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Last update - 04:54 28/01/2008 Fun Munich carnival held on Holocaust remembrance day angers Jews By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent and DPA Tags: Jewish, remembrance day  As many places around Germany marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, a carnival was held in Munich, where Mayor Christian Ude took part in a procession of fools. The carnival drew harsh protests from the leadership of Germany's Jewish community, as well as from politicians and church leaders. The protests led to the postponement of a similar procession in Regensburg, but the organizers in Munich, backed by the mayor, said they were unable to call off the event, which had been scheduled well in advance, noting that the day was not an official commemoration day. The organizers agreed only to change the parade's route, so as not to pass near a square in the city center with a memorial to Nazi victims. Germany nominated January 27 as a national day of commemoration in 1996, to mark the date that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Russian troops. The United Nations General Assembly meanwhile named this date International Holocaust Remembrance Day in November 2005. Advertisement Outside of Munich, Sunday was marked with minutes of silence and the laying of wreaths at events throughout Germany. Speaking at the site of the Dachau concentration camp, Evangelical Bishop Wolfgang Huber said the memory of 1933-45 Hitler dictatorship had to be kept alive. The head of the German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, said German politicians were at least partly responsible for the rise of right-wing extremism in the country. Speaking on Saturday, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Germans faced "a calling and a duty" never to allow anything like the Nazi period to occur again. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Painful lessons The IDF has already learnt lessons of the Second Lebanon War. Brothers in guilt 'We are all guilty; is an effective summary of the final Winograd report.   1.   Give me a break 06:12  |  Natallie Durson 28/01/08   2.   give m a break 07:48  |  rut 28/01/08   3.   Fun Munich carnival held on Holocaust remembrance day angers Jews 08:11  |  david 28/01/08   4.   Natalie, Give ME a break 08:22  |  DT 28/01/08   5.   Natallie Durson 08:24  |  Jason Deeds 28/01/08   6.   Natalie is correct 09:15  |  Denise 28/01/08   7.   Sergio 09:29  |  Braun 28/01/08   8.   carnival exists much longer than the holocaust 09:55  |  Leona 28/01/08   9.   So it coincided with carnival, so what? 10:45  |  Sara 28/01/08   10.   No Rut (#2) not an international day, only Germany 10:55  |  Sara 28/01/08   11.   The Holocaust is becoming just history. 11:09  |  Michael 28/01/08   12.   They chose to live there, so too bad! 11:16  |  Nadav 28/01/08   13.   Overkill 14:17  |  Dani Reiss 28/01/08   14.   We`ll also have to add nakhba day 22:26  |  John 28/01/08   15.   Counterproductive 07:23  |  Raoul Fenderson 29/01/08   16.   hypocracy 13:55  |  Sam 29/01/08   17.   Sorry, my bad 18:25  |  Natallie Durson 29/01/08   18.   Rebuttle to Denise 17:36  |  Yermiyahu 31/01/08

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