Month: June 2018
Dirty Jokes Revealed and Otto’s Visit to Paris
The Anne Frank House announced that two pages of text covered up with gummed paper in the first diary of Anne Frank had been made legible thanks to new technology. The "new technology" seems to consist of shining a bright light on the back of the page but the Anne Frank House has a way of…
What Would You Say? What Will You Write?
They’re in jail(s), for saying they (don’t) believe things you also probably (don’t) believe, whether and wherever you might (or might not) say so. They are in Germany, but they might as well be in any of dozens of other countries that would punish them similarly, or worse, for saying what they said, and what…
Steinmeier Apologizes
Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier appeared at a monument to gay victims of National Socialism to ask for forgiveness for the suffering and injustice gays endured. Steinmeier spoke June 2nd in a ceremony marking the persecution of gays by the Hitler regime.Steinmeier claimed that more than 50,000 men were persecuted by the Nazis and were "tortured, sent to prisons and to concentration camps." Steinmeier went on to…
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