Re: Austrian flap over bell dedicated to Hitler
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:32 am
Evie wrote:If left undiscovered I'm sure this bell would have eventually fallen out of the rafters and landed on some poor innocent jew walking by below.
Hilarious!
Evie wrote: [...]
The Wolfpassing bell pays homage to Hitler for his 1938 annexation of Austria, a move supported back then by the vast majority of the nation's citizens. It describes Hitler as "the unifier and Fuehrer of all Germans" and says he freed the "Ostmark" — Nazi jargon for Austria — "from the yoke of suppression by foreign elements and brought it home into the Great-German Reich."
more at link
http://news.yahoo.com/austrian-flap-ove ... kA.BTQtDMD
To a thinking person, all this fear and hand-wringing would make one wonder if maybe there's something to the German side of that 70-year-old conflict after all -- the hand-wringers seem mighty damned afraid of a single simple sentence.
With all good wishes,
Kevin.