Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jul 30, 2023 23:04:05 GMT
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Today there are an amount of pro-ruzzists bots from there, and I wonder about its past. Here's the article that is still actual.
Slovenia attempts to rewrite its wartime pro-Nazi history
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the 34-country organisation founded by Sweden and now permanently based in Berlin, operates on the illusory assumption that the Holocaust is in the past, a matter of commemoration and education, not of current politics.
In reality, the Second World War has never ended, at least as far as several of the fragile democracies which emerged in central and eastern Europe in the 1990s are concerned. Continuing legal and cultural battles mean that the Nazi legacy plagues today’s public life. In country after country, there are ever-more strident efforts, in the words of the Serbian-American scholar Jelena Subotic, to hijack justice in dealing with the past. In particular, there is a growing, dangerous tendency to minimise Nazi crimes and to regard many Nazi collaborators with adulation as fervent patriots.
The latest embarrassment (to put it mildly) has emerged in Slovenia, the small country in the north of the former Yugoslavia.
It emerged in January that an unnamed grandchild of the country’s leading wartime pro-Nazi, the notoriously anti-Semitic General Leon Rupnik (pictured above left, with SS-General Erwin Rösener, right), had succeeded in persuading the country’s Supreme Court to annul the death sentence imposed on him in 1946. It did this on the ground that the military tribunal which tried him had been procedurally inadequate. In theory, the invalidated verdict could had led to a retrial in a lower court. There was a catch: the retrial would have required his presence in court, despite the fact he had been shot 73 years earlier.
A statement provided to me by the Slovenian Embassy in London stresses that such a retrospective annulment of sentence — the verdict of an independent judiciary — does not imply Rupnik’s “ rehabilitation ”. The position of the Slovenian government is that in collaboration with the Nazi occupier, Rupnik was “responsible for the deaths of many Slovenians, including many Jews”. This, it declares, “is a historically documented and proven fact, and court deliberation on the protection of legality, regardless of the substantial final decisions in concrete cases, does not deny its perverted nature.”
Today there are an amount of pro-ruzzists bots from there, and I wonder about its past. Here's the article that is still actual.
Slovenia attempts to rewrite its wartime pro-Nazi history
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the 34-country organisation founded by Sweden and now permanently based in Berlin, operates on the illusory assumption that the Holocaust is in the past, a matter of commemoration and education, not of current politics.
In reality, the Second World War has never ended, at least as far as several of the fragile democracies which emerged in central and eastern Europe in the 1990s are concerned. Continuing legal and cultural battles mean that the Nazi legacy plagues today’s public life. In country after country, there are ever-more strident efforts, in the words of the Serbian-American scholar Jelena Subotic, to hijack justice in dealing with the past. In particular, there is a growing, dangerous tendency to minimise Nazi crimes and to regard many Nazi collaborators with adulation as fervent patriots.
The latest embarrassment (to put it mildly) has emerged in Slovenia, the small country in the north of the former Yugoslavia.
It emerged in January that an unnamed grandchild of the country’s leading wartime pro-Nazi, the notoriously anti-Semitic General Leon Rupnik (pictured above left, with SS-General Erwin Rösener, right), had succeeded in persuading the country’s Supreme Court to annul the death sentence imposed on him in 1946. It did this on the ground that the military tribunal which tried him had been procedurally inadequate. In theory, the invalidated verdict could had led to a retrial in a lower court. There was a catch: the retrial would have required his presence in court, despite the fact he had been shot 73 years earlier.
A statement provided to me by the Slovenian Embassy in London stresses that such a retrospective annulment of sentence — the verdict of an independent judiciary — does not imply Rupnik’s “ rehabilitation ”. The position of the Slovenian government is that in collaboration with the Nazi occupier, Rupnik was “responsible for the deaths of many Slovenians, including many Jews”. This, it declares, “is a historically documented and proven fact, and court deliberation on the protection of legality, regardless of the substantial final decisions in concrete cases, does not deny its perverted nature.”