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auf Initiative von Marianne Birthler, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, Dr. Anna Kaminsky, Dr. Ulrich Mählert, Wolfgang Templin
After Europe and Germany had been liberated from the Nazis/National Socialism, people in all the countries of Europe were hoping for a future in freedom and democracy. But these hopes were bitterly disappointed for many. The Soviet Union enforced new dictatorial regimes in the central and eastern European countries and in part of Germany – all of which had been weakened by the War and by Nazi rule – with devastating consequences for the societies, the economy and culture, and for countless people who were persecuted as political opponents or lost their lives because they stood in the way of those in power. Thus, the Germans not only bear a heavy responsibility for the extermination of European Jews, the persecution and murder of Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, the disabled, people stigmatized as anti-social or political dissidents, and for the millions upon millions of people who were victims of the War. We are painfully aware that if Germany had not started the Second World War, there would have been neither the Communist dictatorships in central and eastern Europe, nor the partition of the continent and of Germany. Today, in 2009, when we look back on the history
of Europe and Germany in the 20th century, we are mindful of the evils
of Nazism/National Socialism, and we are glad that Germany today is an
equal and respected member of the European family of nations. http://www.23august1939.de/english.php czwartek, 20 sierpnia 2009, lech.walesa1
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