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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."
They worldwide money extortion scheme based on a legend?
I don't think anyone should feel offended by being connected to a fictional, mythical tale.
The Holo-whatsit? What's that?
First toast! I guess I showered you guys, eh? You're all saying ouch at my wits now, aren't you?
Nothing to see here, move along.
Probably related to the recent measures proposed by the Polish government to criminalize the use of the phrase âoePolish death campsâ.
I'm of German decent - great grand parents came over in late 19th century - and my family had nothing to do with it. As a matter of fact, my family that styed behind were accused of being German "Trolls" according to the Nazis (couldn't say anything against them or the SA was on your ass), put my ancestors back in the "homeland" into concentration camps. Yeah, they helped Jews, Catholics, etc... and disagreed with the Nazis.
Ted Nugent doesn't care whether it's the Krauts or the Pollacks.
It's a little disingenuous to blame Germany for it, because Polish mobs were killing the survivors from Auschwitz. The Jews didn't leave Poland because of the concentration camps, they left because Poland was trying to kill them.
Poland should just apologize and move on. We all have done terrible things in the histories of our countries. No point trying to hide it.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Too bad this rewrite is needed. It would have been easier if we had simply used the correct nomenclature from day one.
This software turns "Polish death camp" into "German death camp". People have been German or spoke German for centuries before, and almost a century after (71 years) the death camps operated. Why not use "NAZI death camps" to recognize the 12 year long government responsible.
Why is sed and other software that can do substitutions inadequate here?
This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I believe it's pretty well established that many Poles were not too upset about all the Jew-killin' going on. There is a well-established history of anti-Semitism/pogroms happening prior to the war in Poland, where Jews were widely seen as complicit in the murder of Jesus. We all saw Schindler's List, right? Remember when they're on the trains and the locals are all making the teasing slit-throat gesture with their fingers? That happened, and apparently pretty regularly. Check out the documentary "Shoah" and you'll see survivors tell that story..
I've heard first hand that the english and hebrew language Auschwitz tour is very different than the Polish version in the degree with which Poland accepts its participation in the genocide... Anyone can confirm?
Today the government mandated that the Orwellian Plugin be a required built-in feature for all word processors, editing tools and key entry for public safety purposes.
The Orwellian plugins are widely used to auto-correct incorrect thinking and terminology legally defined as hate speech and promotes a safer and more welcoming and open society.
In other news chocolate rations are up...
Like a SJW Clippy. "I see you're trying to write about historical events. Would you like help contributing to the shame pornography that is post-war German culture?"
Please install our memory hole on your computer so we can make it look like Europe had a long history of totally loving the Jews and making them feel welcome, until mean ole Hitler came along and was the first (and only) anti-Semite in European history.
Europeans are fucking disgusting in their intellectual dishonesty.
I wish German game servers admins weren't such Nazi's about using the term Nazi. Getting banned for calling someone a grammar Nazi should not be a permanent bannable offense.
Fuck you Germany for trying to silence and hide your history and fuck your gaming servers for banning me. I didn't want to play with you fucking vocabulary Nazi's anyway.
I wouldn't view this as software with a functional purpose, but rather as a political and social commentary in the form of software, rather then a speech or a painting. It doesn't help you achieve a task, but it does make you think about the issues involved.
It's a very interesting idea.
Does it also fix the ridiculously overblown 6000000 figure that is still quoted even though the number of people killed at each death camp has been reduced by orders of magnitude?
This documentary got me thinking. I don't automatically believe it, but it provides tons of data points to fact check.
http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/
From the summary, this sounds like a tool that corrects or adds additional clarity to an otherwise ambiguous phrase. The word "rewrite" almost always has a negative connotation associated with the intent of obfuscating fact. Not sure why the submitter chose to use such a loaded term. I suppose it's possible it was copied from TFA but who reads that?
The trouble is: the Polish people were actually associated with the atrocities of the Holocaust. Antisemitism and oppression were common in Poland both before and after WWII. The main reason Poles didn't cooperate more with the Nazis was that the Nazis viewed them as racially inferior as well. So, whatever you call the death camps, Poland's own despicable history must not be forgotten.
