Dresden on 15.2.1945; Source: Wikipedia Commons
The demonstrations yesterday in Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the utter destruction of this city of art with a myriad of Dead show at the Elbe:
Germany is sick: the humanities and emotionally disturbed.
Because there is obviously no longer the lowest common denominator: grief. Mourning the dead, mourn war, mourn the demise of a city.
In Germany there is, as we have seen, 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 right wing wanted to show presence as always, swing flags, knock pithy sayings and do important: "no forgiveness - not forgetting." The left and Autonomous, as always, to prevent the law itself claiming Nazism, wanted for or against to put trash cans on fire and overturning cars of rights. The anti Germans wanted swinging "Bomber Harris do it again" never again Germany "and" not victims, perpetrators call Israel flags, "and officials wanted to be good people. For this, they made a human chain with prayer for peace, and put a "character": "For equal rights of all people", "For tolerance and justice" and "Against Anti-Semitism and right-wing".
The mayor thought of some 25,000 victims him several thousand were less than in previous years again, and called the human chain as a "sign against intolerance and stupidity", and Prime Minister Tillich remembered especially the war emanating from German soil, as would this can not listen to the other 364 days of the year. (more ...)
