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Trump in Brussels ‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’

May 27, 2017 By administrator

The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad'By Peter Müller,

At a meeting with European Union leaders on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump was sharply critical of Germany. DER SPIEGEL spoke with meeting participants.

U.S. President Donald Trump voiced significant displeasure over Germany’s trade surplus on Thursday during a meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels. “The Germans are bad, very bad,” Trump said, according to meeting participants.

 The participants told DER

SPIEGEL that Trump went on to say: “See the millions of cars they are selling to the U.S. Terrible. We will stop this.”

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker showed solidarity with the Germans at the meeting and contradicted Trump’s rebuke. Free trade benefits everybody, Juncker said. Participants at the meeting who spoke with DER SPIEGEL said that Juncker tried to maintain a collegial tone, but remained uncompromising on that point.

During the roughly one-hour meeting, Trump met initially with European Council President Donald Tusk and Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. After about 45 minutes, they were joined by others, including European Parliament President Antonio Tajani and the EU’s chief diplomat, Federica Mogherini.

According to a report in the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, many EU officials were appalled by how little the Americans appeared to know about trade policy. The guests from Washington seemed not to be aware that EU member states only negotiate trade treaties as a bloc. According to the paper, Trump’s chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, claimed during meetings, for example, that different customs tariffs are in place between the U.S. and Germany than between the U.S. and Belgium.

‘Not Gonna Happen’

For years, Germany has exported more than it imports and Trump has criticized the country’s trade surplus before – in an interview with the German tabloid Bild prior to his inauguration, for example. In that interview, too, he voiced particular frustration at the number of German cars he sees on the streets of New York. “I would tell BMW if they think they’re gonna build a plant in Mexico and sell cars into the U.S. without a 35 percent tax, it’s not gonna happen. It’s not gonna happen.” It was a clear threat to slap punitive tariffs on German automobiles.

The new U.S. president finds Germany’s surpluses unfair because they necessarily mean that its trading partners have a trade deficit, the U.S. in this case. But the German government has also been criticized within the EU for its trade surplus. In a recent interview with SPIEGEL, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble also said that the surplus was too large.

Still, after numerous meetings between European leaders and Trump along with several attempts to explain international trade policy, the EU thought that progress had been made. As Trump made clear on Thursday, however, that hope was in vain.

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74% of Germans support Bundestag resolution on Armenian Genocide

June 3, 2016 By administrator

74 percent german supportThe majority of Germans support the resolution which the Bundestag passed, and which defines the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

The data publicized by the German ARD media company show that 74 percent of respondents are in favor of this resolution, whereas 18 percent said this decision was a wrong step.

Furthermore, 57 percent of respondents expressed the view that the adoption of this resolution could have a negative impact on Turkish-German relations.

A total of 91percent believe that Turkey cannot be trusted as a partner, whereas solely 7 percent of respondents considered this country to be reliable.

The Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, on Thursday formally recognized the Armenian Genocide, with the aforesaid resolution and with only one vote against and one abstention. The resolution also notes that the Bundestag regrets that the German government at the time did nothing to stop this crime against humanity, and therefore the Bundestag also acknowledges the respective historical accountability of Germany.

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Vote result 89% TURKS 11% GERMANS invented Genocide

November 11, 2015 By administrator

Tanasi Kociras Commented: Turks “invented” Germans inspired.

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Which nation FIRST Invented GENOCIDE TURKS or GERMANS Please VOTE

November 9, 2015 By administrator

Which nation FIRST Invented #genocide TURKS or GERMANS Please VOTE

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) November 9, 2015

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Exceptional picture on the Armenian genocide survivors conducted by the Germans soldiers in Diyarbakir

September 26, 2015 By administrator

arton116600-399x300Haig Demoyan director of the Genocide Museum of Yerevan has announced that the museum has been enriched by a historical and exceptional image of the Armenian Genocide. On his Facebook site, Haig Demoyan says “a few days ago after much research, we managed to get their hands on a picture of 1915. It represents the Armenian orphans homeless, dragging through the streets of Diyarbakir and the Austrians military tending them bread. From this, witness the German words inscribed on the photo. In all likelihood this photo was made ​​by the military Germans because it was found in Germany. This is an exceptional testimony to the consequences of the Armenian Genocide. “

Krikor Amirzayan

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ALİ YURTTAGÜL Reading Germans regarding the Armenian issue

April 15, 2015 By administrator

By ALİ YURTTAGÜL

ALİ YURTTAGÜL

ALİ YURTTAGÜL

The 100th anniversary of the Armenian “Meds Yeghern,” or genocide, has finally arrived.

