On 14 February 2014, Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, boldly turned down a demand from a group of right-wing East European “Double Genocide” MEPs for the EU to in effect equally ban Nazi and Soviet symbols. Nobody is calling for display of Soviet symbols and the move was seen as another in the long series designed to enshrine Double Genocide — the belief that Nazi and Soviet crimes must be declared equal on all counts — in the European Union.
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European Parliament President Martin Schulz Just Says No to Latest Demands of Eastern “Double Genocide” MEPs
Posted in Double Genocide, EU, Germany, News & Views, Politics of Memory
Tagged Double Genocide, Martin Schulz, Memory Politics in Europe, Prague Declaration (2008), Seventy Years Declaration (2012), Vilnius Yiddish Institute (VYI)
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VMU in Kaunas Sinking Further into Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis Morass, as Historians Join Glorifiers for Yet Another Event
[Updates inserted in square brackets.] According to the website of Vytautas Magnus Univeristy, another event on Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis, the Nazi puppet “prime minister” of Lithuania who presided over the onset of the genocide of Lithuanian Jewry, will be held tomorrow, 24 May 2012, in the same VMU building (at Donelaičio Street 52) which is reputed to house both a lecture hall (room no. 608) and a bas-relief honoring the wartime fascist. Tomorrow’s event has also been announced on Bernardinai.lt. [Editor’s note of 24 May 2012: Shortly after the appearance of this article, the VMU website program was withdrawn; a screen shot appears below toward the end of this article.]
It is only a week since Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) withdrew from hosting a conference to honor the memory of the wartime collaborator in circumstances that have led to substantial confusion and conflict.
Posted in Collaborators Glorified, Events, News & Views, Politics of Memory
Tagged Ambrazevicius Brazaitis, Sarunas Liekis, Vilnius Yiddish Institute (VYI), Vytautas Magnus University (VMU)
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