* A strange suit was launched in Germany, where it is a crime to ". . . defame the dead" in order to keep people from questioning the Holocaust. Three enbterprising theologians filed a law suit in Munich, claiming that they were "Brothers in Christ" and that Jesus was being defamed.
The judge threw out the case after pointing out that - since Christ had risen from the dead - they had no right to bring a case on his behalf.
* The Zundelsite receives word of ever more cases of youngsters as young as sixth grade being Holocaust-traumatized through simulation of alleged atrocities in German concentration camps. The Salt Lake Tribune of May 24, 2000 reported on just such a case where each student in a sixth grade was given a Star of David to wear and a number in place of a name.
The teacher claimed she created the concentration camp "to help students understand persecution by ordering them to do push-ups and jumping jacks when they laughed." The lesson, she insisted, "gets them out of their comfort zone."
* A middle school in South Miami staged a similar macabre re-inactment after having read Elie Wiesel's book "Night", which chronicles Jewish life in the ghettos and concentration camps built by the Nazis. Taking visitors through a library exhibit, the students ". . . explained the Holocaust in their own words."
"If you lived in nearby areas, ashes of dead people would fall down on your city,'' said Chad Kishick, 13, referring to a model of a crematorium at Dachau.
"Disturbing,'' said 14-year-old Jason Edelstein. ``It's kind of hard to believe that this happened.''
It didn't. Someone forgot to mention that not even the most dedicated Holocaust Promoters now make the claim that Dachau had "gassing facilities" or that no modern crematoria anywhere in the world emit ashes -or smell of burning flesh.
* President Clinton and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder hope to sign a compensation document with German companies involving $5 billion, ". . . under the condition that further suits will not be entertained in U.S. courts."
In several mid-central California towns, Asian gangs have a similar agreement going with terrified business owners. It's called a protection racket and is a criminal offense in America.
First they ask for "protection money." Let's say that the proprietor says no. To help him change his mind, they sprinkle gasoline around his premises. If an owner is still not persuaded, the business then goes up in flames.
* In 1996, Lithuania settled a claim with Germany for ". . . all claims for damages filed by Lithuanian citizens in return for a grant of DM 2 million."
Now a fellow by the name of Zingeris, who heads the Lithuanian government's international commission to assess the consequences of Nazi and Soviet occupations, thinks compensation to "victims of the Nazi occupation could total several billion U.S. dollars."
* "Soccer racism" has been discovered in Hungary. The Central and East European office of the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a letter to Premier Viktor Orban on 22 May that it is "deeply concerned" about recent incidents at Hungarian soccer stadiums.
During soccer games, fans were shouting slogans such as "the train is leaving for Auschwitz."
* There was much ado over nothing in Austria a few months back when the notorious Joerg Haider let slip a few politically incorrect opinions about the virtues of Hitler's economic policies, the merits of the SS etc.
So-called European Union partners made it quite clear what they thought of the matter - by boycotting photo sessions with Austrian representatives, walking out of meetings while Austrian delegates spoke, or refusing to shake hands with them.
But then they changed their minds, and a few days ago all 15 EU ministers posed together for a picture in Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands, and we presume that all is well.
* A French court has ruled that Yahoo!, an internet portal based in California, had broken French law and committed 'an offence to the collective memory' of France by hosting an online auction selling neo-Nazi objects in cyberspace.
Beneficiaries of this ruling are the Union of Jewish Students and an anti-racism group calling itself the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, known by its French initials LICRA. Each will receive 10,000 franks.
Yahoo's response?
"The real question put before this court is whether a French jurisdiction can make a decision on the English content of an American site, run by an American company ... "
Judge Gomez: By hosting the site, Yahoo had " committed a mistake on French territory."
Marc Levy, a lawyer for LICRA expressed 'great satisfaction' with the ruling, saying the judge had "rendered a service to the Internet."
* In Israel, some people would like to hear Wagner, who was Hitler's favorite composer but not a Hitler fan, since he died five years before Hitler was even born. No matter. Israel's Israel Philharmonic Orchestra managing director Avi Shoshani, has dug in his heels: As long as even one Holocaust survivor remains in Israel who objects to the playing of Wagner, the Philharmonic will continue to respect that person's feelings.
* In New Zealand, a Canterbury University professor has run into trouble with a revisionist master's thesis he wrote a few years ago. According to the Jerusalem Post of May 24, it "questions key assumptions about the Holocaust."
Dr. Joel Hayward is being chastized and might lose his title because ". . . the claims in the thesis were: that fewer than two million Jews died; that the gas chambers at Auschwitz didn't exist; that there were no plans for the mass murder of Jews; and that the discredited Leuchter Report was a valid piece of research."
Dr. Hayward may well be stripped of his degree - not the first to be punished for violating the politically correct academic expectation.
* An advertisement funded by the Simon Wiesenthal Center reads, "On the day of the Oklahoma bombing, there was one hate site. Now there are over 2,000."
A revisionist cynic concluded that the proliferation of so-called "hate sites" must have prevented further Oklahoma City bombings.
* A brother and sister received an out-of-court settlement of $118,000 and an apology from the Swiss government for having been expelled from Switzerland "during the Holocaust."
Charles Sonabend, the brother, said it was historic that any government ''apologized for what had taken place 60 years earlier, not for what they had done, but for what their grandparents had done.''
* Sudeten Germans, expelled from Czechoslovakia under the 1945 Benes decrees, have started demanding compensation for their suffering. German German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says that such demands would "seriously damage German interests."
* Strange revisions are now taking place in the world. The Zundelsite has received word that the Oberammergau Passion Play is to be changed in order to please Jewish Revisionists.
At a place in the play when the Jews shout: "Crucify him! Crucify him!" several dissenting voices can be heard shouting : "Set him free!!"
This addition is called a "correction", supposedly as an antidote to soften the stereotype of the Jew.
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Thought for the Day:
"The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question. Every general belief being little else than a fiction, it can only survive on the condition that it not be subjected to examination."
(Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, The Crowd, A study of the Popular Mind)