League of German Expellees Unwilling to Investigate Own Past

[Jim O]

From Deutsche-Welle:

A controversial exhibition about displaced people during and after World War II has prompted calls for an organization devoted to German expellees to examine its own ranks for members who may have had links to the Nazis.

The exhibition "Paths Unchosen," which focuses on the plight of World War II-era displaced people, has been open for less than a week, but the organization that helped fund the exhibition through donations has already come under fire in the German media for its unwillingness to afford the same level of scrutiny to its own history.

The League of German Expellees (BdV), which was actively involved in raising money for the "Paths Unchosen," is being challenged to investigate its own past for members who may have had links to or been directly involved with the Nazi party.

The organization has never conducted such an internal investigation, and in its current edition, the German news weekly Der Spiegel suggests this is because it would prefer to avoid the uncomfortable truth that many former Nazis were part of its leadership.

Full article at League of German Expellees Unwilling to Investigate Own Past | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 14.08.2006.

Any comments or input?

[Helmut Von Moltke]

depends on opinions really, although of course, this did not satisfy the PC rulers. Maybe there would be less controversy if this league made a exhibition on their own suffeirngs instead of trying to talk about others, since it dosen't talk too much about the others.

K