Today's Irish Times carries an obituarty of German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who died on September 18. His death was mentioned on this blog on September 19.
In today's obit there is a sentence, worth noting:
"From school in Berlin onwards, he retained a fear of barbarism, but that fear was "joined by happiness". and his declared fear of some things German "by the happiness I owed to things German".
Ranicki was a Polish German Jew who experienced life in the Warsaw ghetto.
On another page in that same newspaper there is a story of Dutch MPs wearing badges with Nazi links.
The Dutch Freedom Party is organising an alliance of right-wing parties to fight the May European elections.
The alliance will include the National Front in France and the new Alternative for Germany Party (AfD). The AfD won 4.8 per cent in last Sunday's German elections. With another 0.2 per cent, they would now be sitting in the German parliament, Bundestag.
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