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Originally Posted by Brett Robinson
isnt it already illegal to "discuss" the holocaust in germany, bastian? what's the big deal about the UK?
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Two entirely different topics. Totally different motivation behind Germany's laws concerning the Holocaust and the dropping of the topic from school curriculum.
It is illegal to deny the Holocaust in Germany. It was outlawed in post-war Germany because Germans at that point wanted to deny it (*), to get rid of their guilt and to put it away. The law was implemented to prevent nazism to rise again.
(*) It's different nowadays. A recent developement is: A lot of Germans today don't want to deny the Holocaust, but rather use it to make themselves look better in comparison to other countries. Sounds insane? It works like this: They see their "coming to terms with the past" as a national attainment, one which no other nation ever accomplished (not that they had to, since no other nation did a Holocaust) And from this grandious german "Vergangenheitsbewältigung", other countries should learn. Especially the countries that waged war against "poor" Germany in WW2, and still wage wars nowadays. And the victims of Germans, who still have not learned what germans have learned.. Some Germans feel pride in their alleged moral superiority to other nations, other nations which in their eyes did not come to terms with their past. This way, the losers of the 2nd world war and heirs of the mass murderers can feel superior to the winners and heirs of the victims.
Totally discusting, in my eyes.