The Vatican’s characterization of the 1915 incidents as the “first genocide” of the 20th century as well as the European Parliament’s postponement of its Turkey report from April to May and the inclusion of the Armenian issue on its April agenda are not coincidental. It is no surprise that there are currently numerous conferences, exhibitions and publications about the tragic history of Armenians in France, Russia and the US, countries with sizable Armenian populations.

Interestingly enough, Germany is conducting in-depth discussions into the matter even though it does not have a sizable Armenian population. Berlin seeks to look into this sorrow in depth. I have a book that focuses on the role of Germans in the Armenian genocide written by Jürgen Gottschlich, a journalist living in İstanbul and Berlin. It is titled “Beihilfe zum Völkermord” (Complicity in Genocide). As you know, in criminal law, not only is “intention” or “deliberation” to kill someone a crime, but so is “assistance” or “complicity.” Before moving to a discussion of whether Gottschlich sees Germans’ role in the Armenian genocide as “assistance” or “complicity,” I would like to touch on why a reading of Germans regarding this matter is imperative.

A cursory look at Germany’s recent past reveals that the country is still suffering from the effects of two profound traumas. The world sees Adolf Hitler as the German fascism that cast a shadow on the fate of Jews. This reading is not necessarily wrong. While the number of Russians or Germans who died is way above the 6 million Jews who died, the Jewish suffering stands apart. The Nazis targeted Jews because they are different and they systematically annihilated them.

The shadow of history’s greatest genocide, which Jews refer to as “Shoah” or “Holocaust,” can still be felt in Germany. The Holocaust Memorial, which spans a 4.7-acre space in downtown Berlin, was built a few years ago. There is also a more recent “stolperstein” (stumbling block) movement in which “stolpersteine” (the plural of stolperstein) — small, cobblestone-size memorials for individual victims of Nazism — are laid in the sidewalks.

Actually, “stolperstein” represents the second trauma. Germany experienced the 1968 movement differently from France. In Germany, revolutionary youth started to question their parents and their recent past. They realized that when Jews were taken from their homes to gas chambers, their parents weren’t ignorant of the process. They further understood that some of their neighbors, uncles, writers, journalists and politicians were loyal supporters of the Hitler regime, were “murderers” or were “complicit” in the genocide. Being “children of murderers” is a current trauma that many Germans feel deeply. In this context, the “stolpersteine” represent a “refusal to forget,” a “renunciation of the past” or a “determination to refrain from complicity in crimes.”

Gottschlich’s book is a good example of this generation’s perspective on their country and the world. As it examines the Armenian issue in our recent past, the book is interesting. The book is an interesting read not only for the Armenian issue, but also for its foray into Germany’s role in it.

As you can guess from its title, the book puts Germans in the spotlight instead of Turks, the Committee of Union and Progress (İTC) or the Ottomans. More precisely, it focuses on the role of Germans in the Armenian genocide. The writer not only examines Anatolia and the places where the incidents occurred, but also looks at the German army’s archives that survived World War II. He also tried to study a number of private archives as well as the archives of the General Staff in Ankara.

The book contains the biographies of German officers who worked closely with Enver Paşa, Talat Paşa and Cemal Paşa, the leading figures of the İTC, as well as letters these German officers sent to their relatives, which betray their perspective on the Armenian genocide as no different from that of Enver Paşa and Talat Paşa. The book also describes how certain Germans raised objections to the injustices done to Armenians and tried to warn Berlin about them.

Gottschlich examines the biographies and documents like a meticulous historian, but he also doesn’t renounce his identity as a journalist as he takes into consideration the time and circumstances of the incidents. “Beihilfe zum Völkermord” is an interesting report in terms of the German Reich’s responsibility. When you read the book, you can decide if Germans’ role in the genocide was “assistance” or “complicity.” I hope the book is translated into Turkish soon so that the grandchildren of the Ottomans have a chance to look at their parents and grandparents from a different perspective.

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