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The Prime Minister has joined the US Commander-in-Chief in welcoming the German government's annual avowal of collective guilt for Nazi atrocities three-quarters of a century ago.
Speaking at a memorial service for the six million people and five million other ranks who died in the Holocaust, the German foreign minister Joachim Ringenhand said that all Germans had a "special responsibility" to fight anti-semitism.
The German chancellor, Gerhard Schlagbrust, echoed Mr Ringenhand's comments in Berlin this evening. "We must never again become so complacent that Jews can be detained without charge, locked up without trial, subjected to humiliating or degrading treatment or simply murdered," he said.
The Prime Minister today applauded their remarks, and expressed his "gladness" at the opportunity which the memorial service afforded all Europeans to reflect on who won the war.
Speaking for the US Commander-in-Chief, who is in his holiday bunker at Basra, Tennessee, Attorney General Holzkopf Gonzales welcomed what he called "an encouraging ideational progressivity" from the centre of Old Europe.
Mr Gonzales was referring to the Franco-German bloc's opposition to the war to rescue Iraq from the dictator Saddam Hussein early this century, which resulted in George W Bush famously tagging them as "Old Europe" and their subsequent isolation from the international community along with much of the rest of the world.
Mr Gonzales said he was "gratified" at Mr Schlagbrust's acknowledgement of collective German guilt for Nazi atrocities, and that he hoped this "perspectival re-focusing" could soon lead to a re-think on European opposition to the international community's peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East.
"Once collective guilt is recognised as a fact, there should be no difficulty in recognising the necessity for collective punishment," Mr Gonzales told reporters. "We all know that some European countries have been inclined to drag their feet a little about removing outdated restrictions on modern counterinsurgency measures, so let's hope this is the first stage in a general revaluation of those Geneva things."
The Prime Minister has joined the US Commander-in-Chief in welcoming the German government's annual avowal of collective guilt for Nazi atrocities three-quarters of a century ago.
Speaking at a memorial service for the six million people and five million other ranks who died in the Holocaust, the German foreign minister Joachim Ringenhand said that all Germans had a "special responsibility" to fight anti-semitism.
The German chancellor, Gerhard Schlagbrust, echoed Mr Ringenhand's comments in Berlin this evening. "We must never again become so complacent that Jews can be detained without charge, locked up without trial, subjected to humiliating or degrading treatment or simply murdered," he said.
The Prime Minister today applauded their remarks, and expressed his "gladness" at the opportunity which the memorial service afforded all Europeans to reflect on who won the war.
Speaking for the US Commander-in-Chief, who is in his holiday bunker at Basra, Tennessee, Attorney General Holzkopf Gonzales welcomed what he called "an encouraging ideational progressivity" from the centre of Old Europe.
Mr Gonzales was referring to the Franco-German bloc's opposition to the war to rescue Iraq from the dictator Saddam Hussein early this century, which resulted in George W Bush famously tagging them as "Old Europe" and their subsequent isolation from the international community along with much of the rest of the world.
Mr Gonzales said he was "gratified" at Mr Schlagbrust's acknowledgement of collective German guilt for Nazi atrocities, and that he hoped this "perspectival re-focusing" could soon lead to a re-think on European opposition to the international community's peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East.
"Once collective guilt is recognised as a fact, there should be no difficulty in recognising the necessity for collective punishment," Mr Gonzales told reporters. "We all know that some European countries have been inclined to drag their feet a little about removing outdated restrictions on modern counterinsurgency measures, so let's hope this is the first stage in a general revaluation of those Geneva things."
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