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Poland wins Auschwitz name change
CNN ^
Posted on 07/12/2006 8:35:55 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
"The United Nations has agreed to rename Auschwitz concentration camp to stress that Nazi Germans, not Poles, were responsible for the world's most notorious death camp, Poland's Culture Ministry said on Wednesday.
"Auschwitz Concentration Camp", a U.N. heritage site, will be renamed "the Former Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz", the ministry of culture said in a statement."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; poland
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What a bunch of PC crap. Everyone knows who was behind what on there. Every single person.
To: SmoothTalker
You mean Kosciusko didn't write "Mein Kampf"? This is news!
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:38:42 AM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: SmoothTalker
"Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals and Russians also died at the camp." And who says the media doesn't have an agenda?
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:40:42 AM PDT
by
HarleyD
To: SmoothTalker
This is not PC in my opinion. It puts the blame squarely where it should be : on the Nazi's who were Germans.
To call these camps anything less today is PC.
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:42:00 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Born a ham and never cured.)
To: SmoothTalker
I guess the Poles are worried about the airheads of the future who will have difficulty grasping why a German concentration camp was located in present-day Poland.
I don't know anyone who visited Auschwitz and came thinking that the Poles had anything to do with such atrocities. Nevertheless, I have no objection to clarifying the subject for the few morons out there.
To: HarleyD; BlackElk; A. Pole; ninenot
"Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals and Russians also died at the camp."
And who says the media doesn't have an agenda?
They "forgot" to mention the Catholic priests who were executed at Auschwitz, such as St. Maximilian Kolbe. Hmmmm . . . maybe that's not part of the agenda.
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:44:26 AM PDT
by
sittnick
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: SmoothTalker
It's not political correctness. It's just correctness.
In fact, calling it a "name change" isn't even accurate. The name has been made more precise. They have revised and extended the name to make it much more precise.
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:44:36 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I just love that woman.)
To: SmoothTalker
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:44:40 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
To: Petronski
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:46:07 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
To: SmoothTalker
I thought that they would want the name changed to "Oswiecim".
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:49:18 AM PDT
by
Ozone34
To: SmoothTalker
I know that The Artist Formally Known as Prince will be happy about this.
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:56:14 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(My head hurts.)
To: Ozone34
I thought that they would want the name changed to "Oswiecim". After Poland was defeated by Nazi Germany in 1939, the territory of Oswiecim was annexed to Germany and the name was changed to Auschwitz.
After the defeat of Nazis in 1945, Auschwitz together with other lands like Silesia, Pomerania and part of East Prussia was joined to Poland. The names were changed to Polish. Auschwitz back to Oswiecim, Breslau to Wroclaw, Danzig to Gdansk etc ...
So the German camp in Auschwitz WAS NOT on Polish territory.
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:56:14 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
("Gay marriage" - Karl Rove's conspiracy to defeat Democrats?)
To: Howlin
Or, The Knights who until recently said; "Ni".
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:56:28 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
To: massgopguy
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posted on
07/12/2006 8:58:34 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
To: llevrok
"This is not PC in my opinion. It puts the blame squarely where it should be : on the Nazi's who were Germans."
But everyone already knows that anyway. Every single pole and german knows who was responsable and what the camp was
To: SmoothTalker
So this where the Anehiem Angels of Los Angeles got the idea!!!!!!!
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posted on
07/12/2006 9:15:30 AM PDT
by
sean327
(God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
To: SmoothTalker
I was interetsed in the fact that Auschwitz is a UN National heritage site.
The way the UN hates the Jews I am surprised they dont call it a shrine.
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posted on
07/12/2006 9:32:58 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: SmoothTalker
I visited a concentration camp near Gdinya, Poland last month (I can't remember the exact name of the camp). Very emotional tour. The thought never occured to me that the Poles were responsible.
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posted on
07/12/2006 9:33:58 AM PDT
by
bethelgrad
(for God, country, the Marine Corps, and now the Navy Chaplain Corps OOH RAH!)
To: SmoothTalker
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posted on
07/12/2006 2:05:48 PM PDT
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
To: bethelgrad
Probably Stutthoff (in Polish Sztutowo).
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posted on
07/12/2006 2:09:26 PM PDT
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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