Children, mothers, families, togetherness....
A German TV presenter praises Nazi family values...
Germany’s main Jewish representative body said last Tuesday said it was shocked by a standing ovation that a Catholic group gave to a television presenter who was sacked for praising the Nazis’ approach to families.
Eva Herman was greeted with strong applause when she gave a speech to present her new book about family values to a crowd of about 700 Catholics in Fulda in central Germany at the weekend, just a month after she was sacked by the state-run NDR television channel.
The vice-president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, said the applause for Herman was "proof of the moral poverty of the participants and a slap in the face for all those who have worked for the past 60 years to re-appraise the Nazi dictatorship."
Herman, 48, was sacked after a book launch at which she had described Germany’s Nazi past as "a gruesome time ... but even then there were good things and these were the values of children, mothers, families, togetherness."
posted by GayandRight @ 11:37 PM
2 Comments:
Herman is right about the value of the family. I would have applauded if I was there.
She was certainly wrong to ascribe social cohesiveness to Nazi policy, but it doesn't reduce the value of her book. Anyone who describes Catholics who applaud family values as being in "moral poverty" is seriously out of line. The audience isn't responsible for some comments made at a book launch. As long as Herman wasn't applauded for lauding the Nazis, this seems like just another smear job against Christians.
Any person who applauds that group's family policy is guilty of selective amnesia.
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