The unity of Europe and Germany’s friendship with its neighbors owes its strength to the fact that we face our history. The chairmen of the German and Polish Bishops Conferences summed this up in their recently published statement on today’s anniversary. I quote: ”Together we must look to the future, which we would like to approach without ignoring or playing down the historical truth in all its aspects.”
When, in my country, we today also recall the fate of the Germans who lost their home regions as a result of the war, then we always do so in the spirit described by the bishops. We do it in awareness of Germany’s responsibility, with which everything began. We do it without trying to rewrite anything in Germany’s enduring historical responsibility. This will never happen.
не сравнить со сдавленным злобным мычанием - но замечательно и то, что комментаторы в немецких газетах недовольны ей не за очернение славного прошлого Германии, пусть с ошибками, а говорят, что следовало бы быть потактичнее в интервью перед поездкой (где она упомянула о выселенных немцах без подробного предисловия, как здесь)
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The unity of Europe and Germany’s friendship with its neighbors owes its strength to the fact that we face our history. The chairmen of the German and Polish Bishops Conferences summed this up in their recently published statement on today’s anniversary. I quote:
”Together we must look to the future, which we would like to approach without ignoring or playing down the historical truth in all its aspects.”
When, in my country, we today also recall the fate of the Germans who lost their home regions as a result of the war, then we always do so in the spirit described by the bishops. We do it in awareness of Germany’s responsibility, with which everything began. We do it without trying to rewrite anything in Germany’s enduring historical responsibility. This will never happen.
не сравнить со сдавленным злобным мычанием - но замечательно и то, что комментаторы в немецких газетах недовольны ей не за очернение славного прошлого Германии, пусть с ошибками, а говорят, что следовало бы быть потактичнее в интервью перед поездкой (где она упомянула о выселенных немцах без подробного предисловия, как здесь)