Nazi Florists!

[Victor]

Where will it end?

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11643707%255E2862,00.html

[AFJuvat]

The holocaust was a terrible thing. At least 6 million died in the camps. After the war, those that were held responsible were punished, many were executed.

It was a terrible thing that happened 60 years ago Within 6 months, we will be at the 60 year anniversary of the END of the war in Europe.

Can we move on now?

AFJuvat

[Joeaksa]

I have been to several of the camps. After seeing what happened there there is absolutely no way to forget and as well ever even entertain the idea that "nothing happened" to the Jews under Hitler's.

Joe A

[BigD9146gt]

Victor, the link didn't work, what was it about?

I totally agree with Joe. While i was in Munich, i went to Dakhau, which was considered the "Club Med" of all the concentration camps. Though they claim they never used the ovens there, it was pretty chilling walking through the shower (gas) rooms and into the kilns. Plus all the pictures of the "tests" the Nazi doctors did to the Jews were sickining. Anyone who thinks it didn't happen is living proof that education needs to be higher on the worlds priority list. Beleiving that going the moon was "a hollywood staged event" is one thing, this is a whole nother bag of worms.

[concentric]

I've been to Sachsenhausen outside of Berlin, a work camp that later became an extermination center. Estimates of numbers of prisoners killed are in the hundreds of thousands and after the Soviets "liberated" the camp, they then kept a huge number of German army prisoners there, which they executed in large mass graves in the surrounding forest.

Even the air there feels disgusting, horribly heavy. The place reeks of death.

[Victor]

Floral foul-up: A a city streethas been lined with swastika shapes in a week of major Jewish celebrations.
Picture: Andrew McColl


Plants sow seeds of hate
Fiona Hudson, city editor
10dec04

A FLORAL foul-up has left a city street lined with swastika shapes in a week of major Jewish celebrations.

Gardeners hired by Melbourne City Council intended to arrange the purple and white pot plants into neat geometric shapes.
But they left six 3m garden beds along Swanston St displaying large Nazi symbols.

Jewish community representatives were appalled last night by the timing of the blunder.

City venues including Federation Square are hosting hundreds of Jews this week to celebrate the eight-day Hanukkah festival.

The council sent hired green thumbs to rearrange the six offending garden beds last night, about an hour after Herald Sun inquiries.

"The arrangements, even if done inadvertently, are in appalling taste," Lord Mayor John So said. "I have asked that they be changed immediately."

Vandals were initially believed to have rearranged the plants as a racist slur. But closer investigation showed gardeners had inadvertently used the pattern.

Jewish-born councillor Carl Jetter at first said he was appalled by the arrangements, which he thought were vandalism.

"It's sad and it's unnecessary. It makes us, as an international destination, more uncomfortable," he said.

"I disagree with and don't want to see any racist activity in our city."

When told the swastikas appeared to be unintentional, Cr Jetter dismissed concerns.

"It just sounds like an accident," he said.

A spokeswoman for deputy mayor Gary Singer, who is also Jewish, declined to make a comment.

Holocaust Museum president Shmuel Rosenkranz described the flower fiasco as offensive to most Melburnians.

"Any swastika anywhere would be of offence to anybody who lived through the Hitler era," he said.

[Victor]

Floral foul-up: A a city streethas been lined with swastika shapes in a week of major Jewish celebrations.
Picture: Andrew McColl


Plants sow seeds of hate
Fiona Hudson, city editor
10dec04

A FLORAL foul-up has left a city street lined with swastika shapes in a week of major Jewish celebrations.

Gardeners hired by Melbourne City Council intended to arrange the purple and white pot plants into neat geometric shapes.
But they left six 3m garden beds along Swanston St displaying large Nazi symbols.

Jewish community representatives were appalled last night by the timing of the blunder.

City venues including Federation Square are hosting hundreds of Jews this week to celebrate the eight-day Hanukkah festival.

The council sent hired green thumbs to rearrange the six offending garden beds last night, about an hour after Herald Sun inquiries.

"The arrangements, even if done inadvertently, are in appalling taste," Lord Mayor John So said. "I have asked that they be changed immediately."

Vandals were initially believed to have rearranged the plants as a racist slur. But closer investigation showed gardeners had inadvertently used the pattern.

Jewish-born councillor Carl Jetter at first said he was appalled by the arrangements, which he thought were vandalism.

"It's sad and it's unnecessary. It makes us, as an international destination, more uncomfortable," he said.

"I disagree with and don't want to see any racist activity in our city."

When told the swastikas appeared to be unintentional, Cr Jetter dismissed concerns.

"It just sounds like an accident," he said.

A spokeswoman for deputy mayor Gary Singer, who is also Jewish, declined to make a comment.

Holocaust Museum president Shmuel Rosenkranz described the flower fiasco as offensive to most Melburnians.

"Any swastika anywhere would be of offence to anybody who lived through the Hitler era," he said.