> Ich sags ja immer wieder: Der Mann ist einer der letzten Aufklärer in
> den USA.
> Die Stimme der Vernunft dort.
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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 fiftieth-anniversary
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? 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? 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, "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"?
> den USA.
> Die Stimme der Vernunft dort.
Diesen Text hast Du gesucht, nicht wahr ? Nein, er hat nicht
umgedacht, allerdings ist dieser Text für die amerikanische
Kundschaft und nicht für den deutschen Markt.
Germany Still Hasn't Paid for Its Sins - and I Intend to Collect
Did I miss the most exciting part of the fiftieth-anniversary
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? 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? 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, "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"?