the Chief of German diplomacy confirmed the official position of Berlin that “Germany is the sole responsible” for the outbreak of a terrible massacre of the twentieth century and the Holocaust, and all the other interpretations that cast doubt on this historical fact, invalid and are “unfair to the victims of the national socialist regime.”
“Every day, the modern history of Germany are profoundly marked by the seal 8 may 1945. In this day the guns were silenced over the graves of 40 million murdered in Europe. The horrors of national socialism and the murder of Jews came to an end. It was a day of liberation for millions of dispossessed and persecuted, a day of remembrance, victory over iniquity, says Maas in the article “No politics without history.” This day was the price paid by the Germans for the fact that he made himself 30 January 1933, and were not able to get rid of Nazism.”
the head of the German foreign Ministry admits that it took forty years before the head of state is the President of Germany Richard von weizsäcker – “could also, on behalf of the Germans to talk about “liberation” and thus know what it stands for, at least, the majority of West German society.” And it is the historic speech for the first time in the postwar period, “made it possible to often painful, overshadowed by the failures of the work on disclosure of crimes of national socialism,” the authors write.
“In Russia and in other States that were part of the Soviet Union, will remember the heroes and parades of Victory. Also, the allied countries of the West will celebrate the 8th of may. Anyone who fought against the national socialist dictatorship,we are grateful for this day”, – said the head of the German foreign Ministry, noting that in Poland, the Baltic republics “and some other countries of Central, Eastern and southern Europe” perceive this date “with mixed feelings”.
According to the Maas and his colleagues-historian, the Germans – “not because of the alleged moral superiority”, but because of this traumatic past experience, are required to indicate their clear position in the current situation, “when those who attacked, trying to imagine the attackers and the victims the criminals.”
“In recent months, there is a growing effort to rewrite history in such a dishonorable way, and it requires explanations, which in principle are not supposed to need the face of immutable historical facts: Germany single-handedly started the Second world war attack on Poland. And Germany alone is responsible for the crimes of the Holocaust against humanity. Who puts this into question and attributed to other Nations the role of the offender, repairing the injustice to the victims. He tries to turn history into a tool and splits Europe,” insists Heiko Maas.
