Off this morning to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day at a small service in Sandwell. We have a much bigger event planned for later in the week involving hundreds of Sandwell schoolchildren in a festival of commemoration consisting of drama, film, poetry and art.
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Sorry to be picky but the grammar in your plaque is atrocious and leads me to believe that education in Sandwell needs attention.
“. . . those who died in the holocaust, as a result of Nazi persecution and in other genocides.”
A redundant comma and an incomprehensible final sub-clause. I mean, what “other genocides”? There was only one, the holocaust.
And I do hope that you will provide the little kiddie-winkies of Sandwell with the full story of how the Nazi monster was helped to grow and prosper by the activities of the Labour party howling down the only man brave enough to issue warnings throughout the 1930s.
I find your comment incomprehensible. The Rwandan genocide accounted for up to a million lives, in Darfur up to a quarter of a million killed, 10,000 in the ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica. Still, at least as usual you ignored the important and concentrated on the trivia.
I think you will find it was Labour which voted (together with a handful of Churchill’s Tories) to oppose the Munich agreement, and it was Chamberlain and Halifax who were still trying to do a deal with Hitler and Goering whilst Atlee was pressing the need for war against the Nazis. And of course, whilst many British socialists joined the International Brigade to fight Franco’s fascists, it was your crowd of crooks arguing for appeasement.
Lucky it was the Nazi’s we were fighting and not the Germans, in Germany they have moved on from using the Political name of the Germans to saying the war was the German war. It’s like calling the war in Iraq labours war.
In German they used the words Nazi to excuse the German nation, thats now changed they do not say Nazi’s anymore they say it was Germans, and Germany.
yes we will always had genocide, what a shame we call over selves modern man.