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

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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
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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 ANDRIUKAITIS; PETER BEAUMONT; BOB BLACKMAN; MARTIN BRIGHT; RICHARD BRODSKY; GORDON BROWN; SIMON BUTT; DAVID CESARANI; LEONIDAS DONSKIS;  MARCUS DYSCH; JONATHAN FREEDLAND, (2); BARRY GARDINER; AMELIA GENTLEMAN;  SIR MARTIN GILBERT; ESTHER GOLDBERG; MEHDI HASAN; CLEMENS HENI (2); LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE; DOVID KATZ, (2); EDWARD LUCAS; JAMES MACINTYRE; DENIS MACSHANE, (2); JOHN MANN; MANN, BOTTOMLEY & RUSSELL; RABBI BARRY MARCUS; EDWARD McMILLAN-SCOTT;  SEUMAS MILNE; MARCUS PAPADOPOULOS; LEIGH PHILLIPS; TESSA RAJAK; WENDY ROBBINS; ANNA SLATER; EMMA STOCK; GEOFF VASIL; TIM WHEWELL; EFRAIM ZUROFF, (2)

UK SIGNATORIES TO THE SEVENTY YEARS DECLARATION

EARLY DAY MOTIONS IN THE UK PARLIAMENT: 2161; 2750; 2866
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But the Council of Europe Takes a Rather Different View  (§ 87):

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

 

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