Okay Germany, we get it, you're sorry about the whole Holocaust thing. Can we move on yet? It's been 70 years.
Poland had more holocaust victims than any other country with around 2 million of the victims being ethnic Poles. Poland is also number one in Righteous Among the Nations (awarded by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust). Basically, Poland was damn proud to be a Democratic state where you could practice whatever religion you wanted which attracted the largest Jewish population of Europe and earned the ire of Germany. A couple right-wing nutters no more represents Poland than Cliven Bundy represents Americans. /., you're better than to present the Polish as a people who cooperated with Germany during the Holocaust -- a view the victims don't share either.
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
I knew some Auschwitz surviors. The Polish population was far worse than the Nazis, they were just too incompetent to attempt e genocide on their own. Even today, when Germany a modern and free country, Poland is almost as bad as it was in the time of the POLISH DEATH CAMPS.
has anyone taken it apart yet to see what OTHER words/phrases The Holocaust Business doesn't want said anymore?
(am running OSX 10.7 now so they won't let me install it)
The 6 Gorillion
While the majority of Germans may not have been Nazi party members the Nazis were given power by the German people in free and open elections. The German people can not wash their hands of the Nazis through a lack of party membership.
And you are not German, you and several generations of your ancestors are Americans.
When my great-uncles went to fight in Europe they were half serious when they joked that they hope they don't shoot any relatives. Being related did not make them think of themselves as Germans rather than Americans.
How many polacks does it take to rewrite the holocaust history?
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
I've noticed there has been a constant increase of people and media reminding people that the Holocaust happened in the past few years.
It's parallel to the growing war crimes and crimes against Humanity that Israel has been pulling off in that region, in addition to the racism against black people who even had to stage protests. As if, what is pretty much ancient history now, excuses the shit they are pulling in the present.
Of course, the justification for deporting blacks rather than giving them asylum is truly worthy of a Nazi victim that has learned well from its ancient oppressor:
"Keeping the Jewish nation pure, because Jews are special and it's called 'Patriotism', not 'Nazism' ", when they are pulling the same shit Nazis did.
You'd think Gypsies, Slavs and Homosexuals never existed during the Holocauster. Jews get more priority in being mentioned.
And yet, the whole world hates Jews yet again despite all this social-engineering and despite WW2, as evidenced by the world just about having enough of Israeli bullshit and recognizing Palestine. I do wonder why.
Just suspend the constitution one part at a time.
First amendment? Gay marriage. Suspended. Check.
Second amendment? Replace Scalia with another leftist loon. Check.
Frog. Boiling water. Why is it hot in here?
This is how the left operates.
Absolutely shameless
Majority of the Poles were sent to Auschwitz
Majority of the Jews were sent to Birkenau
In each camp the other side were the guards
Many many Poles risked their lives protecting Jewish people from being captured, hiding in cellars etc.
History is history, people may perceive it in different ways but that's up to the individual.. And or propper parenting..
the right to change history, esp this particular event should be unthinkable..
I didn't know they gave out rings at the Holocaust.
Well, will it?
I'm the grandson of Polish jews that came to Argentina. Everybody knows, I've heard that from my family a dozen times, that the Poles were mostly antisemitic, they happily joined the nazis and they even happily stole the property of the escaping jews. I've heard that some people coming here at the time burned their Polish papers because of that. And now this museum is focused in some chauvinist correction than in remembering the real horrors of the time.
Considering the state of education in the world, how there are millions of people that don't believe the attempted extermination of the Jewish people happened, it wouldn't surprise me that people would try to hold the Polish people responsible, for the death and destruction at the hands of the Nazi party. During the end of the war in 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower forced the German people to clean up and bury those in the death camps, and had the worlds journalist document all the death inside those camps. When asked why, he responded "because there will come a day, that the people of the world will not believe the events that happened". By photographing, and documenting this, no matter what people say, there is hard evidence, that the holocaust did in fact happen, at the hands of the Nazi's.
