Auschwitz Name Change Proposal Angers Jewish Community's
Poland has asked the UN culture organization UNESCO to describe the former Auschwitz camp as ‘Nazi’ and ‘German’ in the UNESCO list of heritage sites.
UESCO is to respond to the request by the end of June. In Germany the proposal has provoked mixed reactions.
At present the site of the former camp is listed as the “Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The Polish government proposes a new wording: ‘former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp’. and this has met with criticism from the international Jewish community's.
UESCO is to respond to the request by the end of June. In Germany the proposal has provoked mixed reactions.
At present the site of the former camp is listed as the “Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The Polish government proposes a new wording: ‘former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp’. and this has met with criticism from the international Jewish community's.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 4/11/2006 10:58:00 AM
2 Comments:
At 3:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
why would it bother them?
At 9:26 AM,
Anonymous said…
poland had many willing nazis from their very own country that helped in the death camps as did many other countries, its time other countries came clean and addmited to the crimes of genocide in world war 2 europe, nazis came in many forms. the polish people cant just wash their hands by saying german death camp.
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