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Germany’s Nazi Trial What is It
The Neo Nazi trial ,postponed ,begins on 14 May,2013.
Zschäpe, 38, dubbed the “Nazi bride” in the German media, is believed to be the sole surviving member of theNational Socialist Undergroundterrorist group that claimed responsibility in 2011 for murdering nine immigrants, eight of them of Turkish descent and one Greek man, as well as a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007.
Zschäpe, 38, the “Nazi bride”
The other two members, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, committed suicide in November 2011 after a botched bank robbery. Only after that did their involvement in the killings come to light.
Shortly after the trial started, Zschäpe’s lawyers filed a motion claiming that judge Manfred Götzl was unfit to run proceedings because the weapons searches placed them under suspicion of “being involved in forbidden and criminal actions.”
The judge then ordered the adjournment to consider their motion, along with another motion brought by a co-defendant.
The case has alarmed the country’s 3 million people of Turkish descent and has been a huge embarrassment to Germany because of the catalogue of errors made by the police and security authorities that exposed them to accusations of institutional racism and of having been blind to the threat of right-wing extremism.
Victims of Neo Nazi attacks.
Last month, Germany apologized for those errors at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, describing the murders as “without a doubt one of the worst human rights violations in Germany in the last decade.”
The accused remained silent but defiant.
Authorities Botched Investigation,
rosecutors investigating German neo-Nazi Beate Zschäpe, arrested last November for alleged membership of a terror cell that killed nine mostly Turkish immigrants and a policewoman, may extend their charges against her to include abetment to murder, SPIEGEL has learned.
Info-graphic of the case at .
http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-27425.html
Source:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-nsu-neo-nazi-trial-starts-in-munich-a-898287.html
The Third Reich, Hitler’s Germany Photo Essay
Adolf Hitler salutes troops of the Condor Legion who fought alongside Spanish Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, during a rally upon their return to Germany, 1939.
Nazi Rally 1937
Crowds Cheering Hitler
Adolf Hitler at the swearing-in of SS standard bearers at the Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg
Reich Party Congress, Nuremburg, Germany, 1938
League of German Girls dancing during the 1938 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany
Berlin illuminated at midnight in honor of Hitler’s 50th birthday, April 1939
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels (in box) at Charlottenburg Theatre, Berlin, 1939
Adolf Hitler makes keynote address at Reichstag session, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, 1939
Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany, 1938.
It is difficult to believe, after viewing this, that none of the Germans had anything to do with Hitler and they were ‘just following orders!’
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‘I Like To Shoot Women, Children’
In a new revelation information has surfaced that, contrary to the belief that the public were against Hitler and Nazism, ordinary soldiers enjoyed killing women and children.
Read On.
Tainted: German soldiers crouch over the bodies of two shot down civilians
“Secret recordings made by British intelligence during the Second World War have revealed for the first time the horrific atrocities carried out by everyday German soldiers.
For years the blame for horrific war crimes, rape and genocide were laid at the hands of the SS and Hitler’s right hand men but a new book details how widespread the barbarity went.
Transcripts taken from hidden microphones on prisoners of war have been collated for the disturbing book Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs.
Between 1940 and 1945 the British and Americans bugged about 13,000 German and several hundred Italian soldiers of all ranks and services – many of which in the Trent Park detention centre for POWs in north London.
It was hoped the recordings would reveal military secrets of potentially strategic importance, instead they catalogued open and uncensored conversations about war experiences – often as to boast.
Evil: It appears the atrocities carried out by the SS and Adolf Hitler’s henchmen were a lot more widespread and done by ordinary soldiers
They detail not only the extreme level of violence but a disturbing sense of enjoyment from the soldiers.
One example of many recounts: ’There was an event in the market square, crowds of people, speeches given. We really sprayed them! That was fun!’
Another reveals the following conversation: ‘We once did a strafing near Eastbourne. We flew up and saw a big castle; there seemed to be a ball or something – anyhow a lot of ladies in evening dress and a band.
‘The first time we flew past; then we attacked and kept at it. Boy oh boy, was that fun.’
Another reveals: ‘I loved dropping bombs. It makes you feel all tingly, a great feeling. It’s as good as shooting someone down.’
The book, which has been compiled by German historians Soenke Neitzel and Harald Welzer has been translated in to English for the first time, dispelling myths that German soldiers were not responsible for such war crimes.
It offers a bleak inside view of World War II and in doing so, they destroy once and for the myth of a ‘clean’ Wehrmacht – the German name for the armed forced.
The soldiers talk about their views of the enemy and their own leaders, discuss the details of combat missions and trade astonishingly detailed accounts of the atrocities they both witnessed and committed.”
Auschwitz Recreated in Exhibition.Slideshow.
