So. 13.2. 21 Uhr: Auschwitz und Dresden

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Zum sechzigsten Jahrestag der Zerstörung von Dresden - die die sächsische NPD
einen "Bombenholocaust" nennt, so wie Martin Walser Auschwitz als "Moralkeule"
bezeichnet, so dass wer letzerem applaudiert (das gesamte politische und
kulturelle Establishment der Bundesrepublik nämlich, mit Ausnahme eines
Zentralratsvorsitzenden) ausser der Sorge um das Ansehen und die Bilanzen der
deutschen Exportwirtschaft keinen Grund hat, sich über erstere zu beschweren -
möchten wir daran erinnern, dass angesichts der Vernichtung der europäischen
Juden 1945 die Bombardierung deutscher Städte, ganz gleich, ob der Holocaust
damit aufgehalten, verlangsamt oder nur vergolten worden wäre, nicht
herbeigesehnt zu haben nicht nur den völligen Verlust des Verstandes bezeugt,
sondern auch genau jene Schuld ausmacht, die die Bewohner von Dresden selbst an
der Zerstörung ihrer Stadt tragen - und die gegen die Leiden der Deutschen so
lange aufzurechnen, bis am Ende Null herauskommt, das eigentliche Ziel der
diesjährigen Gedenktage ist. Weswegen wir am Sonntag zwei Interviews aus Claude
Lanzmanns "Shoah" - mit Jan Karski, einem Kurier der polnischen Exilregierung,
und Franz Grassler, dem stellvertretenden Kommissar der Warschauer Ghettos -
zeigen, die Sie, sofern Sie "Shoah" nie bis zu Ende gesehen haben, noch nicht
kennen werden, weil sie ganz am Schluss von Lanzmanns Film stehen.

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                                                                  Zwei Interviews
                                           aus dem Film Shoah von Claude Lanzmann
                                                                   ca. 80 Minuten

                                                Sonntag, 13. Februar 2005, 21 Uhr
                                                             Pirate Cinema Berlin
                                                                 Ziegelstrasse 20

                                                                       Free entry
                                                                     Cheap drinks
                                                              Bring two blank CDs

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"They described to me what is happening to the Jews. Did I know about it? No, I
didn't. They described to me, first, that the Jews, the Jewish problem,
is unprecedented, cannot be compared with the Polish problem, or Russian, or any
other problem. Hitler will lose this war, but he will exterminate all the Jewish
population. Do I understand it? The Allies fight for their people, they fight
for humanity. The Allies cannot forget that the Jews will be exterminated
totally in Poland, the Polish and European Jews.

The Jewish situation is unprecedented in history. Egyptians, Egyptian pharaos
did not do it. Babylonians did not do it. Now, for the first time in history,
actually, they came to the conclusion that, unless the Allies take some
unprecedented steps, regardless of the outcome of the war, the Jews will be
totally exterminated. And they cannot accept it.

Hitler cannot be allowed to continue extermination. Every day counts. The Allies
cannot treat this war only from a purely military, strategic standpoint. They
will win the war if they take such an attitude. But what good will it do to
us? We will not survive this war. The Allied governments cannot take such a
standpoint. We contributed to humanity, we gave scientists, for thousands of
years, we originated great religions, we are humans, do you understand it, do
you understand it? It has never happened before in history what is happening to
our people. Perhaps it will shake the conscience of the world.

We want an official declaration of the Allied nations that, in addition to their
military strategy, which aims at securing victory, military victory in this war,
the extermination of the Jews forms a separate chapter, and the Allied nations
formally, publicly announce that they will deal with this problem, that it
becomes a part of their overall strategy in this war: not only defeat of
Germany, but also saving the remaining Jewish population. Once they make such
an official declaration, they have an Air Force, they drop bombs on Germany,
why can't they drop millions of leaflets, informing the German population
exactly what their government is doing to the Jews. Perhaps they don't know it.

Let them make an official declaration, again, official, public declaration that
if the German nation does not offer evidence of trying to change the politics
of their government, the German nation will have to be held responsible for the
crimes their government is committing, and now, if there is no such evidence,
to announce publicly, officially, that certain objects in Germany will be
bombed, destroyed, as a retaliation for what the German government is doing
against the Jews. That bombing which will take place is not a part of the
military strategy, it deals only with the Jewish problem. Let the German people
know before bombing takes place and after bombing takes place that this was done
and will be continued to be done because the Jews are being exterminated in
Poland. Perhaps it will help."

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