UK’s Minister for Europe Refuses to Criticize Baltic Glorification of Nazism




British Foreign Office on Latvia’s National Waffen SS Fest:

Minister for Europe Enters the Fray; Of Churchill’s Party, He Seems to Forget Great Britain’s Heroism in Bringing Down Hitler and — Scourge (and Historic Result) of Nazi-Worship in the Baltics

Anna Sheinman Reports in the London Jewish Chronicle

Images from the 2013 Waffen SS events in Central Riga

David Lidington (r) with Michal Kaminski in the European Parliament

UK Europe Minister David Lidington (right) with Poland’s Holocaust-distorting, gay-bashing MEP M. Kaminski

Monica Lowenberg Responds in Algemeiner.com and Hope Not Hate;  In Gesture of Classic British Tolerance, Foreign Office Also Posts Her Essay

SEE UK PAGE; ALSO: VYTENIS POVILAS ANDRIUKAITISPETER BEAUMONTBOB BLACKMANMARTIN BRIGHTRICHARD BRODSKYGORDON BROWNSIMON BUTTDAVID CESARANILEONIDAS DONSKIS;  MARCUS DYSCHJONATHAN FREEDLAND(2)BARRY GARDINERAMELIA GENTLEMAN;  SIR MARTIN GILBERTESTHER GOLDBERGMEHDI HASANCLEMENS HENI (2); LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONEDOVID KATZ(2)EDWARD LUCASJAMES MACINTYREDENIS MACSHANE(2)JOHN MANNMANN, BOTTOMLEY & RUSSELLRABBI BARRY MARCUSEDWARD McMILLAN-SCOTT;  SEUMAS MILNEMARCUS PAPADOPOULOSLEIGH PHILLIPSTESSA RAJAKWENDY ROBBINSANNA SLATEREMMA STOCKGEOFF VASILTIM WHEWELLEFRAIM ZUROFF(2)

UK SIGNATORIES TO THE SEVENTY YEARS DECLARATION

EARLY DAY MOTIONS IN THE UK PARLIAMENT: 216127502866
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But the Council of Europe Takes a Rather Different View  (§ 87):

RELATED: Lithuania glorifies its 1941 Nazi puppet prime ministerUniversity lecture hall and street names honor collaborators.  Estonia.  Hungary.  Ukraine.

 

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