duminică, 9 august 2009

Radu Mazare, Romanian Mayor, Attacked For Dressing Up As Nazi

Mayor Radu Mazare in the German uniform
Mayor Radu Mazare wore the German uniform at a weekend fashion sho

A Romanian mayor has been strongly criticised by Jewish groups after appearing dressed in a Nazi uniform at a local fashion show.

Radu Mazare, mayor of Constanta, appeared at the event with his similarly dressed 15-year-old son.The Simon Wiesenthal human rights centre called on Mr Mazare to admit his mistake, apologise and resign. Mr Mazare said he had been inspired by the film Valkyrie, about an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. He added that the uniform was a German army one, not that of an SS officer. And, he said, he had attempted to cover up all the swastikas, although he said he had missed a very small one on the belt. Dr Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian and the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem,expressed "insult and outrage" at the mayor's appearance. In a letter to Mr Mazare, he wrote: "It would be hard to adequately describe the depth of the pain that your appearance caused, not only to Jews and other victims of Nazism, but to any person of moral integrity who knows the history of World War II.

"Today it is well-known that the Wehrmacht played an active role in the mass murder of European Jewry and many other innocent victims.

Mayor Radu Mazare in the fashion show
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre called Mr Mazare's appearance "an outrage

"By dressing in a Wehrmacht uniform, you are expressing totally unwarranted support and nostalgia for an army which committed the most terrible war acts of genocide." Dr Zuroff suggested Mr Mazare could make amends for his "incredible lack of judgement" by bringing an exhibition on the crimes of the German army to Romania. Romania was a German ally in 1940 but switched sides just before the war ended. An international commission chaired by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel concluded in 2004 that the Romanian authorities had killed up to 380,000 Jews in territories under their control.

Nowadays, the Jewish community there numbers between 9,000 and 10,000.

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Un comentariu:

Maria spunea...

BIG DEAL...all the Jews are jumping now that he wears a uniform of WERMAHT(German army NOT nazis) German soldiers were not taking the oath of faith on furher Adolf Hitler those who were part of the Waffen SS were.Of course many of the German soldiers were making part of the Nazi party but while Mazare wore the army uniform of a general (uniform not badge of the SS, the head of the dead and the lightning) means that he didn't offended by anything the jews.Jews were killed by the Nazis by SS more exactly.So cheap anti-Semitism and Jewish over react.I'm a jew myself and my grandmother stayed in Awschwitz when she was only a child ,4 years old, and although I'm just 16 i know already a lot of things that german people did to our people without any fault.But that's in the past.The dead are still dead.Of course that we have to know and to accept wht happend but how one jew said in the ww2 :It's not german fault i'm not angry on germans and i don't blame them for wht they did to me.I'm a jew and they are sick.And he was right.If ur reading books u'll see that german people were sick.They were full of propaganda all the time and believe me i saw part of propaganda it was really convincing.we where the rats in those movie and they were the eagles.Donno how they riched and that conclusion but they did everything they could to make it happend .And they acomplished that.In the end jews were killed like rats,eating anything like rats,dirty like rats,hiding like rats,hunting like rats.So in our days we believe that could never happen again.Yes it could.Why not?They thought they were civilised to.Many of them,even most of germans didn't know about the murders in the camps.Propaganda was shoing some beautiful camps where all jew where staying togeder in coffe shops and kids runing and playing outside:)) Not even close to reality.What can i say?Gobbles was a genius:)).And after all those murders we shouldn't forget(and as much as i can see no one's talking about that) how many murders jews did too.Let's think of comunist.There where so many jew communist in the party and communist didn't kill like nazis 6 million of people they killed 80 million...so why in our days we talk only about antisemitism and not about comununists?I bet that if mazare were a soviet uniforme (they killed lots and lots of people too,raped german women,tortured and killed civils too) so i bet that no onw would have said nothing.And everywhere it's writhing that he were a nazi uniforme...no it wasn't a nazi uniforme it was just a uniforme of a german officer like i said before.
And in conclusion, personally, for a fashion show, the German army uniform seems appropriate cos is one of the most beautiful and imposing uniform ever designed(hugo boss btw did it) for the military.