[translation by me]Between Kairo and Buchenwald(Published this day at Politically Incorrect)
Before a lot of years stood a young German at the terminal of the Ben Gurion airport and waited for his bag. At home at Germany has started the semester break and he had started out in the land of the people of Israel, who have suffered so much because of his fore fathers. Because he wanted to see with his own eyes.
(Guest issue by Yorck Tomkyle)
He had an intern job at the Hadassah-hospital near Jerusalem at the chirugic section and he began his service there with unpleasant feelings, because he was so ashamed of the things that Germans had done to the Jews.
And he was very astonished, that most Israelis welcomed him with open arms - Jews like Arabs.
Someday - he stayed already a longer time and feeled well - there was brought a new patient to the station. A friendly old women.
Like accidently the sleeve of her rode up of her hospital shirt and what the young man saw let him freeze: A great tattoo at her forearm, a number, before the number was a letter. It was a letter, while he saw it he understood at once: an "A".
Over hours he hung around in the corner and he didn't dare to speak to the women. How he liked to speak to her and - yes this too: cried. But something hold him back.
Suddenly she called him in English: "Young man, are you German? You look so German? Come to me!"
He weaseled in the room, she implied him to sit at the end of the bed. What then happened - the young man will never forget it.
He didn't know what to say and so she began to tell him her story. From her childhood and her youth as Jew in Rumenia. From the outbreak of the war, the transport, from Aschwitz and that she and her sister were the only survivors of a great family, who live.
As she ended she saw the desperation in th eyes of the young man - the desperation about what his people have done to her people.
She put her hand gentle on his arm and sayed quietly: "Young man, please be not ashamed for it. You are too young. You were not to be able to help it.
Years later sat the young man in front of the TV and he sees an egoistic smart president, who wants to embrace his messianic nimbus, that is built by his advisors.
He wants to flip a new chapter, he wants to change the world.
He talkes in Kairo and strike notes, like no President before him. His advisors has told him so. They told him too: " This is critical you have to do something after it in order to appease the Jews after. They have thought long time what this appeasement could be, because the ingratiation to the Islamic world has Israel deeply ingratiationed.
Then the saving thought: A visit in the land of evil close to his speech should it be. At the best at the core of evil in this country: A death camp. A wonderfull signal to Israel, that implies: No worry I stay at your side!
With this visit he can wake deep emotions and the Germans will deliver the supernumeraries with repentance. It is a PR- masterpiece of this president.
The young man thinks while watching this picture about the old lady and prays, that she there where she is now has found her peace.
How she would think about this issue, if she knows, that her suffering is used by PR-advisors and an egoistic president, to cover his own political moves and to grow his polularity?
Likely she would tell this president to be ashamed.
Source:
http://www.pi-news.net/2009/06/zwischen-kairo-und-buchenwald
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