http://hearingvoices.com/news/2008/09/hv027-poland/ Audio, art, & cultcha blog Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:04:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://hearingvoices.com/news/2008/09/hv027-poland/#comment-20665 Gita Yegane Arani-May Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:02:46 +0000 http://hearingvoices.com/news/?p=776#comment-20665 Living in Germany I noticed that a notion of a "Moralische Keule" (moral bat or moral beating club) is being applied all too often as a reaction when critical questions are raised about what really happened in WW2. Just remember the controversies that were roused by the Wehrmachtsausstellung (German: German Army exhibition) in the 90ies, and it was the famous German writer Martin Walser who caused controversy by introducing the phrase "using Auschwitz as a moral club" in his acceptance speech for the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Still to date the discussion about Nazism seems partly driven by a need to blur history with myth, so that the answer about "HOW could the holocaust happen, why did people turn their eyes away, etc" will never seem answerable. Programs such as yours, help giving real answers: The form of approach makes the big difference here! Living in Germany I noticed that a notion of a “Moralische Keule” (moral bat or moral beating club) is being applied all too often as a reaction when critical questions are raised about what really happened in WW2. Just remember the controversies that were roused by the Wehrmachtsausstellung (German: German Army exhibition) in the 90ies, and it was the famous German writer Martin Walser who caused controversy by introducing the phrase “using Auschwitz as a moral club” in his acceptance speech for the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Still to date the discussion about Nazism seems partly driven by a need to blur history with myth, so that the answer about “HOW could the holocaust happen, why did people turn their eyes away, etc” will never seem answerable. Programs such as yours, help giving real answers: The form of approach makes the big difference here!

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