those who lost their horrible way of life? In a city crowded with war refugees, many children had tried to disguise himself, as it was at the time of the bombing (13th-15th February 1945.) Carnival. These costumes should be her shroud.
The "official city" that is celebrated the day of mourning to the fact that it is a "sign", sat against right ("This band does not belong here") and as always forgot about the other bands that were so well any more here.
It does not of people, especially women, children, refugees of war, wounded and old men who were on that day to ashes, the fact that one "sets" while also granted more or history lessons. Their time and place is the teaching of history and the study of history.
I do not trust those who can not mourn their own victims. Not entirely by chance that in the Bible: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself love myself no, I can certainly not to others. This basic wisdom is fully transferable to mourn: Can I mourn not my neighbor, which is in others, the Far and remoter first legally is not possible - except as an empty phrase.
What are "mourning", "appraisal", "memory" of the 364 days a year worth it if this one day in Dresden does not succeed?
On February 13, would have a worthy history of the Dresden remembrance out, just one sentence: Gerhard Hauptmann, as he watched from a sanatorium, the Inferno: "Anyone who has forgotten how to cry, it gets back to the destruction of Dresden ...
(... I'm standing at the output port of my life and I envy my comrades dead spirit, which has been spared this experience. "
Dresden symbolizes a time for the first time systematically used form of warfare directed against the past of a people. After all, the cultural relics of the past amputated and disappeared, so identity in the present only succeed even more difficult, which is immediately conveyed into the future.
Dresden is thus also a memorial and Mahntag to commemorate this form of identity destruction, which unfortunately is more recent than ever.
So the international community has so far dared not begin to quantify this form of destruction in Iraq once. In Mesopotamia, the Tigris and the Euphrates after all, was the cradle of our present humanity. The Iraq war has, therefore, parts of the human memory erased . Tanks rolled flat ancient sites, modern military fortifications at archeological sites, contamination by uranium munitions on millions of years .... Never again? Probably not!
PS Here is a link to the press statement of Dt. Police Union, National Association of Saxony on the 65th Anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, which complements my assessment.
Tags: 13.15.2.1945.Demonstrationen , Dresden
