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Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has released software for Windows and Mac which is intended to catch and rewrite terms such as 'Polish death camps' and other phrases which associate the Polish people with the atrocities of the holocaust, rather than the occupying German forces which created and ran the death camps. The software comes in the form of Microsoft Word Add-Ins on Windows and a revision to the system-wide dictionary in OSX, making the facility available to Mac programs including Safari, Keynote and Outlook. A spokesperson for the ad agency that developed the programs said, "We decided to make use of the primary tool used by text writers and create an easy to install add-on that finds the mistake made and suggests a correct phrase."
In the US, we had concentration camps for Japanese, and they weren't nearly as bad as the death camps in Poland.
I feel really bad about the concentration camps for the Japanese, even though I had nothing to do with them other than living in the same country 50 years later. If a Japanese person asks me, I will happily apologize. The concentration camps were a lousy thing to do, we shouldn't have done them.
Same with the drop of the nuclear weapons. Even if you think it was better than the alternative, you can still say, "I'm sorry we did that, I wish it hadn't happened."
Sometimes you just need to accept that things sucked back then and move on (ie, don't do it again).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
As a person who has visited Dachau, my sincere condolences. As for the article, I would think a better way to approach this would be to address the educational material and reference material rather than implementing a revisionist methodology on individual people's thoughts. Seems rather big brother to me. Visiting Dachau and reading the history as it happened there was very eye opening to me. I was under the impression that the German government was a bunch of third world, unsophisticated neanderthals that allowed some megalomaniac take over and slowly build a war machine. ... This impression was very, very wrong. The German government at the time was very scientifically advanced, had a similar structure to what the US has today, and allowed a fair and open election that elected the megalomaniac into office. From there, they passed a law that allowed the "president" to override the congress in times of need. From there, the congress was disbanded, the constitution suspended, and within a month Dachau was opened. The Third Reich had risen. And to learn the passivity of the local population was shocking. People simply didn't care.
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It's not a lie, Polish mobs were literally killing survivors of the concentration camps. See this for more detail.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
They forgot the little detail that most death camps were reopened shortly after the war, operated for years by the Polish government (Soviet puppets but still).
This excludes Auschwitz which was left as a widely-touted museum to show the world how bad the Nazis were, while the other camps were not spoken of, sometimes with all their traces actively purged.
And yeah, I'm a Polack.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
It's a quantitative difference, not a qualitative difference. The Poles were really, really bad to the Jews. You can say the Poles weren't as bad as the Nazis, and that's true, but......
Just apologize and move on. Really, it's easier.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
My Dad helped empty one of the camps when he was 19. Two days at Dachau in 1945 fucked him up for life; he couldn't even talk about it until the 1980s.
If you are a holocaust denier/Nazi to get attention, get help.
If you are a Nazi because you think that is a good thing, you are a deluded fool and I hope you rot in hell. Trust me, the REAL Nazis would have shot a punk like you.
Learn to love yourself, work through whatever pain leaves you thinking hatred is a good idea, and maybe you have a chance at being a well-adjusted human being.
I get that this is turning into a political debate that is taking staunch political lines between republican (foxnews) and democrat (msnbc) ideologies. And that is unfortunate. That division of ideology is exactly why Trump is doing so well. And that ideology is blind to the fact that it really doesn't matter which political party you align with, the damage come just the same. The Patriot Act, and many of the other political issues that are raised here on Slashdot are bi-partisan. Yes, that means it doesn't matter which soda you choose, both coke and pepsi have a crap ton of sugar in them that will make you fat. Let's shift focus back to the original point of the article and away from whether Obama or Trump or Bush or who the heck ever would be qualified as worse president ever. Let's start picking better presidents and better legislators. Not what Fox or MSNBC says we should pick, who are they to decide what's right for us?
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