European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Be our gues Tisne to the Only land guilty of genocide Gunter Filippucci familiar and militant theme runs through All the memorials to the genocide of a lifetime ago a never again a and Well it should be thus. But has anything changed in the 50 years since the end of the nazi regime genocide has if anything flourished in the world since that grim time although the victims Haven to always been wealthy enough to drum up the sympathy or the attention of the world. Mao Schina murdered 25 million people. The killing Fields in Cambodia took another 3 million. Lesser but no less impressive results were achieved by such notables As Jedi Amin in Uganda. Even the kurd could claim a similar attempt by Saddam Hussein. The totals for the conflict in the unhappy territory of the former Yugoslavia have yet to be tallied. So instead of a never again Quot it happens All the time. In fact it has always happened and will no opening laugh Harris Usa a you should have signed a contract a High five just in t Han Atli a Kop Votca Croatia doubt continue to happen. Why 1 part of the problem is that the Only accomplishment of All these holocaust memorials including the huge number Here in Germany is the profound humiliation and vilification of Germay and her people. Fifty years after the fact the world Public is confronted almost daily with another movie to show novel or lecture series on the holocaust or about nazis or bad germans in general. If one did not know better one would think that Germany must truly be an evil place even today that the people were and Are unrepentant and that they Are about ready to do it again. But Germany paid the Price for her Short lived embrace of nazism. Not Only in 50 years and counting of humiliation and disgrace for something the Peoples grandparents were caught up in. Not Only in $55 billion in reparations to the state of Israel not Only in the obliteration of her Beautiful cities by wartime bombing. Not Only in the huge tracts of Ger Man land ceded to various countries Worth trillions of dollars and countless tears or the millions of German civilians lost As a consequence of that War or the expulsions that followed. No she has paid the Price also with the psychological damage done each time a child in Germany grows up Quot German a the cursed offspring of Hitler because that child will never be allowed to forget a that which it neither knew of nor participated in. Making germans eternal Scapegoat is for the. Crimes of the holocaust is neither historically accurate nor morally appropriate. The is that despised instrument of horror had entire divisions of foreign volunteers the a ass Viking division a made up of scandinavian volunteers the a ass Charlemagne division a consisting solely of French volunteers Hitler and May of his top henchmen were Austri ans. The majority of the concentration Camp guards were ukrainians and French and the poles were falling Over themselves trying to see who could turn in the most jews to the nazis. Neither before nor during the War did the americans and British open up Large scale emigration for jews so that very few jews without the credentials of Albert Einstein were Able to leave Europe for havens across the seas. The americans and the English it refused to bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz even after the jewish underground begged them he cause it was More important to bomb Gentian civilians into the dust in cities such As Dresden than to save jews by taking out a few rail lines. We Are All equally guilty of the crime of the Holo Caust or of those other genocides hot fortunate enough to have a name to remember the dead by. Knowing then we looked away knowing now we look away again. Only afterwards if at All do we shake our Heads and say a How could it have happened a it is not in Germany alone that the seed of bigotry and hatred May find Fertile ground. It exists in every land across the face of this Earth in Russia in Africa in America. If you look carefully you will find it in your own heart. As Long As we look to Germany As the guilty party we cannot confront the evil in ourselves. And if we cannot confront the evil in ourselves a never again will forever be empty cynical and meaningless. Gunter flip puck Woric in Mann Alpi. Gormany. Send in your column plus photo of yourself to be our guest sunday Magazine the stars and stripes Apo 09211 or Postrach 11 14 37, d-64278 Darmstadt Germany. Contents from the cover still providing Comfort sidelights. 7-9 Montel Williams is motivating on to. From Pomo Star to Quot bound and gagged. Quot Andy Rooney gripes about speech. Odds amp ends .______10 Erma Bombeck on a Long Friendship. In 11 Carole Simpsons uneasy weeks films. 12-13 Chuck Emch belittles �?orobocop3.�?� military circuit listings. Television listings 14-17 local Cable and satellite schedules. Home entertainment. 18 Sharon stones Quot Sliver Quot on video. Voices 21 Joe Bob Briggs hails Fabio. Words amp wit. 24 William Safin checks Security. Books 25 the Fri is. The Parade. 27 Oprah Winfrey s slim wedding laugh_______________.______.28 Dave Barry tries to get a leg up on son. Newscaster Carole Simpson at Abc Page 11. Abc sunday is a weekly supplement of the stars and stripes editor Bucky Fox Art direction Peter Jaeger production Bernard Jensen Dawn Hicks editorial assistance Louis Pierce. Page 2 sunday. November 14, 1993
