Sorry to get all serious on you but..

When i heard the story on the radio this morning about a woman blithely flying a Nazi flag in her yard and then watched this distressing BBC slideshow with audio from 1945 of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp it made me sick.

Posted on April 21, 2005 2:12 PM |



Comments (10)

nadstown:

don't apologise for your passion, boud. embrace it. its good.

Posted by nadstown | April 21, 2005 3:01 PM

cybele:

and then i heard a piece on 2SER about a woman held in a work camp in china three years ago. without food, sleep (the most effective form of torture) and other unamed methods of torture, imprisoned because of her religious belief (which i may add is based upon the canon of kindness, acceptance and empathy).

she now lives in ausrtalia with politiacl refugee status, and can freely practise her faith.

Posted by cybele | April 21, 2005 4:57 PM

Tuppence:

And these people are reproducing.

Posted by Tuppence | April 21, 2005 5:02 PM

augustusgloop:

Unbelievably chilling re: both. I still get goosebumps recalling the atmosphere as we wandered around Sachsenhausen. I couldn't get the imagined sound of gravel crunching out of my head. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sach.html

Posted by augustusgloop | April 21, 2005 5:02 PM

weyhey:

"Ms Duncombe had told the Daily Telegraph she did not know what the flag signified until the controversy erupted, but would not remove it because her four-month-old daughter liked its bright colours."

What the f...?????

Posted by weyhey | April 21, 2005 8:30 PM

zosia:

You'd be surprised at how many people don't even know what the holocaust is/was. I knew one girl at my old high school who only found out in Year 11 history.

Posted by zosia | April 21, 2005 8:59 PM

nicole:

The fact that she was hanging that flag in her backyard with no regard for the evil it symbolizes is disgusting.

Posted by nicole | April 22, 2005 11:07 AM

bennoss:

weyhey's comment is spot-on. the comment made by duncombe makes no sense!!!
obvious bullshizzle...
i cant understand why the nazis did what they did. im baffled, toungtied and dumbfounded....

Posted by bennoss | April 22, 2005 11:15 AM

elo:

what i'm confused about is where you would buy such a flag except for some kind of explicitly neo-nazi source? its not as if she could've just happened upon it in the local supermarket, "liked the bright colours" and decided to fly it proud. have i woken up in hell?

Posted by elo | April 22, 2005 2:17 PM

Jess:

Watch Downfall guys, it's a German film about the fall of the Nazi regime, saw it at broadway the other night. Go watch it

Posted by Jess | April 22, 2005 11:48 PM