The perpetual holohoax and jew story over and over and over and over..... Will we ever be rid of this nonsense?
The most useless app ever made. I really hope it turns into something like Clippy, "looks like you're being insensitive, why not use the PC term ninny muggins instead?"
I'm the grandson of Polish jews that came to Argentina. Everybody knows, I've heard that from my family a dozen times, that the Poles were mostly antisemitic, they happily joined the nazis and they even happily stole the property of the escaping jews. I've heard that some people coming here at the time burned their Polish papers because of that.
As with all such generalizations about a group of people, it's complicated. For many centuries, Poland was the home to the largest Jewish community in Europe because of their policy toward religious tolerance. That changed with the partitions of Poland, where imperial powers (e.g., Russia) started targeting Jews.
And if you read that article (which is very long), you'll see what was going on in the first half of the 20th century was complicated too. Poland was still home to the largest Jewish community in Europe at that time, and many Jewish people were highly respected. But anti-Semitism was on the rise again in many countries, including Poland.
My condolences to your family, who must have suffered terribly. But on the whole, it's not clear that Polish people were significantly more anti-Semitic than the rest of Europe at this time.
And now this museum is focused in some chauvinist correction than in remembering the real horrors of the time.
I absolutely agree that the horrors should NOT be ignored. On the other hand, well... there's this. As you'll learn there, not only did Polish people likely save a half-million or more Jewish lives during that time, but these Polish people were victims of numerous massacres when they were punished for trying to protect Jews -- estimates are that up to 50,000 Polish people lost their lives just trying to do this.
So, yeah -- were there bad Poles who betrayed Jews the Nazis, etc.? Of course. Were there also ones who helped Jewish people at the risk of their own lives? Yeah, a lot of those too.
History is complicated, and little good generally comes from stereotyping or vilifying an entire group of people. Hopefully the irony here is not lost.
I'd really like to see the Armenian version of that software. In France, it's a criminal offense to deny the Armenian genocide, while in Turkey it's a criminal offense to say there was an Armenian genocide. Isn't it nice?
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
There is a school of thought - a very large school - that sees prewar Europa as a green pasture with ever blue skies and fluffy rabbits and ponies, foremost among them the poor, innocent Poles. Then the bad Germans came and started killing the poor, defenceless rabbits.
This image is not quite correct. The Poles tought to be on the winning side, and already had taken their share of the division of Tchechoslowakie - Churchill in his memoires says that the Poles behaved like hyenas. Nevertheless, they have been dining out on their role of victims ever since the war.
Facts.
Paai
Anti-jew actions of individual groups of people generalized to "Poland". A nation-related exaggeration typical to nazists.
I do not defend that nation, they can speak for themselves. But I won't defend internet nazist hate speech as well.
Definitely, crusades, slaughter of natives, slaves, forced prostitution, it's terrible.
Why is the most holy, most sacred thing in the western culture? Is it... the pope? The president? Can you mock the pope? Can you joke about being a pedophile? Can you joke about being antisemite and a holocaust denier? No. There is a boundary you can not pass:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/20/lars-von-trier-retracts-apology-nazi
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/mel-gibson-puts-anti-semitism-behind-him-ive-done-what-i-need-to-do-9591666.html
You can joke about anything, but if you talk ill about the holocaust you become a pariah and no one will touch you or give you job. Why is that? Why is it, that Hollywood produces so many movies about the nazis and holocaust? Why not movies about the korea war, or the more recent vietnam? If you look at the latest 100 war movies, 90% will be about nazis, holocaust or the jews. To quote the great actor Marlon Brando:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando#Comments_on_Jews.2C_Hollywood_and_Israel
There's more mention of the Holocaust now as the remaining survivors pass away. The people who were actually in the concentration camps will soon be no more, and the events that they suffered must be remembered.
I suppose that your reference to blacks being deported refers to the economic migrants who cross the Israeli-Egyptian border. They are provided housing, health care, food - but they are not wanted in this country. They bring no skills, have no affinity for the culture, and as a group are simply trying to find the first first world country that they can move to. You may also pay attention to the large immigration of Ethiopian Jews who are successfully integrating into Israeli society.
