Flyers Citing '8 Million Germans' as WWII Victims Alongside Jews Distributed at Roger Waters

[Mosby]

Flyers Citing ‘8 Million Germans’ as WWII Victims Alongside Jews Distributed at Roger Waters Concert in Cologne

Fans attending a concert by former Pink Floyd vocalist Roger Waters in the German city of Cologne on Tuesday night were handed flyers that depicted the Jewish victims of the Nazis as merely one of several nationalities and ethnicities, including Germans, who suffered during World War II.

According to RABA, a Cologne-based NGO that monitors antisemitism, the leaflets were distributed by supporters of the DFG-VK Köln, a left-wing pacifist organization. Ostensibly protesting the German government’s decision to supply Ukraine’s democratic government with weapons to counter the ongoing Russian invasion, the flyer cited the slaughter of World War II as a warning of the dangers of armed conflict.

The victim groups included those targeted by the Nazis, among them “24 million Soviet citizens” and “6 million Poles”, but also emphasized the deaths of “8 million Germans” at the hands of the Allied forces. The German toll was placed above the last line of the flyer that acknowledged the murder of “6 million Jews.” Moreover, the figure of “6 million Poles” absorbs the three million Polish Jews exterminated by the Nazis.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/05/10/flyers-citing-8-million-germans-as-wwii-victims-alongside-jews-distributed-at-roger-waters-concert-in-cologne/

WTH?

[CincyDem]

1. Roger Waters has always had an anti-Semitic history.

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I can only listen to Pink Floyd music now knowing he’s (unfortunately) made his dime on my CD purchase. Anyone remember CDs?

He’s off my concert tour list, that’s for sure.

[gay texan]

2. There's a reason Gilmour and Mason

Don't want anything to do with him

[xocetaceans]

3. The only problem with that article is that its headline is misleading and...

...does not accurately reflect the content of the flier. The flier does not read (at all) the way in which it is being presented in that article.

What the people handing out the fliers may or may not have said is unknown to me, but the flier seems mainly to have the purpose of illustrating that WWII cost a huge number of lives worldwide and subsequently questions whether or not a victory in the current war as opposed to a diplomatically negotiated end to the current war is worth it.

The word for victim in German is "Opfer". The Jewish people are described as having been "murdered". The other groups that have totals listed are listed simply as being "dead". So, it is very, very clear that there is a difference between the groups. It's important to be completely honest about issues such as this.

Read the flier for yourselves:

Link to tweet