70 Parliamentarians from 19 EU Countries Launch Seventy Years Declaration on 2012 Wannsee Anniversary
Eight Lithuanian Social Democrats (6 MPs, 2 MEPs) Sign On
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The 70 Years Declaration (‘70YD’) Opposes Prague Declaration and ‘Double Genocide’ Politics
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TEXT AND LIST OF FOUNDING SIGNATORIES
TEXT IN FRENCH; TEXT IN RUSSIAN; UK SIGNATORIES
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Response: ‘Hitler’s moustache shorter’. Lithuanian Foreign Minister says his nation’s parliamentarians who Signed are ‘pathetic’ and ‘No difference between Hitler and Stalin except in their moustache: Hitler’s was shorter’; FM says later (3 Feb) that 70YD equates condemnation of Stalinism with antisemitism!
Britain’s MP Denis MacShane Responds to Lithuanian Foreign Minister; PDF of MP MacShane’s Letter to 8 Lithuanian Parliamentarians
“I know it must be lonely to take a stand on such a controversial subject but wanted to write to you to say you are not alone and every decent British and European citizen stands with you.”
— UK MP Denis MacShane
Lithuanian Prime Minister Joins the Discussion; Head of Jewish Community Blasts ‘Double Genocide’ on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Cites PM’s Helpful Remark
ROGER COHEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
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MEDIA:
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Danny Ben-Moshe in the Jerusalem Post (18 Jan) → Algemeiner Journal (20 Jan), → J-Wire (21 Jan); Danna Harman in Haaretz (19 Jan) → Forward (19 Jan); Frank Brendle in Taz.de (19 Jan), in Junge Welt (20 Jan).
BNS (20 Jan) ≈ BNS (21 Jan); Lžinios.lt (20 Jan) [in English]; Lrytas.lt (20 Jan) [in English]; DefendingHistory.com (22 Jan); Kestutis Girnius in the Baltic Times (2 Feb).
UK MP Denis MacShane writes to 8 Lithuanian parliamentarians (24 Jan), PDF. Lietuvos rytas editorial (25 Jan); Lithuania’s Prime Minister Kubilius comments to BNS → Delfi.lt (26 Jan); Chairperson of Lithuanian Jewish Community on Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 Jan); Roger Cohen in the New York Times (30 Jan).
Press release of the Social Democratic Party in Lithuania (31 Jan); 1 hour program on Lithuanian radio (31 Jan); 70YD on Rewriting History (1 Feb); JC (2 Feb); Dovid Katz in JC (2 Feb); WWN (2 Feb); Dovid Katz in the AJ (3 Feb); Foreign Minister Ažubalis again attacks Social Democrats who signed 70YD (3 Feb) [in English].
