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Theme: Re: Tim Tyler Hate mail
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Date: 30/03/01
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Author: Michael Wolf
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"Dennis (Icarus)"
>Michael Wolf >news:Xns9074804F6609Amichaelwolfteleatla@134.222.94.13... >> jor@best.com (Jason O'Rourke) wrote in >> >> >> >Michael Wolf >> >>Was that with the US military? Can it be that it was US command >> >>asking that in order not to be seen interfering with internal >> >>politics? >> > >> >Come off it, Michael. You know as well as the rest of us that >> >certain topics are forbidden in Germany. They even banned a computer >> >game (Wolf3d) for its references to the Nazi history. >> > >> >If you can't even discuss your own country's history... >> >-- >> >Jason O'Rourke jor@best.com www.jor.com >> >Rec.scuba strokes pics page: www.jor.com/strokes >> >Aquashot page: www.jor.com/dive/aquashot >> > >> >> Not only that game. There have been other computer games that >> consisted of 'killing jews' (a bit more than a reference to Nazi >> history) that have been, for obvious reasons, banned. The auction or >> the offer of sales of Nazi memorabilia on the Internet has been >> forbidden too (as it has in France). >> Is that what you call having less freedom? > >If I were a German citizen, who wanted to read the book where Hitler >outlines his plans for his reich "my struggle" (mein kampf), would I be >able to buy a copy in Germany? I'm not a Nazi, nor a Nazi sympathizer. I >just want to read it for its historical significance - similar to >reading Das Kapital or the Communist Manifesto by Marx. Do I have the >freedom to do this? :-) It's very difficult to obtain it in Europe. Nobody will deny you the freedom to read it, nor can you be prosecuted because you have a copy. Problem however is the distribution of the book is forbidden. I find this somewhat unreasonable: it should indeed by available for historical study. Although you could of course also see it as a means of instigating race hatred. There's however not really a big demand for it. Even the neo-nazis aren't interested in reading it (it serves only as a memory of their 'beloved leader'): it's pretty dull literature. Hitler really wasn't that good an author as he was an orator. Most attention today is with negationist literature and is see no reason why falsification of history should be allowed. > >> >> On discussing your own country's history: there are often programs on >> German TV discussing and documenting the history of Nazism and WWII. >German >> investigative journalists have more than once uncovered stories of >> former Nazis who have now some kind of public office. >> So, which topic is forbidden? >> > >Pro-Nazis? :-) You mean a topic favorable to Nazis? Instigation to hatred? > >> -- >> Michael Wolf >> >> ----- >> >> Life's a beach and then you dive >> >> remove stopspam to reply > > > > -- Michael Wolf ----- Life's a beach and then you dive |
