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>From Int'l Herald Tribune
> Paris, Saturday, July 17, 1999
>
>
> British Press Chases the 'Huns' Again and Germans Feel the Pain
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> ------- By William Drozdiak Washington Post Service
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> ------- BERLIN - Britain and Germany are at war again. But this
> time, the battlefield is splattered with ink rather than blood.
>
> The leaders of the two allies, Prime Minister Tony Blair and
> Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, get along famously as kindred souls
> who espouse the same kind of centrist social democracy. But
> newspapers in both countries have been waging a viciously
> chauvinistic campaign that would make readers think the Blitz is
> still going on.
>
> For months, the war of words has steadily escalated. British
> commentators have suggested that moving the seat of Germany's
> government back to Berlin will resurrect Nazi ghosts, hinting at
> an evil Teutonic gene that will strive to channel a secret power
> lust into leadership of a European super-state. In turn, a new
> generation of German writers and diplomats, feeling more
> liberated by virtue of what former Chancellor Helmut Kohl called
> a ''late birth,'' have struck back at the Brits by accusing them
> of engaging in a xenophobic frenzy rooted in the insecurity of a
> lost empire.
>
> Despite appeals for restraint by Mr. Blair and Mr. Schroeder, the
> broadsides reached an unprecedented degree of animosity this week
> after A.A. Gill unleashed a brutal diatribe in The Sunday Times
> of London lamenting the ''undiluted misery, humiliation and
> groveling apology'' of German history. One possible remedy, he
> suggested, would be to hang a sign on the Brandenburg Gate
> emblazoned with the slogan, ''Amnesia Macht Frei.''
>
> ''By any measure you care to choose, the creation of a greater
> Germany has been the greatest disaster, the cause of more misery
> than any other political act in our continent's history,'' Mr.
> Gill wrote. ''What can they do to stop us seeing them as Europe's
> psychopaths?''
>
> The article stirred feelings of public outrage rarely seen in
> modern Germany, where a stoic response to the Nazi label was long
> considered the price to pay for postwar reconciliation and a new
> sense of European kinship. But with the ascendancy of Mr.
> Schroeder, who claims to represent the 50 million Germans, or
> two-thirds of the population, without any personal ties to the
> war, there has been a clear tendency to fight back and defend
> national interests.
>
> Within the past few months, Germany has stunned its partners by
> insisting it would no longer accept paying the highest net
> contribution, about $12 billion a year, to the European Union.
> Recently, Mr. Schroeder declared his cabinet would boycott
> informal EU ministerial sessions unless German was recognized as
> an official working language along with English and French.
>
> Gebhardt von Moltke, Germany's ambassador to London, said he very
> rarely feels moved to take up his pen in response to an article.
> But after reading the Sunday Times piece, he fired off a letter
> to its editor, John Witherow, complaining about its ''profound
> xenophobia'' and the detrimental impact it would have on
> relations between the two countries.
>
> What disturbed Mr. von Moltke, and many other Germans, was what
> he described as the ''irresponsible'' way of reviving hostile
> stereotypes and denigrating a half-century of Germany's
> accomplishments as a faithful, trustworthy member of the Western
> alliance of democracies.
>
> ''Germany is the country that invented the idea of
> predestination, the Lutheran concept of being born into a sin,
> and it is only in Germany that I've ever really understood what
> that truly means,'' Mr. Gill said. ''For hating the Hun is
> perhaps the only thing that truly emulsifies the rest of us.''
>
> The characterizations shocked many Germans, even those with close
> ties to Britain. ''It's racist rant, pure and simple,'' said
> Thomas Kielinger, London correspondent for the German newspaper
> Die Welt. ''There is a place for provocative journalism and views
> of an inbred little Englander, but this really went beyond the
> bounds of decency.''
>
> Many of the anti-German tirades have been uncorked by newspapers
> controlled by the publisher Rupert Murdoch. In February, The Sun
> tabloid branded Germany's then Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine
> as ''the most dangerous man in Europe'' because of his strong
> support for a single currency. When Mr. Lafontaine left politics
> a few weeks later after losing a power struggle with Mr.
> Schroeder, the Sun exulted in a front-page headline: ''Ve haf
> vays of making you quit.''
>
> When the former Tory minister Lord Tebbit disparaged Mr. Blair's
> efforts to build a working relationship with the German
> chancellor by saying, ''If Blair wants to be in step with
> Schroeder, he will have to learn the goose-step,'' the political
> writer Hugo Young said it was hard to understand what is more
> repellent - ''the trivialization of Hitler or the lunatic
> perversion of Blair?''
>From The Telegraph (UK)
> ISSUE 1513Saturday 17 July 1999
>
> Blackshirts fuel Kremlin fears of Nazi revival
> By Marcus Warren in Voronezh
> RUSSIA'S neo-Nazis are on the
> march, taking to the streets and preaching their message of
> hatred with a zeal viewed with growing alarm by the Kremlin.
>From TheIndependent (UK)
> RACE CLASHES FILL STREETS OF CATALAN TOWN
> THE ANCIENT Spanish battle cry of "Moors out!" has returned to
> terrorise thousands of north African immigrants near
Barcelona,
> who have been subjected to savage attacks by racist skinheads.
> Anti-racist demonstrators were due to stage a march last night
> against the violence.
{{}}
<<Ah, the peace and tranquility and reasonof Europe ...
the Russians are having Fascist marches; the Spaniards are
having anti-"Moor" outbreaks and now the Brits are biting the
Germans who are biting back ... So, is it really possible
to have a real "European Union", beyond the bureaucrapolitical
photo opportunity, integrating the common people? And don't
forget that fence across from Spain on the African Continent
side, designed to bar emigrants from getting into Europe.
And then who goes into the Balkans to solve what problem?
Glass houses? Rocks? >>
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