Your insinuation that Israel is equivalent to Nazi Germany is beyond the pale of rational thought. There are no death camps; there are no death marches; there is the reality that 20% of Israel's voters are Arab.
Israel was founded to be a Jewish state, after literally a thousand years of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Arab world. It's not a case of keeping the Jewish people "pure", it's a case of keeping the Jewish people alive. And after over six million Jews were murdered in a few short years, I think we have a compelling argument for having our own safe and secure state.
You should know that I'm very left wing - I want the Palestinians to have a state, and I live less than eight miles from the West Bank. Given how the Palestinians have handled Gaza and how Hezbollah has handled South Lebanon, you may understand if enthusiasm for that idea is not high amongst the Israeli populace.
The whole world hates Jews? Are you speaking for yourself anonymous coward or do you have any real evidence? And if you hate Israel and Jews so much, you should almost certainly throw out the computer your spreading your vile with, as it's CPU was designed here by evil Jews.
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You don't have death camps, cordoning off a people so they are like caged dogs and then labeling them as terrorists when the dog bites back suffices.
You came in here with a load of anecdotal bullshitting and poorly thought out trained (because your post is like a copy paste as i always see the same poor arguments from pro-Israeli appartheid supporters) appeals to emotion. I leave you here with documented history: ,to seizing lands illegaly and forcing populations to evict by either force, destroying their crops and nature, much like Nazis did in regard to Czechia and Poland [evicting populations is also regarded as ethnic cleansing under the human rights definitions] ,to using White Phosphorous against innocent populations ,to allowing war crimes perpetrated by other external groups so long as they are of benefit to Israel
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27883685
and shit like this:
Emulating Nazi Germany, from brainwashing and desensitizing children by forcing them to look at pictures of death and genocide, and having mandatory trips to concentration camps and such, much like Nazis did in regard to their children by doing the same and cultivating their anger with past historical attrocities against Germans
(Example:The Christian family refusing to give up its Bethlehem hill farm
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27883685
(Example: 2008-2009- Israel Fires White Phosphorous Shells Into Civilian Locations, Including a Crowded Refugee Camp. At first, the Israeli army categorically denied the use of white phosphorous gas on civilians (a war crime), but then later admitted it when video footage made it impossible to deny. These weapons were made in the USA http://www.hrw.org/news/2009/03/25/israel-white-phosphorus-use-evidence-war-crimes. The entire planet criticized the barbaric and internationally illegal war crimes, but President Bush and the United States supported the Israeli atrocities, which hurt America’s standing in the world.)
(Example: 1982- Sabra and Shatila Massacres- The Israeli military purposefully allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps, which were under Israel’s control, and rape, murder, and dismember 800 civilians. Nearly all of the dead were women, children, and elderly men. In 1983, an Israeli investigation concluded that then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon bore “personal responsibility” for failing to prevent the massacre. The New York Times recently uncovered http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/a-preventable-massacre.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0 de-classified transcripts of conversations between US officials and Israeli officials, in which Israeli officials misled the Americans about the events in Beirut, and bullied them into accepting outrageous accusations that the Palestinian women and children were “terrorists,” and therefore deserved to be massacred. According to the New York Times, “The Sabra and Shatila massacres severely undercut America’s influence in the Middle East, and its moral authority plummeted.” Only a year later, in 1983, the US marine barracks were bombed in Lebanon, in which 241 marines were killed.)
, and many more.
Costing the Western world (especially USA) trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of potential jobs for Americans and westerners due to mere association with Israel having a negative business and diplomatic effect in terms of the whole Middle Eastern world. Not to mention costing the Western world its reputation by stealing its technology and selling to China in an apparent attempt to play God with global power balances between East and West to benefit Israel. To the point where for once the greed of congress and the greed of western governments has a positive effect as they have finally had enough with Israel, to the point of even allowing Palestinian recognition to go forth in an apparent showcase that Israel has used up its goodwill.
Examples:
-1987- Israel Starts Rec