{"id":80257,"date":"2015-11-25T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80257"},"modified":"2015-11-25T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:34:14","slug":"germany-cannot-reject-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80257","title":{"rendered":"Germany Cannot Reject Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a translation of a German news report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Germany cannot afford to reject refugees, says Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of German Jews (Zentralrat der deutschen Juden). It (Germany) has brought \u201cevil\u201d upon others and is indebted to other nations.
\nAccording to the President of the GJCC, Josef Schuster, Germany is \u201cthe last land that can afford to reject refugees and persecuted people.\u201d It has brought so much evil [\u201cperdition\u201d] upon the world and it is deeply in debt with so many countries, he said on Sunday during a memorial ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau on Apr 29, 1945.
\nHe asks himself, when today, again, some citizens hunt [agitate] against refugees or talk in a demeaning way about Jews, how deep the need for protecting human dignity is anchored in people\u00b4s minds.
\nDachau\u00b4s prisoners would have known, Schuster noted, how fast human civilization could be laid into ruins. \u201cHow a people from a supposedly [sic!!] cultured nation (Kulturvolk] became barbarians.\u201d Fundamental values such as tolerance, respect, humility and responsibility should always be re-exercized and defended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get sick when I see that in Dresden not less than 10,000 people cheer up an Islamophobe and right-wing populist like Geert Wilders\u201d (he spoke there once), said the doctor from W\u00fcrzburg. Growing numbers of refugees and Islamic terrorism are \u201cnot a reason to fight for a Christian-Jewish West without Muslims\u201d, or to threaten to murder politicians.
\nSchuster said that Holocaust survivors\u00b4 memories are nowadays \u201cmore precious than ever.\u201d What happened moves always further away; for many young people, NS terror and the Shoah are \u201conly historical dates\/facts\u201d without a personal relationship (to them): \u201cDistance grows, and empathy (levels) drops \u2014 except when you set foot on this place\u201d [i.e., Dachau].
\nOn these grounds, visiting a concentration camp memorial should be compulsory for all junior high school students. He hopes that his suggestion will be discussed again in the Bavarian Parliament. Chancellor Angela Merkel participated also in the ceremony. The Dachau concentration camp was created on March 22, 1933. Around 200,000 people from all over Europe were kept prisoners in Dachau and in several of its satellite camps , at least 43,000 were murdered there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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