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Old 05-11-2005, 12:13 PM
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Default "Jewish" Holocaust memorial in Germany promotes exclusiveness!

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Germany has opened its first official Holocaust memorial in Berlin, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe against the Nazis.

The memorial, which took around 17 years of planning, is the size of three football pitches and cost around $36 million to build.

But, sadly this enormous "creation" once again gives the impression that only Jews were killed in the Holocaust and we find it insulting that the "other" 5 million, who also perished, are not allowed to share in this moment.

The memorial creator, American architect Peter Eisenman, said he hoped that memorial's for the Gypsies and Homosexuals (just some of the other 5 million) would also be created. But why were they not included in this one? Are they not good enough to share their place in Berlin with Jewish victims?
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This article was on the front page of Google's news.
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Old 05-11-2005, 12:15 PM
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As for the size of the memorial, 3 football pitches may not be that big, depending on whose pitch they used for the measurement.
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A portion of captured US servicemen also found themselves in these camps.

I'd ask why you are focusing blame for the exclusion on Jews instead of the Germans that BUILT the memorial?
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Because the memorial is a Zionist conspiracy perpetrated by Halliburton
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Old 05-11-2005, 12:51 PM
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I'm sorry, but explain to me exactly what the point is? I fail to see any good reason to condemn the Germans for creating a Holocaust memorial for the Jews. Should they create the other memorials? Yes. But that doesn't invalidate or justify condemning them for this memorial.
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2Pac just doesn't like when Jews are singled out like this.
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I'd ask why you are focusing blame for the exclusion on Jews instead of the Germans that BUILT the memorial?
Can you show me where he did this?
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Can you show me where he did this?
It happened during the Bush administration back in 1994.
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It happened during the Bush administration back in 1994.
No, silly, it was in 1975, during the Carter administration.
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It happened during the Bush administration back in 1994.
It might have been more helpful to point to the example in the article. I had taken you to be addressing Tupac.
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