A German federal court on Tuesday rejected a Jewish man’s bid to have a 700-year-old antisemitic statue removed from a church where Martin Luther once preached, the AP reports.
The Federal Court of Justice upheld rulings by lower courts on the “Judensau,” or “Jew pig,” sculpture on the Town Church in Wittenberg — one of more than 20 such relics from the Middle Ages that still adorn churches across Germany and elsewhere in Europe. As in those rulings, judges pointed to the addition in the 1980s of a memorial at the site. Read more.
They didn’t remove Hitler from power, so why would they remove this statue? The only solution would be for the statue to commit suicide like Hitler did, and THAT is not likely to occur.
It would be more appropriate for them to remove the dead Jew in a diaper on a stick.
It absolutely should not be removed. It should be there to show them all that Nazism was not an exception to the rule, but a fulfillment of centuries of religious and cultural attitudes about Jews.
Could anyone guess how quickly the offensive part of the monument would have been removed, and without any lawsuits, had it been anti-Islamic?
By the way, Martin Luther, yimach shemo, was a vehement sonei Yisroel, who called for total extermination of Jews, and from whom Adolph drew his inspiration, later. It’s not the pig that is so offensive, but the monument to Luther itself. German protestant pastors overwhelmingly supported Hitler in his racist policies, in accordance with their founder’s philosophy.
Interesting, the Germans drew a picture of themselves under the words Schem Hamphoras.
the yinge chevra will still be buying their Mercedes and beemers
And yet someone decided we MUST have a Kollel open up in that cursed nation. You never know. There “might” be some homeless bum, whose father was Jewish, and maybe we could be mikarev him when he lines up at a treiff food kitchen