13-09-2009, 12:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-09-2009, 01:07 PM by Helen Reyes.)
Quote:The same newspaper published an article on 3 January 2009 reporting the extraordinary news that “the Fuehrer has been given centre stage by the next European City of Culture.” The article said that the Austrian city of Linz has decided to showcase the works of the architect of the Third Reich.
Linz is one of two co-Capitals of Culture in the EU in 2009. The other is Vilnius, Lithuania.
While it's possible to criticize an art show of Hitler's watercolors, Linz has addressed the Holocaust too in its program. Vilnius has completely refused to and rejected any such notion. Instead, they "threw a bone" to Jewish Vilna by holding a klezmer music event, to showcase "traditional Jewish culture" and Vilnius's former "ethnic diversity." Klezmer as it stands today is not traditional in any way but superfically, except for a small group of bands that do music from ca. the 19th century.
The Baltics as usual refuse to acknowledge the fact they collaborated with the Nazis and murdered almost every Jew living there in 1941, through direct executions mainly, with handfuls of survivors sent to death camps. Incidentally, a Dutch representative of Phillips corporation in Lithuania ended up saving a number of Jews, along with Chiune Sugihara, ambassador from Japan, by issuing transit visas through Japan and end-visas for Curacao.
not entirely on topic, but true. they also can't seem to stop beating a dead horse, excuse the expression, viewing from the number of anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial pieces in the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian press.
Was Royal Dutch a joint between Dutch and English royalty at that time? Prince Bernhard, Mr. Thyssen and Prince Edward come to mind as fellow Nazis.
http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/1801.html