Michael Moore:"Germany still hasn't paid for its sins"

verfasst von t-bull, 26.08.2003, 14:26

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Hi,

Hier mal ein paar eingescannte Seiten aus Michael Moores Buch"Downsize this!". Dass ihn hier einige so verteidigen, kann ich bei solchen Aussagen beim besten Willen nicht verstehen:
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Germany still hasn't paid for its sins - and I intend to collect

DID I Miss the most exciting part of the fiftiethanniversary festivities celebrating the end of World War II? You know, when every single German got down on his or her knees, begged for forgiveness, climbed into boxcars in a show of empathy, and then promised to devote one day's salary each week to a Holocaust survivor's family. Man, that must have been a sight. | Did you miss it, too? I'm being a little too harsh, you say, on a country that has already repented and most of whose citizens weren't even alive for all the killing? Hmmm. Let's go to the tote board: 6 million Jews murdered 3 million Catholic Poles murdered 500,000 Gypsies murdered 12,500 homosexuals murdered

Those, plus the Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other undesirables, bring us to a grand total of nearly 10 million defenseless humans slaughtered in the Holocaust. This figure does not include the 400,000 Americans who died in the war (fighting Germany and its partners, the Japanese and Italians), the 25 Million Soviet citizens killed or starved to death, plus the millions of other Europeans, Africans, and Asians who died at the hands of what was considered to be the most intelligent, most civilized, most advanced society on earth. And to think, it all happened not many years ago. We continue to live with the results of this tragedy. All of our families, Jewish and non-Jewish, were somehow touched by this event. My dad's brother, Lawrence, was killed near Manila. The map of the world is forever screwed up by World War II, and whether it's Bosnia or the Middle East or skinheads terrorizing the residents of Idaho, you can trace the roots of these conflicts back to what the Germans did. And what was Germany's punishment for these sins? <font color="red">They got to become one of the richest countries in the world! And it took only three decades! How on earth did we let this happen?</font> Today the average German enjoys a standard of living that has no equal. A factory worker in western Germany last year made an average wage of $29 an hour. In the U.S., that same worker made $19. The American worker annually has to put in nearly 200 hours more on the job than his or her German counterpart. That's five 40-hour weeks the Germans get paid and don't have to work while they're earning 50 percent more per hour than we Americans. And even though Germany is 25 times smaller in size than the U.S., and has one-third fewer workers, its gross domestic product, per capita, is nearly the same as that of the U.S.

Can you imagine, as someone's grandmother was being shoved into the ovens at Auschwitz, an angel appearing to her and saying, <font color=red>"Don't worry, the Germans are going to be rewarded by the rest of the world with so much wealth, they won't know what to do with it"?</font> As far as I'm concerned, $6,831 per innocent life is not enough. Not that any amount would be"enough," but my life and your life are worth a little more than $6,831. I know some of you are saying,"Hey, Mike, the survivors got to move to Israel after the war. Didn't giving them that land make it up to them?" Well, I don't think Israel was actually"given" to them. The British were ruling the place (then called Palestine), and suddenly all these Holocaust survivors with nowhere else to go started arriving and the Brits didn't like that one bit. But they didn't have the energy to fight the Jewish guerrillas after having just lost most of their British empire, so they just bagged the place and said,"Fine, you want this, it's yours." Most Arab residents were not consulted in the deal. I have never understood why giving the Holocaust survivors Palestine/Israel was such a great gift. Have you ever been there? It's a friggin' desert! There's nothing there! Israelis like to tell you,"We've made the desert bloom!" Talk about rationalizing something... I'm telling you, it's 100 percent sand, rock, and more sand. Why did we think we were making it up to them by placing them in a horrible environment that has cost them even more lives in more wars? Because the Bible said so? When did the world start going by that book? <font color="red">If we had really wanted to do what was right—and punish the Germans</font>—we should have given the survivors the state of Bavaria. Now, that's one beautiful piece of real estate! And it would have cost the Germans plenty. Turning Palestine into Israel didn't hurt the Germans one single bit. <font color="red">But losing Bavaria to the Jews would have really kicked those bastards I'd say that Germany got off real easy. Only 20 percent of its war criminals were ever put on trial. Many who fought in World War II are still alive. And where do you think they all are today?

Florida!
It's true. Tens of thousands of Germans, many of them of World War II age, have permanently moved to the state of Florida. German investment in Florida has increased by nearly 200 percent in the past five years. According to the Tampa Tribune, together with the British, the Germans provide over 50 percent of the total manufacturing jobs in Florida. They have over $1.8 billion invested in the state. Over on the southwest coast, just in the counties of Collier, Lee, and Charlotte, there are as many as 86,000 Germans. On a recent trip to southwest Florida, I arrived at the airport in Fort Myers, which has extended its runway so that nonstop jumbo jets to and from Germany can land there. I noticed German flags flying from houses. Everywhere I went there were signs that were printed in German: RAUCHEN VERBOTEN!—NO SMOKING. Menus in restaurants were printed in English and German. They are buying up property and businesses and settling in for the good life. And more and more of their friends from the fatherland are joining them. I am of two minds regarding this German invasion of Florida. On the one hand, I hate Florida. It's full of bugs, humidity, and stupid people running around with guns. And it's got those nutty Cuban exiles. If there were a pair of scissors big enough, I wish we could just snip the state where it hangs off the rest of the country. <font color="red">There is a part of me that likes the fact that all these ex-Nazis are moving there to terrorize the people of Florida. Serves them right. The Right-Wing Cubans versus the Geriatric SS in a fight to the finish!</font> I'd pay money to watch that one on Pay-Per-View. On the other hand, it is ironic that right there in south Florida are thousands of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Is it right that those Jewish men and women who fortunately survived the Germans' slaughter should have to be reading menus written in German to accommodate their new"neighbors"? I don't think so. I have a solution. <font color="red">We all know that Florida is infamous for German tourists being murdered there. I do not believe this phenomenon is the result of gang-related violence. I think it's payback time. One by one, the survivors are getting their revenge.</font>

Gruß
Felix
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    • Aha.. - wheely, 26.08.2003, 15:14
      • Re: Du hast Recht, aber etwas Wichtiges übersehen - Tempranillo, 26.08.2003, 15:36
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        • was solls.... - wheely, 26.08.2003, 16:34
          • Auch wenn wir so unsere Differenzen haben, wheely... - Turon, 26.08.2003, 18:01
            • is ja nett..... - wheely, 26.08.2003, 18:47
              • Re: is ja nett..... - Turon, 26.08.2003, 20:40
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          • Re: Den ganzen Ärger fressen schon die Amis weg - Tempranillo, 26.08.2003, 23:00
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