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"Michael Gray" |
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17 Jan 2007 12:32:38 AM |
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News: Surprize. Slovak bishop praises Nazi regime. |
Slovak bishop praises Nazi regime
By Rob Cameron
BBC News, Prague
"There has been uproar in Slovakia after the archbishop of Bratislava
described life in the fascist wartime Slovak state as "a time of
well-being".
Tens of thousands of Jews, Roma Gypsies and communists were deported
by the Slovak government during the war.
Most of them ended up at the Auschwitz death camp.
Roman Catholic Archbishop Jan Sokol refused to withdraw the comments,
but issued a statement distancing himself from wartime human rights
violations.
But angry debate has erupted after the archbishop's interview with the
Slovak news channel TA3.
Asked for his recollections of wartime Slovakia - a Nazi puppet state
led by Roman Catholic priest Jozef Tiso - he said it was a time of
well-being.
"I highly esteem President Tiso because I remember him from my
childhood. We used to be very poor, and under his rule, the situation
greatly improved," he said.
"We had everything we wanted. Even during a time of war."
Deal with Nazis
His remarks were roundly condemned by Slovakia's small Jewish
community, who said they were an offence to the victims of the
Holocaust.
Groups representing the Roma minority also reacted angrily.
An estimated 70,000 Slovak Jews were deported, under a deal in which
the Slovak government paid Nazi Germany to take them.
Ostensibly they were sent as forced labourers, but almost all the
deportees later died at Auschwitz and other death camps in eastern
Europe.
Thousands of Slovak Roma and communists were also killed."
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| Title: Re: Surprize. Slovak bishop praises Nazi regime. |
21 Jan 2007 10:15:14 PM |
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Who discusses how many American Indians were killed in Oaklahoma during the
1930 because they sat on reservations which turned out to be one of the
richest oil reserves in the America's.
Who discusses the 50 millions African's died during the slave trade?
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