Dresden on 15.2.1945; Source: Wikipedia Commons
The demonstrations yesterday in Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the utter destruction of this art city with a myriad of Dead show at the Elbe:
Germany is sick: humanities and emotionally disturbed.
Because there is obviously no longer the lowest common denominator: mourning. Mourning the dead, mourn war, mourn the demise of a city.
In Germany it is, as we saw, not possible, but to commit jointly civilized and dignified the anniversary commemorating the sinking of the resurrection of a city. Without exception, all cooked some soup that day.
The rights would, as always, show presence, swing flags, knock pithy sayings and do important: "no forgiveness - not forgetting". The left and autonomous, as always, to prevent the law for themselves claiming Nazism, wanted for or against setting garbage cans on fire and overturning cars of rights. The Anti-Germans wanted brandishing "Bomber Harris do it again" never again Germany "and" no victims, but perpetrators call Israel flags, "and officials wanted to be do-gooders. But they made a human chain with peace prayer and put a "mark": "For equal rights of all people," "for tolerance and justice" and "Against anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism".
The mayor recalled the approximately 25,000 victims him several thousand were less than in previous years again, and described the human chain as a "sign against intolerance and stupidity", and Prime Minister Tillich thought especially the war that came from German soil, so as would this can not listen to the other 364 days of the year.
A memorial or mourning. Is this not here just to mourn and to remember those who lost their lives in horrible ways? In a crowded city with war refugees; many children had tried to dress up because it was the time of the bombing (13 to 15 February 1945) Carnival. These costumes should however be her dead dress.
The "official city" so committed to mourning the fact that they put a "mark" against right-wing extremism ("This band does not belong here") and, as always forgot the other bands, which probably belonged yes nor here.
There is no remembrance of the people, especially women, children, refugees, war, wounded, and old men who were on that day to ashes, by allowing "character sets" while also always granted or history lessons. Their time and place is the teaching of history and the study of history.
I distrust those who own victims can not grieve. Not quite from about in the Bible. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself Love I myself do not, I can certainly not compared to others. This fundamental wisdom is fully transferable to Mourn: Can I mourn not my neighbor, so that is at the other, Far and remoter first legally not possible - except as an empty word.
What are "mourning", "assessment", "memory" of the 364 days a year worth, if this one day in Dresden fail?
On February 13, a single sentence would have a worthy history of the Dresden remembrance sufficed: the Gerhard Hauptmann when he observed the inferno of a sanatorium: "Who has forgotten how to cry, it learns again the Destruction of Dresden ...
(... I'm standing at the exit of my life and I envy my dead comrades spirit, which this experience has been spared. "
Dresden also symbolizes a time for the first time systematically applied form of warfare directed against the past of a people. Because the cultural relics of the past amputated and disappeared, so can become difficult to move even identity in the present, which has a direct impact into the future.
Dresden would thus also a memorial and Mahntag to commemorate this form of identity destruction, which unfortunately is more relevant than ever.
Thus, the international community has so far not yet rudimentary dared to quantify this form of destruction in Iraq once. In Mesopotamia of the Euphrates and Tigris was after all, the cradle of our present humanity. The Iraq war has therefore also part of mankind memory wiped out . Tanks rolled flat ancient sites, modern military fortresses in archaeological sites, contamination by uranium ammunition to millions. ... Never again? Probably not!
PS Here is a link to the press release of Dt. Police Union, National Association of Saxony on the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, which complements my assessment.
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Tags: 13.15.2.1945.Demonstrationen , Dresden
