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Subject: How soon the world forgets 1936!
tigertony    3/17/2008 7:34:52 PM
For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitler's Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival for political purposes. His account, which is illustrated with almost 200 rare photographs of the event, looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. And it reveals how the rest of the world allowed the Berlin Olympics to go ahead despite the knowledge that Nazi Germany was a police state. tigertony
 
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Nanheyangrouchuan       3/17/2008 11:17:07 PM

For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitler's Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival for political purposes. His account, which is illustrated with almost 200 rare photographs of the event, looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. And it reveals how the rest of the world allowed the Berlin Olympics to go ahead despite the knowledge that Nazi Germany was a police state.

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There is quite a bit of anti-semetic rhetoric going on in China now.  Sites like pekingduck.com are full of such stuff.
 
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serpentx777       3/18/2008 3:07:48 PM
China also reminds me of the rise of militant Japan, it's a pity people don't learn from history. But I
guess I should stop talking because I may "hurt the feelings" of the Chinese government.

 
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tigertony    Calling the kettle black or red?   3/22/2008 10:36:17 AM
or two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitler's Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival for political purposes. His account, which is illustrated with almost 200 rare photographs of the event, looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. And it reveals how the rest of the world allowed the Berlin Olympics to go ahead despite the knowledge that Nazi Germany was a police state.

tigertony


   Germany warns China Olympics at risk

Fri Mar 21, 1:23 PM ET

BERLIN - Germany's foreign minister has warned China that its response to the crisis in Tibet may jeopardize the Summer Olympics in Beijing, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Frank Walter Steinmeier criticized the Chinese government's lack of transparency in the ongoing conflict, according to an interview with the newspaper Bild that will appear in Saturday's edition.

"This much is clear: the Olympic games don't work like they did 80 years ago," Steinmeier said according to an advance copy of the article made available by Bild Friday.

"You can't just host glamorous events for television while things are going topsy-turvy in your own backyard. The host has to allow thousands of journalists into the country — you won't be able to sweep anything under the rug."

Tibetan exile groups say 99 people have been killed in a Chinese crackdown on protests against its rule of Tibet over the last few weeks. The protests began in Tibet and spread to other parts of China. Chinese officials say 16 have died.

Casualty figures and details about the protests and China's response have proven difficult to confirm because China is tightly controlling the information and keeping out all foreign journalists.

"The German federal government is saying to the Chinese government: be transparent!" the newspaper quoted him as saying. "We want to know exactly what is going on in Tibet. China is only hurting itself when it prevents outside observers from getting a sense of what the situation is."

On Thursday, the last two remaining foreign journalists in Tibet — Georg Blume of Germany and Kristin Kupfer of Austria — were forced to leave the capital, Lhasa, according to Reporters Without Borders. Earlier this week, Economist correspondent James Miles and a group of 15 Hong Kong reporters were forced out.

Steinmeier also warned China to avoid any violent measures in its standoff with Tibetan protesters.

"A solution can only be found through dialogue," Bild quoted him as saying. "The Tibetans want to preserve their culture, China wants political stability — with that in mind, the two sides need to approach one another."
 
   Now all this should have sounded quite familar to Mr Steinmeier,but i guess he forgot to read his own history book?
 
 
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Nanheyangrouchuan    EU President says the magic word   3/22/2008 6:09:40 PM
But still nothing from panda licker Bush:

"http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-germany-tibet&prov=ap&type=lgns"

EU parliament president says Olympic boycott should not be ruled out
March 22, 2008

BERLIN (AP) -- The president of the European Parliament said European countries should not rule out threatening China with an Olympic boycott if violence continues in Tibet.

"Beijing must decide itself, it should immediately negotiate with the Dalai Lama," Hans-Gert Poettering said in Saturday editions of Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "If there continue to be no signals of compromise, I see boycott measures as justified."

Protests started March 10 in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on the 49th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule. Events turned violent four days later, touching off demonstrations among Tibetans in three neighboring provinces.

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Beijing responded by blanketing Tibetan areas with troops and publishing a "Most Wanted" list of 21 protesters, appealing to people to turn them in.

Beijing's official death toll from the rioting is 22, but the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile has said 99 Tibetans have been killed.

Poettering's comments came after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner last week backtracked from his own remarks that suggested he was open to a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony, saying the proposal was "unrealistic."

Poettering told Bild that "we should not rule out a boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing."

The European Union said Thursday that a boycott would be counterproductive to efforts to improve human rights in China.

"A boycott could signify actually losing an opportunity to promote human rights and could, at the same time, cause considerable harm to the population of China as a whole," said a statement from Slovenia, which holds the EU's rotating presidency.

Poettering said the European Parliament would be talking over the issue midweek, and said he was pushing for European countries to "speak with one voice on the defense of human rights in Tibet."

"China, for Europe, is an important partner -- in climate protection, for example," Poettering told Bild. "Dialogue and cooperation are in the interests of both sides, but the Tibetan people should not be allowed to be made victims for it."

In other comments to Bild, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier did not rule out a boycott of the opening ceremonies of the games by Western politicians.

"Only Beijing can decide this question," he said.

He added he was going to be in touch with his Chinese counterparts to talk about the situation in Tibet this weekend, and he was pushing for Beijing to allow foreign o

 
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