Re: Croats Like their Sugar Packets with Hitler's Image and Anti-Semitic Jokes
Velika Srbija
the whole world is laughing at a minor race of major insignificance!!!
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"craig" <cr...@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
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> Croats Like their Sugar Packets with Hitler's Image and Anti-Semitic
> Jokes
> JERUSALEM, ZAGREB, Feb. 19, 2007 - The Simon Wiesenthal Center has
> asked Croatia to stop the distribution of sugar packets featuring
> Hitler's image.
>
> The Center has called on Croatian authorities to put an end to the
> production and distribution of sugar packets with Hitler's image and
> printed anti-Semitic jokes.
>
> The Center has issued a statement signed by its director Ephraim
> Zuroff, expressing its "revulsion and disgust that such an item could
> be produced these days in a country in which the Holocaust not only
> took place, but was for the most part carried out by local Nazi
> collaborators."
>
> "If nothing else, this is a disgusting expression of nostalgia for the
> Third Reich and a period during which Jews, Serbs and Gypsies were
> mass-murdered (in Croatia)," the Simon Wiesenthal Center statement
> said.
>
> Zuroff urged Croatia to force the factory owners to recall the sugar
> packets immediately, in line with a law against racial, religious or
> ethnic hatred.
>
> Zarko Puhovski of the Helsinki Committee said the most worrying aspect
> of the scandal was a lack of reaction in the Croatian society.
>
> "This is not about someone spraying graffiti, this was printed in
> several thousand copies, for weeks, perhaps months, and no one
> reacted. Then Novi List journalist reacted. Then there was silence
> again, and then the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a statement,"
> Puhovski said.
>
> Puhovski said he hoped the company producing the sugar packets as well
> as those distributing them would be punished, adding that the main
> problem still remained with the Croat society which "accepts anti-
> Semitism."
>
> For her part, owner of the Pozega-based factory, Croat Anita Ivanecic
> declined to offer any comment.
>