(Deutsche Version am Ende des Beitrags)
(English translation by Hartmut Laub)
We expected it. We knew it would come. Only the when and where were in doubt. The German media are drawing parallels among the American soldiers’ abuses in Abu Ghraib, Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and the Nazi’s concentration camps. And the icing on the cake? This moronic idiocy, which first appeared in a low-circulation, leftist, feminist rag, is being reprinted in Germany’s most important conservative newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Do Women Torture as Men Do?
By Alice Schwarzer(…) The first (photo) shows a hooded victim on a pedestal who, with his arms outstretched like the crucified Christ, symbolizes the world’s sufferings. … The second photo shows a pile of naked men that reminds us of pictures from the concentration camps. …
The issue here is nothing less than the revision of German history. Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Theresienstadt and Dachau are all in the same league with Abu Ghraib. (While under American control – the German media treated Abu Ghraib under Saddam’s rule as a non-event, as a sub-set of the category Arabian folklore.)
We get it! That’s the way it was in those Nazi concentration camps back then. A bunch of louts, those concentration camp guards – they didn’t always maintain discipline. There were times when the inmates were slapped in the face. And more – occasionally they had to stand on a box for hours. Once the prisoners even had to undress! And then get dressed again! Sure weren’t resorts, those concentration camps. If only the Führer had known!
So the pictures taken in German concentration camps remind us of American crimes in our day? Well, we don’t want to compare numbers. Every nation has a few bad boys who get carried away once in a while, doesn’t it?
In appreciating Alice Schwarzer’s unspeakable comparison we shouldn’t forget that she is a member of the caste that German media consider their most valuable communicators. Years ago she was considered – and the issue was not up for debate – an exalted feminist. Since then she has more than become acceptable in polite society, she influences society’s opinion with her commentary. Our American friends might well see her as a mediocre intellectual not unlike Gloria Steinem, Susan Sontag and Michael Moore – only uglier. You know what I mean… (Here’s a picture of Alice Schwarzer. She’s the cutie on the left).
Now it will be difficult to find a bigger piece of nonsense in the German media by year’s end. Topping the comparison to Christ’s crucifixion and the German concentration camps won’t be easy. Perhaps Stalingrad = Falluja? Or Bush = Hitler?
Although we’ve already had Bush described as equal to Hitler here in Germany.
But let’s not give up our hope for more absurd comparisons. Let’s look and see what the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has to offer in the future…
