Monatsarchive: August 2019

This is where Inge Viett, Ralf Reinders, and Juliane Plambeck were busted September 1975. Birkbuschstraße 49

And yet we also know that every document of Europe is a document of resistance as well.  European values are not either enlightenment, humanism and universal human rights, or concentration camps, Zyklon B and the Holocaust. European values are both. To succumb to the belief … Weiterlesen →

There is something shockingly ambiguous about the jealous way in which survivors insist on their exclusive rights to the Holocaust as intellectual property, as though they’d come into possession of some great and unique secret; as though they were protecting … Weiterlesen →

BBC: Israel is blocking two US Democratic lawmakers and prominent critics of Israel from visiting. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were due to visit the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem next week. Both have supported the boycott movement against … Weiterlesen →

If we want to avoid the possibility of future historians building some Stolpersteine to remind us of our current catastrophe, our task today is to be aware of the steps we are taking: to realize that the real question is … Weiterlesen →

On the island we can see how starkly capitalism (with its structural adjustments and consumerist culture) and historical revisionism (with its ultimate desire to erase all memory not in line with the current official ideology) go hand in hand. As … Weiterlesen →