'German Foreign Ministry more involved in Holocaust than previously thought'

[Behind the Aegis]

Source: Associated Press

Germany's diplomats were much more deeply involved in carrying out the Holocaust than previously known, according to a new report about the Foreign Ministry's Nazi past published Monday.

Despite decades-long efforts by ministry employees to present the foreign office as a place of opposition during the Third Reich, diplomats were actually willing participants in the Nazis' campaign against the Jews, the report concluded—from spying on Jewish-German emigrants abroad to actively contributing to the mass murder of Europe's Jewry until 1945.

"The German Foreign Ministry collaborated with the Nazis' violent politics and especially assisted in all aspects of the discrimination, deportation, persecution and genocide of the Jews,'' Eckhart Conze, one of four historians who helped prepare the official report on the German Foreign Ministry's involvement in the Holocaust, told the Associated Press on Monday.

Former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer commissioned the report while he was in office in 2005. His decision was prompted by a public debate over the ministry's Nazi past, after it became known that the ministry was still publishing well-meaning obituaries about former employees who were committed Nazis.



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[GodlessBiker]

1. The entire political and legal infrastructure of Nazi Germany was mobilized to ...

effectuate the statutes which made all of these abominations legal under German law.

That's the scariest part of this and why that history is so relevant today. The Nazis passed laws which permitted the destruction of Jews, gay people, gypsies, and others.

[Drops_not_Dope]

2. *

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

[ThomCat]

4. It is still mind boggling that their family got away with that,

and still was able to retain so much damn prominence that TWO of them were able to be President! :wtf:

[iandhr]

3. Germany...

... has really looked at been open with its mistakes and the way there society was that allowed these atrocities. No nation as been willing to do this espalicy when it comes to World War II. Japan a shrine in Tokyo that honors 14 war criminals politicians in Japan deny the rape of Nankin.

as one example

[ShamelessHussy]

6. U.S.A.

has killed millions since and before W.W.II, and we use the same pretext the Japanese used during W.W.II in Iraq and Afghanistan to this very day... i suppose that is what empires do, and the victors write the history books.

at least we got the www these days to keep track of these merciless brutes and their crimes wether they admit to them or not.

[Starry Messenger]

5. recommend.