“We are moving from lived memory to historical memory,” noted Michael Berenbaum, a professor at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles who is among the foremost scholars of the memorialization of the Holocaust. “We’re at that transition, and this is sort of a brazen, in-your-face way of bridging it.”
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Ex-federal banker turned controversy merchant Thilo Sarrazin has attracted fresh outrage with a book claiming Germany’s European policy is driven by guilt for World War II and the Holocaust.
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Opposition blasts PM’s Holocaust comparisons
“Israel is not about to be destroyed, not every enemy is Hitler and not every problem is Auschwitz,” Gal-On says.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahus political foes chastised him on Tuesday for comparing Israels current situation to that of European Jews ahead of World War II, in his address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference.
In his speech, Netanyahu displayed copies of letters exchanged between the World Jewish Congress and the US War Department at the height of the Holocaust in 1944, which implored the US government to bomb Auschwitz.
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