Nieuwe naam voor Auschwitz

[TonH]

Auschwitz death camp renamed

The United Nations world heritage committee has changed the name it uses for the Auschwitz camp in Poland to reflect the fact it was operated by Nazi Germany.

It will now be known as "Auschwitz-Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)," after the Warsaw government requested the change, Unesco said on Thursday.


The change came as Polish and German politicians continued a bitter war of words over the legacy of the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Poland's prime minister said ahead of European Union talks that Warsaw deserved more voting rights because its population had been decimated by Nazi Germany.

More than one million people, mainly European Jews, were killed at Auschwitz by German forces during the occupation. Birkenau was the neighboring camp and the site of the main gas chambers and crematoriums.

Polish political prisoners, prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, Gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities and prisoners of conscience or religious faith also died at the camp.

'Historical truth'

"Unesco has made a decision as a result of Poland's request to change the name of Auschwitz Birkenau to reflect the historical truth," Kazimierz Ujazdowsk, Poland's culture minister, said. "This is a victory for truth".

On Wednesday, a German politician heavily criticised the Polish government for using Germany's Nazi past in an attempt to secure improved voting rights at an EU parliament hearingr.

Martin Schulz, Socialist Group leader, won loud applause as he denounced the tactics of Warsaw's ruling Kaczynski twins.

"Anybody who tries to bargain the dead of the Second World War against votes in the [EU] Council has to be rejected out of hand," he said, referring to the EU body where decisions on the 27-member bloc's key policies are taken.

The EU is an idea aimed at eliminating the spectres of the past ... We will not permit the few to bring up those spectres."

Poland criticised

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland's prime minister, stunned EU counterparts by suggesting more voting powers were deserved because its population would be much larger were it not for Nazi Germany.

Poland eventually won concessions after a marathon haggling session, notably a delay to the introduction of the planned new voting system which it vehemently opposed, but faced criticism for its hardball negotiating style.

Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's prime minister, told a German newspaper he was "pained" by the Polish position.

"Those who rule Poland now have not accepted within themselves the reconciliation with Germany," he told Rheinischer Merkur in an interview published on Thursday.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/242DBFB1-DF86-4E82-810C-9A3552A936C9.htm




WAT voor 'truth'? Zou er IEMAND zijn geweest die zich vergistte en dacht dat het de Polen waren die dat kamp hadden opgezet en gerund? :confused:

[David]

Joh, was dat kamp Duits? :argwaan:

[mark61]

Dat gehucht heet locally toch Oswiecim met een zootje streepjes? Was de verwarring? Dat Polen net zo antisemitisch, -zigeuner, -homo zijn als Duitsers? :hihi:

[TonH]

Leuk persbericht van UNESCO/World Heritage Committee... De homo-slachtoffers komen er niet in voor en het "truth"-argument ook niet... :argwaan:


World Heritage Committee approves Auschwitz name change
© UNESCO/M. Semeniako AuschwitzThe World Heritage Committee has approved Poland’s request to change the name of Auschwitz on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. After international consultations, the property, listed as “Auschwitz Concentration Camp” in 1979, is to have the title of “Auschwitz Birkenau” and the subtitle of “German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945).”

In its decision the Committee, presently meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, for its 31st session, also adopted a “statement of significance’ for the site which reads as follows:

“Auschwitz-Birkenau was the principal and most notorious of the six concentration and extermination camps established by Nazi Germany to implement its Final Solution policy which had as its aim the mass murder of the Jewish people in Europe. Built in Poland under Nazi German occupation initially as a concentration camp for Poles and later for Soviet prisoners of war, it soon became a prison for a number of other nationalities. Between the years 1942-1944 it became the main mass extermination camp where Jews were tortured and killed for their so-called racial origins. In addition to the mass murder of well over a million Jewish men, women and children, and tens of thousands of Polish victims, Auschwitz also served as a camp for the racial murder of thousands of Roma and Sinti and prisoners of several European nationalities.

“The Nazi policy of spoliation, degradation and extermination of the Jews was rooted in a racist and anti-Semitic ideology propagated by the Third Reich.

“Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of the concentration camp complexes created by the Nazi German regime and was the one which combined extermination with forced labour. At the centre of a huge landscape of human exploitation and suffering, the remains of the two camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, as well as its Protective Zone were placed on the World Heritage List as evidence of this inhumane, cruel and methodical effort to deny human dignity to groups considered inferior, leading to their systematic murder. The camps are a vivid testimony to the murderous nature of the anti-Semitic and racist Nazi policy that brought about the annihilation of more than 1.2 million people in the crematoria, 90% of whom were Jews.

“The fortified walls, barbed wire, railway sidings, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau show clearly how the Holocaust, as well as the Nazi German policy of mass murder and forced labour took place. The collections at the site preserve the evidence of those who were premeditatedly murdered, as well as presenting the systematic mechanism by which this was done. The personal items in the collections are testimony to the lives of the victims before they were brought to the extermination camps, as well as to the cynical use of their possessions and remains. The site and its landscape has high levels of authenticity and integrity since the original evidence has been carefully conserved without any unnecessary restoration.”

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http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=38722&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

[David]

Het is niet zo handig van Polen om op deze manier dat EU gedoe uit te vechten.

[ronald]

Geplaatst door mark61
Dat gehucht heet locally toch Oswiecim met een zootje streepjes? Was de verwarring? Dat Polen net zo antisemitisch, -zigeuner, -homo zijn als Duitsers? :hihi:


Ik snap eerlijk gezegd ook niet wat de verwarring is. Van de 3.300.000 Poolse Joden zijn 90 % vermoord. Willen zij in Polen op hun vergoten bloed rechten claimen terwijl Polen antisemitischer was dan Duitsland? Menig Pool was blij dat die Duiters in ieder geval dat probleen voor ze heeft opgelost.

[TonH]

Geplaatst door ronald
Ik snap eerlijk gezegd ook niet wat de verwarring is. Van de 3.300.000 Poolse Joden zijn 90 % vermoord. Willen zij in Polen op hun vergoten bloed rechten claimen terwijl Polen antisemitischer was dan Duitsland? Menig Pool was blij dat die Duiters in ieder geval dat probleen voor ze heeft opgelost.

Daar zit vást een van de redenen. En vandaag kregen ze nog op hun kop van de Raad van Europa dat de Polen zo homofoob als de neten waren. Ze willen kennelijk wel de 'lusten' van het resultaat van de Nazi-daadkracht, maar niet de lasten...