“The Berlin Biennale may have disappointed in recent years, but now it’s back with a bang, thanks to Polish curator Artur Zmijewski. He wants to put politics back into art — and he’s succeeding. The exhibition, which opens Thursday, includes an encampment by the Occupy movement, Palestinian stamps and transplanted trees from Auschwitz.
Some might ask whether the 320 concentration camp trees were really necessary, the young birch trees that were dug up in the surroundings of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and are supposed to put down roots in Berlin.
Auschwitz, ashes, earth and now this delicate green. Perhaps it’s too pretty, and the chain of associations too simple, to really do justice to the horror.
On the other hand, 320 new Holocaust memorials have been planted in Berlin. Although it wasn’t done in secret, it happened — unlike Berlin’s most prominent Holocaust memorial — without any debate or votes in the German parliament, the Bundestag. The birch trees simply appeared — in parks, schoolyards and even on the grounds of the building that houses the representation of Lower Saxony state in the capital. That in itself is a coup.
Artur Zmijewski likes it when art changes reality, and when it becomes reality. He isn’t as fond of other types of art. The trees are a project of the 7th Berlin Biennale art exhibition. And Zmijewski, the enemy of art, is its curator.
Sense of Melancholy
The Biennale is one of the most important contemporary art events in Germany. It has helped Berlin be taken seriously as a center for contemporary art. The federal government’s cultural foundation is supporting it to the tune of €2.5 million ($3.3 million).
Like almost no other biennial art festival, the Berlin exhibition depends on the city and its atmosphere, and on the various locations and neighborhoods where art is being exhibited. The Biennale centers around the Kunst-Werke (KW) exhibition space on Auguststrasse in the city’s central Mitte district. The neighborhood was once a run-down part of East Berlin, imbued with a sense of melancholy that seemed very authentic, especially to foreign visitors. Despite the fact that Mitte has now been completely gentrified, it has retained some of its former atmosphere.
Artists that were unknown at the time and later became famous, like German painter Jonathan Meese and the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, participated in the first Berlin Biennale in 1998. If they achieved anything, it was to draw attention to themselves. Every two years after that, at each new Biennale, artists would attempt to interpret society and the zeitgeist. Only the last Biennale, in 2010, which was curated by Vienna artist Kathrin Rhomberg, was forgotten soon after it opened. It didn’t seem “Berlin” enough, and it tried too hard not to be noticed and to get everything right with conceptual art. The event was such a failure that the organizers didn’t even reveal the attendance statistics afterwards.
But the upcoming 7th Biennale will likely be one of the most noted art shows of 2012, despite the fact that the famous Kassel exhibition Documenta, which only takes place every five years, is also happening this year. It officially starts on Thursday, but it’s actually been underway for some time. Zmijewski has been the talk of the Berlin art scene since his appointment as the festival curator in 2010. He has exceeded expectations, and then some.
Destroying Books
That’s because Zmijewski began by producing some rather strange pieces of news. He publicly called upon artists to submit applications to take part in the exhibition, requesting that they indicate their political views as part of the application. A full-scale book-destroying event was announced, which reminded many of the book burnings of the Nazi era. And Zmijewski appointed what he called “associated curators” from Russia who were members of the infamous Voina artists’ collective. International arrest warrants have been issued for two members of the group, who are accused of hooliganism and the use of violence. And then there is the logo of this year’s show, which vaguely resembles a rune — something that is controversial in Germany because of the Nazis‘ use of Germanic symbols. Zmijewski is clearly a man who is not afraid of the bold gesture.
Zmijewski, an even-keeled man who sports a beard and has a large ego, is also an artist. He has participated in the Venice Biennale and the Documenta.Newsweek considers the Warsaw native to be one of the 10 most important contemporary artists. In one of his films, happy, naked people hop around in the gas chamber and cellar of a former concentration camp. The work, titled “Berek”, was recently banned from a Berlin exhibition after visitors had complained, prompting critics to accuse the organizers of censorship. Now Zmijewski plans to simply show the short film at the Biennale, as a symbol of a conflict over art.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,829691,00.html
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Austria Removes Hitler’s Parents’ Tombs
This move is not Right and it makes Austria no better than Hitler.
Refers to:
Hitler's parents' Tomb Stones.
Partly in an effort to quell pro-Hitler pilgrimages and also because she says she is too old to care for it, an unnamed descendant had the tombstone signifying the grave of Alois and Klara Hitler, Adolf’s parents, removed from an Austrian cemetery.
The move has residents of the Austrian town of Leonding pleased that pro-Nazi fans and supporters won’t have a reason to visit the cemetery and leave their sometimes hate-filled and anti-Semitic messages at the gravesite. The town of 27,500 held a meeting and agreed to let the tombstone go.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/03/tombstone-for-hitlers-parents-removed-in-austria/#ixzz1qzLmC6ME
