--- "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> Got links? Could be not in English, as long as
> there is a picture.
> If you can't link, it didn't happen.
>
> mbs
>
>
Sure do! Links below.
I think it is amazing that people in the States make a big fuss about anti-Semitism in, say, France, when Latvia and Estonia have not just skinheads, not just Le Pen-types, _BUT ACTUAL FORMER MEMBERS OF THE SS_, marching around in broad daylight and getting state accolades. It boggles the mind. Can you get away with ANYTHING if you are a member of the Coalition of the Willing?
Here's the march of the surviving members of the Latvian SS division (courtesy of John Mage) on a Russian-language Latvian website: http://telegraf.lv/index.php?act=archive&date=20050316&gid=23&id=4180
The guys in the Auschwitz garb are protestors being arrested by police. The marching guys (and obviously the old guy in the SS uniform on the left) are Latvian SS veterans. The sign the guy on the left is holding up says (in Latvian), "Hey fellas!", followed by (in Russian) "Nurnberg does not give pardons. The sentence has been given. The lesson will last forever."
Here's an interview with the Estonian President on his own SS marchers (and the Estonian monument to the SS) I translated and posted here last year: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050328/006631.html
Here's a Jewish Telegraph Agency article on the Latvian SS subject:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 03.26.2006
In Latvia, wartime history present in controversy over
soldiers' rally
By Yasha Levine
RIGA, Latvia (JTA) -- The recent uproar in Latvia over a proposed march by Latvian veterans of the Nazi SS highlighted the ambivalent relationship the Baltic nation has with its World War II behavior.
After last year's march -- during which protesters, dressed in striped concentration camp outfits, tried to stop the procession, but were arrested instead -- Latvia received condemnation from the international community -- especially Russia and Israel.
etc.
http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/032606JTA_Latvia.shtml
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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